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Dir En Grey
Dir En Grey (ディル・アン・グレイ) is a Japanese heavy metal band formed in Osaka in 1997 from La:Sadie's, with Kyo, Kaoru, Die, Toshiya, and Shinya; twelve albums from Gauze to MORTAL DOWNER (2026) and major US and European touring.
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert (1522–1590) was a Dutch humanist, theologian, poet, and engraver who argued for religious tolerance and wrote the first ethics published in Dutch.
Dire Straits
Dire Straits is a British rock band formed in Deptford, London in 1977 by Mark Knopfler, known for restrained arrangements and his fingerstyle guitar playing.
Dire Straits (album)
Dire Straits (1978) is the self-titled debut album by the British rock band Dire Straits, recorded at Basing Street Studios, produced by Muff Winwood, containing "Sultans of Swing", peaking at UK number 5.
Direct-to-video
Direct-to-video, also called straight-to-video or direct-to-DVD, is film distribution without a theatrical run, on VHS or DVD; prominent in the US since the mid-1980s and in Japan as V-Cinema, later absorbed into streaming-era digital-first release.
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan is a posthumous Copper Canyon Press collection gathering work from her ten poetry volumes plus unpublished last poems.
Directia 5
Direcția 5 is a Romanian pop-rock band founded in 1991 in Bucharest by Marian Ionescu, one of Romania's best-known bands, famous for the 1993 hit "Seducție".
Director & Actor Anant Mahadevan
Ananth Narayan Mahadevan, credited as Anant Mahadevan, is an Indian actor and director in Hindi and Marathi cinema since the 1980s, known for the National Award-winning Mee Sindhutai Sapkal (2010).
Director X
Director X (Julien Christian Lutz, born 1975, Toronto), formerly Little X, is a Canadian music video and film director, protégé of Hype Williams, known for Drake's "Hotline Bling", Rihanna's "Work", and films Superfly and Across the Line.
Director's cut
Director's cut: a film version presenting the director's own edit, from the DGA's 1964 contractual right to the marketing label on longer home-video and streaming releases, distinct from the theatrical cut, final cut, and restored versions.
Directors Guild of America
Directors Guild of America (DGA), formerly Screen Directors Guild: US labor guild founded 1936, 19,500+ members, bargaining agent for directors, ADs, and UPMs under the 2023–2026 Basic Agreement with the AMPTP.
Diriliş
Diriliş was a Turkish thought, literature, and politics magazine founded, led, and largely written by the poet Sezai Karakoç, published with interruptions from 1960 to 1992.
Diriliş: Ertuğrul
Diriliş: Ertuğrul (Resurrection: Ertuğrul) is a Turkish historical drama (2014–2019, TRT 1, 150 episodes, five seasons) about Ertuğrul Gazi and the Kayı tribe, produced by Mehmet Bozdağ, exported to 71 countries, and succeeded by Kuruluş: Osman.
Dirk Benedict
Dirk Benedict (born Dirk Niewoehner, 1945, Montana) is an American actor known as Lieutenant Starbuck in Battlestar Galactica (1978–79) and Templeton "Faceman" Peck in The A-Team (1983–87), also a stage actor, director, and author.
Dirk Blocker
Dirk Blocker (born 1957, Hollywood) is an American character actor, son of Bonanza star Dan Blocker, best known as Detective Michael Hitchcock on Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013-2021, 153 episodes), with film roles in Poltergeist, Starman, and Short Cuts.
Dirk Bogarde
Dirk Bogarde (Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde, 1921–1999), English actor and writer: 1950s Rank matinee idol, star of Victim, The Servant, Death in Venice; twice BAFTA Best Actor, knighted 1992, memoirist and novelist.
Dirk Gently
Dirk Gently, the "holistic detective" created by Douglas Adams, stars in the 1987 novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, its 1988 sequel The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, the unfinished The Salmon of Doubt, BBC Four and BBC America/Netflix TV adaptations, and IDW comics.
Dirk Gently (TV series)
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: 2016-2017 BBC America series created by Max Landis, starring Samuel Barnett and Elijah Wood, a loose adaptation of Douglas Adams's novels, cancelled after two seasons.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is Douglas Adams' 1987 comic novel about a "holistic" detective, real name Svlad Cjelli, who solves a murder, a ghost, and time travel via the fundamental interconnectedness of all things; adapted for radio, BBC Four, BBC America, stage, and IDW comics.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV series)
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016) is a BBC America/Netflix comic sci-fi detective series created by Max Landis, loosely adapting Douglas Adams's novels, starring Samuel Barnett and Elijah Wood; cancelled after two seasons.
Dirk Pitt
Dirk Pitt, hero of Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt Adventures, is a fictional NUMA marine adventurer first published in The Mediterranean Caper (1973); Pacific Vortex! was written first, and the series spans 28 novels with film adaptations of Raise the Titanic! and Sahara.
Dirk Verbeuren
Dirk Verbeuren, born 1975 in Antwerp, is the Belgian drummer of Megadeth (since 2016, replacing Chris Adler) and formerly of Soilwork (2004-2016); founder of Bent Sea, Scarve drummer, session player, and creator of Toontrack's Library of the Extreme.
Dirndl
Dirndl: fitted Alpine folk dress of bodice, skirt, blouse, and apron from Bavarian and Austrian maids' workwear, adopted by urban elites around 1900, now festive dress at the Oktoberfest.
Dirt (Alice in Chains album)
Dirt is Alice in Chains' second studio album, released September 29, 1992 on Columbia Records, produced by Dave Jerden, known for Rooster, Would?, its bleak addiction themes, and six-track layered guitar sound.
Dirty Blonde (album)
DIRTY BLONDE is Bebe Rexha's fourth studio album, released June 12, 2026 on EMPIRE as her first independent release after leaving Warner; a 13-song, 33-minute dance-pop visual album sampling Da Hool and Faithless.
Dirty Business (TV series)
Dirty Business is a 2026 three-part Channel 4 docudrama by Joseph Bullman, starring David Thewlis and Jason Watkins as real sewage campaigners Ashley Smith and Peter Hammond of WASP, covering the Heather Preen death and England's water company sewage scandal.
Dirty Cash (Money Talks)
"Dirty Cash (Money Talks)" is a 1989 hip-house song by The Adventures of Stevie V, written by Steve Vincent and Mick Walsh with vocals by Melody Washington; it failed on first release, hit UK No. 2 in 1990, and recharted in 2024 via a PAWSA remix.
Dirty Computer
Dirty Computer, Janelle Monáe's 2018 Atlantic R&B album, released with a queer Afrofuturist 'emotion picture' film; Prince-influenced funk-pop, Grammy Album of the Year nominee, guests Brian Wilson and Grimes.
Dirty Dancing
Dirty Dancing (1987), Emile Ardolino's romance starring Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze, written by Eleanor Bergstein; a $6 million Vestron film that grossed $214.6 million worldwide, topped 1988 video rentals, and joined the National Film Registry in 2024.
Dirty Dancing (2017 film)
Dirty Dancing (2017) is an ABC television film remake of the 1987 movie, directed by Wayne Blair, starring Abigail Breslin and Colt Prattes; it drew 6.6 million viewers but scored 39 on Metacritic and 19% on Rotten Tomatoes.