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The Windmills of Your Mind

The Windmills of Your Mind (Les Moulins de mon cœur) is a 1968 Michel Legrand song with lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman for The Thomas Crown Affair, sung by Noel Harrison, Oscar-winning in 1969 and covered over 400 times.

The Winds of War (miniseries)

The Winds of War (miniseries): 1983 ABC 18-hour, $40 million adaptation of Herman Wouk's WWII novel, produced and directed by Dan Curtis, starring Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, and Jan-Michael Vincent; averaged a 38.6 rating, second only to Roots, and won 3 Emmys.

The Winds of Winter

The Winds of Winter is the planned sixth, penultimate novel of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, in progress since 2010 after 2011's A Dance with Dragons; unfinished, about 1,100 pages reported, no release date, to be followed by A Dream of Spring.

The Winds of Winter (Game of Thrones)

"The Winds of Winter" is the tenth and final episode of the sixth season of HBO's Game of Thrones, aired in 2016 to wide critical acclaim.

The Windsors

The Windsors is a Channel 4 British comedy soap opera (2016–2023) parodying the royal family, created by Bert Tyler-Moore and George Jeffrie, starring Harry Enfield as Charles, with three series, specials, and a West End stage spinoff.

The Wine Advocate

The Wine Advocate, also Robert Parker Wine Advocate, is a fine-wine review publication founded by Robert Parker Jr. in 1978, known for its 50–100 point scale, peer-group tastings, and measurable influence on Bordeaux en primeur prices.

The Wine of Astonishment

The Wine of Astonishment is a 1982 novel by Trinidadian writer Earl Lovelace about a Spiritual Baptist congregation in Trinidad during a colonial worship ban.

The Winery Dogs

The Winery Dogs are an American hard rock power trio formed in 2013: Richie Kotzen (guitar, vocals), Billy Sheehan (bass), and Mike Portnoy (drums). Albums: The Winery Dogs (2013), Hot Streak (2015), III (2023); also the Dog Years EP (2017).

The Wingfeather Saga

The Wingfeather Saga is Andrew Peterson's four-book children's epic fantasy (2008–2014) about the Igiby children versus the Fangs of Dang and Gnag the Nameless; over 1 million copies sold, adapted as a crowdfunded Angel Studios animated series premiering December 2, 2022.

The Wings of Eagles

The Wings of Eagles is John Ford's 1957 MGM biographical drama starring John Wayne as Navy aviator turned screenwriter Frank "Spig" Wead, with Maureen O'Hara and Dan Dailey, made with Navy cooperation.

The Wings of Rean (リーンの翼)

The Wings of Rean (リーンの翼) is a 2005–2006 six-episode Sunrise web anime by Yoshiyuki Tomino, adapting his Byston Well novel, a spinoff of Aura Battler Dunbine; first Blu-ray BOX released March 2026.

The Wings of the Dove

The Wings of the Dove is Henry James's 1902 novel about the terminally ill American heiress Milly Theale, the lovers Kate Croy and Merton Densher, and their plot to inherit her fortune; famous late James, adapted in Softley's 1997 film.

The Wings of the Dove (1997 film)

The Wings of the Dove is a 1997 period drama directed by Iain Softley, starring Helena Bonham Carter and adapted by Hossein Amini from Henry James's 1902 novel.

The Winner Takes It All

ABBA ballad "The Winner Takes It All", written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, sung by Agnetha Fältskog, released July 21, 1980 on Super Trouper; UK number one, one billion Spotify streams, and the showstopper of the Mamma Mia! musical.

The Winning Try (승부)

The Winning Try (트라이: 우리는 기적이 된다, Try: We Become a Miracle) is a 2025 SBS rugby sports K-drama, 12 episodes, starring Yoon Kye-sang as disgraced coach Ju Ga-ram of Hanyang High, with Im Se-mi and Kim Yo-han, streamed on Netflix.

The Winslow Boy

The Winslow Boy is Terence Rattigan's 1946 four-act play about the Archer-Shee case, in which a family fights to clear a naval cadet expelled for stealing a five-shilling postal order, later adapted to screen in 1948 and 1999.

The Winslow Boy (1948 film)

The Winslow Boy (1948) is Anthony Asquith's British film adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play, starring Robert Donat, Cedric Hardwicke, and Margaret Leighton, based on the 1908 Archer-Shee case.

The Winter King (TV series)

The Winter King is a 2023 British historical drama adapting Bernard Cornwell's Warlord Chronicles; 10 episodes on MGM+ and ITVX, starring Iain De Caestecker as Arthur, cancelled after one season in 2024.

The Winter of Our Discontent

The Winter of Our Discontent, John Steinbeck's final novel (Viking, 1961), set in fictional New Baytown modeled on Sag Harbor, follows grocery clerk Ethan Allen Hawley's moral fall; cited in Steinbeck's 1962 Nobel Prize.

The Winter Soldier (story arc)

The Winter Soldier is a 2005 to 2006 story arc in Marvel's Captain America comic series, written by Ed Brubaker, that revealed Bucky Barnes was alive.

The Winter's Tale

The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare's late romance written c. 1609-11, printed in the 1623 First Folio: Leontes's jealousy, the sixteen-year gap bridged by Time as Chorus, and Hermione's statue revival, adapted from Greene's Pandosto.

The Wire

The Wire is an HBO crime drama (2002–2008) created by David Simon with Ed Burns, set in Baltimore, with five seasons each centered on one city institution; critically acclaimed but never Emmy-winning.

The Wire (India)

The Wire (thewire.in) is an independent, non-profit Indian digital news site founded May 11, 2015 in New Delhi by Siddharth Varadarajan, Sidharth Bhatia and M.K. Venu, run by the Foundation for Independent Journalism, publishing in English, Hindi, Urdu and Telugu; known for investigative, anti-establishment reporting, the 2022 Meta story retraction, and repeated government legal pressure and blocking.

The Wisdom of China and India

The Wisdom of China and India is a 1942 Random House anthology of classical Chinese and Indian philosophical and religious texts, compiled and edited by Lin Yutang.

The Wisdom of Crowds

The wisdom of crowds: aggregating many independent, diverse judgments (Surowiecki's 2004 term, from Galton's 1906 ox-weighing) can beat individual experts, but social influence, bias, and fat-tailed errors limit it.

The Wise Man's Fear

The Wise Man's Fear (2011) is Patrick Rothfuss's second Kingkiller Chronicle novel, sequel to The Name of the Wind, following Kvothe from the University to Vintas, the Adem, and the Fae; a #1 New York Times bestseller and David Gemmell Legend Award winner.

The Wishing Tree

The Wishing Tree (Natvris khe, ნატვრის ხე) is Tengiz Abuladze's 1976 Georgian drama, second in his trilogy, adapting Giorgi Leonidze's stories about Marita's forced marriage; Karlovy Vary 1978 Special Prize winner.

The Wishing-Chair (series)

The Wishing-Chair series by Enid Blyton: children's fantasy books about Mollie, Peter and a flying, wish-granting chair, beginning with The Adventures of the Wishing-Chair (1937), followed by The Wishing-Chair Again (1950) and later collections and spin-offs.

The Wishsong of Shannara

The Wishsong of Shannara is Terry Brooks's 1985 epic fantasy novel, third in the original Shannara trilogy, in which Brin and Jair Ohmsford inherit the voice magic wishsong and quest to destroy the evil book Ildatch.

The Witch (2015 film)

The Witch (2015 film), or The VVitch, is a historical horror film directed by Robert Eggers. It stars Anya Taylor-Joy and won Best Director at Sundance.