Night Watch
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A Night Watch is a lookout, guard or patrol at night, in a nautical, military or police context; see Watchman (law enforcement).
Night Watch or Nightwatch as a proper name may refer to:
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[edit] Art
- Night Watch (painting), the popular name of Rembrandt van Rijn's Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch in the Rijksmuseum
[edit] Music
- The Night Watch, a 1599 almaine by composer Anthony Holborne [1]
- "The Night Watch", a song about the Rembrandt painting on King Crimson's 1974 album Starless and Bible Black
- Nightwatch (album), a 1978 album by Kenny Loggins
- The Night Watch (album), King Crimson's 1997 live album featuring "The Night Watch"
- Nightwatch (jazz album), a 2003 album by Silje Nergaard
- "Night Watch", a song by Tegan & Sara from their 2009 album Sainthood
[edit] Plays
- Night Watch, a 1972 play by Lucille Fletcher
[edit] Novels
- Night Watch, a 1989 UNACO novel by Alastair MacNeill whose plot centres on the theft of Rembrandt's Night Watch
- Night Watch (Greyhawk), a 1990 fantasy novel by Robin Wayne Bailey, set in the city of Greyhawk
- The Night Watch, a 1997 fantasy novel by Sean Stewart
- Night Watch (Russian novel), 1998 opening of Sergei Lukyanenko's Watch fantasy tetralogy
- Nightwatch, a 1999 novel by Richard P. Henrick
- Night Watch (Discworld), a 2002 novel in Terry Pratchett's Discworld sequence
- The Night Watch (Waters novel), a 2006 novel by Sarah Waters
[edit] Film
- The Night Watch (1918 film) [2]
- The Night Watch (1926 film) [3]
- Night Watch (1928 film) by Alexander Korda [4]
- Le Trou (1960), a French prison escape film called The Night Watch in the U.S.
- Night Watch (1973 film), based on the Lucille Fletcher play
- Night Watch (1995 film), also known as Alistair MacLean's Night Watch, based on Alastair MacNeill's novel
- Nightwatch (1994 film), a 1994 Danish thriller film
- Nightwatch (1997 film), an American remake of the 1994 film
- Night Watch (2004 film) (Ночной дозор, Nochnoy dozor), a Russian blockbuster based on Lukyanenko's novel
- Ronda Nocturna (English: Night Watch) a 2005 Argentine film by Edgardo Cozarinsky
[edit] Computer games
- Night Watch, a 2005 video game based on Lukyanenko's novels and the 2004 film
[edit] Fictional characters and groups
- Nightwatch (Babylon 5), a fictional intelligence organization and secret police in Babylon 5
- Nightwatch (comics), a Marvel Comics character
- Raphael (TMNT), who uses the alias "Nightwatcher" in the movie TMNT
- The Night's Watch, a military brotherhood in the A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novels by George R.R. Martin.
[edit] Others
- CBS News Nightwatch, an overnight news program that aired on CBS from 1982 to 1992 before being renamed Up to the Minute
- Nightwatch with Steve Scott, a UK television documentary series hosted by Steve Scott airing on ITV nightly from around midnight
- NIGHTWATCH, a United States military call sign used to designate an airborne communications net intended to be activated in case of nuclear conflict
- Boeing EC-135 Nightwatch, or later, Boeing E-4B Nightwatch, a United States presidential emergency command and control aircraft
- Night Watch, the horse that won the 1918 Melbourne Cup
- Nochnoy Dozor (group), pressure group in Estonia
[edit] See also
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