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White Reaper
White Reaper is a Louisville, Kentucky rock band formed in 2012, known for garage punk with power pop hooks. Albums include White Reaper Does It Again, The World's Best American Band, You Deserve Love, and Only Slightly Empty.
White Room
"White Room" (also ホワイトルーム) is a 1968 psychedelic rock song by Cream, written by Jack Bruce and poet Pete Brown for Wheels of Fire. Known for its 5/4 intro, wah-wah guitar, and No. 6 US Billboard peak; not a film or other namesake.
White Rose (2024 film)
White Rose (வைட் ரோஸ்) is a 2024 Indian Tamil-language psychological thriller film directed by K Rajashekar, starring Kayal Anandhi and R. K. Suresh, released on 5 April 2024.
White Rose of York
White Rose of York (rose argent): white heraldic rose adopted in the 14th century as the badge of the royal House of York, Yorkist emblem in the Wars of the Roses, later the symbol of Yorkshire.
White Sands
White Sands (1992) is an American neo-noir thriller directed by Roger Donaldson, written by Daniel Pyne, starring Willem Dafoe, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Mickey Rourke, and Samuel L. Jackson; a New Mexico sheriff impersonates a dead man with $500,000 and enters an FBI sting.
White savior narrative in film
White savior narrative in film: a cinematic trope where a white protagonist saves or redeems non-white characters, also called the white savior film genre, studied by Matthew Hughey across 50 films from 1987 to 2011, criticized for centering white agency and sidelining non-white characters.
White Shadows in the South Seas
White Shadows in the South Seas (1928) is an MGM drama directed by W. S. Van Dyke with Robert Flaherty, based on Frederick O'Brien's 1919 book, MGM's first prerecorded-soundtrack film, starring Monte Blue and Raquel Torres, Oscar winner for cinematography.
White Shaman panel
The White Shaman panel, also called the White Shaman mural, is a prehistoric rock painting in Pecos River Style on the Pecos River in southwest Texas.
White Snake (白蛇：缘起) (film)
White Snake (白蛇：缘起) is a 2019 Chinese computer-animated fantasy romance film from Light Chaser Animation, a prequel to the Legend of the White Snake folk tale.
White Snake: Afloat (白蛇：浮生)
White Snake: Afloat (白蛇：浮生) is a 2024 Chinese 3D animated fantasy romance by Light Chaser Animation, the third White Snake film, retelling the Xu Xian legend in Southern Song Hangzhou; it earned about 425 million yuan and opened in Japan in 2026.
White Squall (film)
White Squall is a 1996 American adventure drama film directed by Ridley Scott, based on the 1961 sinking of the school sailing ship Albatross and starring Jeff Bridges.
White Sun of the Desert (Белое солнце пустыни)
White Sun of the Desert (Белое солнце пустыни), 1969 Soviet "Eastern" by Vladimir Motyl: Red Army soldier Sukhov guards a bandit's harem in the Civil War desert; 34 million viewers, cosmonaut good-luck film.
White tea
White tea (白茶) is a lightly oxidized Camellia sinensis tea made by withering and drying only, the least processed of China's six major tea types. Grades run Silver Needle, White Peony, Gong Mei, Shou Mei, mostly from Fujian's Fuding and Zhenghe.
White Teeth
White Teeth, Zadie Smith's 2000 debut novel (Hamish Hamilton), follows the Jones, Iqbal, and Chalfen families in multicultural Willesden, London; it won the Guardian First Book Award, James Tait Black, and Whitbread First Novel awards.
White tie
White tie (full evening dress, cravate blanche) is the most formal Western dress code: black tailcoat, white piqué waistcoat, wing collar, and white bow tie for men, floor-length gown for women. Emerged around 1840, declined after World War I, now reserved for state dinners, royal ceremonies, and rare galas.
White Tiger (Ava Ayala)
White Tiger (Ava Ayala) is a Marvel Comics superheroine, younger sister of original White Tiger Hector Ayala, empowered by the Jade Amulets of Power and the Tiger God; debuted in Avengers Academy #20 (2011), member of the Mighty Avengers and New Avengers.
White Tiger (comics)
White Tiger is a Marvel Comics superhero identity, first held by Puerto Rican Hector Ayala (Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #19, 1975, Mantlo and Pérez), Marvel's first Hispanic superhero, powered by the Tiger God's Amulets of Power and passed to Kasper Cole, Angela Del Toro, and Ava Ayala.
White Tiger (Hector Ayala)
White Tiger (Hector Ayala) is Marvel Comics' first Latino superhero, created by Bill Mantlo and George Pérez in Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #19 (1975). Powered by the Tiger God's amulets, he fought in New York, suffered family tragedy, and died in Daredevil #40 (2003).
White Town
White Town is the solo synth-pop project of Jyoti Mishra, born 1966 in Rourkela, India, and based in Derby, England; its 1997 bedroom-recorded single "Your Woman", built on a 1932 Al Bowlly trumpet sample, topped the UK chart.
White Valentine (화이트 발렌타인)
White Valentine (화이트 발렌타인) is a 1999 South Korean romance film directed by Yang Yun-ho, starring Park Shin-yang and Jun Ji-hyun in her debut, about a dove-carried letter correspondence between reunited childhood pen pals.
White Vengeance (鸿门宴)
White Vengeance (鸿门宴传奇, Hong Men Yan) is Daniel Lee's 2011 Chinese historical action film about the Hongmen Banquet between Liu Bang (Leon Lai) and Xiang Yu (Feng Shaofeng), released 29 November 2011, grossing about 160 million yuan in China and $992,195 internationally.
White Walker
White Walkers are the TV name for the Others, humanoid ice beings beyond the Wall in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones. Not seen for six to eight thousand years in-universe; they raise dead wights and fear obsidian, fire, and possibly Valyrian steel.
White Ward
White Ward is a Ukrainian experimental/post-black metal band from Odesa, formed in 2012, known for fusing black metal with dark jazz and saxophone; albums Futility Report (2017), Love Exchange Failure (2019), and False Light (2022) on Debemur Morti Productions.
White wedding
White wedding: the conventional Western church wedding with a bride in a formal white gown, plus reception and honeymoon. Norm traces to Queen Victoria's 1840 dress; studied as tradition, consumption, and inequality.
White Wedding (song)
White Wedding is a 1982 Billy Idol single from his debut album, written in about 20 minutes, produced by Keith Forsey, inspired by his sister's pregnancy, an anti-marriage song that peaked at No. 36 in the US and No. 6 in the UK in 1985.
White wine
White wine: wine fermented without grape-skin contact, from white grapes or pressed juice of red grapes; pale yellow to golden, styles from dry mineral to rich; oldest evidence from Tutankhamun's tomb; OIV-defined skin-contact (orange) variant.
White Witch
Jadis, the White Witch (Queen Jadis, Empress of the Lone Islands), is C.S. Lewis's Narnia villain: last Queen of Charn, destroyer of her world by the Deplorable Word, ruler of the hundred-year winter, defeated by Aslan's Deeper Magic.
White writing
White writing (écriture blanche), also called writing degree zero, is a neutral, styleless literary mode introduced by Roland Barthes in 1953, modeled on Camus's L'Étranger.
White Zombie (band)
White Zombie, New York metal band 1985-1998 founded by Rob Zombie (Robert Cummings) and Sean Yseult; began as noise rock, broke through with La Sexorcisto (1992) and Astro-Creep: 2000 (1995), disbanded September 1998.
White Zombie (film)
White Zombie (1932), Victor Halperin's pre-Code horror film starring Bela Lugosi as voodoo master Murder Legendre, is widely regarded as the first feature-length zombie film, adapted from Seabrook's The Magic Island, budgeted at about $50,000, and released by United Artists.