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The King of Kong

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is Seth Gordon's 2007 documentary on Steve Wiebe's challenge to Billy Mitchell's Donkey Kong world record via Twin Galaxies; acclaimed (97% RT, Metacritic 83), later entangled in Mitchell's 2018 score-stripping dispute.

The King of Limbs

The King of Limbs is Radiohead's eighth studio album, self-released 18 February 2011 on Ticker Tape/XL and produced by Nigel Godrich. Eight tracks, 37 minutes, named for a Savernake Forest oak, sold as a "newspaper album" and performed on From the Basement.

The King of Pigs (돼지의 왕)

The King of Pigs (돼지의 왕) is a 2022 TVING original Korean crime-thriller drama, 12 episodes, remaking Yeon Sang-ho's 2011 animated film; directed by Kim Dae-jin, written by Tak Jae-young, starring Kim Dong-wook, Kim Sung-kyu, and Chae Jung-An.

The King of Queens

The King of Queens is a CBS sitcom (1998–2007), created by David Litt and Michael J. Weithorn, starring Kevin James, Leah Remini, and Jerry Stiller as a working-class Queens family; 207 episodes, modest reviews, strong syndication.

The King of Staten Island

The King of Staten Island is a 2020 comedy-drama directed by Judd Apatow, co-written with Pete Davidson and Dave Sirus, loosely based on Davidson's life; released digitally June 12, 2020, 137 minutes, Metascore 67.

The King: Eternal Monarch (더 킹: 영원의 군주)

The King: Eternal Monarch (더 킹: 영원의 군주) is a 2020 SBS/Netflix 16-episode Korean fantasy romance by Kim Eun-sook starring Lee Min-ho and Kim Go-eun, set between parallel Koreas linked by the Manpasikjeok flute.

The King's Affection (연모)

The King's Affection (연모, Yeonmo) is a 2021 KBS2 20-episode Korean period romance drama adapted from Lee So-young's manhwa, starring Park Eun-bin as a girl who rules Joseon disguised as her dead twin brother; it won the first International Emmy for a Korean drama.

The King's Avatar (全职高手 (网络剧))

The King's Avatar (全职高手) is a 2019 Chinese 40-episode esports web drama adapted from Butterfly Blue's novel, starring Yang Yang and Jiang Shuying, premiered July 24, 2019 on Tencent Video and the first Chinese drama to use virtual engine real-time shooting.

The King's Avatar (全职高手) (2017 web series)

The King's Avatar (全职高手), 2017 Chinese animated web series adapted from Hu Die Lan's esports novel, premiered April 7, 2017 on Tencent Video; produced by Penguin Pictures, Yuewen Group, Dongshen Pictures, and Bilibili; distinct from the 2019 live-action drama.

The King's Case Note (임금님의 사건수첩)

The King's Case Note (임금님의 사건수첩) is a 2017 South Korean comedy-adventure film by Moon Hyun-sung, adapted from Heo Yoon-mi's webtoon, starring Lee Sun-kyun as investigating King Yejong and Ahn Jae-hong; it earned 1,635,003 admissions.

The King's Daughter (2022 film)

The King's Daughter (2022), directed by Sean McNamara, is a fantasy film based on Vonda N. McIntyre's novel The Moon and the Sun, starring Pierce Brosnan as Louis XIV. Shot in 2014, shelved until Gravitas Ventures released it in 2022 to $2.2 million worldwide.

The King's Man

The King's Man is a 2021 action spy film directed by Matthew Vaughn, a prequel telling the origin of the fictional Kingsman intelligence agency during World War I.

The King's Mirror

The King's Mirror (Old Norse Konungs skuggsjá, Latin Speculum regale) is a Norwegian didactic treatise of the mid-1200s, written as a dialogue teaching commerce, court life, and kingship.

The King's School, Canterbury

The King's School, Canterbury is a coeducational Church of England day and boarding independent school for ages 13-19 in Canterbury Cathedral's precincts, traced to 597 and chartered by Henry VIII in 1541, with Junior King's (1879) and an International College (2018).

The King's School, Parramatta

The King's School, Parramatta, founded 1831 under King William IV, is Australia's oldest independent Anglican boys' day and boarding school, now in North Parramatta with about 2,150 students and a Moss Vale campus, Tudor House.

The King's Singers

The King's Singers: British a cappella sextet founded 1 May 1968 by choral scholars of King's College, Cambridge; two countertenors, tenor, two baritones, bass; 150+ recordings, two Grammys, 300+ commissions.

The King's Speech

The King's Speech (2010) is Tom Hooper's historical drama starring Colin Firth as stammering King George VI and Geoffrey Rush as therapist Lionel Logue; it won four Oscars from twelve nominations and grossed $424 million.

The King's Two Bodies

The King's Two Bodies (1957), Ernst Kantorowicz's study of medieval political theology, distinguishes the king's mortal body natural from his immortal body politic, tracing the Elizabethan legal fiction through Plowden, Shakespeare's Richard II, and the origins of the modern state.

The King's Warden (왕과 산다는 남자)

The King's Warden (왕과 산다는 남자) is a 2026 South Korean historical drama directed by Jang Hang-jun. It is set in 1457 during the exile of King Danjong.

The King's Woman (秦时丽人明月心)

The King's Woman (秦时丽人明月心, also 丽姬传) is a 2017 48-episode Chinese historical romance drama adapted from Wen Shiren's The Legend of Qin: Li Ji Story, starring Dilraba Dilmurat and Vin Zhang, aired on Zhejiang TV and Youku.

The Kingdom (2024 Philippine film)

The Kingdom is a 2024 Filipino alternate-history drama directed by Michael Tuviera, starring Vic Sotto, Piolo Pascual, Sid Lucero, Cristine Reyes, and Sue Ramirez. It imagines an uncolonized Philippines as the Kingdom of Kalayaan and won 2nd Best Picture at the 50th Metro Manila Film Festival.

The Kingdom (miniseries)

The Kingdom (Riget) is Lars von Trier's Danish supernatural hospital series set at Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, airing 1994, 1997, and 2022 (Riget Exodus), 13 episodes total, remade by Stephen King as Kingdom Hospital.

The Kingdom (المملكة) (2007 film)

The Kingdom (المملكة) is a 2007 Peter Berg action thriller, written by Matthew Michael Carnahan and produced by Michael Mann, in which FBI agents led by Jamie Foxx investigate a terrorist bombing at a Riyadh compound; mixed reviews, 51% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Kingdom of God Is Within You (Царство Божие внутри вас)

Tolstoy's 1894 treatise Царство Божие внутри вас, banned in Russia, arguing Christian non-resistance to evil by violence; the book that overwhelmed Gandhi and shaped Satyagraha.

The Kingdom of This World

The Kingdom of This World is a 1949 novel by the Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier that narrates the Haitian Revolution and the reign of Henri Christophe.

The Kingdoms of Ruin

The Kingdoms of Ruin (Hametsu no Ōkoku, はめつのおうこく) is yoruhashi's dark fantasy manga serialized in Monthly Comic Garden from April 2019 to 2026, about Adonis's revenge after the Redia Empire's Gear Expansion witch hunts; adapted as a 12-episode 2023 anime by Yokohama Animation Lab.

The Kingis Quair

The Kingis Quair, meaning "the King's Book," is a 1,379-line dream-vision poem in a Scottish dialect of Middle English, attributed to James I of Scotland.

The Kingkiller Chronicle

The Kingkiller Chronicle is a planned fantasy trilogy by Patrick Rothfuss, detailing the life story of Kvothe, a magician and notorious figure. Two volumes have been published.

The Kings of Summer

The Kings of Summer is a 2013 American coming-of-age comedy-drama, the feature debut of director Jordan Vogt-Roberts and writer Chris Galletta, starring Nick Robinson, Gabriel Basso, and Moisés Arias as teens who build a house in the woods; Sundance premiere, CBS Films release, $1.3 million US gross.

The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga

The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga is a 2024 three-part Netflix docuseries by Chapman and Maclain Way about Elvis impersonator Paul Kevin Curtis, his 2013 ricin-letter arrest, and rival James Everett Dutschke.