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The Making of the English Landscape

The Making of the English Landscape is a 1955 book by William George Hoskins that traces how human activity shaped fields, roads, and villages, founding landscape history.

The Making of the English Working Class

The Making of the English Working Class is a 1963 work of social history by E. P. Thompson tracing how English workers formed a class between 1780 and 1832.

The Making of the President, 1960

The Making of the President, 1960 is a 1961 book by journalist Theodore H. White recounting the Kennedy–Nixon campaign; it won the first Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.

The Makioka Sisters

The Makioka Sisters (Sasameyuki, 細雪) is a long novel by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, serialized from 1943 to 1948, portraying four Osaka sisters on the eve of World War II.

The Makropulos Affair

The Makropulos Affair (Věc Makropulos) is a 1922 comedy by Czech writer Karel Čapek about a woman kept alive for centuries who chooses to die.

The Mall, London

The Mall, London: ceremonial road from Trafalgar Square via Admiralty Arch to Buckingham Palace, 0.93 km, red iron-oxide-pigmented tarmac since the 1950s; hosts royal processions, Changing the Guard, the London Marathon finish and 2012 Olympic road events.

The Mallorca Files

The Mallorca Files is a 2019 BBC/ZDF buddy-cop crime drama created by Dan Sefton, starring Elen Rhys and Julian Looman as British and German detectives on Mallorca; three seasons (2019–2024), Season 3 on Prime Video.

The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)

The Maltese Falcon (1941), John Huston's directorial debut for Warner Bros., adapts Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel; Humphrey Bogart's Sam Spade hunts a jeweled statuette in a foundational film noir.

The Maltese Falcon (novel)

The Maltese Falcon is Dashiell Hammett's 1930 detective novel introducing Sam Spade, serialized in Black Mask from September 1929, published by Knopf in February 1930, and filmed three times, most famously by John Huston in 1941.

The Mamas & the Papas

The Mamas & the Papas, American folk-rock vocal quartet (John and Michelle Phillips, Cass Elliot, Denny Doherty) formed 1965 in Los Angeles; hits "California Dreamin'" and "Monday, Monday"; Monterey Pop organizers; Rock Hall 1998.

The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

The Mamba Mentality: How I Play is Kobe Bryant's 2018 first book (MCD/FSG, 208 pp., photos by Andrew D. Bernstein, intro by Phil Jackson, foreword by Pau Gasol), explaining his preparation, technique, and the Mamba Mentality philosophy distinct from later Mamba-branded shoes.

The Man

The Man is American slang first recorded in 1918 for a boss figure, which later became a term for the establishment and is now used to praise individuals.

The Man (Taylor Swift song)

"The Man" is a 2019 Taylor Swift song from Lover, co-written with Joel Little, about gender double standards; its self-directed February 2020 music video featured her prosthetic male alter ego voiced by Dwayne Johnson and won the VMA for Best Direction.

The Man Called Flintstone

The Man Called Flintstone (1966) is Hanna-Barbera's animated spy-spoof feature, also called a Flintstones theatrical film, in which Fred Flintstone doubles for injured agent Rock Slag against Green Goose in Paris and Rome; directed by Hanna and Barbera, released August 3, 1966 by Columbia.

The Man Died: Prison Notes

The Man Died: Prison Notes is a 1972 memoir by Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka recounting his solitary confinement as an uncharged political prisoner during the Nigerian Civil War.

The Man from Another Place

The Man from Another Place is the red-suited dwarf figure of Twin Peaks' Red Room, played by Michael J. Anderson, who speaks backward-recorded dialogue and identifies himself in Fire Walk with Me as MIKE's severed arm.

The Man from Boulevard des Capucines

The Man from Boulevard des Capucines (Человек с бульвара Капуцинов) is a 1987 Soviet comedy western musical by Alla Surikova, in which Johnny First brings the cinematograph to the Wild West; the top Soviet box-office film of 1987 and Andrey Mironov's final lead role.

The Man from Colorado

The Man from Colorado is a 1948 Columbia Western directed by Henry Levin, starring Glenn Ford as a psychologically damaged Civil War veteran turned corrupt judge and William Holden as his marshal friend; a late-1940s noir western.

The Man from Earth

The Man from Earth (2007), Jerome Bixby's final screenplay directed by Richard Schenkman, follows immortal professor John Oldman; a $200,000 dialogue-only sci-fi that became a cult classic through BitTorrent piracy.

The Man from Earth: Holocene

The Man from Earth: Holocene (2017) is Richard Schenkman's sequel to The Man from Earth, co-written with Emerson Bixby, following 14,000-year-old John Oldman as he begins aging while four students uncover his secret; funded via Kickstarter and self-released on file-sharing sites.

The Man from Ironbark

"The Man from Ironbark" is a comic bush ballad by the Australian poet Banjo Paterson, first published in The Bulletin in December 1892. It tells of a Sydney barber's cruel hoax.

The Man from Laramie

The Man from Laramie (1955) is Anthony Mann's final Western with James Stewart, the only one in CinemaScope. Stewart plays Will Lockhart, hunting the rifle seller behind his brother's death; Philip Yordan and Frank Burt adapted Thomas T. Flynn's Saturday Evening Post story.

The Man from Nowhere (아저씨) (2010 film)

The Man from Nowhere (아저씨) is a 2010 South Korean action thriller directed by Lee Jeong-beom, starring Won Bin as an ex-agent rescuing a kidnapped girl.

The Man from Snowy River (1982 film)

The Man from Snowy River (1982), George Miller's Australian Western based on Banjo Paterson's 1890 poem, stars Tom Burlinson, Sigrid Thornton, and Kirk Douglas in a dual role; a major hit and AFI-awarded score.

The Man from Toronto (2022 film)

The Man from Toronto is a 2022 Netflix action comedy directed by Patrick Hughes, starring Kevin Hart, Woody Harrelson (replacing Jason Statham), and Kaley Cuoco, about a mistaken-identity pairing of an entrepreneur with an assassin, released June 24, 2022.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E., NBC spy-adventure series 1964-1968 created by Norman Felton and Sam Rolfe with Ian Fleming's input, starring Robert Vaughn as Napoleon Solo and David McCallum as Soviet agent Illya Kuryakin of U.N.C.L.E. versus THRUSH; 105 episodes, Girl from U.N.C.L.E. spinoff, 1983 TV movie, 2015 Guy Ritchie film.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (film)

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) is Guy Ritchie's Warner Bros. spy action-comedy reboot of the 1964–68 NBC series, starring Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, and Alicia Vikander as Cold War agents; it earned about $110 million worldwide and produced no sequel.

The Man I Love (2026 film)

The Man I Love is a 2026 Ira Sachs drama, written with Mauricio Zacharias, starring Rami Malek as AIDS-stricken New York performer Jimmy George; it competed at Cannes 2026 and holds 93% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Man in a Case

The Man in a Case (Человек в футляре) is an 1898 Anton Chekhov short story, first of the Little Trilogy, about Belikov, a teacher who hides from life behind rules.

The Man in My Basement

The Man in My Basement (2025) is Nadia Latif's feature debut, a psychological thriller adapted from Walter Mosley's 2004 novel, starring Corey Hawkins and Willem Dafoe; released via TIFF, limited theaters, Hulu, and Disney+.