Night Watch

Night Watch or Nightwatch may refer to:

• The Night Watch, the popular name of Rembrandt van Rijn's painting Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch
• Watchman (law enforcement), a lookout, guard or patrol at night

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#Publications
• 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 (novel)

Film and TV

Film

• 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 Water's 2006 novel, The Night Watch

TV

• Nightwatch, an A&E (TV channel) reality documentary series on New Orleans 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
• Night Watch (radio), an American "radio noir" program, circa 1950. It consisted of recordings of police activity in Culver City, California.

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

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

See also

• Nochnoy Dozor (group), pressure group in Estonia