* White Light / Black Rain official website documentary film about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Though his films range widely in setting and period, they frequently showcase memorable imagery of urban environments, whether 12th century Jerusalem ( Kingdom of Heaven ), contemporary Osaka ( Black Rain ) or Mogadishu ( Black Hawk Down ), or the future cityscapes of Blade Runner.

Scott made Someone to Watch Over Me, a romantic thriller starring Tom Berenger and Mimi Rogers in 1987, and Black Rain ( 1989 ), a police drama starring Michael Douglas and Andy García, shot partially in Japan.

* Scott utilises cityscapes as an emphasis to his storytelling ( e. g., a futuristic Los Angeles in Blade Runner, Osaka in Black Rain, Jerusalem in Kingdom of Heaven ).

* Extensive use of smoke and other atmospheres ( in Alien, Blade Runner and Black Rain ), plus fans and fan-like objects ( Blade Runner, Black Rain and the large Boeing jet engines in the 1984 TV advertisement ).

* Consistency in his choice of composers, using Jerry Goldsmith ( Alien and Legend ), Vangelis ( Blade Runner and 1492: Conquest of Paradise ), Hans Zimmer ( Black Rain, Thelma & Louise, Gladiator, Hannibal, Black Hawk Down and Matchstick Men ) or Marc Streitenfeld ( A Good Year, American Gangster, Body of Lies, Robin Hood and Prometheus ).

* Black Rain ( 1989 ) – featuring his song " Laserman "

* Rain, Black Clouds

Some of the influential and popular directors from the 1980s to 2000s include James Cameron ( the first two Terminator films, Aliens, True Lies ); Andrew Davis ( Code of Silence, Above the Law, Under Siege ); John Woo ( Hong Kong action films such as Hard Boiled and US-made English-language films such as Hard Target, Broken Arrow and Face / Off ); John McTiernan ( the first and third Die Hard films, Predator, The Last Action Hero ); Ridley Scott ( Black Rain, Black Hawk Down ); The Wachowski Brothers ( The Matrix trilogy ), Andrzej Bartkowiak ( Romeo Must Die, Exit Wounds, Cradle 2 the Grave, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li ), Robert Rodriguez ( Mexico trilogy, From Dusk till Dawn, Machete ) and Michael Bay ( the first two Bad Boys films, The Rock, Transformers trilogy ); Louis Leterrier ( the first two Transporter films, Unleashed ).

In 1989, he starred in Ridley Scott's international police crime drama Black Rain opposite Andy García and Kate Capshaw.

It also contains tracks from independent industrial band Black Rain who had initially recorded a score for Robert Longo that had been rejected.

* The Unisphere can be seen in the opening credits of the movie Black Rain directed by Ridley Scott.

It is the birthplace of author Edwin Wiley Fuller, home of the International Whistlers Convention, and site of the last hanging in North Carolina, chronicled in the book The Day The Black Rain Fell, by William F. Shelton and James S. Warren.

** Black Rain -- Milton Burrow, William Manger

Now CEO of Black Rain Entertainment.

In the 1940s, he teamed up with lyricist Johnny Mercer, and continued to write hit songs like " Blues in the Night ", " That Old Black Magic ," " Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive ," " Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home ", " Come Rain or Come Shine "" and " One for My Baby ( and One More for the Road )".

Black Rain may refer to:

* Black Rain ( American film ), a 1989 American film directed by Ridley Scott

* Black Rain ( Japanese film ), a 1989 Japanese film directed by Imamura Shohei based on the novel

In October 2008, Dark Thrones and Black Flags was released, using much the same style as the previous album.

Aragorn and Gandalf then led the final campaign against Sauron's forces at the Black Gate, in an effort to distract the Dark Lord's attention from Frodo and Samwise Gamgee, who were at the same moment scaling Mount Doom to destroy the Ring.

The Nazgûl ( from Black Speech nazg, " ring ", and gûl, " wraith, spirit " ( presumably related to gul, " sorcery "); also called Ringwraiths, Ring-wraiths, Black Riders, Dark Riders, the Nine Riders, or simply the Nine are fictional characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium.

Melkor the Dark: The Noldor no longer call him Melkor ; rather, they call him ‘ Morgoth ’ (‘ Black Enemy ’, or possibly ‘ Dreadful Dark ').

The book begins less than seven hours after the end of The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger after The Man in Black has described The Gunslinger's fate using tarot cards.

The Dark Young or Thousand Young appear in the short film Black Goat by writer / director Joseph Nanni.

Seagal is credited as a producer and sometimes a writer on many of these DTV movies, which include Black Dawn, Belly of the Beast, Out of Reach, Submerged, Kill Switch, Urban Justice, Pistol Whipped, Against the Dark, Driven to Kill, A Dangerous Man, Born to Raise Hell and The Keeper, a movie released in Japan fifteen weeks earlier than the United States.

The Dark Alliance series was originally set to be developed exclusively by Snowblind Studios, but ports were handled by Black Isle Studios, High Voltage Software and Magic Pockets with the second game being developed exclusively by Black Isle.

* Dark Sword-grass or Black cutworm, Agrotis ipsilon

Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, " Coon Songs ," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz.

He became known by the alias of The Black Eagle, according to The Shadow's Shadow, 1933, although later stories revised this alias as The Dark Eagle beginning with The Shadow Unmasks, 1937.

The Shadow appears as Fritz in at least 23 Shadow novels: " The Living Shadow ," " Hidden Death ," " The Ghost Makers ," " The Crime Clinic ," " Crime Circus ," " The Chinese Disks ," " The Dark Death ," " The Third Skull ," " The Black Master ," " The Voodoo Master ," " The Third Shadow ," " The Circle of Death ," " The Sledge Hammer Crimes ," " The Golden Masks ," " The Ghost Murders ," " Hills of Death ," " The Hand ," " The Racket's King ," " The Green Hoods ," " The Crime Ray ," " The Getaway Ring ," " Masters of Death ," and " The Crystal Skull.

Barad-dûr ( Sindarin " Dark Tower ", sometimes given as The Barad-dûr ( Lugbúrz in Black Speech )) is the fortress of Sauron in the heart of the black land of Mordor and close to Mount Doom in the fantasy world of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

Although he was top billed in a number of Nazi-era themed films as The Man in the Glass Booth ; Counterpoint ( 1968 ); A Bridge Too Far ; Cross of Iron ; The Odessa File ; Julia ; and Judgment at Nuremberg, he also played more diverse characters in Krakatoa, East of Java ; The Black Hole ; The Freshman ; John Carpenter's Vampires ; Topkapi ; Stalin ; Candles in the Dark ; Erste Liebe ; Deep Impact ; and the television miniseries, Peter the Great ( 1986 ), which co-starred Vanessa Redgrave and Laurence Olivier.

His series of macabre films include House of Dark Shadows, Night of Dark Shadows, The Night Stalker ( which inspired the series Kolchak: The Night Stalker ), Intruders, The Night Strangler, Burnt Offerings, Trilogy of Terror, The Norliss Tapes ( a 1973 pilot for an unproduced series starring Roy Thinnes ), Curse of the Black Widow, Dead Of Night, Scream of the Wolf and others.

Indeed, in the Elvish Sindarin language, Mor-Dor means Dark ( or Black ) Land, and is sometimes even referred to within the novel as " The Black Country ".

* J. R. R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings created the nine Nazgûl, described as Black Riders or Dark Riders.

** Even before Artix Entertainment released AdventureQuest Worlds, in their original game AdventureQuest there were monsters called both Dark Knights and Black Knights, with the description featuring a play on words ( Dark Knight / dark night ).

* The Black Knights in the video game Dark Souls are powerful recurring enemies scattered throughout the world of Lordran.

* The Black Lotus

The next morning, they arrive at the villa, where Castafiore introduces them to a number of her friends — the debutante Angelina Sordi, the corrupt industrialists Mr Gibbons ( from The Blue Lotus ) and Mr Trickler ( from The Broken Ear ), Emir Ben Kalish Ezab ( from Land of Black Gold ), Luigi Randazzo ( a singer ), and Ramó Nash.

His most well-known character is known as Teflon Billy, but this was a nickname given by the group to a character originally named Black Lotus ( Black Lotus gives BL which gives Billy, and " Teflon " refers to the uncanny skill of the character at avoiding damage ).

A new album had been planned for the same year but Black Lotus Records went out of business just a few months after Skyclad had signed to it.

He is or has been a member of the demo groups Alcatraz, The Silents, Razor 1911, The Black Lotus and Triton.

The concept originated during 1963 with drawings by Ron Hickman, director of Lotus Engineering ( Designer of the original Lotus Elan, as well as inventor of the Black and Decker Workmate ), for a bid on the Ford GT40 project.

Black Emperor, Arctic Monkeys, Kaskade, Miike Snow, Afrojack, Gotye, Justice, Frank Ocean, Flying Lotus, St. Vincent, M83, Bon Iver, Kaiser Chiefs, The Shins, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Squeeze, Zedd, Madness, AWOLNATION, Fitz and the Tantrums, Santigold, Band of Skulls, Azealia Banks, A $ AP Rocky, Childish Gambino, and The Weeknd, as well as unscheduled guest appearances by Eminem, 50 Cent, Kendrick Lamar, Wiz Khalifa, Warren G, Kurupt, Rihanna, Usher and Zach de la Rocha.

The original version of the car was designed by Ron Hickman, who also designed the first Lotus Europa as part of Lotus ' GT40 project bid and made his fortune having designed the Black & Decker Workmate.

Black Spiders, Four Year Strong, Lower Than Atlantis, Rival Sons, Kobra and the Lotus, Skindred, Kids in Glass Houses, Gallows, Six Hour Sundown, Refused, The Union, Lawnmower Deth, My Passion, Silent Descent, Don Broco, No Americana, Edguy, Porter Robinson, T. Mills and Fearless Vampire Killers were added to the lineup on 3 April.

Bill liked the Lotus F1 race car " John Player Special " livery and used that Black and Gold paint scheme to create the car.

On 16 – 18 February 1996 the first Pro Tour, very briefly called The Black Lotus Pro Tour, was held in New York.

As the movement matured, the two major locations of Black Arts ' ideological leadership, particularly for literary work, were California's Bay Area because of the Journal of Black Poetry and the Black Scholar, and the Chicago-Detroit axis because of Negro Digest / Black World and Third World Press in Chicago, and Broadside Press and Naomi Long Madgett's Lotus Press in Detroit.

* Black Lotus, a nickname of ISKCON spiritual leader Bhakti Tirtha Swami, and the title of his biography

* Black Lotus, is a drug / narcotic flower in the fantasy world of Conan the Barbarian created by Robert E. Howard

* Black Lotus, is a plant in the PC-game World of Warcraft