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The Nanny Diaries (film)

The Nanny Diaries is a 2007 American comedy film directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, starring Scarlett Johansson as a nanny to a wealthy Manhattan couple.

The Narmada Story

The Narmada Story (थे नर्मदा स्टोरी) is a 2026 Hindi crime thriller directed by Zaigham Imam, released 12 June 2026, starring real-life police officer Simala Prasad and Ashwini Kalsekar in a Madhya Pradesh trafficking drama.

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

Poe's only complete novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Harper & Brothers, July 1838), a nautical adventure of mutiny, cannibalism, and an abrupt Antarctic ending, partly drawn from Morrell's voyages.

The Narrator (Fight Club)

The Narrator is the unnamed protagonist of Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 novel Fight Club and David Fincher's 1999 film, played by Edward Norton. An insomniac recall coordinator, he unknowingly creates Tyler Durden, making him cinema's defining unreliable narrator.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North (miniseries)

The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2025) is a five-part Australian Prime Video/BBC miniseries by Justin Kurzel and Shaun Grant, adapting Richard Flanagan's Booker-winning novel about surgeon Dorrigo Evans (Jacob Elordi, Ciarán Hinds), a WWII POW on the Thai-Burma Railway.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North (novel)

The Narrow Road to the Deep North is Richard Flanagan's 2013 sixth novel, winner of the 2014 Man Booker Prize, about Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans, his affair with Amy Mulvaney, and POW labor on the Thai-Burma Death Railway; adapted as a 2025 miniseries.

The Narrows

The Narrows is the 8 km tidal channel linking Strangford Lough, County Down, to the Irish Sea, with currents up to 8 knots, a centuries-old Strangford–Portaferry ferry, and the SeaGen tidal turbine; the name also applies to narrows in Zion Canyon, New York Harbor, and Puget Sound.

The Narrows (Zion National Park)

The Narrows is the narrowest section of Zion Canyon, Utah, a Virgin River gorge with 1,000-foot walls 20–30 feet apart. Hiked bottom-up from Temple of Sinawava without a permit or top-down 16 miles with one; closed above 150 CFS.

The Nashville Network

The Nashville Network (TNN), also The National Network and The New TNN, was a country music and lifestyle cable channel launched March 7, 1983, sold to Westinghouse/CBS for $1.55 billion in 1997, later Spike TV and Paramount Network.

The Nasty Boys

The Nasty Boys, Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags, a brawling professional wrestling tag team of the 1980s and 1990s; WWF Tag Team Champions at WrestleMania VII and three-time WCW World Tag Team Champions, inducted in the WWE Hall of Fame 2026 class.

The Nation

The Nation is America's oldest weekly magazine, founded by abolitionists in New York on July 6, 1865 under founding editor E.L. Godkin; a nonprofit, reader-supported progressive journal of politics and culture.

The National (band)

The National is an American indie rock band formed in Brooklyn in 1999 by musicians from Cincinnati, led by Matt Berninger and known for albums like Alligator and High Violet.

The National Anthem (Black Mirror)

The National Anthem is the 2011 debut episode of Black Mirror, written by Charlie Brooker, directed by Otto Bathurst, in which a PM (Rory Kinnear) is blackmailed into bestiality on live TV to save a kidnapped princess.

The National Archives (United Kingdom)

The National Archives (TNA) at Kew, London, is the UK government's official archive and publisher for the UK and England and Wales, a non-ministerial department holding over 11 million records under the Public Records Act 1958.

The National Health

The National Health, or Nurse Norton's Affair, is a 1973 Jack Gold film adapted by Peter Nichols from his 1969 National Theatre play, satirizing the NHS by contrasting a rundown London hospital with the soap opera Nurse Norton's Affair, starring Lynn Redgrave and Jim Dale.

The national herbarium

The National Herbarium of Ethiopia (ETH), founded 1959 by H. F. Mooney at Addis Ababa University, holds about 100,000 specimens and anchored the Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea project.

The National Martyrs

The National Martyrs (Guo Shang) is an eighteen-line Chu Ci poem attributed to Qu Yuan, mourning the soldiers of Chu who died in battle against Qin.

The National WWII Museum

The National WWII Museum, formerly the National D-Day Museum (2000), is New Orleans's congressionally designated WWII museum on a six-acre campus with six pavilions, 250,000+ artifacts, the Higgins-boat connection, and a $300M Victory's Promise expansion campaign.

The Native

The Native is a Nigerian youth culture and music magazine based in Lagos and London, founded in 2016, that also runs the NATIVELAND festival and NATIVE Records.

The Native Tribes of Central Australia

The Native Tribes of Central Australia is an 1899 ethnographic study of Aboriginal peoples by Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen, a founding document of Australian anthropology.

The Nativity Story

The Nativity Story (2006) is a New Line Cinema drama directed by Catherine Hardwicke, written by Mike Rich, starring Keisha Castle-Hughes and Oscar Isaac; first film to premiere at the Vatican, grossing $37.6 million in the US.

The Natural

The Natural is Bernard Malamud's 1952 first novel about baseball prodigy Roy Hobbs, blending Arthurian myth and baseball history, inspired by the Eddie Waitkus shooting, and ending in failure; the 1984 Robert Redford film gives it a happy ending.

The Natural (film)

The Natural (1984), Barry Levinson's adaptation of Bernard Malamud's 1952 novel, stars Robert Redford as Roy Hobbs, a shot ballplayer who returns to lead the New York Knights; four Oscar nominations.

The Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy (TNC), founded 1951 in the U.S., is a global environmental nonprofit conserving lands and waters in 86 countries and territories, protecting 125M+ acres, with FY2025 revenue over $2 billion, known for easements, water funds, blue bonds, and past controversies.

The Naught (album)

The Naught is the seventeenth studio album by Insane Clown Posse, released August 12, 2025 on Psychopathic Records; the sixth and final Joker's Card of the second Dark Carnival deck, 17 tracks, horrorcore, produced by Mike E. Clark and others. Distinct from other albums titled Naught.

The Nautilus (journal)

The Nautilus, also called The Conchologists' Exchange, is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal of molluscan biology, ecology, and systematics, established in 1886 and published by the Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum.

The Navajo Night Chant

The Navajo Night Chant, also called the Nightway (Diné: Tł'éé'jí Hatáál), is a nine-day winter healing ceremony of the Navajo people, one of the most elaborate Navajo rites.

The Navigators (film)

The Navigators is Ken Loach's 2001 comedy-drama about South Yorkshire rail workers facing the privatisation of British Rail, scripted by former railwayman Rob Dawber, who died of mesothelioma before completion; it aired on Channel 4 in Britain and won a BAFTA for Best New Writer.

The Navy Album

The Navy Album is Roddy Ricch's third studio album, announced December 2024 with singles Survivor's Remorse and Lonely Road; production by Terrace Martin and Turbo, released via Atlantic and Bird Vision, and repeatedly delayed through 2025.

The Necessary Stage

The Necessary Stage is a Singapore nonprofit theater company founded by Alvin Tan in 1987, led by two Cultural Medallion recipients and known for Off Centre.