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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 theatre

History of theatre: performed drama from prehistoric ritual through Greek and Indian literary theatre, Roman, medieval mystery plays, Elizabethan playhouses, and modern global theatre, with its historiography.

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 play

A history play is a dramatic work claiming to be set in the past, drawn from chronicles and records, most identified with the English theater of the 1590s.

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.

Hit and Run (2012 film)

Hit and Run is a 2012 American action comedy film directed by and starring Dax Shepard, with Kristen Bell and Bradley Cooper, about a witness protection getaway driver.

HIT Entertainment

HIT Entertainment (Henson International Television), British children's TV producer founded by Peter Orton in 1989, owner of Thomas & Friends, Barney, Bob the Builder; acquired by Apax in 2005 for £489.4m and Mattel in 2012 for $680m.

Hit List (2024 film)

Hit List (ஹிட் லிஸ்ட்) is a 2024 Tamil action thriller directed by Sooryakathir Kaakkallar and K Karthikeyan, produced by K.S. Ravikumar's RK Celluloids, starring debutant Vijay Kanishka and R. Sarathkumar; released 31 May 2024, about a masked kidnapper forcing a nonviolent man to kill.

Hit Man (2023 film)

Hit Man (2023) is a Richard Linklater romantic comedy-thriller co-written with and starring Glen Powell, loosely based on Skip Hollandsworth's 2001 Texas Monthly article about fake hit man Gary Johnson; it premiered at Venice 2023, sold to Netflix for $20 million, and scored 82 on Metacritic.

Hit Point (TV series)

Hit Point is a 2026 British six-part crime drama, U&Dave's first original scripted series, written by Howard Overman, directed by David Caffrey, starring Nick Blood and Saffron Hocking as detectives in London's underworld.

Hit the Deck

Hit the Deck is MGM's 1955 CinemaScope musical comedy directed by Roy Rowland, starring Jane Powell, Tony Martin, and Debbie Reynolds as sailors and their sweethearts, adapted from Vincent Youmans' 1927 Broadway hit and Hubert Osborne's play Shore Leave.

Hit the Top (최고의 한방)

Hit the Top (최고의 한방, The Best Hit) is a 2017 KBS2 time-travel comedy drama, 32 episodes, June 2–July 22, 2017, starring Yoon Si-Yoon, Lee Se-Young, Kim Min-Jae, and Cha Tae-Hyun, about a 1993 idol presumed dead who lands in 2017.

Hit-Monkey

Hit-Monkey, also called Hit Monkey, is a Marvel Comics assassin character: a suited Japanese macaque created by Daniel Way and Dalibor Talajic, debuting in a 2010 one-shot, later starring in Hulu's two-season animated series.

Hit-Monkey (TV series)

Hit-Monkey is a Hulu adult animated Marvel series (2021–2024) by Will Speck and Josh Gordon, based on Daniel Way's 2010 comic, starring Jason Sudeikis and Fred Tatasciore across two 10-episode seasons.

HIT: The First Case

HIT: The First Case is a 2020 Indian Telugu-language crime mystery thriller directed by Sailesh Kolanu, starring Vishwak Sen and Ruhani Sharma as a police officer investigating a missing woman in Hyderabad.

HIT: The First Case (2022 film)

HIT: The First Case (2022) is a Hindi-language crime thriller directed by Sailesh Kolanu, a remake of his 2020 Telugu film, starring Rajkummar Rao and Sanya Malhotra, released July 15, 2022, and streaming on Netflix.

HIT: The Second Case

HIT: The Second Case (HIT 2) is a 2022 Telugu crime thriller written and directed by Sailesh Kolanu, starring Adivi Sesh as cop KD hunting a serial killer in Visakhapatnam; released 2 December 2022, streaming on Prime Video.

HIT: The Third Case

HIT: The Third Case (హిట్: ది థర్డ్ కేస్), aka HIT 3, is a 2025 Telugu crime thriller directed by Sailesh Kolanu, starring Nani as officer Arjun Sarkaar hunting a cult of killers; released May 1, 2025, grossing ₹119.48 crore and streaming on Netflix.

Hitch (film)

Hitch is a 2005 American romantic comedy directed by Andy Tennant, starring Will Smith as Alex "Hitch" Hitchens, a New York matchmaker coaching awkward men.

Hitchcock (film)

Hitchcock (2012) is a biographical drama directed by Sacha Gervasi, starring Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren, dramatizing Alfred Hitchcock's making of Psycho (1960) and his marriage to Alma Reville; Fox Searchlight release, 98 minutes, Metascore 55.

Hiten Tejwani

Hiten Tejwani (born 1974, Mumbai) is an Indian actor in Hindi television and films, known as Karan Virani in Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, Pratham Mittal in Kutumb, and Manav Deshmukh in Pavitra Rishta, married to co-star Gauri Pradhan.