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Down (band)
Down (Down NOLA band) is a New Orleans heavy metal supergroup formed in 1991 with members of Pantera, Corrosion of Conformity, Crowbar, and Eyehategod; debut NOLA (1995) went platinum, followed by Down II, Down III, the Down IV EPs, and Volume V (2026).
Down (Into the Dark)
Down (2019) is the fifth Into the Dark installment, Hulu and Blumhouse's monthly horror anthology. Directed by Daniel Stamm, written by Kent Kubena, it stars Natalie Martinez and Matt Lauria as co-workers trapped in an elevator with a stalker over Valentine's Day weekend.
Down a Dark Hall (film)
Down a Dark Hall, 2018 supernatural horror film directed by Rodrigo Cortés, adapted from Lois Duncan's 1974 gothic YA novel; stars AnnaSophia Robb and Uma Thurman as headmistress Madame Duret at the sinister Blackwood boarding school; mixed reviews (46% Rotten Tomatoes).
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Down and Out in Beverly Hills is a 1986 Touchstone comedy directed by Paul Mazursky, a remake of Renoir's Boudu Saved from Drowning, starring Nick Nolte, Bette Midler, and Richard Dreyfuss; Disney's first R-rated film.
Down and Out in Paris and London
Down and Out in Paris and London is George Orwell's first book (1933), his first under that pseudonym, recounting poverty as a Paris plongeur and a London tramp; first published by Gollancz, 9 January 1933.
Down by Law (film)
Down by Law is Jim Jarmusch's 1986 black-and-white indie comedy in which Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Roberto Benigni escape a New Orleans jail and wander the Louisiana bayous, shot by Robby Müller with a John Lurie score.
Down Cemetery Road
Down Cemetery Road is an Apple TV British mystery thriller (2025) adapted from Mick Herron's 2003 debut novel, starring Emma Thompson as PI Zoë Boehm and Ruth Wilson as Sarah Trafford investigating a girl's disappearance after an Oxford house explosion; renewed for season 2.
Down on the Upside
Down on the Upside, Soundgarden's fifth studio album (A&M, May 21, 1996), self-produced with Adam Kasper in Seattle; number two on the Billboard 200, platinum, the band's last album before the 1997 breakup.
Down Periscope
Down Periscope is a 1996 American military comedy directed by David S. Ward, in which Kelsey Grammer commands the outdated submarine USS Stingray in war games against the nuclear fleet.
Down Second Avenue
Down Second Avenue is the 1959 autobiography of South African writer Es'kia (Ezekiel) Mphahlele, recounting his childhood in segregated South Africa; banned for protesting apartheid, it became a founding text of black South African autobiography.
Down to Earth (2001 film)
Down to Earth is a 2001 American comedy-fantasy film directed by Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz, starring Chris Rock as a comedian who dies before his time.
Down to Earth (Ozzy Osbourne album)
Down to Earth is Ozzy Osbourne's eighth studio album, released October 16, 2001 after a six-year gap. Produced by Tim Palmer, with Zakk Wylde, Robert Trujillo, and Mike Bordin; peaked No. 4 on the Billboard 200, RIAA Platinum.
Down to Earth (Rainbow album)
Down To Earth (1979, Polydor) is Rainbow's fourth studio album and the only one with singer Graham Bonnet, alongside Ritchie Blackmore, Cozy Powell, Don Airey, and Roger Glover (bass and producer), whose Russ Ballard cover Since You Been Gone hit UK No.6 and made it the band's best-seller.
Down to Earth with Zac Efron
Down to Earth with Zac Efron is a Netflix travel docuseries (2020–2022) hosted by Zac Efron and wellness expert Darin Olien exploring sustainable living; two seasons, a Daytime Emmy, mixed reviews, and criticism over pseudoscience.
Down to You
Down to You is a 2000 American romantic comedy, also called a teen romance, written and directed by Kris Isacsson, starring Freddie Prinze Jr. and Julia Stiles as college lovers in New York; released by Miramax on January 21, 2000, it grossed $24.4 million but scored 3% on Rotten Tomatoes and 13 on Metacritic.
Down Under (song)
"Down Under" is a 1981 Men at Work song written by Colin Hay and Ron Strykert, a number-one hit in Australia, the UK and US, subject of the 2010 Kookaburra copyright case, and now a billion-stream Australian anthem.
Down with Love
Down with Love (2003) is a Peyton Reed romantic comedy starring Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor, set in 1962 New York and homaging Doris Day–Rock Hudson sex comedies; it flopped at the box office but gained a cult following.
Down with the Sickness
"Down with the Sickness" is a 2000 song by the American heavy metal band Disturbed, from their debut album The Sickness, known for its improvised "ooh-wah-ah-ah-ah" opening vocal.
Down-picking
Down-picking is a guitar technique in which every note of a riff is played with a downstroke for maximum attack, a mainstay of metal and punk rhythm playing.
Downfall (2004 film)
Downfall (Der Untergang) is a 2004 German historical war drama directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, starring Bruno Ganz as Hitler during his final days in the Berlin bunker in 1945.
Downfall (창) (1997 film)
Downfall (창, Chang) is Im Kwon-taek's 1997 South Korean drama about an orphan sold into prostitution, tracing Korea's sex industry from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s; it drew 411,591 Seoul admissions and won Shin Eun-kyung the Blue Dragon Best Actress award.
Downfall of Gaia
Downfall of Gaia is a German blackened crust and post-black metal band formed in 2008 in Hanover, now based partly in New York and signed to Metal Blade Records.
Downhill (1927 film)
Downhill (1927) is a British silent drama directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ivor Novello as schoolboy Roddy Berwick, adapted from the play Down Hill by Novello and Constance Collier, restored by the BFI as one of the Hitchcock 9.
Downhill (2020 film)
Downhill is a 2020 American comedy-drama directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell, and adapted from the Swedish film Force Majeure (2014).
Download Festival
Download Festival is the UK's largest rock and metal festival, held each June at Donington Park, Leicestershire. Founded in 2003 as successor to Monsters of Rock, it has an 80,000 capacity, stages named Apex, Opus, Avalanche, and Dogtooth, and 2026 headliners Limp Bizkit, Guns N' Roses, and Linkin Park.
Downsizing (film)
Downsizing is a 2017 Alexander Payne sci-fi comedy-drama, written with Jim Taylor, starring Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, Christoph Waltz, and Hong Chau, about people shrunk to five inches; Paramount released it December 22, 2017 to a 64 Metascore and $24.4M US gross.
Downstait
Downstait is an American alternative metal and hard rock band best known for writing professional wrestling entrance themes, most famously "Kingdom" (2016), the entrance theme of Cody Rhodes.
Downstate (play)
Downstate is a 2018 Bruce Norris play about four convicted sex offenders in an Illinois group home, premiered at Steppenwolf, later at the National Theatre, Playwrights Horizons (award-winning 2022), and Broadway's Booth Theatre in 2026.
Downtempo
Downtempo: slow-beat electronic music genre (roughly 70-115 BPM, measured median 105) built on relaxed grooves and atmosphere. Related names: chillout, downbeat. Distinguished from darker, vocal-driven trip hop; spread via KLF, Cafe del Mar, and Kruder & Dorfmeister compilations.
Downton Abbey
Downton Abbey: British period drama (2010-2015) by Julian Fellowes, aired on ITV and PBS Masterpiece, following the Crawley family and their servants from 1912; spawned three films (2019, 2022, 2025) and aired in over 100 territories.