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Battle of Yavin
Battle of Yavin: fictional Star Wars engagement from A New Hope (1977) in which Rebel starfighters destroy the first Death Star over Yavin 4; anchors the BBY/ABY dating system.
Battle Royale (novel)
Battle Royale (バトル・ロワイアル) is Koushun Takami's 1999 Ohta Publishing dystopian novel in which 42 junior high students are forced by the Republic of Greater East Asia's Program to fight to the death; basis of the 2000 Fukasaku film and the battle royale genre.
Battle Royale (バトル・ロワイアル) (film)
Battle Royale (バトル・ロワイアル, Batoru Rowaiaru), 2000 Japanese film by Kinji Fukasaku, adapted from Koushun Takami's 1999 novel; 42 ninth graders forced to fight to the death on an island under the BR Law; his final film, controversial in Japan, released in the UK in 2001.
Battle Royale II: Requiem (バトル・ロワイアルII 鎮魂歌)
Battle Royale II: Requiem (バトル・ロワイアルII 鎮魂歌), also released as Battle Royale II: Revenge, is a 2003 Japanese action sequel by Kinji and Kenta Fukasaku in which students are sent to kill survivor Nanahara Shuya under the BRII anti-terrorism law; Kinji Fukasaku died during filming.
Battle South of the City
Battle South of the City (战城南, Zhan chengnan) is an anonymous Han dynasty folk ballad mourning soldiers left unburied, one of the best-known anti-war poems in early Chinese literature.
Battle Tendency (戦闘潮流)
Battle Tendency (戦闘潮流, Sentō Chōryū) is Part 2 of Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump 1987–1989, following Joseph Joestar against the Pillar Men in 1938; adapted as anime episodes 10–26 (2012–2013).
Battle Through the Heavens (斗破苍穹)
Battle Through the Heavens (斗破苍穹), also Fights Break Sphere, is a Chinese level-up fantasy web novel by Tian Can Tu Dou; it ranked first on the 2017 Hurun IP list, spawned a poorly received 2018 TV drama, and a Tencent donghua with over 12 billion views.
Battle Trip (배틀 트립)
Battle Trip (배틀트립) was a KBS 2TV Korean travel variety show (2016–2020, 2022–2023) in which two celebrity teams presented competing itineraries and a 100-member studio audience voted for the winner.
Battle: Los Angeles
Battle: Los Angeles is a 2011 American sci-fi action film directed by Jonathan Liebesman, starring Aaron Eckhart as a Marine sergeant fighting aliens in Santa Monica; also known abroad as World Invasion: Battle: Los Angeles.
Battlefield Earth (film)
Battlefield Earth (2000), Roger Christian's adaptation of L. Ron Hubbard's novel, starring John Travolta as Terl; a notorious box-office bomb with a 3% Tomatometer and seven Razzies.
Battlefield Earth (novel)
Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000, L. Ron Hubbard's 1982 science fiction novel, depicts Psychlo-occupied Earth and Jonnie Goodboy Tyler's rebellion; a New York Times bestseller of over 4 million copies, later adapted into the notoriously panned 2000 film.
Battleground (1949 film)
Battleground (1949) is an MGM war film directed by William A. Wellman, written by Robert Pirosh, produced by Dore Schary, about the 101st Airborne at besieged Bastogne; it won two Oscars from six nominations and revived the postwar combat film.
Battles (band)
Battles is an American experimental rock band formed in New York City in 2002, often tagged math rock; founded by Ian Williams (Don Caballero), Tyondai Braxton, Dave Konopka, and John Stanier (Helmet), releasing Mirrored, Gloss Drop, La Di Da Di, and Juice B Crypts on Warp Records.
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (仁義なき戦い)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (仁義なき戦い, Jingi naki tatakai), aka The Yakuza Papers: Kinji Fukasaku's 1973–74 Toei five-film yakuza series starring Bunta Sugawara, based on Kozo Mino's prison memoirs of the Hiroshima gang wars, which ended the ninkyo eiga genre.
Battleship Cove
Battleship Cove is a non-profit naval museum and war memorial in Fall River, Massachusetts, founded in 1965 around the battleship USS Massachusetts, with five National Historic Landmark vessels including USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., USS Lionfish, and the only restored PT boat pair.
Battleship Potemkin
Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potyomkin) is a 1925 Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein, dramatizing the 1905 mutiny of the battleship Potemkin's crew and the unrest in Odessa.
Battlestar Galactica
Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction franchise created by Glen A. Larson in 1978 and reimagined by Ronald D. Moore in 2003-2009, following Cylon-attack survivors aboard the Galactica searching for Earth; four seasons, 74 episodes, Emmy-winning.
Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)
Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series), also called Classic Battlestar Galactica, is Glen A. Larson's American ABC science fiction series about Cylons pursuing 50,000 human survivors toward Earth; it cost $1 million per episode and was cancelled after 24 episodes.
Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)
Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009), Ronald D. Moore's reimagining of Glen A. Larson's 1978 series: four seasons, 76 episodes, human-form Cylons, post-9/11 allegory, Hugo and Peabody awards, finale March 20, 2009.
Battlestar Galactica (miniseries)
Battlestar Galactica (miniseries), aka Battlestar Galactica: The Mini Series, is the 2003 two-part Sci Fi Channel pilot by Ronald D. Moore and David Eick rebooting the 1978 series; Cylons destroy the Twelve Colonies and the Galactica leads under 50,000 survivors toward Earth, averaging nearly 4.2 million viewers.
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome (also Blood and Chrome) is a 2012-2013 prequel following young William Adama during the first Cylon War, released as ten Machinima webisodes, a Syfy TV film, and an unrated Blu-ray/DVD edition.
Battlestar Galactica: Razor
Battlestar Galactica: Razor, also called Razor, is a 2007 Battlestar Galactica TV film about the battlestar Pegasus, Kendra Shaw, and Admiral Helena Cain, aired 24 November 2007 between seasons 3 and 4.
Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy
Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy is a ten-part 2008-2009 Sci Fi Channel webisode series set during the season 4 mid-season break, following Lt. Felix Gaeta stranded on a Raptor where passengers die mysteriously; notable for revealing Gaeta's bisexuality and for its absence from most home-video releases.
Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance
Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance is a 2006 series of ten webisodes on SCIFI.com bridging seasons 2 and 3 of the re-imagined series, covering the New Caprica resistance and Duck's and Jammer's divergent paths.
Batu
Batu is the stage name of Omar McCutcheon, a Bristol-based DJ, producer, and founder of the Timedance label, active in UK bass and techno since 2013.
Batushka (БАТЮШКА)
Batushka (БАТЮШКА), Polish black metal band formed 2015 by Krzysztof Drabikowski and Bartłomiej Krysiuk; debut Litourgiya fused black metal with Orthodox chant. A 2024 Warsaw court ruling left the name with Drabikowski; Krysiuk's version became Patriarkh.
Batwara 1947
Batwara 1947, formerly Lahore 1947, is a 2026 Hindi Partition drama directed by Rajkumar Santoshi, produced by Aamir Khan, starring Sunny Deol, Preity Zinta, and Shabana Azmi, adapted from Asghar Wajahat's play, released 14 August 2026.
Batwing (DC Comics)
Batwing (DC Comics) is a Batman-family superhero identity held by David Zavimbe (2011) and Luke Fox (2013), created under Grant Morrison's Batman Incorporated, with a 35-issue New 52 series and appearances in Batman: Bad Blood and Batwoman.
Batwoman
Batwoman is a DC Comics superheroine of Gotham City: Kathy Kane debuted in Detective Comics #233 (1956) as a rebuttal to Wertham, and Kate Kane, Batman's lesbian cousin, debuted in 52 (2006), starring in solo comics and the CW series.
Batwoman (TV series)
Batwoman (2019-2022) is a CW Arrowverse superhero series, also called Kate Kane's show, starring Ruby Rose then Javicia Leslie as the first gay lead superhero on TV, 3 seasons, 51 episodes.