Night Watch

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Night Watch, Nightwatch, or Nightwatcher may refer to:

• an early form of policing; see Watchman (law enforcement)
• Night Watch (painting), the popular name of Rembrandt van Rijn's Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch in the Rijksmuseum

Contents 1 Music 2 Novels 3 Film 4 Computer games 5 Fictional characters and groups 6 Others 7 See also

[edit] Music

• Nightwatch (album), a 1978 album by Kenny Loggins
• Nightwatch (jazz album), a 2003 album by Silje Nergaard
• "The Night Watch (King Crimson song)", a song on King Crimson's 1974 album Starless and Bible Black
• The Night Watch (album), King Crimson's 1998 live album featuring "The Night Watch"
• Nightwatchers, a German techno group most known for the song Insomnia

[edit] Novels

• Night Watch, a UNACO novel whose plot centres on the theft of Rembrandt's Night Watch
• Night Watch (Greyhawk), a fantasy novel by Robin Wayne Bailey, set in the city of Greyhawk
• The Night Watch (Stewart novel), a fantasy novel by Sean Stewart
• Night Watch (Russian novel), 1998 opening of Sergey Lukyanenko's Watch fantasy tetralogy
• Night Watch (Pratchett novel), a novel in Terry Pratchett's Discworld sequence
• The Night Watch (Waters novel), a novel by Sarah Waters
• Night Watch, a novel by Stephen Kendrick in which Sherlock Holmes and G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown solve a murder case

[edit] Film

• The Night Watch (1926 film)
• Night Watch (1928 film)
• Le Trou, a French prison escape film called The Night Watch in the U.S.
• Night Watch (1973 film)
• Night Watch (1995 film), also known as Alistair MacLean's Night Watch, based on the novel
• Nattevagten (English: Nightwatch), a Danish horror/thriller film
• Nightwatch (1997 film), a US remake of Nattevagten
• Night Watch (2004 film) (Ночной дозор, Nochnoy dozor), a Russian blockbuster based on Lukyanenko's novel

[edit] Computer games

• Night Watch (computer game), based on the world from the Russian novel by Lukyanenko and the film

[edit] Fictional characters and groups

• Nightwatch (Babylon 5), a fictional intelligence organization and secret police in Babylon 5
• Nightwatch (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Raphael (TMNT), who used the alias "Nightwatcher" in the movie TMNT

[edit] Others

• CBS News Nightwatch, an overnight news program on CBS from 1982 to 1992
• Nightwatch with Steve Scott, a UK television documentary series hosted by Steve Scott (journalist) airing on ITV nightly from around midnight
• 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
• Night Watch, the horse that won the 1918 Melbourne Cup
• Nochnoy Dozor (advocacy group), activist group in Estonia

[edit] See also

• Night watchman