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The Awakening

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ13099271 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Awakening may refer to:

Religion

Awakening (Finnish religious movement), a Lutheran movement in Finland

Great Awakening, several periods of Anglo-American Christian revival

Film and television

Film

The Awakening, a 1913 film starring Charlotte Burton

The Awakening (1917 film), an American silent film directed by George Archainbaud

The Awakening (1928 film), an American silent film directed by Victor Fleming

The Awakening (1954 film), an American television short film starring Buster Keaton

The Awakening (1956 film), an Italian comedy drama film

The Awakening (1980 film), a British horror film directed by Mike Newell

Omen IV: The Awakening, a 1991 American supernatural horror television film

The Awakening, a 1995 television film starring Sheila McCarthy

The Awakening (2006 film), a Bollywood documentary

Species: The Awakening, a 2007 American science fiction thriller film

The Awakening (2011 film), a British supernatural drama film

Blue Lagoon: The Awakening, a 2012 American romantic drama television film

The Awakening (upcoming film), a British thriller film

Television

The Awakening (TV series), a 1984 two-part Singaporean drama series

The Awakening (Doctor Who), a 1984 Doctor Who serial

Episodes

"The Awakening" (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

"The Awakening" (Defiance)

"The Awakening" (Masters of Science Fiction)

"The Awakening" (Spider-Man)

Literature

The Awakening (Armstrong novel), a 2009 Darkest Powers novel by Kelley Armstrong

The Awakening (Carroll novel) or The Quantum Prophecy, a 2006 novel by Michael Carroll

The Awakening (Chopin novel), an 1899 novel by Kate Chopin

The Awakening (Smith novel), a 1991 Vampire Diaries novel by L. J. Smith

"The Awakening" (short story), a 1942 story by Arthur C. Clarke

The Awakening, the third and final arc of the Ben Drowned series by Alexander D. Hall

Music

The Awakening (band), a musical project of Ashton Nyte

Albums

The Awakening (Ahmad Jamal album) or the title song, 1970

The Awakening (Billy Harper album) or the title song, 1979

The Awakening (Caliban album) or the title song, 2007

The Awakening (Iniko album), 2025

The Awakening (James Morrison album) or the title song, 2011

The Awakening (Kamelot album), 2023

The Awakening (Lord Finesse album), 1996

The Awakening (Melissa Etheridge album) or the three-song title work, 2007

The Awakening (Merciless album) or the title song, 1990

The Awakening (Nekropolis album) or the title song, 1997

The Awakening (The Pharaohs album), 1971

The Awakening (PMD album) or the title song, 2003

The Awakening (P.O.D. album) or the title song, 2015

The Awakening (Send More Paramedics album), 2006

The Awakening (EP), by GFriend, 2017

The Awakening, by the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, 2018

The Awakening, by the Reddings, or the title song, 1980

Songs

"The Awakening", by Alice Cooper from Welcome to My Nightmare, 1975

"The Awakening", by Becoming the Archetype from Children of the Great Extinction, 2022

"The Awakening", by Demon Hunter from Summer of Darkness, 2004

"The Awakening", by Edison's Children, 2011

"The Awakening", by Fairyland from The Fall of an Empire, 2006

"The Awakening", by Godsmack from Faceless, 2003

"The Awakening", by Hawkwind from Space Ritual, 1973

"The Awakening", by Hope for the Dying from Dissimulation, 2011

"The Awakening", by Lovebites from Awakening from Abyss, 2017

"The Awakening", by Mors Principium Est from ...And Death Said Live, 2012

"The Awakening", by Narada Michael Walden from Awakening, 1979

"The Awakening", by Narnia from Awakening, 1998

"The Awakening", by the Pat Metheny Group from Imaginary Day, 1997

"The Awakening", by War of Ages from Arise and Conquer, 2008

"The Awakening", by York, 1998

"The Awakening", a piece of library music composed by Johnny Pearson and used as theme music by ITV

Other uses

The Awakening (sculpture), a 1980 sculpture by J. Seward Johnson Jr.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “The Awakening” as wikimedia disambiguation page. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1913, 1917, 1928, 1954—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Awakening, Wikimedia and disambiguation can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia disambiguation page. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q13099271. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1913, 1917, 1928 and 1954.

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