519,064 articles
The Whole Nine Yards (film)
The Whole Nine Yards is a 2000 American crime comedy directed by Jonathan Lynn, starring Bruce Willis as hit man Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski alongside Matthew Perry.
The Whole of the Moon
The Whole of the Moon: 1985 Waterboys single from This Is the Sea, written by Mike Scott on a dare in Manhattan, UK No. 26 in 1985 and No. 3 on 1991 re-release.
The Whole Ten Yards
The Whole Ten Yards is a 2004 American crime comedy film directed by Howard Deutch and starring Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry, a sequel to The Whole Nine Yards.
The Whole Truth (2016 film)
The Whole Truth (2016) is an American courtroom thriller directed by Courtney Hunt, starring Keanu Reeves, Renée Zellweger, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Gabriel Basso, and Jim Belushi; a defense attorney defends a silent teen accused of murdering his father. Critically panned (35% Tomatometer), limited release.
The Wicked + The Divine
The Wicked + The Divine (WicDiv) is a creator-owned Image Comics series by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, running 45 issues from June 2014 to September 2019, about twelve gods who reincarnate as pop stars every ninety years and die within two years.
The Wicked Game (เกม รัก ลวง)
The Wicked Game (เกม รัก ลวง, Game Rak Luang) is a 2025 Thai BL series by One31, 10 episodes, starring Daou Pittaya as bodyguard Than and Offroad Kantapon as vengeful heir Pheem; distinct from the 2024 Netflix drama เล่ห์ร้ายเกมลวง.
The Wicked Lady
The Wicked Lady is a 1945 Gainsborough Pictures costume melodrama directed by Leslie Arliss, starring Margaret Lockwood as a bored noblewoman turned highwaywoman alongside James Mason; Britain's top-grossing film of its year, remade by Michael Winner in 1983 with Faye Dunaway.
The Wicker Man
The Wicker Man (1973) is Robin Hardy's British folk horror film, scripted by Anthony Shaffer, starring Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee, about a Christian policeman sacrificed on the pagan island Summerisle; famously cut from 99 to 87 minutes and later restored.
The Wicker Man (2006 film)
The Wicker Man is a 2006 American horror film directed by Neil LaBute, starring Nicolas Cage as a policeman investigating a girl's disappearance on a neo-pagan island.
The Wide Window
The Wide Window (2000) is the third book in Lemony Snicket's (Daniel Handler's) A Series of Unfortunate Events, placing the Baudelaire orphans with Aunt Josephine on Lake Lachrymose while Count Olaf, disguised as Captain Sham, schemes to steal their fortune.
The wider area of Mount Olympus
The wider area of Mount Olympus, Greece, a serial UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed in 2026 under criteria (vi) and (x), combining the mythical abode of the Twelve Olympian Gods with the Dion archaeological site and a Mediterranean plant endemism hotspot.
The Widow (TV series)
The Widow is a 2019 eight-part British thriller drama written by Harry and Jack Williams for ITV and Amazon Prime Video, starring Kate Beckinsale as Georgia Wells, a widow who spots her supposedly dead husband in Congolese news footage and travels to Kinshasa to find him.
The Wife (2017 film)
The Wife (2017) is a drama directed by Björn Runge, adapted by Jane Anderson from Meg Wolitzer's 2003 novel, starring Glenn Close as Joan Castleman, wife of a Nobel-winning novelist (Jonathan Pryce). Premiered at TIFF 2017; released 2018 by Sony Pictures Classics; Close earned an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe win.
The Wife of Bath's Tale
The Wife of Bath's Tale is Chaucer's Arthurian romance in the Canterbury Tales (from 1387), combining the loathly lady motif with the question of what women most desire: sovereignty over husbands. Closely tied to Gower's Tale of Florent, the 1382 Statute of Rapes debate, and a long adaptation history.
The Wife's Lament
The Wife's Lament is a 53-line Old English poem in which a woman mourns exile from her husband, surviving only in the tenth-century Exeter Book.
The Wiggles
The Wiggles are an Australian children's music group formed in Sydney in 1991 by Anthony Field, Murray Cook, Greg Page, Jeff Fatt, and Phillip Wilcher, built on early childhood education principles, with over 30 million albums sold, 15 ARIA Awards for Best Children's Album, and an eight-member current lineup.
The Wild
The Wild is a 2006 American-Canadian computer-animated comedy directed by Steve Williams, in which New York zoo animals rescue a lion cub shipped to Africa.
The Wild and the Willing
The Wild and the Willing, also released as Young and Willing, is Ralph Thomas's 1962 British university drama starring Virginia Maskell, Paul Rogers, Ian McShane, Samantha Eggar, and John Hurt, the last three in film debuts.
The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia
2009 documentary by Julien Nitzberg, produced by Johnny Knoxville and Jeff Tremaine (Dickhouse/MTV), following Jesco White's notorious Boone County, West Virginia family over a year; distributed by Tribeca Film.
The Wild Bunch
The Wild Bunch (1969) is Sam Peckinpah's revisionist Western, also called Grupo Salvaje, about aging outlaws led by William Holden's Pike Bishop fleeing into Mexico in 1913, famous for slow-motion multi-camera violence and repeated censorship cuts.
The Wild City
Wild City is an Indian music discovery platform and online magazine founded in 2011 by Munbir and Sarah Chawla, now a studio spanning events, consulting, and cultural programming.
The Wild Duck
The Wild Duck (Vildanden), Ibsen's 1884 five-act tragicomedy, published 11 November 1884, premiered Bergen 9 January 1885; Hjalmar Ekdal's household destroyed by Gregers Werle's truth-telling, ending in Hedvig's suicide.
The Wild Geese
The Wild Geese is a 1978 British action film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, starring Richard Burton, Roger Moore, and Richard Harris as mercenaries hired to rescue a deposed African president, based on Daniel Carney's novel and advisor Mad Mike Hoare, re-released in 4K in 2025.
The Wild Goose
The Wild Goose (Gan) is a 1915 novel by Mori Ōgai about Otama, a moneylender's mistress in Tokyo around 1880 who quietly loves a medical student.
The Wild Goose Lake
The Wild Goose Lake (南方车站的聚会) is Diao Yinan's 2019 Chinese-French neo-noir crime film set in Wuhan, starring Hu Ge as a fugitive gang boss. Premiered in Cannes 2019 main competition; released in China December 6, 2019.
The Wild Iris
The Wild Iris is a 1992 poetry collection by Louise Glück in which a gardener, a god, and garden flowers speak over one summer; it won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize.
The wild nineties (лихие девяностые)
Лихие девяностые (the wild nineties), the pejorative Russian label for the post-Soviet 1990s: hyperinflation, 1992-94 mass privatization, the 1993 constitutional crisis, the 1998 default, and its use in Kremlin memory politics.
The Wild One
The Wild One (1953) is László Benedek's outlaw biker drama starring Marlon Brando as Johnny Strabler, based on Frank Rooney's Harper's story about the 1947 Hollister, California motorcycle incident, banned for years in the UK.
The Wild Robot
The Wild Robot is a 2024 DreamWorks Animation film directed by Chris Sanders, adapted from Peter Brown's novel about a shipwrecked robot who adopts an orphaned gosling.
The Wild Robot (book series)
The Wild Robot is Peter Brown's middle-grade series (2016, 2018, 2023) about ROZZUM unit 7134, a shipwrecked robot who survives on a wild island by learning from animals and raising the gosling Brightbill; adapted into a 2024 DreamWorks film.