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On the Run

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ3352325
Source-derived summary

On the Run may refer to:

"On the run", a phrase often used to describe a fugitive, a person fleeing custody

Literature

On the Run (novel), by Nina Bawden

On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, a non-fiction work by sociologist Alice Goffman

On the Run, a novel series by Gordon Korman

On the Run, a novel in the Sweet Valley High series

On the Run, an autobiography by Philip Agee

On the Run, the tenth book in the Left Behind: The Kids series

Film and television

Film

On the Run (1958 film), a British drama directed by Ernest Morris

On the Run (1963 film), a British mystery thriller directed by Robert Tronson

On the Run (1982 film), an Australian thriller directed by Mende Brown

On the Run (1988 film), a Hong Kong action thriller directed by Alfred Cheung

On the Run (1999 film), an American crime comedy directed by Bruno de Almeida

On the Run (2003 film), a French-Belgian film by Lucas Belvaux

Television

On the Run, a program on the Discovery Channel

"On the Run" (Animorphs), a 1998 episode

"On the Run" (The Bionic Woman), a 1978 episode

"On the Run" (Steven Universe), a 2015 episode

"On the Run" (What We Do in the Shadows), a 2020 episode

Music

Albums

On the Run!

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The public source identifies “On the Run” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Wikimedia, disambiguation and page.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1958, 1963, 1982, 1988—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Wikimedia, disambiguation and page providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 24, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3352325. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1958, 1963, 1982 and 1988.

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This entry incorporates text from On the Run” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.