Arts and culture

Voltron: Legendary Defender

Voltron: Legendary Defender is the DreamWorks Animation Netflix reboot (2016-2018, 78 episodes, 8 seasons) of the 1984 Voltron/GoLion franchise, run by Joaquim Dos Santos and Lauren Montgomery, with five lion pilots forming Voltron.

Volume Two

Volume Two is a 1949 poetry collection by the Filipino poet José García Villa, published by New Directions and first collecting his comma poems.

Volume V (album)

Volume V (Volume 5) is the fifth studio album by New Orleans sludge metal supergroup Down, released November 20, 2026 via Nuclear Blast Records; first full-length since 2007's Over the Under, with King Diamond guesting on "Merciful Fate".

Volumes (band)

Volumes is an American metalcore and djent band formed in 2009 in Los Angeles, tagged progressive metalcore, with dual lead vocalists, five albums from Via (2011) to Mirror Touch (2025), and bassist Raad Soudani as sole constant member.

Völundarkviða

Völundarkviða, meaning "The Lay of Völundr," is an Old Norse Eddic poem telling how the legendary smith Völundr, mutilated and enslaved by King Níðuðr, takes revenge and escapes by flight.

Volver

Volver (2006) is a Spanish comedy-drama by Pedro Almodóvar, produced by El Deseo, starring Penélope Cruz and Carmen Maura. It won Cannes Best Screenplay and a shared ensemble Best Actress, five European Film Awards, and five Goyas, with Cruz earning her first Oscar nomination.

Vomitorium

Vomitorium (plural vomitoria), Latin for amphitheater or theater entrance passages through which spectators 'spewed forth' into their seats; never a Roman vomiting room, a myth that arose in 19th-century writing.

Von Dutch

Von Dutch is a Los Angeles streetwear brand named for custom-car artist Kenneth Howard, famous for early-2000s trucker hats, celebrity gifting, internal disputes, and its 2024 acquisition by WSG Brands.

Von Dutch (song)

"Von dutch" (also "Von Dutch") is a 2024 electropop single by Charli XCX, lead single from Brat, written with producer Finn Keane (EasyFun), released 29 February 2024 on Atlantic, UK peak 26, and winner of the 2025 Grammy for Best Dance Pop Recording.

Von Ryan's Express

Von Ryan's Express is a 1965 Twentieth Century-Fox World War II film directed by Mark Robson, starring Frank Sinatra as Colonel Ryan leading Allied POWs' train escape from Italy, adapted from David Westheimer's 1964 novel.

Von Wegen Lisbeth

Von Wegen Lisbeth is a German-language indie-pop band from Berlin, founded in 2006, known for witty lyrics about everyday life and its breakthrough song "Sushi".

Vonani Bila

Vonani Bila (born 1972) is a South African poet from Shirley Village in Limpopo, best known as founder of the Timbila Poetry Project and founding editor of the journal Timbila.

Vondie Curtis-Hall

Vondie Curtis-Hall (Vondi Curtis Hall), American actor, screenwriter, and director born in Detroit. Broadway's Dreamgirls and Lena Horne show, Chicago Hope's Dr. Dennis Hancock, Emmy-nominated for ER, and writer-director of Gridlock'd with Tim Roth and Tupac Shakur.

Vonetta McGee

Vonetta McGee (Lawrence Vonetta McGee, 1945-2010), American actress who began in Italian cinema with The Great Silence and Faustina, then starred in 1970s blaxploitation films including Blacula, Shaft in Africa, and Thomasine & Bushrod, later appearing in Repo Man and on television.

Voodoo (D'Angelo album)

Voodoo is the second studio album by American R&B singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist D'Angelo (born Michael Eugene Archer), released in 2000 and known for its live funk rhythms and Grammy-winning single "Untitled (How Does It Feel)".

Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

Voodoo Child (Slight Return), also spelled Voodoo Chile (Slight Return), is a 1968 Jimi Hendrix Experience song closing Electric Ladyland, recorded May 3, 1968 at the Record Plant with an ABC-TV crew, famed for its wah-wah riff.

Voodoo Doughnut

Voodoo Doughnut is a Portland, Oregon doughnut chain founded in 2003 by Kenneth "Cat Daddy" Pogson and Tres Shannon, known for pink boxes, eccentric flavors like the Voodoo Doll and Bacon Maple Bar, weddings, and multi-state expansion.

Voodoo Experience Music Festival 2016

The 2016 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was a Halloween-weekend music festival in New Orleans' City Park, headlined by the Weeknd, Tool, and Arcade Fire.

Voodoo Festival

The Voodoo Music + Arts Experience was a Halloween-weekend music and arts festival in New Orleans' City Park. Founded in 1999, it drew up to 180,000 and was last held in 2019.

Voodoo Lounge

Voodoo Lounge is the Rolling Stones' 1994 studio album on Virgin Records, produced by Don Was and The Glimmer Twins, their first without Bill Wyman. It topped the UK chart, won the inaugural Grammy for Best Rock Album, and launched a US$370 million-grossing world tour.

Voodoo Ray

"Voodoo Ray" is a 1988 acid-house instrumental by Manchester producer A Guy Called Gerald, identified as the first UK acid house single and a defining rave anthem that peaked at number 12 in 1989.

Voot (OTT Platform)

Voot, an Indian Viacom18 OTT streaming service launched March 2016 as a free ad-supported platform, added the Voot Select paid tier in 2020, and was merged into JioCinema in August 2023; its content now lives on JioHotstar (from February 2025), distinct from all similarly named apps.

Voprosy Literatury

Voprosy Literatury (Вопросы литературы, "Questions of Literature") is a Russian bimonthly journal of literary criticism and scholarship, founded in Moscow in 1957 and described as the most authoritative in Russia.

Vorkosigan Saga

The Vorkosigan Saga is a science fiction series by Lois McMaster Bujold, published 1986–2018. It is set on Barrayar and explores themes of disability, gender, and space opera.

Vormärz

Vormärz, German for "pre-March," denotes the period of German history and literature from 1815 to the March Revolution of 1848, marked by oppositional political literature.

Voronezh Notebooks

The Voronezh Notebooks (Воронежские тетради) is the final book of poems by Osip Mandelstam, written during his internal exile in Voronezh; none was published in his lifetime.

Vörösmarty Society

The Vörösmarty Society (Vörösmarty Társaság) is a Hungarian literary society based in Székesfehérvár, named after the poet Mihály Vörösmarty, continuing a line of local societies founded from 1867 onward.

Vorticism

Vorticism was a British avant-garde art and literature movement founded in London in 1914 by Wyndham Lewis, expressing the machine age through angular geometric abstraction.

Voss (collection)

Voss (VOSS) is Alexander McQueen's spring/summer 2001 women's collection, shown in London on 26 September 2000 inside a mirrored glass padded-cell set, with shell garments and a Witkin-inspired finale.