Night Watch
Appearance
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Night Watch may refer to:
Painting
- The Night Watch (De Nachtwacht), a 1642 painting by Rembrandt van Rijn
Books
- Night Watch (play), a 1972 play by Lucille Fletcher
- The Night Watch, the 1977 memoir of CIA officer David Atlee Phillips
Novels
- Night Watch, a novel by Linda Fairstein
- 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
- Night Watch (Sigurðardóttir novel), a 1992 novel by Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir
- Night Watch (Lukyanenko novel), the 1998 opening of Sergei Lukyanenko's World of Watches fantasy pentalogy
- Nightwatch, a 1999 novel by Richard P. Henrick
- Night Watch (Discworld), a 2002 novel in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series
- The Night Watch, a 1997 fantasy novel by Sean Stewart
- The Night Watch (Waters novel), a 2006 novel by Sarah Waters
- The Night Watch (Patrick Modiano novel) part of La Place de l'étoile
Film and TV
Film
- The Night Watch (1926 film), by Fred Caldwell
- Night Watch (1928 film) by Alexander Korda
- Le Trou (1960), a French prison escape film called The Night Watch in the United States
- Night Watch (1973 film), based on the Lucille Fletcher play
- Nightwatch (1994 film), a 1994 Danish thriller film
- Night Watch (1995 film) (also known as Alistair MacLean's Night Watch), an American film featuring the theft of Rembrandt's Night Watch painting
- Nightwatch (1997 film), a United States 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
- Nightwatching, a 2007 film about the artist Rembrandt and the creation of his painting The Night Watch
- The Night Watch, a 2011 British film based on Sarah Waters' 2006 novel, The Night Watch
TV
- Nightwatch, an A&E reality documentary series on New Orleans and Tampa police, fire, and EMS first responders
- CBS News Nightwatch, an American overnight news program that aired on CBS from 1982 to 1992
- Nightwatch with Steve Scott, a UK television documentary series hosted by Steve Scott airing on ITV nightly from around midnight
Fictional characters and groups
- Nightwatch (Babylon 5), a fictional intelligence organization and secret police force in Babylon 5
- Nightwatch (comics), a Marvel Comics character
- Raphael (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), 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
Military and codes
- 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
Racing and games
- Night Watch (video game), a 2005 video game based on Lukyanenko's novels and the 2004 film
- Night Watch, the horse that won the 1918 Melbourne Cup
Music
- The Night Watch, a 1599 almaine by composer Anthony Holborne
- "Nightwatch", a Dutch electronic music trio, who are also known as Noisia
Albums
- Nightwatch (album), a 1978 album by Kenny Loggins
- The Night Watch (album), King Crimson's 1997 live album featuring "The Night Watch"
- Nightwatch, a 2003 album by Silje Nergaard
Songs
- "The Night Watch", a song about the Rembrandt painting on King Crimson's 1974 album Starless and Bible Black
- "Night Watch", a song by Tegan & Sara from their 2009 album Sainthood
History
- The Roman division of the night into four vigiliae, or watches
See also
- Nochnoy Dozor (group), pressure group in Estonia