124,020 articles
The Ballad of Canal Town
The Ballad of Canal Town (Danao Jishi, 大淖记事) is a 1981 short story by the Chinese writer Wang Zengqi that won the National Outstanding Short Story Award.
The Ballad of Changgan
The Ballad of Changgan (长干行, Chánggān xíng) is a two-part Tang dynasty yuefu poem attributed to Li Bai, spoken in the voice of a merchant's wife in Nanjing.
The Ballad of Chevy Chase
The Ballad of Chevy Chase (Child 162, Roud 223), also The Hunting of the Cheviot, is an English border ballad on the 1388 Battle of Otterburn, first extant in Ashmole 48 (c. 1557–65) and famous through Sidney's praise and Percy's 1765 Reliques.
The Ballad of Jack and Rose
The Ballad of Jack and Rose is Rebecca Miller's 2005 drama starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Camilla Belle as a father and daughter on a decaying commune island; IFC Films release grossed $712,275 domestically.
The Ballad of John and Yoko
The Ballad of John and Yoko: Beatles non-album single written by John Lennon, recorded 14 April 1969 with only Paul McCartney, released 30 May 1969; the band's 17th and final UK number one until "Now and Then" in 2023.
The Ballad of Lefty Brown
The Ballad of Lefty Brown is a 2017 American Western written and directed by Jared Moshe, starring Bill Pullman, Peter Fonda, Jim Caviezel, and Kathy Baker. An aging sidekick avenges his senator partner's murder, is accused of it, and must expose the powerful men responsible; 79% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Ballad of Little Jo
The Ballad of Little Jo is Maggie Greenwald's 1993 revisionist Western starring Suzy Amis as Josephine Monaghan, a woman passing as a man in the frontier West, based on the real Jo Monaghan; released by Fine Line Features, it grossed about $543,091 domestically.
The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考) (1958 film)
The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考, Narayama bushikō) is Keisuke Kinoshita's 1958 Shochiku film, first adaptation of Fukazawa's novel about ubasute, staged with kabuki artifice; Kinema Junpo's 1958 No. 1.
The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考) (1983 film)
The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考, Narayama bushikō) is Shohei Imamura's 1983 Toei drama, the second adaptation of Fukazawa Shichiro's 1956 novel about ubasute, the abandonment of 70-year-olds on a mountain; it won the 1983 Cannes Palme d'Or.
The Ballad of Paladin (Euphoria)
The Ballad of Paladin is the third episode of Euphoria season 3, the series' twenty-first, written and directed by Sam Levinson, aired April 26, 2026 on HBO, centering on Nate and Cassie's wedding and Laurie's parrot Paladin.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a 109-stanza poem by Oscar Wilde, published in 1898 under his prison cell number C.3.3., recounting a fellow prisoner's execution.
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is Suzanne Collins's 2020 Hunger Games prequel novel, set 64 years before the trilogy during the 10th Hunger Games, following 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow and tribute Lucy Gray Baird; adapted into a 2023 film starring Tom Blyth and Rachel Zegler.
The Ballad of the Outer Life
"The Ballad of the Outer Life" (German: Ballade des äusseren Lebens) is an 1894 poem by the Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal, a celebrated work of Viennese Symbolism written in terzains.
The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe (Баллада о доблестном рыцаре Айвенго)
The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe (Баллада о доблестном рыцаре Айвенго), also Ballada o doblestnom rytsare Ayvengo, is a 1982 Mosfilm adventure film by Sergei Tarasov based on Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, with Vladimir Vysotsky's ballads, 28.4 million Soviet viewers, ninth at the 1983 box office.
The Ballad of the Witches' Road
"The Ballad of the Witches' Road" is the central song of Marvel's 2024 Disney+ series Agatha All Along, written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez. It exists in eight versions, including the Sacred Chant Version that opens the Witches' Road and Lorna Wu's 1970s protection-spell ballad, and earned Emmy and Music Supervisors Guild recognition.
The Ballad of Wallis Island
The Ballad of Wallis Island is a 2025 British comedy-drama directed by James Griffiths, written by and starring Tom Basden and Tim Key with Carey Mulligan, expanded from their 2007 short about a lottery winner's private folk gig.
The Ballroom Blitz
The Ballroom Blitz is a 1973 glam rock song by The Sweet, written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, inspired by a bottled-offstage Scottish gig; UK number 2, US number 5, covered by The Damned, Krokus, and Tia Carrere in Wayne's World.
The Ballroom of Romance
The Ballroom of Romance: 1982 RTÉ/BBC television drama directed by Pat O'Connor, adapted by William Trevor from his 1972 short story, starring Brenda Fricker as Bridie; filmed in Ballycroy, Mayo; won the 1983 BAFTA for Best Single Drama.
The Baltimorons
The Baltimorons is a 2025 American romantic comedy directed by Jay Duplass, co-written with and starring Michael Strassner as newly sober comedian Cliff, who spends Christmas Eve with dentist Didi (Liz Larsen) in Baltimore; it won the SXSW 2025 Audience Award and earned two 2026 Independent Spirit Award nominations.
The Bamboo Stalk
The Bamboo Stalk (ساق البامبو) is a 2012 novel by the Kuwaiti writer Saud Alsanousi about a young man of mixed Filipino and Kuwaiti parentage seeking his identity.
The Banana Splits
The Banana Splits (Banana Splits Adventure Hour) was Hanna-Barbera's NBC costumed pop-group variety hour, 1968–1970, starring Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper, and Snorky, Kellogg's-sponsored, with the Tra La La Song theme and a 2019 horror-film revival.
The Banana Splits Movie
The Banana Splits Movie is a 2019 R-rated comedy horror film directed by Danishka Esterhazy, written by Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas, in which the Hanna-Barbera children's TV characters, reimagined as animatronic robots, murder a studio audience after their show is canceled.
The Band
The Band: Canadian-American roots-rock group (Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, Garth Hudson), formerly the Hawks backing Ronnie Hawkins and Bob Dylan; albums Music from Big Pink (1968) and The Band (1969), farewell concert The Last Waltz (1976).
The Band (album)
The Band (1969), the self-titled "Brown Album" by the Band, is the group's second album on Capitol, recorded in a Hollywood Hills pool house, reaching No. 9 and entering the National Recording Registry in 2009.
the band apart
the band apart (ザ・バンド・アパート) is a four-piece Japanese rock band formed in Tokyo in 1998, blending rock, jazz, soul, and bossa nova on its own label, asian gothic.
The Band Geeks
The Band Geeks are Richie Castellano's American rock band, started as a 2014 podcast and YouTube cover act, now Jon Anderson's touring and recording band behind True (2024) and Perpetual Change (2025).
The Band Perry
The Band Perry: American country group founded 2005 by siblings Kimberly, Reid, and Neil Perry; hits "If I Die Young" and "Better Dig Two"; albums The Band Perry (2010) and Pioneer (2013); Grammy 2015; since 2025 a duo of Kimberly Perry and Johnny Costello.
The Band Wagon
The Band Wagon is a 1953 MGM musical directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Fred Astaire as fading star Tony Hunter opposite Cyd Charisse, with songs by Dietz and Schwartz including "That's Entertainment." Not to be confused with the 1931 Broadway revue it adapts.
The Band's Visit (musical)
The Band's Visit is a 2016 musical by David Yazbek and Itamar Moses, adapted from Eran Kolirin's 2007 Israeli film about an Egyptian police orchestra stranded overnight in Bet Hatikva, Israel. It won 10 of 11 Tony Awards in 2018, including Best Musical, after Off-Broadway and Broadway runs.
The Band's Visit (زيارة الفرقة الموسيقية) (2007 film)
The Band's Visit (ביקור התזמורת; زيارة الفرقة الموسيقية) is Eran Kolirin's 2007 Israeli-French comedy-drama about an Egyptian police orchestra stranded overnight in Bet Hatikva; Cannes Coup de Coeur winner, seven Ophir Prizes, disqualified from the Oscars for English dialogue, later a Tony-winning musical.