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The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep: Raymond Chandler's 1939 debut novel and first Philip Marlowe detective story, published by Knopf, adapted by Howard Hawks in 1946 with Bogart and Bacall; famous for its tangled plot and the unexplained chauffeur murder.
The Big Sleep (1946 film)
The Big Sleep (1946 film): Howard Hawks film noir for Warner Bros. adapting Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel, starring Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall, written by Faulkner, Brackett, and Furthman, with a famous unsolved-chauffeur plot and a 1945 pre-release cut.
The Big Sleep (1978 film)
The Big Sleep (1978) is Michael Winner's neo-noir remake of Raymond Chandler's novel, starring Robert Mitchum as Philip Marlowe, relocated from Los Angeles to London, with James Stewart and Sarah Miles; critically panned.
The Big T.N.T. Show
The Big T.N.T. Show (Tune 'n' Talent) is a 1966 American concert film directed by Larry Peerce, produced by Phil Spector, and filmed November 1965 at Hollywood's Moulin Rouge; the sequel to The T.A.M.I. Show features Ray Charles, Joan Baez, The Byrds, and Ike and Tina Turner.
The Big Trail
The Big Trail (1930) is Raoul Walsh's Fox Western epic on the Oregon Trail, John Wayne's first starring role, shot in 35mm and 70mm Grandeur widescreen, a costly box-office failure later named to the National Film Registry in 2006.
The Big Valley
The Big Valley (ABC, 1965–1969) is a 112-episode American Western about the Barkley ranching family of Stockton, California, starring Barbara Stanwyck as matriarch Victoria Barkley and launching Lee Majors and Linda Evans.
The Big Water
The Big Water (Macedonian: Golemata voda) is a 1971 lyrical novel by the Macedonian writer Živko Čingo, narrated through the orphan Lem Nikodinovski in a postwar home for war orphans.
The Big Wedding
The Big Wedding is a 2013 American romantic comedy directed by Justin Zackham, starring Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton as a divorced couple pretending to be married.
The Big Year
The Big Year (2011) is a David Frankel comedy starring Steve Martin, Jack Black, and Owen Wilson as rival birders in a North American big year contest, adapted from Mark Obmascik's 2004 book; it earned $7.2 million domestically on a $41 million budget.
The Biggest Estate on Earth
The Biggest Estate on Earth is a 2011 book by Australian historian Bill Gammage arguing that Aboriginal people managed pre-1788 Australia as a single estate using fire.
The Biggest Little Farm
The Biggest Little Farm (2018) is John Chester's documentary about him and wife Molly building Apricot Lane Farms on 200 barren Ventura County acres over eight years; Telluride premiere, NEON release, 2020 Oscar shortlist.
The Biggest Loser (American TV series)
The Biggest Loser was an NBC weight-loss reality competition (2004–2016, plus a 2020 USA Network revival) awarding $250,000 to the contestant losing the most weight; a 2016 NIH study found lasting metabolic slowing and weight regain among contestants.
The Biggest Loser (Australian TV series)
The Biggest Loser Australia, the Network Ten reality weight-loss competition (2006–2017, 11 seasons) with trainers Michelle Bridges, Shannan Ponton, Steve Willis, and Tiffiny Hall; distinct from the American original.
The Bikeriders
The Bikeriders is Jeff Nichols' 2024 drama starring Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, and Tom Hardy, adapted from Danny Lyon's 1968 photobook about the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club; released by Focus Features June 21, 2024 after a Telluride 2023 premiere and strike-related delay.
The Bilingual Lover
The Bilingual Lover (El amante bilingüe) is Vicente Aranda's 1993 Spanish-Italian comedy-drama adapted from Juan Marsé's 1988 novel, starring Imanol Arias and Ornella Muti, about a disfigured husband who reinvents himself as Faneca to win back his wife.
The Bill
The Bill: British ITV police procedural (1984–2010) set at fictional Sun Hill station, created by Geoff McQueen from the 1983 play Woodentop; over 2,400 episodes, peak audience above 16 million.
The Bill Engvall Show
The Bill Engvall Show is a TBS family sitcom (2007–2009, 3 seasons, 30 episodes) created by Bill Engvall and Michael Leeson, starring Engvall as family counselor Bill Pearson, with Nancy Travis and a young Jennifer Lawrence.
The Billion Dollar Code
The Billion Dollar Code is a 2021 German Netflix four-episode limited series by Oliver Ziegenbalg and Robert Thalheim dramatizing ART+COM's real patent suit against Google over the Terravision/Google Earth algorithm, which the developers ultimately lost.
The Bionic Woman
The Bionic Woman is the American science-fiction TV series (1976-1978), a spin-off of The Six Million Dollar Man starring Lindsay Wagner as Jaime Sommers, rebuilt with bionic legs, right arm, and right ear after a skydiving accident; distinct from the 2007 remake.
The Bird of Time
The Bird of Time is a 1912 poetry collection by the Indian poet Sarojini Naidu, her second book of verse, containing 46 poems and including "In the Bazaars of Hyderabad".
The Bird People in China (中国の鳥人)
The Bird People in China (中国の鳥人) is a 1998 Takashi Miike comedy-drama, adapted from Makoto Shiina's novel, in which a salaryman and a yakuza travel to a remote Yunnan village with a school that teaches children to fly.
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo) is Dario Argento's 1970 Italian-West German giallo debut, starring Tony Musante and Suzy Kendall, with Storaro cinematography and a Morricone score.
The Birdcage
The Birdcage is a 1996 American comedy directed by Mike Nichols and starring Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, and Nathan Lane, remaking the 1978 film La Cage aux Folles.
The Birds (film)
The Birds is Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 horror thriller, scripted by Evan Hunter from Daphne du Maurier's 1952 story, in which birds attack Bodega Bay without motive. Starring Tippi Hedren and Rod Taylor, it earned a 95% Tomatometer and National Film Registry status.
The Birds (story)
The Birds (story): Daphne du Maurier's 1952 short story from The Apple Tree, in which birds attack humans in Cornwall; protagonist Nat Hocken; source of Hitchcock's 1963 film set in Bodega Bay.
The birds and the bees
The birds and the bees: English idiom for the informal sex-and-reproduction talk given to children, using bee pollination and bird egg imagery. Origin uncertain; Coleridge 1825, Burroughs 1875, Cole Porter 1928; first explicit print use 1939.
The Birds of America
The Birds of America is a book of 435 hand-colored engraved plates of North American birds by John James Audubon, published in London and Edinburgh from 1827 to 1838.
The Birth of a Nation (2016 film)
The Birth of a Nation is a 2016 American historical drama about Nat Turner's 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia, written, directed by, and starring Nate Parker, his directorial debut.
The Birth of Venus
The Birth of Venus (Nascita di Venere), Botticelli, c. 1485, tempera on canvas, 172.5 × 278.5 cm, Uffizi. Shows Venus arriving on Cyprus on a shell, not her birth; Medici commission, first documented by Vasari in 1550.
The Birthday Massacre
The Birthday Massacre (formerly Imagica, after Clive Barker's Imajica) is a Canadian synth-rock band formed in 1999 in London, Ontario, based in Toronto, blending 1980s new wave, dark wave, industrial, and synthpop, led by vocalist Chibi, known for Violet, Hide and Seek, and Pathways.