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Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)
Back to Life (However Do You Want Me) is a 1989 Soul II Soul single featuring Caron Wheeler, produced by Jazzie B and Nellee Hooper; UK number one for four weeks, US Billboard number four, Grammy-winning, recorded at Brittania Row, Islington.
Back to Life (TV series)
Back to Life: British dark comedy-drama (BBC Three/Showtime, 2019–2021), created by and starring Daisy Haggard with Laura Solon; ex-con Miri Matteson returns home after 18 years in prison; two six-episode seasons, Metacritic 88.
Back to Reality (Red Dwarf)
Back to Reality is the Series V finale of Red Dwarf (26 March 1992, BBC2), written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, in which a Despair Squid hallucination convinces the crew they scored 4% in a four-year video game. It repeatedly tops fan polls as the show's best episode and introduced Duane Dibbley.
Back to School
Back to School (1986) is an Orion Pictures comedy directed by Alan Metter, starring Rodney Dangerfield as millionaire Thornton Melon, who enrolls in college with his son; it grossed $91,258,000 domestically.
Back to the Beginning
Back to the Beginning: Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne farewell benefit concert, 5 July 2025, Villa Park, Birmingham; original lineup's first show since 2005; Osbourne's final performance before his death 17 days later.
Back to the Dawn
Back to the Dawn (动物迷城) is a 2025 prison escape RPG by Metal Head Games and Spiral Up Games, released 17 July 2025 after Early Access from 2 Nov 2023. Play fox reporter Thomas or panther agent Bob, with 21 in-game days, 100+ quests, and multiple endings.
Back to the Egg
Back to the Egg, Wings' ninth and final studio album by Paul McCartney, released June 8, 1979 (UK) with Laurence Juber and Steve Holly, Rockestra guest sessions, and a 1980 Grammy for Rockestra Theme.
Back to the Future
Back to the Future is the 1985 Robert Zemeckis time-travel comedy starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, the top-grossing film of 1985, Oscar winner, and start of a trilogy, musical, and franchise.
Back to the Future (franchise)
Back to the Future (BTTF) franchise: Zemeckis and Gale's Universal/Amblin trilogy (1985, 1989, 1990) starring the DeLorean time machine, plus animated series, ride, Olivier-winning musical, and 2025 40th-anniversary releases.
Back to the Future (TV series)
Back to the Future, also Back to the Future: The Animated Series, is a 1991-1992 CBS cartoon continuing the film trilogy, with Christopher Lloyd in live-action Doc Brown segments, Dan Castellaneta voicing animated Doc, and Bill Nye's first TV appearances.
Back to the Future Part II
Back to the Future Part II (1989) is Robert Zemeckis's sequel starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, released November 22, 1989, earning $331,971,868 worldwide, shot back-to-back with Part III, and set partly on October 21, 2015.
Back to the Future Part III
Back to the Future Part III (1990) is Robert Zemeckis's Western-set finale to the Back to the Future trilogy, with Marty McFly traveling to 1885 Hill Valley to rescue Doc Brown, co-starring Mary Steenburgen and Thomas F. Wilson.
Back to the Future: The Game
Back to the Future: The Game is Telltale Games' five-episode 2010 point-and-click adventure set after Back to the Future Part III, with Christopher Lloyd as Doc, AJ LoCascio as Marty, and Bob Gale advising.
Back to the Future: The Ride
Back to the Future: The Ride was Universal's OMNIMAX motion simulator based on the film trilogy, with eight-passenger DeLorean vehicles; it ran at Universal Studios Florida (1991-2007), Hollywood (1993-2007), and Japan (2001-mid-2010s).
Back to the Outback
Back to the Outback is a 2021 Netflix animated comedy adventure directed by Clare Knight and Harry Cripps, in which Australian zoo animals including Maddie the taipan escape to the Outback; 81% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Back to the Rafters
Back to the Rafters is a 2021 six-episode Australian Amazon Prime Video drama reviving Packed to the Rafters; created by Bevan Lee, starring Rebecca Gibney and Erik Thomson, cancelled after one season.
Back translation
Back translation is a quality-check method for translated research instruments, introduced by Richard Brislin in 1970, in which a blind bilingual translates the target version back into the source language so divergences reveal meaning errors.
Back-arc basin
A back-arc basin is a region of rifting and seafloor spreading behind a volcanic arc at a convergent plate margin, first proposed for western Pacific marginal seas in 1971.
Back-contact solar cell
A back-contact solar cell is a crystalline silicon solar cell with both contacts on the rear, eliminating front gridline shading; it holds the silicon efficiency record at 27.8%.
Back-fire
Back-fire, also known as after-fire or afterfire, is abnormal combustion in which a fuel-air mixture ignites and flame travels backward through an engine's intake manifold or carburetor.
Back-gate biasing
Back-gate biasing is the technique of applying a voltage to the back gate of a transistor to tune its threshold voltage, trading speed against leakage after fabrication.
Back-pass rule
Back-pass rule: IFAB Law 12 provision, introduced 1992, banning goalkeepers from handling deliberate kicks or throw-ins from team-mates; extended 1997 with the six-second rule, replaced by an eight-second corner-kick sanction in 2025.
Back-to-Africa movement
Back-to-Africa movement: emigrationist projects urging people of African descent in the Americas to settle in Africa, from Sierra Leone (1787) and Liberia (1819) through the ACS and Marcus Garvey's UNIA.
Back-to-back converter
A back-to-back converter is an HVDC arrangement in which a rectifier and inverter share one station, connecting AC grids that are not synchronized, with no transmission line between them.
Back-to-back life sentences
Back-to-back life sentences are consecutive life terms for multiple crimes, served one after another to delay or defeat parole, governed in the US by 18 U.S.C. § 3584 and varying state discretion rules.
Bačka
Bačka (Бачка, Bácska) is a historical region between the Danube and Tisza rivers, mostly in Vojvodina, Serbia, partly in Hungary; divided by the 1920 Treaty of Trianon, agricultural lowland with Novi Sad and Subotica as largest cities.
Backa topola
Bačka Topola (Hungarian: Topolya) is a town of almost 12,000 people in northern Serbia's Vojvodina province, known for its multicultural environment and football club FK TSC.
Backbencher
Backbencher: a Westminster-system MP or peer holding no ministerial or shadow-spokesperson office, sitting behind the frontbench. Defined by UK Parliament glossary; performs partisan, constituency, and scrutiny roles.
Backblaze
Backblaze is an American cloud storage and online backup company founded in 2007, known for unlimited Computer Backup and its S3-compatible B2 Cloud Storage service.
Backboard (basketball)
Basketball backboard: the regulated panel behind the rim, made of tempered glass (FIBA Level 1, NBA) or acrylic and polycarbonate for residential hoops; dimensions, rebound tests, and material tradeoffs.