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Bata Illic
Bata Illic is a Serbian-born singer of German-language Schlager, born in Belgrade in 1939, best known for the 1972 number 1 hit 'Michaela' and still performing in his late 80s.
Bata, Bata... Pa'no Ka Ginawa?
Bata, Bata... Pa'no Ka Ginawa? is a 1983 Tagalog novel by Lualhati Bautista about Lea, a working mother in Manila raising two children by different fathers.
Bataan (1943 film)
Bataan (1943) is an MGM World War II film directed by Tay Garnett, starring Robert Taylor as sergeant of a thirteen-man patrol holding a bridge on Bataan; the first multi-ethnic WWII combat film and genre template.
Bataclan (theatre)
The Bataclan (Le Bataclan) is a historic Paris concert hall at 50 boulevard Voltaire, opened 1864-65 as the Grand Café Chinois and named after Offenbach's operetta Ba-ta-clan; now a 1,500-capacity rock venue, Monument Historique since 1991, and site of the 13 November 2015 massacre that killed 90 concertgoers.
Batak literature
Batak literature is the oral and written literary tradition of the Batak peoples of North Sumatra, Indonesia, including songs, laments, proverbs, and bark-book pustaha manuscripts.
Batang Quiapo (TV series)
FPJ's Batang Quiapo is a Philippine action drama television series starring Coco Martin as Tanggol, an outlaw in Manila's Quiapo district; adapted from a 1986 Fernando Poe Jr. film, it aired from 2023 to 2026.
Batatyachi Chal
Batatyachi Chal (बटाट्याची चाळ) is a humorous Marathi book by P. L. Deshpande, published in 1958 by Mauj Prakashan, Mumbai, satirizing the middle-class residents of a fictitious chawl in Girgaon.
Batch '81
Batch '81 (AKΩ Batch '81) is Mike de Leon's 1982 Filipino drama about fraternity hazing at Alpha Kappa Omega, an allegory of Marcos-era martial law; it premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight and was restored in 4K in 2017.
Bates Motel (film)
Bates Motel (1987) is an NBC made-for-TV movie and failed pilot for a Psycho spinoff anthology series, directed by Richard Rothstein, starring Bud Cort and Lori Petty, unrelated to the 2013 A&E series.
Bates Motel (TV series)
Bates Motel (2013–2017) is an A&E psychological drama by Carlton Cuse, Kerry Ehrin, and Anthony Cipriano, a contemporary prequel to Psycho starring Freddie Highmore and Vera Farmiga as Norman and Norma Bates in White Pine Bay, Oregon; five seasons, 4.6 million premiere viewers, ending with its own retelling of the film.
Batfink
Batfink is a 1966–1967 American animated series of 100 five-minute shorts by Hal Seeger, parodying Batman and The Green Hornet, featuring the steel-winged bat hero, sidekick Karate, and villain Hugo A-Go-Go.
Batgirl
Batgirl: DC Comics superheroine, chiefly Barbara Gordon (also Cassandra Cain, Stephanie Brown). Created 1967 for the Batman TV era by Dozier and Infantino; paralyzed in The Killing Joke, later Oracle.
Batgirl (film)
Batgirl: unreleased 2022 DC Extended Universe superhero film starring Leslie Grace as Barbara Gordon, directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah for HBO Max; cancelled by Warner Bros. Discovery in post-production as a $90 million tax write-off, never released.
Bathing (1999 film)
Bathing, internationally released as Shower (洗澡, Xizao), is Zhang Yang's 1999 Chinese comedy-drama about a Beijing bathhouse, father-son bonds, and demolition-driven modernization; it won FIPRESCI at Toronto and the Golden Alexander at Thessaloniki.
Bathory (band)
Bathory, Swedish extreme metal band from Vällingby, Stockholm, founded 16 March 1983 by Quorthon (Thomas Forsberg), Jonas Åkerlund, and Frederick Melander; pioneered first-wave black metal and Viking metal with Bathory (1984), Blood Fire Death (1988), and Hammerheart (1990); ended with Quorthon's death in June 2004.
Bathsheba Garnett
Bathsheba Garnett (born 17 September 1925, Manhattan) is an American actress and drama teacher, Broadway's Gideon (1961), University of Windsor professor, and the aged witch in Robert Eggers' The Witch (2015).
Batida
Batida, Portuguese for "beat", is a fast, percussion-driven electronic club style from Lisbon's Afro-diasporic neighborhoods, and also the artist project of Angolan-born Lisbon producer Pedro Coquenão.
Batik
Batik is a Javanese wax-resist dyeing art using canting and cap tools, inscribed by UNESCO in 2009; celebrated on Indonesia's October 2 National Batik Day and threatened by printed imitations and AI motifs.
Batik in Indonesia
Batik in Indonesia: wax-resist dyeing of cotton and silk using the canting or copper cap, inscribed by UNESCO in 2009, with batik tulis, batik cap, and combination forms certified by the Batikmark.
Batik kraton
Batik kraton is the court batik of Central Java, Indonesia, developed in the royal courts of Yogyakarta and Surakarta, with some motifs once reserved for royalty.
Batik tulis
Batik tulis, meaning "drawn," is the oldest form of Indonesian batik: wax is drawn by hand with a canting to resist dye, taking one to three months per cloth.
Batla House
Batla House is a 2019 Hindi action thriller directed by Nikkhil Advani, starring John Abraham, based on the controversial September 19, 2008 Operation Batla House police encounter in Delhi's Jamia Nagar; released August 15, 2019, earning about $13.1 million worldwide.
Batleika
Batleika is a Belarusian folk puppet theater named from Bethlehem, first recorded in the 16th century, whose two-tier stage and nativity plays resemble the vertep.
Batman
Batman, the DC Comics superhero Bruce Wayne, the Dark Knight of Gotham City, debuted in Detective Comics #27 (1939), created by Bob Kane with writer Bill Finger; no superpowers, origin in Detective #33, co-creator credit for Finger in 2015.
Batman (1966 film)
Batman (1966 film), also sold as Batman: The Movie, is the first theatrical Batman feature, a camp comedy spin-off of the Adam West ABC series, directed by Leslie H. Martinson, in which Batman and Robin fight the Joker, Penguin, Riddler, and Catwoman.
Batman (1989 film)
Batman, also known as Tim Burton's Batman, is a 1989 American superhero film directed by Tim Burton, starring Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson, and the highest-grossing film of 1989.
Batman (album)
Batman (album): Prince's eleventh studio album, the 1989 Warner Bros. soundtrack to Tim Burton's film Batman, distinct from Danny Elfman's score. Six weeks at Billboard number 1, over 11 million sold, Batdance a US number 1 single.
Batman (comic book)
Batman is the name of two long-running DC Comics series, the self-titled Batman launched in 1940 and Detective Comics, home of the character since 1939.
Batman (franchise)
Batman (franchise): DC Comics media property around Bob Kane and Bill Finger's 1939 vigilante, spanning comics, film (Burton, Nolan, Reeves), animation, and Arkham and LEGO games.
Batman (serial)
Batman (1943) is Columbia Pictures' 15-chapter serial, the first screen appearance of Batman, starring Lewis Wilson and Douglas Croft against the wartime villain Dr. Daka; it introduced the Batcave and inspired the 1966 TV series.