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The Dead and the Living

The Dead and the Living is the second poetry collection by American poet Sharon Olds, published by Knopf in 1984 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.

The Dead Center

The Dead Center is a 2018 supernatural horror thriller written and directed by Billy Senese, starring Shane Carruth as psychiatrist Daniel Forrester treating a revived suicide victim (Jeremy Childs). Premiered at LA Film Festival 2018; released by Arrow Films October 2019; 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Dead Daisies

The Dead Daisies: Aussie-American hard rock supergroup founded by David Lowy (formed 2012), with members from Guns N' Roses, Whitesnake, Mötley Crüe, Deep Purple; albums include Holy Ground, Radiance; Kelly Hansen fronts from October 2026.

The Dead Dance

"The Dead Dance" (also "Dead Dance") is a 2025 synth-pop single by Lady Gaga, co-produced with Andrew Watt and Cirkut, tied to Netflix's Wednesday season 2 and directed by Tim Burton in its music video.

The Dead Don't Die (2019 film)

The Dead Don't Die (2019) is Jim Jarmusch's zombie comedy for Focus Features, starring Bill Murray, Adam Driver, and Tilda Swinton; it opened Cannes 2019 and scored 55% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Dead End (烈日灼心)

The Dead End (烈日灼心), also known as Sunspots, is a 2015 Chinese crime-suspense film by Cao Baoping, adapted from Xu Yigua's novel, about three fugitives raising an orphan; it won three shared Best Actor awards at the Shanghai festival.

The Dead Files

The Dead Files is an American paranormal reality series on Travel Channel since September 23, 2011, pairing physical medium Amy Allan (later Cindy Kaza) and retired NYPD detective Steve DiSchiavi, who investigate haunted locations independently.

The Dead Girls

The Dead Girls (Las muertas) is a 2025 Netflix Mexican miniseries by Luis Estrada, adapted from Ibargüengoitia's 1977 novel about the Baladro sisters, fictional versions of the serial-killer brothel owners Las Poquianchis.

The Dead Lecturer

The Dead Lecturer is a 1964 poetry collection by Amiri Baraka, published as LeRoi Jones, marking his turn from Beat bohemianism toward race-conscious political poetry.

The Dead Man and Being Happy

The Dead Man and Being Happy (El muerto y ser feliz) is Javier Rebollo's 2012 Spain-Argentina-France road movie starring José Sacristán as a dying hitman fleeing Buenos Aires with morphine; it won the FIPRESCI Prize and a Silver Shell for Best Actor at San Sebastián 2012.

The Dead Milkmen

The Dead Milkmen are an American satirical punk rock band formed in Philadelphia in 1983, known for comic songs like "Punk Rock Girl" and "Bitchin' Camaro."

The Dead of Antietam

The Dead of Antietam was an October 1862 exhibition at Mathew Brady's New York gallery showing Alexander Gardner's photographs of battlefield dead from the Battle of Antietam, a founding moment of American war photography.

The Dead of the Desert

The Dead of the Desert (Metei Midbar) is an epic Hebrew poem by Hayim Nahman Bialik, written in 1902 in Odessa about the Israelites who died in the wilderness.

The Dead Pool

The Dead Pool is a 1988 American action thriller directed by Buddy Van Horn, the fifth and final film in the Dirty Harry series, with Clint Eastwood returning as inspector Harry Callahan.

The Dead South

The Dead South: four-piece acoustic band formed 2012 in Regina, Saskatchewan (banjo, mandolin, cello, guitar; Nate Hilts, Scott Pringle, Danny Kenyon, Colton Crawford). Albums Good Company, Illusion & Doubt, Sugar & Joy, Chains & Stakes; JUNO-winning alt-bluegrass with punk energy.

The Dead Weather

The Dead Weather: Nashville, Tennessee rock band formed in 2009 (aka Jack White's gothic blues supergroup), uniting Jack White (White Stripes, Raconteurs) on drums, Alison Mosshart (The Kills) on vocals, Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age), and Jack Lawrence. Three albums on Third Man Records: Horehound, Sea of Cowards, Dodge and Burn.

The Dead Zone (film)

The Dead Zone is a 1983 American psychological thriller directed by David Cronenberg from Stephen King's 1979 novel, with Christopher Walken as a schoolteacher who sees the future through touch.

The Dead Zone (novel)

The Dead Zone is Stephen King's August 1979 Viking Press novel about Johnny Smith, who gains precognitive touch after a coma and foresees politician Greg Stillson causing nuclear war. King's first #1 New York Times bestseller, it introduced Castle Rock and was filmed by David Cronenberg in 1983.

The Dead Zone (TV series)

The Dead Zone (2002–2007) is a USA Network supernatural drama based on Stephen King's novel, created by Michael and Shawn Piller, starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, a coma survivor with psychic visions; six seasons, 81 episodes, cancelled December 2007.

The Deadful Melody (六指琴魔)

The Deadful Melody (六指琴魔), also Deadly Melody, is a 1994 Hong Kong-mainland wuxia film by Ng Min Kan, adapted from Ni Kuang's novel, starring Brigitte Lin, Yuen Biao, and Carina Lau; it earned about HK$4.55 million in Hong Kong.

The Deadly Affair

The Deadly Affair is Sidney Lumet's 1966/1967 Columbia cold war spy thriller adapting John le Carré's Call for the Dead, with James Mason as Charles Dobbs, the renamed George Smiley, alongside Simone Signoret, Maximilian Schell, and Harriet Andersson.

The Deadly Assassin

The Deadly Assassin (1976): Doctor Who serial 4P by Robert Holmes; Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor, companionless and first full Gallifrey story, framed for the President's assassination; introduced the 12-regeneration limit, the Matrix, and the Eye of Harmony.

The Deadly Breaking Sword

The Deadly Breaking Sword (風流斷劍小小刀, also Breaking Sword of Death) is a 1979 Shaw Brothers wuxia film directed by Sun Chung, starring Ti Lung and Fu Sheng as heroes fighting the Killer Doctor Dr. Guo Tiansheng.

The Deal (The Americans)

"The Deal" is episode 5 of season 2 of The Americans, aired on FX March 26, 2014. Written by Angelina Burnett, it centers on trading a captured Mossad agent for physicist Anton Baklanov, ending with the USSR releasing Refuseniks.

The Deal (거래)

The Deal (거래, Georae) is a 2023 South Korean Wavve original crime thriller, 8 episodes, directed by Lee Jung-gon, adapted from Woonam 20's Naver webtoon, starring Yoo Seung-ho, Kim Dong-hwi, Yoo Su-bin, and Lee Joo-young in a 1-billion-won kidnapping plot; distinct from the Paramount+ series Bargain.

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: NBC comedy specials (1974-1984, after a 1973-74 segment on The Dean Martin Show) hosted by Dean Martin, Vegas-taped, Friars Club-style celebrity insult roasts.

The Dear Hunter

The Dear Hunter is an American progressive rock band from Providence, Rhode Island, founded by Casey Crescenzo in 2005-2006, known for the six-part Act concept series, The Color Spectrum, Antimai, and Sunya.

The Death & Life of John F. Donovan

The Death & Life of John F. Donovan is a 2018 drama film directed by Xavier Dolan, his first in English, about a TV star's exposed correspondence with an 11-year-old boy.

The Death Cure

The Death Cure is James Dashner's 2011 third Maze Runner novel (Delacorte Press), ending Thomas's conflict with WICKED over the Flare cure; adapted into the 2018 Wes Ball film that earned over $288 million worldwide.

The Death of a Bureaucrat

Death of a Bureaucrat (La muerte de un burócrata) is Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's 1966 Cuban black comedy, produced by ICAIC, about a nephew exhuming his uncle to recover a labor card needed for a pension; Karlovy Vary Special Jury Prize winner.