Category
Creative Works
Novels, films, songs and other creative works with a documented real-world story — a controversy, a court case, a museum acquisition, a notable production or publication history — beyond ordinary critical reception, sourced from museum records, court documents and independent arts journalism rather than fan wikis or plot summaries.
- A Serbian Film (2010)
Srđan Spasojević's 2010 horror debut, sold worldwide by Jinga Films: prosecuted in Spain (charges dropped), banned in Norway, Australia and New Zealand, and cut by 49 BBFC edits for a UK 18.
- AARP Bulletin
AARP's newspaper-format member publication — "The Newspaper of 50-Plus America" — whose fraud reporting the U.S. Senate has cited as national news coverage; it reaches about 31 million readers and has earned APEX Awards for writing and design.
- Adobe Acrobat
Adobe's 1993 software family for creating and reading fixed-layout electronic documents: a slow, expensive launch rescued by giving the Reader away free, until the format it carried became an ISO standard Adobe no longer controlled.
- Adobe XD
Adobe XD was Adobe's 2016 answer to browser-based interface design — but by the Figma antitrust case it was the exhibit for Adobe's own defence: a $25 million standalone loss, left in maintenance mode with no plans for further investment.
- Apple LaserWriter
Apple's first laser printer (1985): a $6,995 machine with PostScript built in and AppleTalk sharing that, with the Macintosh and PageMaker, turned desktop publishing from a trade secret into something a small office could do.
- Ayla: The Daughter of War
Ayla: The Daughter of War (2017), directed by Can Ulkay, dramatizes the true story of Turkish sergeant Süleyman Dilbirliği and the Korean War orphan he named Ayla. Turkey's second most-watched film of 2017 (5M+ tickets) and its Oscar submission, it was later cited as a film-diplomacy case study.
- Bad (Michael Jackson album)
Michael Jackson's 1987 studio album: the first album with five Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 singles, 11x Platinum in the US, winner of two Grammy Awards.
- The Big Bang Theory
The CBS sitcom that kept a UCLA particle physicist on staff: 12 seasons of real equations on the whiteboards, a fictional Nobel theory engineered to be plausible, and a 2010 NAB Chairman's Award for Jim Parsons.
- Bohemian Rhapsody (2018 film)
The 2018 Queen/Freddie Mercury biopic — not the song: an eight-year production saga, four Oscars, and a $903M+ box-office record until 2026's Michael.
- Celestian Tales: Realms Beyond
A 2020 turn-based RPG sequel from Indonesian studios Ekuator Games and Agate, crowdfunded on Kickstarter in 2017 and published by Digital Tribe after a nearly three-year delay past its original 2017 target.
- Dinner in America (2020 film)
Adam Rehmeier's 2020 punk-rock romance: a Sundance U.S. Dramatic Competition premiere, Grand Prix winner at Odesa 2020, and a COVID-delayed cult hit.
- Flash
Flash began as FutureSplash, became the web's animation and video standard under Macromedia and Adobe, was shut out of the iPhone after Steve Jobs' 2010 letter, and ended support on December 31, 2020.
- Fresh Air
NPR's signature daily interview show, hosted by Terry Gross from WHYY since 1975, built on one paradox: its host made herself nearly invisible so her guests would be fully seen — and the show's moments keep moving national news.
- I'd Like to Think While inside the Body of a Horse
A 1964 gelatin-silver photograph by Japanese Surrealist Kansuke Yamamoto, first published in the Asahi Shimbun beside Hideo Oguma's poem of the same title and now held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. The Getty's own teaching guide reads its birdcage imagery as confinement.
- Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator, launched in 1987, turned PostScript from a programmers' tool into a drawing program anyone could use — and outlasted its great rival FreeHand to become the vector-graphics standard.
- Jonas (2013 film)
Adam Rehmeier's 2013 companion piece to the banned The Bunny Game: a six-verse religious thriller shot in six weeks and released free online.
- Khosrov and Shirin
Khosrov and Shirin is Nizami Ganjavi's Persian romantic epic of about 1180, the second poem of his Khamsa, retelling the love of King Khosrow II and Shirin through separation, rivalry, and a tragic ending.
- Kitabi Dede Gorgud
Kitabi Dede Gorgud, the Book of Dede Korkut, is the Oghuz Turkic heroic epic of twelve tales, preserved in Dresden, Vatican and Gonbad manuscripts and inscribed by UNESCO in 2018.
- Krish, Trish and Baltiboy
An Indian animated folk-tales anthology from Graphiti Multimedia, running since 2009, whose Season 2 was co-produced with a central government ministry, nominated at Cairo's children's film festival, and was singled out by name by the Prime Minister on national radio.
- Mann Ki Baat
The Prime Minister of India's monthly radio address since 3 October 2014, on All India Radio and Doordarshan. Its reach is both celebrated (23 crore regular listeners per IIM-Rohtak) and disputed (CSDS found very low regular listenership); its 117th episode named "Krish, Trish and Baltiboy."
- Meet the Press
NBC's Sunday public-affairs interview program, on television since November 6, 1947 — described as TV's longest-running program. It began as a 1945 radio show built to promote a magazine, pioneered the journalist-panel format, and is now moderated by Kristen Welker.
- Michael
Antoine Fuqua's 2026 Michael Jackson biopic starring Jaafar Jackson: a $155M estate-backed production whose third act was scrapped and reshot after lawyers found a settlement clause barring depiction of accuser Jordan Chandler — then became the first biopic to cross $1B at the box office.
- Modern Maturity
AARP's flagship magazine (1958–2003): the largest-circulation magazine in America, reaching some 23 million households without ever being sold on newsstands — later merged into AARP The Magazine.
- Oppenheimer (2023 film)
Christopher Nolan's 2023 J. Robert Oppenheimer biopic: $975.8M worldwide, 7 Oscars, highest-grossing biopic ever — until Michael passed it in June 2026.
- Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop began as brothers Thomas and John Knoll's Display program in 1987, was licensed by Adobe in 1988, launched in 1990, and became the industry standard for digital image editing — then the centre of a 2013 subscription backlash.
- Pokémon
Japanese media franchise created by Satoshi Tajiri that began with the 1996 Game Boy games and grew into video games, anime, films and a trading-card game whose rarest cards sell for millions.
- PostScript
Adobe's first product, launched in 1984: the page-description language born from Xerox PARC work that powered the LaserWriter, ignited desktop publishing, and later fed into the document format and font technology that succeeded it.
- The Sean Hannity Show
Nationally syndicated conservative talk-radio show hosted by Sean Hannity. It entered national syndication on September 10, 2001 — the day before the 9/11 attacks — and marked its 25th syndicated year in September 2026 on 700+ stations across 99% of the United States.
- Snack Shack (2024 film)
Adam Rehmeier's semi-autobiographical 2024 coming-of-age comedy: two teens run a Nebraska pool's snack shack in 1991; Republic Pictures released it in March 2024 to warm reviews.
- Straight Outta Compton (2015 film)
F. Gary Gray's 2015 N.W.A biopic: a record $60.2M opening, a dismissed $110M defamation suit, and the Rock Hall induction it helped tip.
- The Bunny Game
A 2011 American exploitation-horror film, the feature debut of writer-director Adam Rehmeier, that swept the 2011 PollyGrind festival awards before the British Board of Film Classification formally refused it a certificate in October 2011 over its unbroken focus on sexual and physical abuse; it
- The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)
Tom Six's 2011 body-horror sequel: refused a UK certificate by the BBFC in June 2011, then passed 18 after 32 cuts (2m 37s) in October; refused classification in Australia after ministerial review.
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Francis Lawrence's 2013 Hunger Games sequel: $865M worldwide, Lionsgate's biggest hit ever — until the 2026 Michael film took the crown.
- Yu-Gi-Oh!
Japanese manga franchise created by Kazuki Takahashi in 1996 that became a record-breaking Konami trading-card game, anime series and global collectibles market.