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The Great North

The Great North is a Fox adult animated sitcom (2021-2025) created by Wendy Molyneux, Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin, and Minty Lewis, following single dad Beef Tobin (Nick Offerman) and his family in Lone Moose, Alaska; canceled after five seasons on October 3, 2025.

The Great Outdoors (film)

The Great Outdoors is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Howard Deutch, written by John Hughes, starring John Candy and Dan Aykroyd as rival brothers-in-law on a Wisconsin lake vacation.

The Great Passage (舟を編む)

The Great Passage (舟を編む, Fune o Amu) is a 2013 Japanese drama film by Yuya Ishii, adapted from Shion Miura's Booksellers' Award-winning novel about editors compiling the dictionary Daitokai; it was Japan's 86th Academy Awards entry.

The Great Piggy Bank Robbery

The Great Piggy Bank Robbery is a 1946 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes short directed by Bob Clampett, in which Daffy Duck dreams he is detective Duck Twacy in a Dick Tracy parody, battling grotesque villains such as Neon Noodle and Rubberhead.

The Great Pottery Throw Down

The Great Pottery Throw Down is a British television competition where amateur potters compete in weekly challenges; it began on BBC Two in 2015 and airs on Channel 4.

The Great Pre-Wedding Show

The Great Pre-Wedding Show (ది గ్రేట్ ప్రీ-వెడ్డింగ్ షో) is a 2025 Telugu comedy-drama directed by Rahul Srinivas, starring Thiruveer and Teena Sravya; a village photographer loses a pre-wedding shoot's memory card. Released 7 November 2025; streamed on ZEE5.

The Great Race

The Great Race (1965) is Blake Edwards' slapstick comedy starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Natalie Wood, and Peter Falk in a 1908 New York-to-Paris auto race; 157 minutes, Oscar for Sound Effects, famous 2,500-pie fight honoring Laurel and Hardy.

The Great Root Bear

The Great Root Bear, also called Rooty, is A&W's orange-sweatered bear mascot, introduced in the mid-1970s with the tuba jingle 'Ba-Dum, Ba-Dum'; famous for a 2023 jeans joke and a 50th-birthday campaign in Canada.

The Great Santini

The Great Santini (1979), also released as The Ace, is Lewis John Carlino's drama adapted from Pat Conroy's autobiographical 1976 novel, starring Robert Duvall as Marine pilot Bull Meechum; Oscar-nominated for Duvall and Michael O'Keefe.

The Great Shaman Ga Doo-shim (우수무당 가두심)

The Great Shaman Ga Doo-shim (우수무당 가두심), also Superior Shaman Ga Doo Shim, is a 2021 KakaoTV Korean web drama, 12 episodes, starring Kim Sae-ron and Nam Da-reum as teen exorcists.

The Great Shamsuddin Family

The Great Shamsuddin Family is a 2025 Hindi comedy-drama film directed and written by Anusha Rizvi, released 12 December 2025 on JioHotstar. Kritika Kamra plays Bani Ahmed, a writer whose 12-hour deadline collides with her chaotic Muslim family in Delhi.

The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery

The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (onscreen title The St. Louis Bank Robbery) is a 1959 black-and-white American crime drama directed by Charles Guggenheim and John Stix, starring Steve McQueen as a getaway driver, based on the real 1953 Southwest Bank robbery and shot on location in St. Louis.

The Great Theatre of the World

The Great Theatre of the World, or El gran teatro of Spain, is an auto sacramental by Pedro Calderón de la Barca that allegorically dramatizes life as a play before God.

The Great Train Robbery (1903 film)

The Great Train Robbery (1903) is a silent Western short directed by Edwin S. Porter for Edison Manufacturing Co., about twelve minutes long, fourteen scenes, famous for its final bandit-fires-at-camera shot and pioneering continuity editing.

The Great Wall (长城) (film)

The Great Wall (长城) is Zhang Yimou's 2016 US-China monster fantasy starring Matt Damon, Jing Tian, Willem Dafoe, and Andy Lau; a $150 million co-production about mercenaries defending the wall from Tao Tei monsters, a hit in China but a Western flop.

The Great War (1959 film)

La grande guerra (The Great War) is Mario Monicelli's 1959 Italian-French war comedy-drama with Alberto Sordi and Vittorio Gassman, produced by Dino De Laurentiis; the first realistic Italian film on World War I, it shared the 1959 Venice Golden Lion-equivalent prize.

The Great War of Archimedes (アルキメデスの大戦)

The Great War of Archimedes (アルキメデスの大戦, Arukimedesu no taisen) is a 2019 Japanese historical drama by Takashi Yamazaki, based on Norifusa Mita's manga, in which mathematician Kai Tadashi tries to stop the battleship Yamato's construction through cost analysis; it earned ¥1.93 billion in Japan.

The Great White (TV series)

The Great White is an upcoming Australian six-part legal comedy-drama starring Hugo Weaving as a disgraced barrister drawn into animal law, airing on the ABC in 2027.

The Great White Hype

The Great White Hype is a 1996 Reginald Hudlin boxing satire starring Samuel L. Jackson as promoter Rev. Fred Sultan, who stages a white challenger (Peter Berg) against Black champ Damon Wayans; 20th Century Fox, $8 million gross.

The Great Ziegfeld

The Great Ziegfeld (1936) is MGM's Best Picture-winning musical biopic of Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., directed by Robert Z. Leonard, starring William Powell, Luise Rainer, and Myrna Loy, famous for its 'A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody' number.

The Greatest (2026 TV series)

The Greatest (2026 TV series): Prime Video biographical drama about Muhammad Ali, first authorized scripted series from his estate. Created by Ben Watkins, starring Jaalen Best; eight episodes premiered November 4, 2026.

The Greatest American Hero

The Greatest American Hero is an ABC science fiction comedy-drama (1981–1983) created by Stephen J. Cannell, starring William Katt as teacher Ralph Hinkley, who loses an alien supersuit's instruction manual; known for the hit theme song "Believe It or Not".

The Greatest Average American (game show)

The Greatest Average American is a 2026 ABC game show hosted by Nate Bargatze, also the title of his 2021 Netflix special. Contestants guess how 100 polled Americans live; the winner plays for $67,920, the average US salary, taxes covered.

The Greatest Beer Run Ever

The Greatest Beer Run Ever is a 2022 Peter Farrelly comedy-drama on Apple TV+, starring Zac Efron, Russell Crowe, and Bill Murray, based on John "Chickie" Donohue's 2020 memoir about delivering Pabst Blue Ribbon to friends in 1967 Vietnam.

The Greatest Canadian

The Greatest Canadian: CBC's 2004 TV series and national poll, modeled on BBC's Great Britons; 140,000 nominations, 1.2 million votes; Tommy Douglas won, ahead of Terry Fox and Pierre Trudeau.

The Greatest Event in Life

The Greatest Event in Life (Zhongshen dashi) is a one-act play by Hu Shih, published in New Youth in March 1919 and modeled on Ibsen's A Doll's House.

The Greatest Game Ever Played

The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005) is a Disney sports drama directed by Bill Paxton, written by Mark Frost from his 2002 book, starring Shia LaBeouf as Francis Ouimet, who beats Harry Vardon at the 1913 U.S. Open.

The Greatest Night in Pop

The Greatest Night in Pop (2024) is Bao Nguyen's Netflix documentary about the January 28, 1985 all-night recording of "We Are the World" by 45 stars after the American Music Awards, covering its Belafonte origins, logistics, reception, and awards.

The Greatest of All Time

The Greatest of All Time, also known as GOAT, is a 2024 Indian Tamil action film directed by Venkat Prabhu, starring Vijay in dual roles as an anti-terrorism agent and his son.

The Greatest Show on Earth (film)

The Greatest Show on Earth is a 1952 American circus drama directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Charlton Heston and Betty Hutton, that won Best Picture.