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The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show (Toast of the Town) was CBS's Sunday-night variety series from 1948 to 1971, the longest-running variety show in US TV history, famous for Elvis Presley (1956), The Beatles (1964), and featuring Black performers during segregation.

The Eddy

The Eddy is an eight-episode Netflix musical drama (2020) set in a struggling Paris jazz club, created by Jack Thorne, directed partly by Damien Chazelle, starring André Holland, with music by Glen Ballard.

The Eddy Duchin Story

The Eddy Duchin Story (1956), also released under working title Music by Duchin, is a Columbia Pictures Technicolor CinemaScope musical biography directed by George Sidney, starring Tyrone Power as pianist Eddy Duchin and Kim Novak as Marjorie Oelrichs, with four Oscar nominations and Carmen Cavallaro's piano.

The Edge

The Edge (David Howell Evans, born 1961) is U2's lead guitarist, known for dotted-eighth delay, Vox AC30 chime, and the Gibson Explorer; his effects-driven style on The Unforgettable Fire and The Joshua Tree reshaped rock guitar.

The Edge (1997 film)

The Edge is a 1997 American survival thriller directed by Lee Tamahori, written by David Mamet, and starring Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin as plane-crash survivors hunted by a Kodiak bear in the Alaskan wilderness.

The Edge Chronicles

The Edge Chronicles, by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, is an illustrated children's fantasy series launched in 1998: 13 titles across five sagas (Quint, Twig, Rook, Nate, Cade) set on the Edge cliff, spanning 600 years and three Ages of Flight.

The Edge of Heaven

The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite; Yaşamın Kıyısında) is Fatih Akin's 2007 German-Turkish drama about six lives crossing between Germany and Turkey; it won Cannes Best Screenplay 2007 and the 2008 German Film Award for Best Film.

The Edge of Horizon (อรุณรุ่ง)

The Edge of Horizon (อรุณรุ่ง, Arun Rung) is a 2026 Thai historical BL series on One31, 11 episodes airing June 20 to August 29, 2026, set in 1932 Siam, starring Inn Jakkrasin and Ongsa Theethuch as Phobthee and Prince Tinnakorn.

The Edge of Love

The Edge of Love is a 2008 British drama directed by John Maybury, written by Sharman Macdonald, starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, and Matthew Rhys as Dylan Thomas's wartime circle.

The Edge of Night

The Edge of Night (Edge of Night) was an American Procter & Gamble daytime mystery soap opera, CBS 1956-1975 then ABC 1975-1984, set in Monticello around attorney Mike Karr, 7,420 episodes, first daytime serial to switch networks.

The Edge of Seventeen

The Edge of Seventeen is a 2016 American coming-of-age comedy-drama directed by Kelly Fremon Craig, starring Hailee Steinfeld, Woody Harrelson, and Kyra Sedgwick; distinct from the 1998 gay coming-of-age film Edge of Seventeen.

The Edge of Sleep (TV series)

The Edge of Sleep (2024) is a six-episode Prime Video thriller starring Markiplier as night watchman Dave Torres, adapted from the 2019 QCODE podcast by Jake Emanuel and Willie Block; released early on October 15, 2024, later on Tubi, no confirmed season 2.

The Education of Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams is a third-person autobiography by the American historian Henry Adams, privately printed in 1907 and published in 1918, winning the 1919 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

The Education of Jane Cumming

The Education of Jane Cumming (Eine Schule für Jane Cumming) is Sophie Heldman's 2026 UK-German-Swiss historical drama, premiering in Berlinale Panorama, about the 1810 Edinburgh libel case of teachers Jane Pirie and Marianne Woods, based on Lillian Faderman's Scotch Verdict.

The Eel (うなぎ)

The Eel (うなぎ, Unagi) is Shohei Imamura's 1997 Japanese drama starring Koji Yakusho as a paroled murderer who confides in a pet eel; it shared the 1997 Cannes Palme d'Or with Taste of Cherry, Imamura's second Palme after The Ballad of Narayama.

The Eiger Sanction (film)

The Eiger Sanction (1975) is a Clint Eastwood action thriller, based on Trevanian's novel, about assassin-art professor Jonathan Hemlock climbing the Eiger's north face to kill a target; Eastwood did his own climbing stunts, and a crew member died during filming.

The Eight (外八行)

The Eight (外八行, later 民初奇人传) is a 2020 iQIYI Chinese Republican-era web series, 34 episodes, Chen Kaige's first supervised web drama, starring Ou Hao, Tan Songyun, and Wang Zixuan as members of eight hidden jianghu trades.

The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (五郎八卦棍_)

The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (五郎八卦棍) is a 1984 Shaw Brothers kung fu film directed by Lau Kar-leung, starring Gordon Liu and the late Alexander Fu Sheng, about Yang Fifth Brother inventing a pole style from the family spear art.

The Eight Hundred (八佰)

The Eight Hundred (八佰) is Guan Hu's 2020 Chinese war film about the 1937 Sihang Warehouse defense, the first Asian film shot entirely on IMAX cameras, released after COVID reopening and earning 3.11 billion RMB in mainland China.

The Eighth Happiness (八星报喜)

The Eighth Happiness (八星報喜) is a 1988 Hong Kong Lunar New Year comedy directed by Johnnie To for Cinema City, starring Chow Yun-Fat, Raymond Wong, and Jacky Cheung as three brothers; it topped the 1988 Hong Kong box office at HK$37.09 million and set the ensemble New Year comedy template.

The Elder Son

The Elder Son (Старший сын) is a 1967 two-act comedy by the Soviet playwright Alexander Vampilov, in which a student posing as a lonely father's lost son becomes part of the family.

The Election (选战)

The Election (選戰, formerly 風雲) is a 2014 15-episode political drama by Hong Kong Television Network, its launch drama chosen by online vote with 100,250 votes, depicting a fictional 2022 Hong Kong chief executive election starring Angelica Lee and Liu Kai-chi.

The Electric Company

The Electric Company is a PBS children's educational series teaching reading, produced by Children's Television Workshop/Sesame Workshop; original ran 1971-1977 with Morgan Freeman and Rita Moreno, revived 2009-2011.

The Electric Company (2009 TV series)

The Electric Company (2009) is a Sesame Workshop-produced PBS KIDS GO! reboot of the 1971 literacy series, running January 19, 2009 to April 4, 2011 in three seasons, using narrative storylines, hip-hop music, and literacy-superhero characters called the Electric Company against the Pranksters.

The Electric Horseman

The Electric Horseman is a 1979 American comedy-drama-western directed by Sydney Pollack, in which former rodeo champion Robert Redford steals a drugged racehorse, pursued by television reporter Jane Fonda.

The Electric Kiss

The Electric Kiss (La Vénus électrique) is Pierre Salvadori's 2026 French-Belgian romantic comedy, 122 minutes, set in 1928 Paris, where fake medium Suzanne cons grieving painter Antoine; it opened the 79th Cannes Film Festival and scored 52% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe's 1968 Farrar, Straus and Giroux New Journalism classic, chronicles Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, their LSD Acid Tests, and the 1964 Furthur bus trip.

The Electric Light Orchestra (album)

The Electric Light Orchestra (1971), issued in the US as No Answer, is ELO's self-titled debut album on Harvest, a rock-classical fusion led by 10538 Overture, recorded by Lynne, Wood, Bevan, Hunt, and Woolam.

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain is a 2021 British biographical drama directed by Will Sharpe, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as cat artist Louis Wain and Claire Foy as Emily Richardson; released by Amazon Studios, 68% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

The Elegance of the Hedgehog (L'Élégance du hérisson) is a 2006 novel by French writer Muriel Barbery about a Paris concierge who hides her intelligence.