Night Watch

A Night Watch is a lookout, guard or patrol at night, in a nautical, military or police context; see Watchman (law enforcement).

Night Watch or Nightwatch as a proper name may refer to:

Art

• Night Watch (painting), the popular name of Rembrandt van Rijn's Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch in the Rijksmuseum

Music

• The Night Watch, a 1599 almaine by composer Anthony Holborne [1]
• "The Night Watch" (King Crimson song), a song about the Rembrandt painting on King Crimson's 1974 album Starless and Bible Black
• Nightwatch (album), a 1978 album by Kenny Loggins
• The Night Watch (album), King Crimson's 1997 live album featuring "The Night Watch"
• Nightwatch (jazz album), a 2003 album by Silje Nergaard
• "Night Watch", a song by Tegan & Sara from their 2009 album Sainthood

Plays

• Night Watch, a 1972 play by Lucille Fletcher

Novels

• 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
• The Night Watch, a 1997 fantasy novel by Sean Stewart
• Night Watch (Russian novel), 1998 opening of Sergei Lukyanenko's Watch fantasy tetralogy
• Nightwatch, a 1999 novel by Richard P. Henrick
• Night Watch (Discworld), a 2002 novel in Terry Pratchett's Discworld sequence
• The Night Watch (Waters novel), a 2006 novel by Sarah Waters

Film

• The Night Watch (1918 film) [2]
• The Night Watch (1926 film) [3]
• Night Watch (1928 film) by Alexander Korda [4]
• Le Trou (1960), a French prison escape film called The Night Watch in the U.S.
• Night Watch (1973 film), based on the Lucille Fletcher play
• Night Watch (1995 film), also known as Alistair MacLean's Night Watch, based on Alastair MacNeill's novel
• Nattevagten (English: Nightwatch), a 1994 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
• Ronda Nocturna (English: Night Watch) a 2005 Argentine film by Edgardo Cozarinsky

Computer games

• Night Watch, a 2005 video game based on Lukyanenko's novels and the 2004 film

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 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.

Others

• CBS News Nightwatch, an overnight news program that aired on CBS from 1982 to 1992 before being renamed Up to the Minute
• Nightwatch with Steve Scott, a UK television documentary series hosted by Steve Scott 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 (group), pressure group in Estonia

See also

• Night watchman

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