Arts and culture

The Opening of the Field

The Opening of the Field is a 1960 poetry collection by the American poet Robert Duncan, his breakthrough work, first published by Grove Press in New York.

The Opium War (鸦片战争) is Xie Jin's 1997 Chinese historical epic about the First Opium War, Lin Zexu, and the cession of Hong Kong; a 100-million-RMB record production that won Golden Rooster Best Picture but lost money.

The Oppermanns

The Oppermanns (Die Geschwister Oppermann) is a 1933 novel by Lion Feuchtwanger following a prosperous Jewish family in Berlin as Nazi persecution destroys their standing and business.

The Opposite Sex

The Opposite Sex (1956) is MGM's Technicolor musical remake of The Women (1939), from Clare Boothe Luce's play, directed by David Miller, starring June Allyson, Joan Collins, and Leslie Nielsen, notable for adding men, music, and color.

The Oprah Winfrey Show

The Oprah Winfrey Show (奥普拉脱口秀) was Oprah Winfrey's syndicated daytime talk show, nationally broadcast from Chicago 1986–2011 over 25 seasons; the highest-rated daytime talk show in US TV history, drawing 12–13 million daily viewers at its peak.

The Optimistic Tragedy

The Optimistic Tragedy (Оптимистическая трагедия) is a heroic-revolutionary play by Soviet dramatist Vsevolod Vishnevsky, written in 1932 and set in 1918 during the birth of the Red Army.

The Oracle (The Matrix)

The Oracle, the Matrix character played by Gloria Foster (films 1-2) and Mary Alice (film 3, games), is a guide revealed in Reloaded to be a sentient program, the Matrix's 'mother' who created the prophecy of the One and engineered the trilogy's peace.

The Orange Tree

The Orange Tree is the title shared by several literary works, most prominently a 1994 novel by Carlos Fuentes and a 1921 Australian poem by John Shaw Neilson.

The Oranges (film)

The Oranges is a 2011 American comedy-drama directed by Julian Farino, starring Hugh Laurie, Leighton Meester, and Catherine Keener, about an affair between neighbors in suburban New Jersey.

The Orb

The Orb: English electronic group founded in London in 1988 by Alex Paterson and Jimmy Cauty, pioneers of ambient house. Known for 'Little Fluffy Clouds', the UK No 1 album U.F.Orb (1992), and collaborations with David Gilmour and Lee "Scratch" Perry.

The Orbital Children (地球外少年少女)

The Orbital Children (地球外少年少女, Extra-Terrestrial Boys & Girls) is a 2022 six-episode original anime by Mitsuo Iso, set in 2045 on the Japanese space station Anshin, streamed on Netflix and screened in Japan as two theatrical films.

The Orchard (company)

The Orchard: New York-based music distribution and label services company founded 1997; wholly owned by Sony Music Entertainment since 2015 ($200M); acquired AWAL (2021, $430M); selective label deals, no DIY plan, Workstation platform.

The Order (2024 film)

The Order is a 2024 crime thriller directed by Justin Kurzel, starring Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult in a dramatization of the FBI manhunt for a white supremacist terrorist group.

The Order (comics)

The Order (comics): Marvel's 2007-2008 series by Matt Fraction and Barry Kitson, originally solicited as The Champions; a 50-State Initiative California superhero team with one-year manufactured powers, canceled after 10 issues.

The Order (TV series)

The Order (TV series): Netflix supernatural horror drama created by Dennis Heaton, 2019-2020, two seasons, 20 episodes, set at Belgrave University, werewolves versus the Hermetic Order of the Blue Rose; canceled November 2020. Distinct from the 2024 film The Order.

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The Ordinances of Government

The Ordinances of Government (al-Aḥkām al-sulṭāniyya) is an 11th-century Arabic treatise by the Baghdad jurist al-Mawardi, a foundational Sunni manual covering the caliphate's offices, from the imamate to the judiciary.

The Ordinary Jackpot

The Ordinary Jackpot (로또 1등도 출근합니다) is a 2026 TVING/tvN Korean workplace drama, 10 episodes, adapted from Seo In-ha's web novel. Team leader Gong Eun-tae (Lee Jun-hyuk) wins a 1.3 billion won lottery but keeps working; finale hit 6.2% Nielsen.

The Orenda

The Orenda is a 2013 historical novel by the Canadian writer Joseph Boyden, his third, told through three narrators, a Wendat warrior, an Iroquois captive girl, and a Jesuit missionary.

The Organization

The Organization is a 1971 American crime thriller directed by Don Medford, starring Sidney Poitier in his third and final film as detective Virgil Tibbs, investigating revolutionaries who steal heroin from a San Francisco drug front.

The Organizer

The Organizer (I compagni) is Mario Monicelli's 1963 Italian-French-Yugoslav drama starring Marcello Mastroianni as Professor Sinigaglia, leader of an 1890 Turin textile strike; Oscar-nominated screenplay. Also a 2017 documentary on ACORN founder Wade Rathke.

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Julian Jaynes's 1976 book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind argues consciousness arose recently from language, after a two-chambered 'bicameral' mentality commanded by hallucinated gods broke down.

The Original (Westworld)

"The Original" is the pilot episode of HBO's Westworld (2016), written by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy and directed by Nolan, adapting Michael Crichton's 1973 film. It aired October 2, 2016, opens with Dolores in Analysis Mode, and introduces the hosts' reveries malfunction.

The Original Kings of Comedy

The Original Kings of Comedy is Spike Lee's 2000 Paramount concert documentary of the Walter Latham-created Kings of Comedy tour starring Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, and Bernie Mac, a $37 million-grossing comedy tour.

The Originals (TV series)

The Originals is a CW supernatural drama (2013–2018), a Vampire Diaries spin-off by Julie Plec about the Mikaelson vampire siblings Klaus, Elijah, and Rebekah reclaiming New Orleans; five seasons, 92 episodes, followed by Legacies.

The Origins of the New Chinese Literature

The Origins of the New Chinese Literature (中国新文学的源流) is a 1932 book by Zhou Zuoren tracing May Fourth new literature to the late Ming Gong'an school.

The Orphan of Anyang (安阳婴儿)

The Orphan of Anyang (安阳婴儿, Anyang yinger) is Wang Chao's 2001 debut feature, an unauthorized Chinese independent drama about a laid-off worker raising a prostitute's baby for 200 yuan a month, screened at Cannes Directors' Fortnight.

The Orphan of Asia

The Orphan of Asia (亞細亞的孤兒) is an autobiographical novel by Taiwanese writer Wu Zhuoliu, written in secret between 1943 and 1945 during Japanese colonial rule.

The Orphan of Zhao

The Orphan of Zhao (赵氏孤儿) is a Yuan-dynasty Chinese play by Ji Junxiang about the survival and revenge of the last member of a slaughtered clan.

The Orphanage (2007 film)

The Orphanage (El orfanato) is a 2007 Spanish-Mexican supernatural horror film, Juan Antonio Bayona's debut, written by Sergio G. Sánchez and executive produced by Guillermo del Toro, starring Belén Rueda; Spain's top-grossing 2007 film with seven Goya wins.