* Aba ( film ), Sri Lanka 2008 film

* Affinity ( film ), a 2008 feature film based on Sarah Waters ' novel

* Meet Bill, a 2008 comedy film formerly known as Bill

* The Legend of Bloody Mary, a 2008 horror film

* MARy, a 2008 horror film, aka Bloody Mary

* The Twisted Tale of Bloody Mary, a 2008 drama film

Their story was later recounted in the books Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors and Miracle in the Andes as well as the film Alive, by Frank Marshall, and the documentaries Alive: 20 Years Later ( 1993 ) and Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed in the Mountains ( 2008 ).

* He is prominently featured in the 2008 film The Black Candle, directed by M. K.

* Cinema ( 2008 film ) or Bommalattam, a Tamil film

* The 2008 film Hellboy 2: The Golden Army featured movements of Capoeira in the fighting sequences with Abraham Sapien.

* The Class ( 2008 film ) ( Entre les murs ), a prize-winning French film

Beginning with Sans Soleil, he developed a deep interest in digital technology, which led to his film Level 5 ( 1996 ) and Immemory ( 1998, 2008 ), an interactive multimedia CD-ROM, produced for the Centre Pompidou ( French language version ) and from Exact Change ( English version ).

* Conspiracy ( 2008 film ), action-drama starring Val Kilmer

* Cyclops ( 2008 film ), a US-American fantasy film

* The Dungeon Masters, a 2008 documentary film.

However, Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006 ( The 26th film in the franchise ) got a private screening in Washington, D. C. in November 2008.

was a 2008 musical based on the 1990 anime film of the same name.

A documentary film entitled Forgotten Ellis Island, on the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital was created by Lorie Conway and released in 2008.

J. J. Abrams, producer of the 2008 film Cloverfield, mentioned that a scene in his film, which shows the head of the Statue of Liberty crashing into a New York street, was inspired by the poster for Escape from New York.

From 2002 to July 2008 under Turkmen calendar reform, the month of August was named after Alp Arslan.

Over half of the tax revenues in the January – August 2008 time period were generated from value-added taxes ( VAT ).

On August 5, 2008 Dan Haren signed a four-year, $ 44. 75 million deal with the Diamondbacks worth a guaranteed $ 41. 25 million through 2012 and including a $ 15. 5 million club option for 2013 with a $ 3. 5 million buyout.

On August 11, 2008, Dallas Buck, RHP Micah Owings, and C Wilkin Castillo were traded to the Reds ( in last place in the NL Central at the time ) in exchange for OF Adam Dunn.

On 17 August 2008 club chairman and owner Franco Sensi died after a long illness ; his place at the chairmanship of the club was successively taken by his daughter Rosella.

On August 22, 2008, Aon announced that it had acquired London-based Benfield Group.

Fears were allayed August 27, 2008, when Clinton enthusiastically endorsed Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, saying that all his experience as president assures him that Obama is " ready to lead ".

in Stockholm 4 July 2008, and on Swedish television on 5 August.

In August 2008, two traffic lanes from 42nd to 35th Streets were taken out of service and converted to public plazas.

As a celebration, in partnership with the CLIC Sargent charity, 2 August 2008 was Gnashional Menace Day, where children were sponsored to behave like Dennis.

Regardless, the territory was formally transferred to Cameroon on 14 August 2008.

The government took no action, and handed the final parts of Bakassi over to Cameroon on 14 August 2008 as planned, but a Federal High Court had stated this should be delayed until all accommodations for resettled Bakassians had been settled ; the government did not seem to plan to heed this court order, and did set the necessary mechanisms into motion to override it.

* BBC News report on handover, 14 August 2008

* 2008: Although confirmed before his death in June 2008, an honorary degree was posthumously conferred upon Diddley by the University of Florida in August 2008.

* EU27 population projections 2008-2060, Eurostat Newsrelease 119 / 2008, 26 August 2008.

* 2008 Ottawa radio licences: On November 21, 2008, federal Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages James Moore issued a statement calling on the CRTC to review its approval of two new radio stations, Frank Torres ' CIDG-FM and Astral Media's CJOT-FM, which it had licensed in August 2008 to serve the Ottawa-Gatineau radio market.

In August 2008, a Comorian delegation visited China on a good-will visit.

At the 9 August 2008 Legislative Assembly general election it gained a significant swing, gaining 11 out of the 25 seats.

The closures will include the new facility that was opened in August 2008 at a cost of US $ 25M, plus the McCauley Propeller Systems plant.

* Heaven Earth ( 2008 ), directed by Rudolf Amaral and Harald Scherz.

In 2008, Cronenberg directed Howard Shore's first opera, The Fly.

* 2008: The Edge of Love starring Matthew Rhys as the poet, directed by John Maybury, written by Sharman Macdonald, and drawing on David N. Thomas ' book Dylan Thomas: A Farm, Two Mansions and a Bungalow.

On 12 April 2008, a version of Verdi's opera Un ballo in maschera directed by Johann Kresnik opened at the Erfurt Theater.

* Eve ( 2008 film ), a 2008 short film directed by Natalie Portman

These include Gérard Pirès ( Riders, 2002 ), Pitof ( Catwoman, 2004 ), Jean-François Richet ( Assault on Precinct 13, 2005 ), Florent Emilio Siri ( Hostage, 2005 ), Christophe Gans ( Silent Hill, 2006 ), Mathieu Kassovitz ( Babylon A. D., 2008 ), Louis Leterrier ( The Transporter, 2002 ; Transporter 2, 2005 ; Olivier Megaton directed Transporter 3, 2008 ), Alexandre Aja ( Mirrors, 2008 ), and Pierre Morel ( Taken, 2009 ).

In 2008 Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo, a biographical film based on the life of Giulio Andreotti, won the Jury prize and Gomorra, a crime drama film, directed by Matteo Garrone won the Gran Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.

In anime, Hayao Miyazaki directed Spirited Away in 2001, breaking Japanese box office records and winning several awards, followed by Howl's Moving Castle and Ponyo in 2004 and 2008 respectively.

This was successfully followed up with a sequel Adulthood ( 2008 ) that was written and directed by actor Noel Clarke.

* King ( 2008 film ), Indian film directed by Sreenu Vaitla

( 2008 ) directed by John Crowley and starring Michael Caine, score composed by Joby Talbot ; It's a Boy Girl Thing ( 2006 ) directed by Nick Hurran, score composed by Christian Henson and has featured on TV soundtrack and themes tunes, most recently for Psychoville, composed by Joby Talbot and episodes of Wallander, composed by Ruth Barrett.

On 1 March 2008, the Colombian military attacked a FARC-EP camp inside Ecuador's territory as part of a targeted killing directed at Raúl Reyes.

The book has been adapted for film and television a number of times, including a 1981 serial for TV directed by Rodney Bennett ; a 1995 movie adapted by Emma Thompson and directed by Ang Lee ; a version in Tamil called Kandukondain Kandukondain, released in 2000 ; and a 2008 TV series on BBC adapted by Andrew Davies and directed by John Alexander.

* Road Show ( 2008 ) ( book by John Weidman ; directed by John Doyle ); ( formerly titled Bounce, Wise Guys and Gold!

* 2008: Coldplay Viva la Vida directed by Anton Corbijn

On 1 August 2008 he directed the music video for " The Day That Never Comes ", the first single off Metallica's album Death Magnetic.

Musical versions include the 1966 TV musical with songs by Moose Charlap, and Judi Rolin in the role of Alice, a Christmas 2007 multimedia stage adaptation at The Tobacco Factory directed and conceived by Andy Burden, written by Hattie Naylor, music and lyrics by Paul Dodgson and a 2008 opera Through the Looking Glass by Alan John.