Arts and culture

Volac (group)

Volac is a Russian-formed bass house and g-house duo of Sasha Gorohov and Stas Moskalev, producing since 2014, signed to Night Bass in 2015, and now based in Brazil.

Volbeat is a Danish rock band formed in Copenhagen in 2001 by Michael Poulsen, fusing metal, rockabilly, and Elvis and Johnny Cash influences, known for God of Angels Trust (2025) and selling out Parken Stadium.

Volcano (1997 film)

Volcano (1997) is a Mick Jackson disaster film for 20th Century Fox starring Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche, in which lava erupts beneath Los Angeles; released after Dante's Peak, it grossed about $120 million worldwide.

Volcom

Volcom is an American action sports apparel brand founded in 1991 by Richard Woolcott and Tucker Hall in Orange County, California, known for the Stone logo and "Youth Against Establishment" ethos; formerly Kering-owned, now an Authentic Brands Group licensing asset.

Voldemort: Origins of the Heir

Voldemort: Origins of the Heir is a 2018 Italian fan film by Tryangle Films, directed by Gianmaria Pezzato, depicting Tom Riddle's rise; crowdfunded on Kickstarter, released free on YouTube after a Warner Bros. agreement.

Volen Sentir

Volen Sentir (Волен Сентир) is a Moscow-based organic and melodic deep-house producer and DJ duo formed in 2017 by Andrey Lemeshko (Anjei) and Davit Patvakanyan (Dave Pad).

Volga Se Ganga

Volga Se Ganga (वोल्गा से गंगा) is a collection of twenty historical stories in Hindi by Rahul Sankrityayan, tracing human society from the Volga in 6000 BCE to the Ganga in 1942.

Volker Braun

Volker Braun (born 1939 in Dresden) is a German writer of poetry, drama, and prose, a prominent critical voice of East Germany who won the Georg Büchner Prize in 2000.

Volker Bruch

Volker Bruch (born 1980, Munich) is a German-Austrian actor, graduate of the Max Reinhardt Seminar Vienna, known for Gereon Rath in Babylon Berlin (Grimme-Preis, Goldene Kamera 2018) and Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter.

Volker Lechtenbrink

Volker Lechtenbrink (1944–2021) was a German actor, singer, and songwriter from Hamburg whose biggest hit was "Der Macher" in 1976; he also dubbed Kris Kristofferson.

Volksbühnenbewegung

Volksbühnenbewegung (people's stage movement) is the German movement of theatergoer associations that buy tickets in bulk, begun with the Freie Volksbühne in Berlin in 1890.

Volkslied

Volkslied is a German term for a simple, strophic folk song shaped by oral tradition, coined by Herder in the 1770s and opposed to the Kunstlied.

Volksschauspiel

Volksschauspiel, the German folk play, is theater by laypeople for lay audiences in the vernacular, covering Passion plays, parlor plays, and peasant comedies, and remains living practice especially in Tirol.

Volksstück

The Volksstück (plural Volksstücke) is a German-language drama genre that arose in Vienna in the late eighteenth century, using dialect and comedy for realistic, critical pictures of society.

Volkstümliche Musik

Volkstümliche Musik is a folk-tinged light-music genre of the German-speaking world, kept deliberately close to traditional Alpine Volksmusik but conceived commercially for mass audiences, its career made by television from the early 1980s.

Volodia Teitelboim

Volodia Teitelboim, born Valentín Teitelboim Volosky (1916–2008), was a Chilean writer and Communist politician who led the party in exile and won the 2002 National Literature Prize.

Volodymyr Ivasyuk

Volodymyr Ivasyuk (1949–1979) was a Ukrainian composer and songwriter who wrote Ukrainian-language hits blending Bukovynian folk melody with big beat, best known for "Chervona Ruta"; he died in unexplained circumstances in 1979.

Volodymyr Sosiura

Volodymyr Sosiura (Володимир Сосюра, 1898–1965) was a Ukrainian lyric poet and one of the most popular of the twentieth century, author of the patriotic poem "Liubit Ukrainu!" and winner of the Stalin Prize in 1948.

Vologda lace

Vologda lace (вологодское кружево) is a Russian bobbin lace made in the Vologda region of northern Russia, recognizable by a dense curving tape pattern over a fine openwork mesh.

Volotovo Church frescoes

The Volotovo Church frescoes are the 14th-century murals of the Church of the Assumption on Volotovo Field near Veliky Novgorod, painted in 1352 and regarded as an outstanding monument of Novgorod painting.

Volpone

Volpone is a satirical comedy by Ben Jonson, written in 1606 and set in Venice, in which a rich trickster feigns illness to swindle legacy hunters.

Volstagg

Volstagg the Enormous, the Lion of Asgard, is Marvel Comics' Falstaff-inspired Asgardian of the Warriors Three (Fandral, Hogun), created by Lee and Kirby in 1965; later War Thor wielding Ultimate Mjolnir, played by Ray Stevenson in the Thor films.

Volstead Act

The Volstead Act, formally the National Prohibition Act, was the 1919 United States law enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment's ban on alcoholic beverages, in force from 1920 until repeal in 1933.

Volt (musician)

Volt is an Australian, Los Angeles-based bass-music producer working in dubstep, riddim, neurofunk, and glitch hop, with festival sets at Wobbleland and Forbidden Kingdom in 2022.

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Voltaire High

Voltaire High (Mixte) is a 2021 French Prime Video period comedy-drama by Marie Roussin: in September 1963, eleven girls join a boys' lycée in Saint-Jean-d'Angély; one season, canceled, Canneséries audience prize.

Voltes V (超電磁マシーンボルテスV)

Voltes V (超電磁マシーンボルテスV) is a 1977–1978 Japanese super robot anime by Toei and Tadao Nagahama, the Robot Romance Trilogy's second entry, where five machines combine into one robot; banned in the 1979 Marcos martial law era, it became a Philippine national phenomenon and inspired the 2023 live-action Voltes V: Legacy.

Voltes V: Legacy

Voltes V: Legacy is GMA Network's 2023 live-action Philippine adaptation of the 1970s Japanese anime Voltes V, directed by Mark Reyes, 90 episodes, starring Miguel Tanfelix, with Toei Company and Telesuccess, and a 2024 Japanese theatrical release.

Voltron

Voltron: American mecha franchise from World Events Productions' 1984 series, adapted from Toei's Beast King GoLion (百獣王ゴライオン) and Dairugger XV; five robot lions combine into one giant robot; spawned Legendary Defender and an Amazon MGM live-action film.

Voltron (film)

Voltron (film): upcoming Amazon MGM Studios live-action adaptation of the 1984 Voltron: Defender of the Universe anime, directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, starring Henry Cavill and Sterling K. Brown, filmed in Queensland, streaming on Prime Video in 2027.