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Hiroshima mon amour
Hiroshima mon amour (1959) is Alain Resnais's first feature, scripted by Marguerite Duras, about a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) in Hiroshima; a France-Japan New Wave landmark that won FIPRESCI at Cannes 1959.
Hiroyuki Imaishi (今石洋之)
Hiroyuki Imaishi (今石洋之), born 1971, Japanese anime director and animator; ex-Gainax, co-founder of TRIGGER; directed Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Promare, and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, known for high-speed Kanada-style action.
Hiroyuki Sanada (真田 広之)
Hiroyuki Sanada (真田広之, born 1960, Tokyo; real name Shimozawa Hiroyuki) is a Japanese actor trained in Sonny Chiba's Japan Action Club, star of The Twilight Samurai and The Last Samurai, and Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning lead and producer of Shōgun (2024).
His & Hers (2026 TV series)
His & Hers is a 2026 Netflix six-episode limited series adapting Alice Feeney's 2020 novel, starring Tessa Thompson and Jon Bernthal as estranged spouses investigating a Georgia murder; created by William Oldroyd, it hit 98.2 million views.
His Dark Materials (TV series)
His Dark Materials is a BBC One and HBO fantasy series adapted by Jack Thorne from Philip Pullman's trilogy, produced by Bad Wolf, starring Dafne Keen as Lyra, across three seasons ending with The Amber Spyglass.
His Girl Friday
His Girl Friday: 1940 Howard Hawks screwball comedy for Columbia, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell; a gender-flipped remake of the 1928 play The Front Page, famous for overlapping dialogue and US public-domain status since 1967.
His House
His House (2020) is Remi Weekes's debut British horror film about a South Sudanese refugee couple, Bol and Rial Majur, haunted in an English asylum house; Sundance premiere, Netflix release, BAFTA-winning debut.
His Last Vow
The His Last Vow is the final episode of Sherlock's third series. Written by Steven Moffat and directed by Nick Hurran, it pits Sherlock Holmes against Magnussen.
His Man (남의연애)
His Man (남의연애) is South Korea's first gay dating reality series, premiering July 15, 2022 on Wavve; eight gay men share a house and date to find love, across four seasons (2022–2026).
Hisaab Barabar (हिसाब बराबर)
Hisaab Barabar (हिसाब बराबर) is a 2024 Hindi comedy thriller directed by Ashwni Dhir, starring R. Madhavan as a railway ticket checker exposing banker Micky Mehta's fraud; premiered at IFFI 2024, streamed on ZEE5 from 24 January 2025.
Hisss
Hisss (Nagin: The Snake Woman) is a 2010 fantasy-horror film directed by Jennifer Lynch, starring Mallika Sherawat as a shape-shifting naagin seeking revenge when an American captures her mate; Lynch disowned the edited release, which flopped.
Historias Extraordinarias
Historias Extraordinarias (Extraordinary Stories) is a 2008 Argentine film by Mariano Llinás: 245 minutes, three never-crossing stories of men X, Z, and H, 18 chapters, BAFICI 2008 awards, El Pampero Cine, about 30,000-dollar budget.
HIStory (2017 TV series)
HIStory is a Taiwanese BL anthology streaming series produced by CHOCO TV (later LINE TV), first aired February 14, 2017. Nine stand-alone units across five seasons ran to 2023; season 1 drew 3.5 million views in three months and was the first Taiwanese web drama exported to Japan.
History of adult television networks
History of adult television networks: subscription and pay-per-view channels carrying sexually explicit programming, from HBO's 1972 launch and the 1982 Playboy Channel through Playboy's Spice and Vivid acquisitions, TEN, Section 505 litigation, and later decline as streaming displaced linear adult channels.
History of animation
History of animation: from pre-cinema optical toys (thaumatrope, phenakistoscope, zoetrope) and Reynaud's 1892 Pantomimes lumineuses through silent-era pioneers, cel studio era, national traditions, television, and CGI features like Toy Story (1995).
History of anime
The history of anime, also called anime history, traces Japanese commercial animation from 1917 through milestones like Astro Boy (1963) and Spirited Away to a record ¥3.84 trillion market in 2024.
History of cinema of India
History of Indian cinema: begins with the 1896 Lumière screening in Bombay, Phalke's Raja Harishchandra (1913), Alam Ara (1931), the studio era, parallel and regional cinemas, and today's roughly 2,000-film multilingual industry.
History of Doctor Who
History of Doctor Who: the BBC science fiction series first broadcast 23 November 1963, created under Sydney Newman, known for the Doctor's regenerations, missing 1960s episodes, the 1989 hiatus, and the 2005 Russell T Davies revival.
History of film
The history of film traces motion pictures from Louis Le Prince's 1888 Leeds footage and Edison's Kinetoscope through the 1895 projection pioneers, the silent era, sound, color, and digital distribution.
History of film technology
History of film technology traces motion picture equipment from Muybridge's 1878 motion photographs and the 1895 Lumière projector through sound, color, and the digital transition in capture, distribution, and exhibition.
History of Saturday Night Live
History of Saturday Night Live: NBC's live sketch comedy show, created by Lorne Michaels, premiered in 1975 as NBC's Saturday Night with George Carlin hosting. Covers the 1980 collapse, Michaels's 1985 return, Weekend Update satire, and its record 113 Emmy wins.
History of Scruffiness (찌질의 역사)
History of Scruffiness (찌질의 역사) is a 2025 South Korean youth romantic comedy web series in eight episodes, directed by Kim Sung-hoon and starring Jo Byeong-kyu, Song Ha-yoon, and Ryeoun.
History of Swear Words
History of Swear Words: 2021 Netflix comedy-documentary series, six 20-minute episodes hosted by Nicolas Cage on Fk, Sh*t, B*tch, Dk, Puy, and Damn; Funny or Die/B17 production, 69% on Rotten Tomatoes.
History of the Occult
History of the Occult (Historia de lo oculto) is a 2020 Argentine black-and-white supernatural horror film, Cristian Ponce's directorial debut, about a final live TV broadcast exposing a government-occult conspiracy in 1980s Buenos Aires.
History of the World, Part I
History of the World, Part I is Mel Brooks's 1981 20th Century Fox sketch comedy parodying historical epics from the Dawn of Man to the French Revolution, with Brooks in five roles, Orson Welles narrating, and a 2023 Hulu sequel.
History of the World, Part II
History of the World, Part II is a 2023 Hulu sketch comedy series, sequel to Mel Brooks's 1981 film, with eight episodes over four nights, Brooks narrating, and Kroll, Sykes, and Barinholtz as leads.
History of Warner Bros. Pictures
History of Warner Bros. Pictures: American film studio incorporated in 1923 by the four Warner brothers, pioneer of Vitaphone sound films (Don Juan, The Jazz Singer), later a Big Five studio, acquired by Paramount Skydance in 2026.
History's Greatest Mysteries
History's Greatest Mysteries is a HISTORY channel one-hour documentary series, hosted and narrated by Laurence Fishburne, premiering November 2020; 7 seasons, 103 episodes covering D.B. Cooper, the Titanic, Roswell, and John Wilkes Booth.
HIStory4 (HIStory4：近距离爱上你)
HIStory4: Close to You (HIStory4：近距離愛上你) is a 2021 Taiwanese BL romantic comedy-drama, the fourth HIStory series entry, airing 20 episodes on LINE TV from 14 March to 16 May 2021, following a fake-dating workplace couple and a stepbrother couple at a wedding planning company.
Hit & Run (TV series)
Hit & Run is a 2021 Netflix espionage thriller, billed as Netflix's first original Israeli series, created by Fauda's Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff with Dawn Prestwich and Nicole Yorkin; nine episodes, cancelled after one season over cost.