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The Age of Bronze

The Age of Bronze (L'Âge d'airain) is a life-size bronze nude of a standing man by Auguste Rodin, modeled in Brussels in 1875–1876 and first exhibited in 1877.

The Age of Disclosure

The Age of Disclosure is a 2025 Dan Farah documentary in which 34 senior U.S. officials allege an 80-year cover-up of non-human intelligent life; it premiered at SXSW and streamed on Prime Video from November 21, 2025.

The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991

The Age of Extremes is a 1994 history of the twentieth century by the British Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, the final volume of his four-part history of the modern world.

The Age of Goodbyes

The Age of Goodbyes is the English translation of 告别的年代, the first novel by Malaysian Chinese writer Li Zishu, a poetic, magical-realist treatment of Malaysian Chinese history translated by YZ Chin.

The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's 1920 novel of 1870s New York high society, following Newland Archer's love triangle with May Welland and Ellen Olenska; it won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, making Wharton the first woman to win it.

The Age of Innocence (1993 film)

The Age of Innocence (1993) is Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize novel, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Winona Ryder in an 1870s New York love triangle, released by Columbia Pictures.

The Age of Innocence (TV series)

The Age of Innocence (TV series) is an upcoming eight-episode Netflix limited series adapted from Edith Wharton's 1920 Pulitzer-winning novel, created by Emma Frost, starring Ben Radcliffe, Camila Morrone, Kristine Froseth, and Margo Martindale, filmed in Prague 2025-2026, distinct from the 2002 Korean SBS drama of similar name.

The Age of Shadows (밀정)

The Age of Shadows (밀정, Mil-jeong) is Kim Jee-woon's 2016 Korean spy thriller starring Song Kang-ho and Gong Yoo, set in 1920s Japanese-occupied Korea; the first Warner Bros.-produced Korean film, reaching 7 million viewers.

The Agency (2001 TV series)

The Agency (2001 TV series) is a CBS CIA drama, 2001-2003, 44 episodes, created by Michael Frost Beckner; first series allowed to film inside CIA headquarters; canceled after season 2, distinct from the 2024 remake.

The Agency (2024 TV series)

The Agency (2024 TV series) is a Paramount+ with Showtime espionage drama adapted from the French series Le Bureau des Légendes, starring Michael Fassbender as CIA agent Martian, with Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Richard Gere; season 2 streamed June 21, 2026.

The AI Con

The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want, 2025 book by linguist Emily M. Bender and sociologist Alex Hanna arguing AI is a marketing term, critiquing hype, labor harms, and data theft; also known as a skeptical counterpoint to AI Snake Oil.

The Aimless Bullet (오발탄)

The Aimless Bullet (오발탄, Obaltan; also The Stray Bullet) is Yu Hyun-mok's 1961 Korean drama based on Yi Beom-seon's novel, depicting a destitute postwar Seoul family; banned after the 1961 coup, restored by KOFA in 2015, now a canonical Korean realist masterpiece.

The Air (เสน่หาวาโย)

The Air (เสน่หาวาโย; 4 Elements: The Air) is a 2026 Thai GL action-romance series, third in the 4 Elements anthology, adapted from Salmon's novel. Freen Sarocha and Becky Armstrong star as a bodyguard and princess; 8 episodes aired May 16 to July 4, 2026 on Channel 7HD and iQIYI, becoming Thailand's highest-rated GL series.

The Air That I Breathe

The Air That I Breathe: 1974 soft-rock ballad by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood, a number-two UK hit for the Hollies, produced by Ron Richards with Alan Parsons engineering, and the acknowledged source of Radiohead's Creep progression.

The Airborne Toxic Event

The Airborne Toxic Event: American indie rock band from Los Feliz, Los Angeles, formed 2006, named for DeLillo's White Noise; known for "Sometime Around Midnight" and albums All at Once (2011) and Glory (2024).

The Airport Chaplain

The Airport Chaplain is an eight-part Australian SBS drama (2026) starring Hugo Weaving as airport chaplain Tobias Wallace and Shabana Azeez as manager Mira Ansari-Cole, inspired by producer Jude Troy's lost handbag and Melbourne Airport chaplain Martyn Scrimshaw, streaming globally on Netflix.

The Alabama Solution

The Alabama Solution is a 2025 HBO documentary by Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman exposing violence and cover-ups in Alabama prisons through contraband cellphone footage; Sundance premiere, Peabody winner, 2026 Oscar nominee.

The Alamo (1960 film)

The Alamo (1960) is John Wayne's only film as director, an epic Western in which he stars as Davy Crockett. Budgeted at $7.5 million but costing $12 million, it earned six Oscar nominations, winning Best Sound.

The Alamo (2004 film)

The Alamo (2004 film) is a historical war drama directed by John Lee Hancock. It stars Dennis Quaid as Sam Houston and Billy Bob Thornton as Davy Crockett.

The Alan Parsons Project

The Alan Parsons Project: British progressive rock studio project formed in London in 1975 by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson; ten concept albums 1976–1987, Eye in the Sky, Sirius, Chicago Bulls, disbanded 1990.

The Alarm

The Alarm (the-alarm) is a Welsh rock band formed in Rhyl in 1981 by Mike Peters, Dave Sharp, Eddie MacDonald, and Nigel Twist; known for 'Sixty Eight Guns' and acoustic-guitar anthems, IRS Records albums, and Peters' 2025 death and final album Transformation.

The Album (Blackpink album)

The Album is the 2020 debut full-length album by K-pop group Blackpink (블랙핑크), released October 2 on YG Entertainment/Interscope; eight tracks including Lovesick Girls, How You Like That, and Ice Cream with Selena Gomez; UK number 2, New Zealand number 1.

The Album (The Firm album)

The Album is the only 1997 studio album by the Firm (Nas, AZ, Foxy Brown, Nature), produced by Dr. Dre and the Trackmasters on Aftermath/Interscope. It debuted at number one with about 147,000 first-week sales, reached gold, but drew mixed reviews and the group disbanded in 1998.

The Alchemist (musician)

The Alchemist is the stage name of Alan Maman (born 1977), a Beverly Hills-born hip-hop producer, DJ, and former Whooliganz rapper; known for sample-based beats, ALC Records (2004), collaborative albums like Alfredo, three Grammy nominations, and the 2024 BET Producer of the Year award.

The Alchemist (novel)

The Alchemist (O Alquimista), Paulo Coelho's 1988 allegorical novel about Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd seeking treasure at the Egyptian pyramids; first printing of 900 copies, later over 65 million sold and a Guinness record for most translations by a living author.

The Alchemist production discography

The Alchemist production discography catalogs beats and albums by Daniel Alan Maman (born 1977, Los Angeles), from 1997 Dilated Peoples work through solo records like 1st Infantry and joint albums with Prodigy, Freddie Gibbs, and Erykah Badu.

The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II

The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II: Fire & Water is a 2007 album by American rock band Thrice, containing the Fire and Water volumes of a four-disc concept album.

The Aleph (short story)

The Aleph (El Aleph) is Jorge Luis Borges's 1945 short story, published in Sur and collected in 1949, about a point in a Buenos Aires cellar containing every point of the universe simultaneously, seen by the narrator Borges in his dead love Beatriz Viterbo's house.

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour season 8

Season 8 of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, retitled The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, was the show's first hour-long season: 32 episodes on CBS from September 20, 1962 to May 24, 1963, including Hitchcock's final TV directing job, "I Saw the Whole Thing."

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour season 9

Season 9 of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, the anthology's second hour-long season (CBS, 1963–64, 32 episodes), numbered continuing from Alfred Hitchcock Presents; disrupted by JFK assassination coverage preemptions.