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A Place in the Sun

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ404538 ↗
Source-derived summary

A Place in the Sun may refer to:

Film and television

A Place in the Sun (1916 film), a British silent film

A Place in the Sun (1951 film), an American dramatic film

A Place in the Sun (British TV series) (2000–present), a British Channel 4 lifestyle programme about buying property abroad

A Place in the Sun (2012 film), a Swedish film based on the Liza Marklund novel

A Place in the Sun (South Korean TV series), a 2019 South Korean television series

Music

A Place in the Sun (Lit album), 1999

A Place in the Sun (Pablo Cruise album), 1977

A Place in the Sun (Tim McGraw album), 1999

"A Place in the Sun" (Stevie Wonder song), 1966

"A Place in the Sun" (Pablo Cruise song), 1977

"A Place in the Sun", a 1983 song by the Marine Girls, from their Lazy Ways album

Other uses

A place in the sun, a phrase used to refer to the German Empire's foreign policy (Weltpolitik) and colonial empire

See also

En plats i solen (disambiguation)

"A Place Under the Sun", a 1999 single by Miho Nakayama

"Lugar ao Sol", a 2001 song by Charlie Brown Jr.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “A Place in the Sun” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Place, Wikimedia and disambiguation, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1916, 1951, 2000, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Place, Wikimedia and disambiguation is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “wikimedia disambiguation page” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

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 Jul 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q404538. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1916, 1951, 2000 and 2012.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “A Place in the Sun” 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.