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Back to December

Back to December: Taylor Swift song from Speak Now (2010), written solo and produced with Nathan Chapman; an apology ballad linked to Taylor Lautner, re-recorded as Back To December (Taylor's Version) in 2023.

Back to Friends

Back to Friends is a song by sombr, released December 27, 2024. It became a breakout hit after spreading on TikTok and topping the Spotify global chart.

Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)

Back to Life (However Do You Want Me) is a 1989 Soul II Soul single featuring Caron Wheeler, produced by Jazzie B and Nellee Hooper; UK number one for four weeks, US Billboard number four, Grammy-winning, recorded at Brittania Row, Islington.

Back to Life (TV series)

Back to Life: British dark comedy-drama (BBC Three/Showtime, 2019–2021), created by and starring Daisy Haggard with Laura Solon; ex-con Miri Matteson returns home after 18 years in prison; two six-episode seasons, Metacritic 88.

Back to Reality (Red Dwarf)

Back to Reality is the Series V finale of Red Dwarf (26 March 1992, BBC2), written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, in which a Despair Squid hallucination convinces the crew they scored 4% in a four-year video game. It repeatedly tops fan polls as the show's best episode and introduced Duane Dibbley.

Back to School

Back to School (1986) is an Orion Pictures comedy directed by Alan Metter, starring Rodney Dangerfield as millionaire Thornton Melon, who enrolls in college with his son; it grossed $91,258,000 domestically.

Back to the Beginning

Back to the Beginning: Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne farewell benefit concert, 5 July 2025, Villa Park, Birmingham; original lineup's first show since 2005; Osbourne's final performance before his death 17 days later.

Back to the Egg

Back to the Egg, Wings' ninth and final studio album by Paul McCartney, released June 8, 1979 (UK) with Laurence Juber and Steve Holly, Rockestra guest sessions, and a 1980 Grammy for Rockestra Theme.

Back to the Future

Back to the Future is the 1985 Robert Zemeckis time-travel comedy starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, the top-grossing film of 1985, Oscar winner, and start of a trilogy, musical, and franchise.

Back to the Future (franchise)

Back to the Future (BTTF) franchise: Zemeckis and Gale's Universal/Amblin trilogy (1985, 1989, 1990) starring the DeLorean time machine, plus animated series, ride, Olivier-winning musical, and 2025 40th-anniversary releases.

Back to the Future (TV series)

Back to the Future, also Back to the Future: The Animated Series, is a 1991-1992 CBS cartoon continuing the film trilogy, with Christopher Lloyd in live-action Doc Brown segments, Dan Castellaneta voicing animated Doc, and Bill Nye's first TV appearances.

Back to the Future Part II

Back to the Future Part II (1989) is Robert Zemeckis's sequel starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, released November 22, 1989, earning $331,971,868 worldwide, shot back-to-back with Part III, and set partly on October 21, 2015.

Back to the Future Part III

Back to the Future Part III (1990) is Robert Zemeckis's Western-set finale to the Back to the Future trilogy, with Marty McFly traveling to 1885 Hill Valley to rescue Doc Brown, co-starring Mary Steenburgen and Thomas F. Wilson.

Back to the Outback

Back to the Outback is a 2021 Netflix animated comedy adventure directed by Clare Knight and Harry Cripps, in which Australian zoo animals including Maddie the taipan escape to the Outback; 81% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Back to the Rafters

Back to the Rafters is a 2021 six-episode Australian Amazon Prime Video drama reviving Packed to the Rafters; created by Bevan Lee, starring Rebecca Gibney and Erik Thomson, cancelled after one season.

Backdraft (film)

Backdraft is a 1991 Ron Howard action thriller about the backdraft fire phenomenon, starring Kurt Russell and William Baldwin as feuding Chicago firefighter brothers hunting an arsonist; it earned three Oscar nominations and $147 million worldwide.

Backlot

Backlot: the outdoor area of a film studio lot with semi-permanent exterior sets for outdoor filming; emerged in Hollywood 1909-1915; Fox and MGM backlots were sold, Universal's survives.

Backrooms (film)

Backrooms, also called The Backrooms Movie, is a 2026 American horror film directed by Kane Parsons for A24, based on his YouTube series and the Backrooms creepypasta.

Backrooms (soundtrack)

Backrooms (Original Soundtrack) is the dark-ambient score album for A24's 2026 horror film Backrooms, composed by director Kane Parsons and Edo Van Breemen, released May 29, 2026 on A24 Music, 28 tracks, with licensed Boards of Canada and The Caretaker cues.

Backrooms (web series)

The Backrooms is Kane Parsons' (Kane Pixels) found-footage analog horror web series on YouTube, begun January 2022, adapting the 2019 4chan Backrooms creepypasta; it drew hundreds of millions of views and led to A24's 2026 Backrooms film.

Backspacer

Backspacer is Pearl Jam's ninth studio album, released September 20, 2009, produced by Brendan O'Brien and named for a key on Eddie Vedder's typewriter. It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 189,000 first-week copies, the band's first chart-topper since No Code (1996).

Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon

Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon is a Japanese light novel series by Shisui Meikyō and illustrator tef, serialized online from 2020, with over 4.6 million copies in circulation.

Backstrap loom

A backstrap loom, in Spanish telar de cintura, is a portable frameless loom in which the weaver supplies tension by leaning against a waist strap. Used in the Americas for over 4,000 years.

Backstreet Boys

Backstreet Boys, American pop vocal group formed in Orlando in 1993 by Lou Pearlman; members Nick Carter, Brian Littrell, AJ McLean, Howie Dorough, Kevin Richardson; best-selling boy band with over 130 million albums, famous for Millennium and I Want It That Way.

Backstreet Boys (1996 album)

Backstreet Boys (1996 album): self-titled international debut studio album of the American boy band Backstreet Boys, released May 6, 1996 in Europe and Asia; produced with Max Martin in Stockholm; basis of the 1997 US debut.

Backstreet Boys (1997 album)

Backstreet Boys (US, 1997) is the American boy band's second self-titled album, released August 12, 1997 on Jive; a 12-track US debut compiling songs from the 1996 international debut and Backstreet's Back, featuring Quit Playing Games (No. 2 Hot 100).

Backstreet Boys discography

Backstreet Boys discography: studio albums, compilations, and singles by the American pop group, from Backstreet Boys (1996 EU, 1997 US) and Millennium (1999, 24 million sold) to DNA (2019), A Very Backstreet Christmas (2022), and Millennium 2.0 (2025).

Backstreet Rookie

Backstreet Rookie (편의점 샛별이) is a 16-episode South Korean romantic comedy series that aired on SBS from June 19 to August 8, 2020, starring Ji Chang-wook and Kim Yoo-jung.

Backstroke of the West

Backstroke of the West, full title Star War: The Third Gathers – The Backstroke of the West, is a 2005 Chinese bootleg DVD of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith famous for machine-translated English subtitles and the "Do Not Want" meme.

Bäckström (Swedish TV series)

Bäckström is a Swedish crime drama (2020–2024) based on Leif GW Persson's Evert Bäckström novels, starring Kjell Bergqvist; three six-episode seasons on C More/TV4, distinct from the US series Backstrom.