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Death Row Records

Death Row Records: Los Angeles hip-hop label founded 1991 by Suge Knight and Dr. Dre; released The Chronic and Doggystyle, defined G-funk, went bankrupt in 2006, and was bought by Snoop Dogg in 2022.

Death Sentence (2007 film)

Death Sentence is a 2007 American vigilante thriller directed by James Wan, starring Kevin Bacon as a father who takes revenge on the gang that killed his son.

Death Star

Death Star (DS-1 Orbital Battle Station): fictional moon-sized Imperial battle station in Star Wars, armed with a planet-destroying kyber-crystal superlaser; 160 km diameter, about 1.2 million crew; destroyed Alderaan and was destroyed at the Battle of Yavin.

Death to 2020

Death to 2020 is a 70-minute Netflix mockumentary special by Black Mirror creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones, released 27 December 2020, mixing archival 2020 footage with fictitious talking heads; critics rated it poorly (45% RT, Metacritic 41).

Death to Smoochy

Death to Smoochy, also spelled Death to Smoochie, is a 2002 black comedy directed by Danny DeVito, satirizing children's television through Robin Williams and Edward Norton as rival kiddie-show hosts.

Death Valley (British TV series)

Death Valley is a BBC One comedy crime drama created by Paul Doolan, starring Timothy Spall as retired TV-detective actor John Chapel and Gwyneth Keyworth as DS Janie Mallowan, solving murders in Wales; series 1 premiered 25 May 2025 to 2.9 million viewers.

Death Valley Days

Death Valley Days: American Western anthology series created by Ruth Woodman in 1930, sponsored by Pacific Coast Borax (20 Mule Team Borax); ran on radio from 1930 and on syndicated television 1952-1970, hosted by Stanley Andrews, Ronald Reagan, Robert Taylor, and Dale Robertson.

Death Warrant

Death Warrant is a 1990 American-Canadian prison action film directed by Deran Sarafian, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as a detective undercover in a violent state prison.

Death Whisperer 2 (ธี่หยด)

Death Whisperer 2 (ธี่หยด 2) is a 2024 Thai horror sequel directed by Taweewat Wantha, starring Nadech Kugimiya as Yak hunting the black-clad ghost; it earned 80 million baht on opening day and 350 million in five days.

Death Whisperer 3

Death Whisperer 3 (ธี่หยด 3, Tee Yod 3) is a 2025 Thai supernatural horror film, third in the Tee Yod franchise, directed by Narit Yuvaboon and Thanadet Pradit, starring Nadech Kugimiya as Yak searching for his abducted sister Yee; released October 2025, 104 minutes.

Death Wish (1974 film)

Death Wish (1974) is a Michael Winner vigilante drama starring Charles Bronson as Paul Kersey, based on Brian Garfield's novel, a box-office hit criticized as pro-vigilante propaganda that spawned four sequels and a 2018 remake.

Death Wish (2018 film)

Death Wish is a 2018 American action thriller directed by Eli Roth, in which Bruce Willis plays a Chicago surgeon who becomes a vigilante after a home invasion.

Death Wish (film series)

Death Wish film series: five Charles Bronson vigilante films (1974-1994) about Paul Kersey, based on Brian Garfield's 1972 novel, the first three directed by Michael Winner, plus the 2018 Eli Roth remake with Bruce Willis set in Chicago.

Death Wish 3

Death Wish 3 (1985) is a Michael Winner action thriller starring Charles Bronson as vigilante Paul Kersey, produced by Cannon Films, released 1 November 1985, grossing $16.1 million domestically and panned by critics.

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown is a 1987 American vigilante action film directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Charles Bronson in his fourth appearance as Paul Kersey.

Death Wish II

Death Wish II, also known as Death Wish 2, is a 1982 American vigilante action film directed by Michael Winner and starring Charles Bronson as Paul Kersey.

Death Wish V: The Face of Death

Death Wish V: The Face of Death (1994) is the fifth and final original Death Wish film, directed and written by Allan A. Goldstein, starring Charles Bronson in his last appearance as vigilante Paul Kersey; it grossed $1.7 million and scored 25 on Metacritic.

Death's End (死神永生)

Death's End (死神永生) is Liu Cixin's 2010 novel, the third volume of the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy; translated by Ken Liu (Tor, 2016), it follows Cheng Xin and won the 2017 Locus Award.

Death's Game (이제 곧 죽습니다)

Death's Game (이제 곧 죽습니다), 2023 TVING original K-drama adapted from the 2019 Naver webtoon by Lee Won-sik and Ggulchan; 8 episodes, Seo In-guk and Park So-dam, written and directed by Ha Byung-hoon, Part 2 on Prime Video in 240 countries.

Death's Hand in Mine

"Death's Hand in Mine" is episode 7 of Marvel's Agatha All Along, aired October 23, 2024 on Disney+. Directed by Jac Schaeffer and written by Gia King and Cameron Squires, it tells Lilia Calderu's story nonlinearly via a tarot trial, reveals Rio as Death, and ends with Lilia's sacrifice.

Death's Head (Marvel Comics)

Death's Head is a robotic freelance peacekeeping agent created by Simon Furman and Geoff Senior, debuting in Marvel UK's Transformers #113 (May 1987). Secured for Marvel via the 'High Noon Tex' strip, he crossed into Doctor Who and the Marvel Universe, starred in a 1988 solo series, and spawned Death's Head II, 3.0, and V.

Deathbird

Deathbird (Cal'syee Neramani) is a Marvel Comics Shi'ar royal, exiled for murdering her mother and sister, recurring X-Men and Captain Marvel foe, throne usurper, Kree viceroy, and Horseman of Apocalypse, debuting in Ms. Marvel #9 (1977).

Deathclaw

Deathclaw: the giant reptilian bipedal apex predator of the Fallout games, engineered pre-war by the US government from chameleon stock, with variants from hairy to intelligent, and a live-action debut in Fallout season 2.

Deathconsciousness

Deathconsciousness is the 2008 debut double album by Connecticut post-punk duo Have a Nice Life (Dan Barrett, Tim Macuga), recorded for under $1,000, paired with an Antiochean cult booklet, initially ignored, now a cult classic.

Deathcore

Deathcore: metal subgenre fusing death metal with metalcore and hardcore punk; breakdowns, blast beats, guttural vocals; crystallized early 2000s, peaked mid-2000s via MySpace, revived in the 2020s.

Deathgasm

Deathgasm (2015) is a New Zealand horror-comedy directed by Jason Lei Howden, about metalheads who summon the demon Aeloth the Blind One; it won Make My Horror Movie, premiered at SXSW, and spawned Goremageddon.

Deathlok

Deathlok is a Marvel Comics cyborg created by Rich Buckler and Doug Moench, first appearing in Astonishing Tales #25 (August 1974) as soldier Luther Manning; reinvented in 1990 by Dwayne McDuffie as Michael Collins, a Black pacifist trapped in a war machine.

Deathmetal (EP)

Deathmetal is the 2000 debut EP by the British indie rock band Panchiko, self-released in Nottingham in only about thirty copies before a 2016 charity-shop find sparked a four-year search.

Deaths and Entrances

Deaths and Entrances is a collection of 24 poems by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, first published in London in 1946 and probably his best-known collection.

Deathstalker (1983 film)

Deathstalker (1983) is a Roger Corman-produced sword-and-sorcery film directed by James Sbardellati, starring Rick Hill, Barbi Benton, and Lana Clarkson, shot in Argentina for about $500,000, spawning three sequels and a 2025 remake.