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Vida (TV series)

Vida (Starz, 2018–2020) is a three-season comedy-drama created by Tanya Saracho about Mexican American sisters Emma and Lyn returning to Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, after their mother's death, centered on gentrification, queer Latinx identity, and an all-Latinx writers' room.

Vida del Chacho

Vida del Chacho is an 1863 political pamphlet and biographical essay by the Argentine writer José Hernández, denouncing the killing of the federal caudillo Ángel Vicente Peñaloza after his surrender.

Vida Guerra

Vida Guerra, Cuban-born American glamour model (born 1974, some sources 1980), famous for her December 2002 FHM lingerie spread, FHM Model of the Year 2004, Playboy July 2006, music videos, and acting.

Vida the Vet

Vida the Vet is a Spin Master 2D animated preschool series about ten-year-old Vida, an animal doctor treating woodland creatures in Sweetwood, airing on CBeebies, Treehouse, and Netflix since 2023.

Vidaa Muyarchi (விடாமுயற்சி)

Vidaa Muyarchi (விடாமுயற்சி), also Vidaamuyarchi, is a 2025 Tamil action thriller by Magizh Thirumeni starring Ajith Kumar and Trisha, an unofficial remake of Breakdown (1997), released 6 February 2025 by Lyca Productions and streaming on Netflix.

Vidas Secas

Vidas Secas (Barren Lives) is a 1938 novel by Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos that follows a family of drought-driven migrants through the sertão of the Brazilian Northeast.

VidCon

VidCon is an annual creator-economy convention founded in 2010 by John and Hank Green, held at the Anaheim Convention Center; attendance grew from 1,400 to over 75,000 by 2019, and in 2026 Informa folded it into VidCon x LIONS Creators.

Viddhashalabhanjika

Viddhashalabhanjika (विद्धशालभञ्जिका) is a four-act Sanskrit court drama (nāṭikā) by Rājaśekhara, who flourished around 900 CE; its title refers to a statue of a śālabhañjikā that the hero discovers in a crystal pavilion.

Video art

Video art: art made with the electronic moving image as an artist's medium, emerging with the Sony Portapak in 1965. Key figures: Nam June Paik, the father of video art. Forms include single-channel video, video sculpture, and installation.

Vídeo Brinquedo

Vídeo Brinquedo (Toyland Video) is a São Paulo animation studio, founded 1994 as a distributor, known for low-budget direct-to-DVD mockbusters like Os Carrinhos, Ratatoing and Ursinho da Pesada, later rebranded toward educational YouTube content as Crianças Inteligentes.

Video editing

Video editing: manipulating and rearranging video shots to create a new work, part of post-production. Covers continuity versus montage, transitions, history from Moviola to NLEs, leading software, and AI editing benchmarks.

Video Killed the Radio Star

"Video Killed the Radio Star" (1979) by the Buggles, written by Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes, and Bruce Woolley, topped charts in 16 countries and was the first video aired on MTV on 1 August 1981.

Video nasty

Video nasty: British label for unclassified horror and exploitation VHS tapes that caused an early-1980s moral panic, a 72-title DPP prosecution list, and the Video Recordings Act 1984.

Video production

Video production: creating video through pre-production, production, and post-production. Spans kinescope and 1956 videotape eras, digital nonlinear editing, ENG, virtual production, and AI-assisted workflows.

Video vixen

Video vixen: a scantily clad female model appearing as eye candy in music videos, chiefly hip-hop and R&B, also called video girl or hip-hop honey. Emerged with 2 Live Crew's 1989 "Me So Horny," peaked in the early 2000s, declined with Instagram and smaller budgets.

Videodrome

Videodrome (1983) is a Canadian body-horror science fiction film by David Cronenberg, starring James Woods and Deborah Harry, about a torture-show broadcast that physically transforms viewers; also the name of an Atlanta video rental store.

Videogamedunkey

Videogamedunkey is Jason Gastrow (born 1991, Wisconsin), an American YouTube game critic and satirist with about 7.57 million subscribers, known for the 2017 Game Critics video and for cofounding the indie publisher Bigmode, whose first game was Animal Well.

Videoheaven

Videoheaven is a 2025 essay film directed by Alex Ross Perry and narrated by Maya Hawke, built entirely from clips of video stores in movies and TV.

Videosex

Videosex was a Yugoslav synth-pop and new wave band formed in Ljubljana in the early 1980s, fronted by singer Anja Rupel and known for "Detektivska priča" and "Moja mama".

Vidharth

Vidharth (விதார்த்), Tamil film actor born 1970 in Kalakkad, Tamil Nadu; debuted uncredited in Minnale (2001), broke through with Mynaa (2010), known for Kuttrame Thandanai and Kurangu Bommai.

Vidheyan (വിധേയൻ)

Vidheyan (വിധേയൻ, The Servile) is a 1993/1994 Malayalam drama by Adoor Gopalakrishnan, adapted from Paul Zacharia's novella, starring Mammootty as tyrant landlord Bhaskara Patelar and M.R. Gopakumar as servile migrant Thommi; National Award for Best Malayalam film.

Vidhu Vinod Chopra

Vidhu Vinod Chopra, also known as Vinod Chopra, is an Indian film director and producer known for Parinda (1989) and for producing the blockbusters 3 Idiots and PK.

Vidocq

Vidocq: Eugène-François Vidocq (1775–1857), French convict turned first chief of the Sûreté and pioneer private detective, inspiration for Hugo and Balzac; also the 2001 Pitof film starring Gérard Depardieu, the first feature shot entirely in digital HD.

Vidura (विदुर)

Vidura (विदुर), also Kshatta, is the Mahabharata's chief counsellor of Hastinapura: son of Vyasa by a maidservant, incarnation of Dharma, author of Vidura Niti, and the epic's voice of dharma.

Viduthalai Part 1 (விடுதலை பகுதி 1)

Viduthalai Part 1 (விடுதலை பகுதி 1), also Viduthalai: Part I, is Vetrimaaran's 2023 Tamil period crime thriller adapted from Jeyamohan's story "Thunaivan", starring Soori as constable Kumaresan and Vijay Sethupathi as rebel leader Perumal, with music by Ilaiyaraaja.

Viduthalai Part 2 (விடுதலை பகுதி 2)

Viduthalai Part 2 (விடுதலை பாகம் 2), 2024 Tamil action crime film by Vetrimaaran, sequel to Viduthalai Part 1, starring Vijay Sethupathi, Soori, Manju Warrier; music Ilaiyaraaja; released 20 December 2024, rated A, based on Jeyamohan's Thunaivan.

Vidya Balan (विद्या बालन)

Vidya Balan (विद्या बालन), Indian actor born in Palakkad, Kerala (sources: 1978 or 1979), known for woman-centric Hindi films Parineeta, The Dirty Picture, Kahaani; National Film Award and Padma Shri 2014 winner.

Vidya Balan filmography

Vidya Balan filmography: screen work of the Indian actress from the Bengali debut Bhalo Theko (2003) and Hindi debut Parineeta (2005) through The Dirty Picture, Kahaani, Tumhari Sulu, Mission Mangal, and Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3, with 2026–2027 projects.

Vidya Sinha (विद्या सिन्हा)

Vidya Sinha (विद्या सिन्हा, 1947–2019), Indian Hindi film and TV actress, star of Rajnigandha, Chhoti Si Baat, and Pati Patni Aur Woh; later television and Bodyguard (2011).

Vidyapati Padavali

Vidyapati's Padavali (विद्यापति पदावली, "the wreath of songs") is the collected Maithili love lyrics of Radha and Krishna by poet Vidyapati, composed around 1380 to 1406 in Mithila.