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Berenice Abbott

Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) was an American photographer whose Changing New York series documented the city's architecture, and who preserved and promoted Eugène Atget's archive, later also photographing scientific phenomena.

Bérénice Bejo

Bérénice Bejo (Berenice Consuelo Bejo), French-Argentine actress born 1976 in Buenos Aires; star of The Artist (2012 César, Oscar nomination) and Cannes Best Actress winner for Le Passé (2013); partner of Michel Hazanavicius.

Bérénice Marlohe

Bérénice Marlohe, French actress and model born 1979 in Paris, played Bond girl Sévérine in Skyfall (2012); later films include 5 to 7, Song to Song, and Valley of the Gods.

Berenstain Bears

The Berenstain Bears, created by Stan and Jan Berenstain, are a bestselling American children's book series begun with The Big Honey Hunt in 1962 under Dr. Seuss, featuring Papa, Mama, Brother, Sister, and Honey Bear, later run by son Mike Berenstain.

Beret

Beret: a round, flat, brimless cap of felted wool, also called the Basque beret or boina. Originating with Béarn shepherds in the Pyrenees, adopted by the Chasseurs alpins in 1891 and later elite military units worldwide.

Berezil

Berezil (Березіль) was a Ukrainian modernist theater and artistic association founded by Les Kurbas in Kyiv in 1922, the leading experimental stage of Soviet Ukraine until 1935.

Bergdorf Goodman

Bergdorf Goodman, founded in 1901 by Edwin Goodman and Herman Bergdorf, is a luxury department store at Fifth Avenue and 58th Street, Manhattan, with a 1928 Buchman & Kahn landmark building, a 1990 men's store, and ownership history running from Carter Hawley Hale to Neiman Marcus Group and Exemplar Luxury Group.

Bergerac (2025 TV series)

Bergerac (2025 TV series), the Bergerac reboot, is a six-part UKTV crime drama on U and U&DRAMA starring Damien Molony as Jim Bergerac, reimagining the 1981-91 John Nettles BBC series set in Jersey with one case per series and £1.2m of Jersey government funding.

Bergerac (TV series)

Bergerac is a British crime drama set on Jersey: the original BBC One series (1981–1991) starred John Nettles as DS Jim Bergerac, and a UKTV reboot with Damien Molony launched in 2025.

Berghain

Berghain is a Berlin techno club opened December 2004 in a former Friedrichshain power plant by Snax founders Thormann and Teufele, successor to Ostgut, famous for its selective door, photo ban, and 20th-anniversary status in Berlin's intangible cultural heritage techno scene.

Berghain (song)

"Berghain" is a 2025 song by Rosalía featuring Björk and Yves Tumor, the operatic, orchestral lead single of her album Lux, sung in German, Spanish, and English and named after the Berlin techno club.

Bering Sea Gold

Bering Sea Gold, also marketed as Gold Divers, is a Discovery Channel reality series premiering January 27, 2012, following gold miners dredging the Bering Sea floor off Nome, Alaska; it set Discovery's highest-rated series launch with 3.66 million viewers.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Berkeley Rep) is a nonprofit LORT B regional theatre in Berkeley, California, founded in 1968 by Michael Leibert; Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre 1997, two downtown stages, Ground Floor new-work center.

Berkley Books

Berkley Books is a Penguin Random House imprint under the Penguin Publishing Group, publishing commercial romance, women's fiction, mystery, and science fiction/fantasy by authors such as Emily Henry and Ali Hazelwood; acquired by Putnam in 1965, merged with NAL in 2015, and parent of Ace Books and the new Berkley XO imprint.

Berlin (2023 film)

Berlin (बर्लिन) is a 2023 Hindi spy thriller by Atul Sabharwal, set in 1993 New Delhi, where sign-language interpreter Pushkin Verma (Aparshakti Khurana) interrogates deaf-mute suspect Ashok (Ishwak Singh); premiered at IFFLA 2023, released on ZEE5 on 13 September 2024.

Berlin (band)

Berlin (band): American synth-pop group from Los Angeles founded by Terri Nunn, John Crawford, and David Diamond; hits 'Sex (I'm A...)' and the Oscar-winning 'Take My Breath Away' (Top Gun, 1986). Not to be confused with Berlin School electronic music, Lou Reed's album Berlin, or other acts named Berlin.

Berlin (Lou Reed album)

Berlin (1973) is Lou Reed's third album, a Bob Ezrin-produced rock opera about Caroline and Jim's doomed relationship, a commercial and critical flop that later became acclaimed.

Berlin (Money Heist)

Berlin (Andrés de Fonollosa) is the Money Heist character played by Pedro Alonso, mastermind of the Royal Mint heist who dies in part 2; subject of the Netflix prequel Berlín (2023) and Berlin and the Lady with an Ermine (2026).

Berlin (Spanish TV series)

Berlin (Berlín) is a Spanish Netflix crime drama, a prequel spin-off of La casa de papel created by Álex Pina and Esther Martínez Lobato, starring Pedro Alonso as Berlín; season 1 premiered December 29, 2023 in Paris, season 2 (Berlín y la dama del armiño) on May 15, 2026 in Seville.

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929), Alfred Döblin's modernist big-city novel about ex-convict Franz Biberkopf in Weimar Berlin, published by S. Fischer, serialized in the Frankfurter Zeitung, famed for montage, compared with Ulysses and Manhattan Transfer.

Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980 film)

Berlin Alexanderplatz is a 1980 West German television miniseries directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, adapting Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel in fourteen parts totaling more than 15 hours, following ex-convict Franz Biberkopf in late-1920s Berlin.

Berlin ER

Berlin ER (KRANK Berlin) is a German eight-episode medical drama premiering 26 February 2025 on Apple TV+ and ZDFneo, created by former ER physician Samuel Jefferson and Viktor Jakovleski, starring Haley Louise Jones as ER head Dr. Zanna Parker at Berlin's rundown Nuria-Kastorf-Krankenhaus.

Berlin International Film Festival

Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), annual February A-list film festival in Berlin since 1951, Golden Bear top prize; one of the Cannes-Venice-Berlin top three, about 340,000 tickets, EFM market, directed by Tricia Tuttle.

Berlin Noir (TV series)

Berlin Noir is an upcoming Apple TV crime drama adapted from Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther novels, starting with the prequel Metropolis. Jack Lowden stars as the 1928 Berlin detective, with Colin Firth; Peter Straughan showruns, Tom Hanks' Playtone and Bad Wolf produce, in post-production as of October 2026.

Berlin Philharmonic

The Berlin Philharmonic (Berliner Philharmoniker), founded 1882, is a self-governing German orchestra based at Hans Scharoun's Philharmonie since 1963, led by chief conductor Kirill Petrenko since 2019-20, famed for its Digital Concert Hall and Karajan-era recordings.

Berlin State Opera

Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin State Opera), Berlin's oldest opera house, opened 7 December 1742 under Frederick II with Graun's Cleopatra e Cesare; home of the Staatskapelle Berlin, led since 2024/25 by intendant Elisabeth Sobotka and conductor Christian Thielemann.

Berlin Station (TV series)

Berlin Station is an American EPIX espionage drama (2016-2019) created by Olen Steinhauer, starring Richard Armitage, Rhys Ifans, and Richard Jenkins as CIA officers in Berlin hunting a whistleblower, Thomas Shaw, across three seasons and 29 episodes.

Berlin Syndrome (film)

Berlin Syndrome (2017) is an Australian psychological thriller directed by Cate Shortland, adapted by Shaun Grant from Melanie Joosten's novel, starring Teresa Palmer and Max Riemelt; premiered at Sundance 2017.

Berlin Trilogy

The Berlin Trilogy is David Bowie's run of three albums, Low, "Heroes", and Lodger (1977–1979), made with Brian Eno and Tony Visconti; only "Heroes" was recorded in Berlin, at Hansa Studios near the Wall.

Berlin, I Love You

Berlin, I Love You (Berlin ick liebe dir) is a 2019 German-British anthology film, the fourth Cities of Love entry after Paris, New York, and Rio, with ten Berlin love stories by directors including Peter Chelsom, Til Schweiger, and Fernando Eimbcke.