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The Nativity Story

The Nativity Story (2006) is a New Line Cinema drama directed by Catherine Hardwicke, written by Mike Rich, starring Keisha Castle-Hughes and Oscar Isaac; first film to premiere at the Vatican, grossing $37.6 million in the US.

The Naught (album)

The Naught is the seventeenth studio album by Insane Clown Posse, released August 12, 2025 on Psychopathic Records; the sixth and final Joker's Card of the second Dark Carnival deck, 17 tracks, horrorcore, produced by Mike E. Clark and others. Distinct from other albums titled Naught.

The Navajo Night Chant

The Navajo Night Chant, also called the Nightway (Diné: Tł'éé'jí Hatáál), is a nine-day winter healing ceremony of the Navajo people, one of the most elaborate Navajo rites.

The Navigators (film)

The Navigators is Ken Loach's 2001 comedy-drama about South Yorkshire rail workers facing the privatisation of British Rail, scripted by former railwayman Rob Dawber, who died of mesothelioma before completion; it aired on Channel 4 in Britain and won a BAFTA for Best New Writer.

The Navy Album

The Navy Album is Roddy Ricch's third studio album, announced December 2024 with singles Survivor's Remorse and Lonely Road; production by Terrace Martin and Turbo, released via Atlantic and Bird Vision, and repeatedly delayed through 2025.

The Necessary Stage

The Necessary Stage is a Singapore nonprofit theater company founded by Alvin Tan in 1987, led by two Cultural Medallion recipients and known for Off Centre.

The Necklace

The Necklace (La Parure) is Guy de Maupassant's 1884 short story, first printed in Le Gaulois, in which Mathilde Loisel loses a borrowed necklace, spends ten years repaying a replacement, and learns the original was fake.

The Negotiation (협상) (film)

The Negotiation (협상) is a 2018 South Korean crime thriller, the first feature directed by Lee Jong-suk, in which Son Ye-jin's police negotiator confronts Hyun Bin's hostage-taker through phone and video talks, released in September 2018.

The Negotiator

The Negotiator is a 1998 American crime thriller directed by F. Gary Gray, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Spacey as police hostage negotiators on opposite sides of a stand-off.

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" is a free-verse poem by Langston Hughes, first published in The Crisis in June 1921, tracing Black history through the Euphrates, Congo, Nile, and Mississippi.

The Neighborhood (TV series)

The Neighborhood is a CBS multi-camera sitcom created by Jim Reynolds, airing 2018-2026 over 8 seasons and 155 episodes. Cedric the Entertainer and Max Greenfield star as neighbors Calvin Butler and Dave Johnson in Pasadena, California.

The Neighbors (2012 TV series)

The Neighbors (2012 TV series): ABC single-camera sitcom created by Dan Fogelman, 2012-2014, in which the Weaver family moves to Hidden Hills, New Jersey, whose residents are Zabvronian aliens named after sports figures.

The Neighbors (2015 TV series)

The Neighbors (2015), also Tommy Wiseau's The Neighbors, is a Hulu sitcom created, written, directed by and starring The Room's Tommy Wiseau, set in the Glasgow Apartment Complex of Los Angeles; six to eight episodes, IMDb rating 2.6/10.

The Neighbourhood

The Neighbourhood (THE NBHD), California alternative rock band formed 2011 in Newbury Park, led by Jesse Rutherford; debut I Love You. (2013) with the hit Sweater Weather; hiatus 2021, returned 2025 with (((((ultraSOUND))))).

The Neighbourhood (TV series)

The Neighbourhood (ITV, 2026) was a British reality game show hosted by Graham Norton in which six households competed on a purpose-built Peak District street, KeepYourEnemies Close, for £250,000; it was moved from primetime after low ratings and cancelled after one series.

The Nelons

The Nelons, also known as the Rex Nelon Singers, were a Georgia Southern gospel family group founded by Rex Nelon in 1977, led by Kelly Nelon Clark, GMA Hall of Fame inductees of 2016, disbanded after a 2024 Wyoming plane crash.

The Neon Bible

The Neon Bible is John Kennedy Toole's first novel, written at 16 for a literary contest and published posthumously by Grove Press in 1989; a Southern coming-of-age story of David and Aunt Mae, adapted by Terence Davies in 1995.

The Neon Bible (1995 film)

The Neon Bible (1995) is Terence Davies's third feature and first literary adaptation, from John Kennedy Toole's novel written at 16, starring Gena Rowlands as Aunt Mae in 1940s rural Georgia; poorly received on release, later reassessed.

The Neon Demon

The Neon Demon (2016) is a horror thriller by Nicolas Winding Refn, his first film after Only God Forgives, starring Elle Fanning as teenage model Jesse in Cannes Competition, with Cliff Martinez's Cannes-winning score.

The Neptunes

The Neptunes, the Virginia Beach production duo of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, defined late-1990s and 2000s rap, R&B, and pop with minimal Korg Triton-driven beats; hits for Britney Spears, Jay-Z, Nelly; 2004 Grammy Producer of the Year; disbanded 2024 amid trademark disputes.

The Neptunes production discography

The Neptunes production discography catalogs songs written and produced by Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, from 1994 Blackstreet work through 2001-2003 hits (Hot In Herre, Milkshake, Justified) to the 2020 reunion and later Hugo-Williams credit disputes.

The Nest (2020 film)

The Nest (2020) is Sean Durkin's drama starring Jude Law and Carrie Coon as Rory and Allison O'Hara, an American family unraveling in a Surrey mansion in 1986; Sundance premiere, IFC Films release, 107 minutes.

The Net (1995 film)

The Net is a 1995 Columbia Pictures techno-thriller directed by Irwin Winkler, starring Sandra Bullock as analyst Angela Bennett, whose identity is erased by a conspiracy involving the Gatekeeper program; released July 1995 with Hackers and Johnny Mnemonic.

The Net (그물) (2016 film)

The Net (그물) is a 2016 South Korean drama by Kim Ki-duk, his 22nd film, starring Ryu Seung-beom as a North Korean fisherman who drifts across the inter-Korean border; released October 6, 2016, 113 minutes.

The Net of Faith

The Net of Faith is a two-book Czech religio-political treatise by Petr Chelčický, written between 1440 and 1443, which rejects war and the Church's fusion with temporal power.

The Neverending Story

The Neverending Story (Die unendliche Geschichte) is Michael Ende's 1979 German fantasy novel about Bastian Balthazar Bux entering the world of Phantásien; a best seller translated into over 45 languages and adapted into the 1984 Wolfgang Petersen film, which Ende disowned.

The NeverEnding Story (film)

The NeverEnding Story (Die unendliche Geschichte) is Wolfgang Petersen's 1984 German-American fantasy film adapting the first half of Michael Ende's 1979 novel, starring Barret Oliver, Noah Hathaway, and Tami Stronach; the author disowned it, and it spawned two sequels.

The NeverEnding Story (song)

The NeverEnding Story (Never Ending Story): 1984 synth-pop title theme by Giorgio Moroder with lyrics by Keith Forsey, sung by Limahl with Beth Andersen. UK number 4, US Hot 100 number 17, revived by Stranger Things in 2019; absent from the film's German version.

The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter

The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter is a 1990 German-American fantasy film directed by George T. Miller, starring Jonathan Brandis as Bastian, who returns to Fantasia to face the sorceress Xayide.

The NeverEnding Story III

The NeverEnding Story III (Die unendliche Geschichte III – Rettung aus Phantásien) is a 1994 US-German fantasy film, third in the series, directed by Peter MacDonald, starring Jason James Richter as Bastian and Jack Black as bully Slip, with a 20% Rotten Tomatoes score.