Arts and culture

Watcher (film)

Watcher (2022) is a psychological thriller and the feature debut of director Chloe Okuno, starring Maika Monroe as Julia, an American in Bucharest who believes a neighbor is watching her. Premiered at Sundance 2022, released by IFC Midnight June 3, 2022; distinct from the Netflix series The Watcher.

Watcher (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

The Watcher, Uatu, is the cosmic, oath-bound observer of the Marvel multiverse, voiced by Jeffrey Wright as narrator of What If...? (Disney+, 2021), adapting the 1963 Fantastic Four character to the MCU.

Watcher Entertainment

Watcher Entertainment (Watcher) is a Los Angeles digital studio founded in 2019 by ex-BuzzFeed creators Steven Lim, Ryan Bergara, and Shane Madej, launched on YouTube January 10, 2020, known for Ghost Files, Mystery Files, and Puppet History, and for its reversed 2024 paywall pivot to WatcherTV.

Watchers

Watchers is a 1988 American horror film based on Dean Koontz's novel, starring Corey Haim as a teen who adopts Einstein, an intelligent golden retriever, while Michael Ironside's agent hunts it and a rampaging mutant beast.

Watching Movies with the Sound Off

Watching Movies with the Sound Off is Mac Miller's second studio album, released June 2013 on Rostrum Records, self-produced as Larry Fisherman with guests Earl Sweatshirt, Ab-Soul, and Tyler, The Creator.

Watching You (TV series)

Watching You is a 2025 six-episode Australian erotic psychological thriller on Stan, adapted from J.P. Pomare's novel The Last Guests by Alexei Mizin and Ryan van Dijk; Aisha Dee stars as Lina, blackmailed over a secretly filmed affair. Sold to Hulu and Disney+ in 2026.

Watchmen

Watchmen, the 1986-1987 DC twelve-issue series by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins, reinterprets superheroes in an alternate 1985 Nixon-era America; widely collected and adapted to film and HBO.

Watchmen (2009 film)

Watchmen (2009) is Zack Snyder's film adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' DC graphic novel, released March 6, 2009 by Warner Bros. It runs 162 minutes, earned $107.5 million in the US, scored 64% on Rotten Tomatoes, and replaced the comic's squid ending with a Dr Manhattan-framed attack.

Watchmen (2024 film)

Watchmen (2024) is a two-part animated film, Watchmen: Chapter I and Chapter II, directed by Brandon Vietti and written by J. Michael Straczynski, adapting Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' 1986 graphic novel; released digitally August 2024, outside the DCU.

Watchmen (TV series)

Watchmen is HBO's 2019 nine-episode limited series created by Damon Lindelof, a sequel-remix of Moore and Gibbons' comic set in alternate 2019 Tulsa with Regina King; it won 11 Emmys and a Peabody.

Water (2005 film)

Water (2005) is Deepa Mehta's Hindi-language drama, third in her elemental trilogy after Fire and Earth, about Hindu widows in 1938 Varanasi; its 2000 set was destroyed by protestors before completion in Sri Lanka, earning an Oscar nomination.

Water Album

The Water Album (Shui tu 水圖), also called the Twelve Views of Water, is a set of twelve paintings of water alone by the Southern Song painter Ma Yuan.

Water bottle

Water bottle: a container for drinking water, either a single-use PET package or a durable reusable vessel in plastic, stainless steel, aluminum, or glass; distinguished by LCA showing reuse beats single-use after a payback period, and by FDA and EU packaging regulation.

Water Dreaming (Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula)

Water Dreaming refers to paintings of the Kalipinypa Water Dreaming by Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, a founding Papunya Tula artist in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Water for Elephants

Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen's 2006 Depression-era circus novel (Jacob Jankowski, Marlena, Rosie), a #1 NYT bestseller adapted into a 2011 film and a 2024 Broadway musical with seven Tony nominations.

Water for Elephants (film)

Water for Elephants is a 2011 American romantic drama directed by Francis Lawrence, based on Sara Gruen's 2006 novel, starring Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon.

Water for Elephants (musical)

Water for Elephants is a 2024 Broadway musical adaptation of Sara Gruen's 2006 circus romance novel, with book by Rick Elice, music by PigPen Theatre Co., directed by Jessica Stone, starring Grant Gustin; it ran at the Imperial Theatre, earned seven Tony nominations, and is now touring North America.

Water Lilies (2007 film)

Water Lilies (Naissance des pieuvres) is Céline Sciamma's 2007 debut feature, a French drama about three teenage girls' first desires around a synchronized swimming team in Cergy; it premiered at Cannes Un Certain Regard and won the 2007 Prix Louis-Delluc for first film.

Water Lilies (Monet series)

Water Lilies (Nymphéas) is Claude Monet's roughly 250–300-painting series of his Giverny pond, from the late 1890s to 1926, culminating in the panoramic panels donated to France in 1922 and shown at the Musée de l'Orangerie since 1927.

Water Margin (水浒传)

Water Margin (水浒传, Shuihu Zhuan), fully Loyal and Righteous Water Margin, is China's first long vernacular chaptered novel about Song Jiang's Liangshan uprising. Key facts: disputed Shi Nai'an/Luo Guanzhong authorship, 100/120/70-chapter editions, Jin Shengtan's abridgment, one of the Four Great Classical Novels.

Water Music

Handel's Water Music (HWV 348-350) is a set of 22 orchestral movements, usually three suites in F, D, and G major, premiered 17 July 1717 on the Thames for King George I by about 50 musicians and played three times that evening.

Water Park Shark

Water Park Shark is a 2026 American horror-comedy directed by Sharknado's Anthony C. Ferrante, in which mutated great whites invade a Cape Cod water park; released digitally July 3, 2026, 91 minutes, PG-13, starring David Chokachi, Chelsea Gilson, and Matthew Dame.

Water puppetry

Water puppetry (múa rối nước) is a Vietnamese theater in which lacquered wooden puppets perform on water, a tradition dating to eleventh-century villages in the Red River Delta.

Water Under the Bridge

"Water Under the Bridge" is a song by Adele, co-written and produced by Greg Kurstin. It was released on November 4, 2016, as the final single from her album 25.

Water Village

Water Village (水村图) is a 1302 ink-on-paper landscape handscroll by the Yuan dynasty artist and calligrapher Zhao Mengfu, a founding statement of the Yuan literati landscape style.

Water-Moon Avalokiteshvara

Water-Moon Avalokiteshvara, known in Korean as 수월관음도 and Japanese as Suigetsu Kannon, is a Buddhist iconographic type showing Avalokiteshvara on rocks gazing at the moon reflected in water.

Waterbomb festival

Waterbomb (워터밤) is a South Korean summer music festival first held in Seoul in 2015, combining K-pop, hip-hop, and EDM performances with team-based water-gun battles between artists and the crowd. It tours Korean cities and international venues, is 19+, and was named in Rolling Stone's 2025 K-pop moments.

Waterboys (ウォーターボーイズ)

Waterboys (ウォーターボーイズ) is a Japanese franchise about high school boys doing synchronized swimming: a 2001 Shinobu Yaguchi film starring Satoshi Tsumabuki, based on Kawagoe High School's real men's synchro performance, followed by Fuji TV dramas in 2003, 2004, 2005, and the new Waterboys 2027 series.

Watercolor painting

Watercolor painting (watercolour, aquarelle): transparent pigment washes bound in gum arabic on white paper, luminous via reflected light; bodycolour/gouache variants; British golden age, Reeves cakes 1780, Winsor & Newton tubes 1846.