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Bearing Witness to the October 7th Massacre

Bearing Witness to the October 7th Massacre, also a 2025 feature film October 7: Bearing Witness to the Massacre, covers an Israeli 47-minute restricted documentary compiling Hamas bodycam, security-camera, and first-responder footage of the October 7, 2023 attacks, shown in private screenings in over 30 countries, distinct from the 2025 Jesse Schluntz feature.

Béarnaise sauce

Sauce béarnaise (béarnaise sauce), also called la béarnaise: a warm French emulsified sauce of clarified butter, egg yolks, shallot-vinegar reduction and tarragon, derived from hollandaise, served with grilled meats and fish, attributed to Collinet in 1830s Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

Bears (The Bear)

"Bears" is the seventh episode of season 4 of The Bear, airing on Hulu on June 25, 2025, and centered on the wedding of Sugar and Frank.

Beartooth (band)

Beartooth is an American metalcore band from Columbus, Ohio, formed in 2012 by Caleb Shomo of Attack Attack!. Six albums on Red Bull and Fearless Records, including Disgusting, Below, The Surface, and Pure Ecstasy; known for aggressive live shows and Shomo's one-man-studio songwriting.

Beartown (TV series)

Beartown (Björnstad) is a five-episode Swedish-language HBO Europe limited drama from Filmlance, adapted from Fredrik Backman's novel, about a hockey town shattered by sexual assault; directed by Peter Grönlund, starring Ulf Stenberg.

Beast (2017 film)

Beast (2017) is Michael Pearce's British psychological thriller debut, set on Jersey and starring Jessie Buckley and Johnny Flynn, inspired by the Beast of Jersey and winner of the 2019 BAFTA for Outstanding Debut.

Beast (2022 American film)

Beast is a 2022 American survival horror film directed by Baltasar Kormákur, starring Idris Elba as a widowed doctor hunted by a rogue lion in South Africa.

Beast (2022 Indian film)

Beast (பீஸ்ட்), 2022 Tamil action comedy by Nelson Dilipkumar for Sun Pictures, starring Vijay as ex-RAW agent Veeraraghavan in a mall hijack with Pooja Hegde and Selvaraghavan; released 13 April 2022, ₹216.58 crore worldwide, mixed-negative reviews, distinct from the 2022 Idris Elba film of the same name.

Beast (2026 film)

Beast (2026) is an Australian MMA sports drama directed by Tyler Atkins, written by David Frigerio and Russell Crowe, starring Daniel MacPherson and Crowe; released April 2026, 81% on Rotten Tomatoes, $1.8M worldwide.

Beast Boy

Beast Boy (Garfield Logan, briefly Changeling) is a DC Comics shapeshifting superhero created by Arnold Drake and Bob Brown, debuting in Doom Patrol #99 (1965); green-skinned, able to become any animal, and a core Teen Titans member.

Beast Cops (野兽刑警)

Beast Cops (野獸刑警, Yeshou Xingjing) is a 1998 Hong Kong crime film co-directed by Gordon Chan and Dante Lam, starring Anthony Wong as corrupt cop Tung; it won five 1999 Hong Kong Film Awards including Best Picture and Best Director.

Beast epic

The beast epic is a medieval narrative genre in which talking animals satirize human institutions such as the court, law, and church, beginning with the Latin Ysengrimus.

Beast fable

A beast fable is a short fable in which animals speak and act like humans, told for a moral, from Aesop through Chaucer to Orwell's Animal Farm.

Beast Games

Beast Games is a Prime Video reality competition series created and hosted by MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson), premiering December 19, 2024, with 1,000 contestants competing for a $5 million prize that grew to $10 million; it became Prime Video's most-watched unscripted series and drew a 2024 contestant lawsuit.

Beast Games season 1

Beast Games season 1, MrBeast's (Jimmy Donaldson) Prime Video reality competition, premiered December 19, 2024: 1,000 contestants, a $5 million prize that grew to $10 million, a $100 million budget, 1,107 cameras, and winner Jeffrey Allen.

Beast Games season 2

Beast Games season 2 (Prime Video, premiered January 7, 2026) is MrBeast's Strong vs. Smart reality competition: 200 players, $5 million grand prize, filmed in Toronto, Las Vegas, and Panama.

Beast King War God Dandivine (獣王武神ダンデヴァイン)

Beast King War God Dandivine (獣王武神ダンデヴァイン), also Jyu-Oh Mujin Dandivine, is a 2026 original mecha TV anime, first of Good Smile Company's Combined God Series, premiering October 7, 2026, produced by LIDENFILMS and KAYAC Animation.

Beast of War

Beast of War is a 2025 Australian WWII shark survival thriller written and directed by Kiah Roache-Turner, inspired by the 1942 sinking of HMAS Armidale, starring Mark Coles Smith, released October 10, 2025, distinct from the 1988 Kevin Reynolds tank film.

Beast Stalker (证人)

The Beast Stalker (証人, Ching yan) is a 2008 Hong Kong crime thriller directed by Dante Lam, starring Nicholas Tse, Nick Cheung, and Zhang Jingchu. A cop's stray bullet kills a prosecutor's daughter; Nick Cheung's kidnapper role won Best Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards and Golden Horse Awards.

Beast Wars: Transformers

Beast Wars: Transformers (1996–1999) is a Mainframe Entertainment CGI series where Maximals and Predacons take animal forms on an energon-toxic planet; 52 episodes, story editors Bob Forward and Larry DiTillio, Emmy-winning, IMDb 8.1.

Beastars

Beastars (ビースターズ) is Paru Itagaki's manga (2016–2020, 22 volumes, Akita Shoten) about a world of anthropomorphic carnivores and herbivores, centered on wolf Legoshi, rabbit Haru, and deer Louis at Cherryton Academy; it won the 2018 Manga Taisho and was adapted by Studio Orange for Netflix, concluding in March 2026.

Beastie Boys

Beastie Boys: New York trio (Mike D, MCA, Ad-Rock), 1981–2012, hardcore punk band turned pioneering hip-hop group; Licensed to Ill was the first rap album to top the Billboard 200, Paul's Boutique a sampling landmark, Rock Hall inductees 2012.

Beastie Boys discography

Beastie Boys discography: eight studio albums by the New York rap trio (Mike D, Ad-Rock, MCA), from Licensed to Ill (1986), the first rap album to top the Billboard 200, to Hot Sauce Committee, Part Two (2011), plus compilations and live releases.

Beastly (film)

Beastly (2011) is a teen romantic fantasy film directed by Daniel Barnz, adapted from Alex Flinn's novel, starring Alex Pettyfer, Vanessa Hudgens, and Mary-Kate Olsen; a cursed student has one year to find love, grossing $27.9M domestically.

Beasts Clawing at Straws (지푸라기라도 잡고 싶은 짐승들)

Beasts Clawing at Straws (지푸라기라도 잡고 싶은 짐승들) is a 2020 South Korean crime thriller, Kim Yonghoon's debut feature adapted from Keisuke Sone's novel, which won the Rotterdam Tiger Competition Special Jury Award and drew 626,815 admissions in Korea.

Beasts of No Nation

Beasts of No Nation: 2005 debut novel by Uzodinma Iweala about child soldier Agu in an unnamed West African war, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize winner, and its 2015 Cary Fukunaga film with Idris Elba, Netflix's first original feature.

Beasts of No Nation (film)

Beasts of No Nation (2015) is Cary Joji Fukunaga's war drama, Netflix's first original feature film ($12 million), adapted from Uzodinma Iweala's 2005 novel, starring Abraham Attah as child soldier Agu and Idris Elba as the Commandant.

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Beasts of the Southern Wild is Benh Zeitlin's 2012 debut drama-fantasy, adapted from Lucy Alibar's play Juicy and Delicious, starring Quvenzhané Wallis as Hushpuppy in the levee-cut Bathtub bayou community; it won Sundance's Grand Jury Prize and earned four Oscar nominations.

Beat (1997 film)

Beat (비트, Biteu) is a 1997 South Korean action drama by director Kim Sung-soo, starring Jung Woo-sung, Ko So-young, Im Chang-jung, and Yu Oh-seong, based on a Huh Young-man comic about youth drifting into the underworld; distinct from the 2000 Walkow and 1998 Japanese films of the same title.

Beat (American band)

BEAT is an American rock supergroup formed in 2024 by ex-King Crimson members Adrian Belew and Tony Levin with Steve Vai and Tool's Danny Carey, performing the 1980s King Crimson albums Discipline, Beat, and Three of a Perfect Pair with Robert Fripp's blessing; Terry Bozzio replaced Carey for the 2026 tour.