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The Wallflowers
The Wallflowers (ザ・ウォールフラワーズ) are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1991, fronted by Jakob Dylan. Their 1996 album Bringing Down the Horse sold 4.2 million US copies and won two Grammys for "One Headlight"; latest album Exit Wounds (2021).
The Walrus and the Carpenter
Lewis Carroll's 1871 nonsense ballad from Through the Looking-Glass, chapter 4, recited by Tweedledee: a walrus and carpenter lure and eat young oysters; 18 stanzas, ABCBDB meter.
The Walsh Sisters
The Walsh Sisters: RTÉ-commissioned Irish comedy-drama adapting Marian Keyes's Walsh family novels (Rachel's Holiday, Anybody Out There), produced with the BBC, premiering 28 September 2025, second series commissioned.
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company (Disney), founded October 16, 1923 as Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio by Walt and Roy Disney, is a Burbank, California-based media conglomerate with Entertainment, Sports, and Experiences segments, $94.4 billion FY2025 revenue, and CEO Josh D'Amaro since March 2026.
The Waltons
The Waltons: American CBS historical drama (1972–1981, 9 seasons, 221 episodes) created by Earl Hamner Jr. from Spencer's Mountain, following a rural Virginia family through the Depression and World War II; known for The Homecoming pilot, 13 Emmys, and six TV movie sequels.
The Wanderer (Dion song)
The Wanderer: 1961 rock and roll song by Dion, written by Ernie Maresca, released on Laurie 3115 with The Majestic; peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 10 in the UK, Grammy Hall of Fame 2017.
The Wanderer (Old English poem)
The Wanderer: an anonymous 115-line Old English elegy surviving only in the tenth-century Exeter Book. Its exiled eardstapa mourns a lost lord and mead-hall; its ubi sunt passage laments vanished heroic joys.
The Wanderers (1979 film)
The Wanderers (1979), Philip Kaufman's comedy-drama adapted from Richard Price's novel, follows an Italian-American Bronx gang in 1963; Ken Wahl, Karen Allen, Orion Pictures, cult classic.
The Wandering Earth (流浪地球)
The Wandering Earth (流浪地球) is a 2019 Chinese sci-fi film directed by Frant Gwo, adapted from Liu Cixin's novella, about engines pushing Earth out of orbit; it grossed about $700 million, mostly in China.
The Wandering Earth 2 (流浪地球2)
The Wandering Earth 2 (流浪地球2) is a 2023 Chinese science fiction film directed by Frant Gwo and a prequel to The Wandering Earth, starring Wu Jing and Andy Lau.
The Wandering Inn
The Wandering Inn is an ongoing LitRPG fantasy web serial by pseudonymous author pirateaba, begun July 2016. Erin Solstice becomes an [Innkeeper] in a leveled fantasy world; 16+ million words, ten volumes, HarperCollins print edition 2026.
The Wandering Islands
The Wandering Islands is a 1955 poetry collection, the first book of verse by the Australian poet A. D. Hope, published in Sydney and winner of the Grace Leven Prize.
The Wandering Swordsman (游侠儿)
The Wandering Swordsman (游侠儿, You xia er) is a 1970 Shaw Brothers martial arts film directed by Chang Cheh, written by Ni Kuang, and starring David Chiang in his first lead role as a Robin Hood-style swordsman duped into robbery.
The Wanted
The Wanted: British-Irish boy band formed in London in 2009 (Max George, Siva Kaneswaran, Jay McGuiness, Tom Parker, Nathan Sykes); two UK number-one singles (All Time Low, Glad You Came), 10 UK Top 10 singles, 2014 hiatus, 2021 reunion, Parker died 2022, The Wanted 2.0 duo since 2024.
The Wanted Man (TV series)
The Wanted Man is an upcoming eight-episode Apple TV British crime drama created by George Kay (Hijack, Lupin), starring Hugh Laurie as crime boss Felix Carmichael, betrayed and imprisoned in Staplehurst prison, premiering January 6, 2027.
The War and Treaty
The War and Treaty: Nashville husband-and-wife duo Michael Trotter Jr. and Tanya Blount Trotter (formed 2014, formerly Trotter & Blount), blending country, soul, gospel, and R&B; Grammy-nominated for "Blank Page," Americana Duo/Group of the Year 2022.
The War at Home (TV series)
The War at Home is a Fox family sitcom (2005–2007, 44 episodes, 2 seasons) created by Rob Lotterstein, starring Michael Rapaport and Anita Barone as Dave and Vicky Gold, Long Island parents of three teens, told through fourth-wall rants and confessionals; critically panned but renewed twice.
The War Between the Land and the Sea
The War Between the Land and the Sea is a five-part 2025 British Doctor Who spin-off miniseries by Russell T Davies and Pete McTighe, in which the Sea Devils (Homo Aqua) reveal themselves to humanity and UNIT negotiates, starring Russell Tovey and Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop
The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop is a 1986 book publishing the secret diaries Australian surgeon Edward "Weary" Dunlop kept as a Japanese prisoner of war on the Burma-Thailand Railway.
The War Game
The War Game: 1965 BBC docudrama by Peter Watkins depicting a nuclear attack on Kent. Withdrawn as 'too horrifying', released in cinemas 1966, won the 1967 documentary Oscar, first televised 31 July 1985.
The War Games
The War Games is a ten-episode 1969 Doctor Who serial (production code ZZ, story 50) by Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke, Patrick Troughton's final story as the Second Doctor, which introduced the Time Lords and ended with the Doctor's exile to Earth.
The War Lord
The War Lord (1965) is a Franklin J. Schaffner medieval drama starring Charlton Heston as Norman knight Chrysagon, adapted from Leslie Stevens's play The Lovers, in which the droit du seigneur custom triggers a siege; 123 minutes, Universal, 67% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The War Machines
The War Machines is a 1966 four-episode Doctor Who serial (Season 3, production code BB) in which the First Doctor defeats WOTAN, a sentient supercomputer at the Post Office Tower, and its War Machines; the first fully contemporary-set story, introducing Ben and Polly and writing out Dodo.
The War of Greedy Witches
The War of Greedy Witches (Majo Taisen: 32-nin no Isai no Majo wa Koroshiau, 魔女大戦) is a seinen manga by Homura Kawamoto and Makoto Shiozuka, serialized in Monthly Comic Zenon since 2020, about 32 historical witches fighting a Walpurgis death tournament.
The War of the End of the World
The War of the End of the World (La guerra del fin del mundo) is a 1981 historical novel by Mario Vargas Llosa about the War of Canudos in Brazil.
The War of the Roses (film)
The War of the Roses is a 1989 American black comedy film directed by Danny DeVito, starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner as a divorcing couple.
The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells's 1898 alien-invasion novel (serialized 1897 in Pearson's Magazine), depicts Martians destroying England until microbes kill them; an anti-imperialist classic behind the 1938 Welles broadcast, 1953 and 2005 films, and Jeff Wayne's musical.
The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama)
The War of the Worlds broadcast (Mercury Theatre on the Air, CBS, October 30, 1938): Orson Welles and Howard Koch's news-bulletin adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel, its audience, the disputed panic, FCC inquiry, and path to Citizen Kane.
The War of the Worlds (1953 film)
The War of the Worlds (1953) is a Paramount science fiction film directed by Byron Haskin and produced by George Pal, adapting H. G. Wells's 1898 novel to Cold War-era California with Gene Barry and Ann Robinson; it won the Oscar for Best Special Effects.
The War of the Worlds (British TV series)
The War of the Worlds (British TV series): 2019 BBC One three-part miniseries adapting H.G. Wells's novel in its original Edwardian setting, written by Peter Harness, directed by Craig Viveiros, starring Rafe Spall and Eleanor Tomlinson; distinct from the 2019 Fox/Canal+ contemporary series.