Northern Lights
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Northern lights most commonly refers to the aurora borealis, a natural light display in Earth's sky.
(The) Northern Light(s) may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Film
Northern Lights (1938 film), a German adventure film directed by Herbert B. Fredersdorf
Northern Lights (1978 film), about the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota
Northern Lights (1997 film), a Disney movie
Northern Lights (2001 film), a Russian film
Northern Lights (2009 film), or Nora Roberts' Northern Lights, a TV film
Northern Light (film), a 2006 Dutch film
Northern Lights: A Journey to Love, a 2017 Filipino drama
Television and radio
Northern Lights (TV series), a 2006 British comedy-drama series
"Northern Lights" (Dawson's Creek), a 2000 television episode
Northern Lights (radio show), a Canadian programme until 2007
Northern Lights, a fictional element in the TV series Person of Interest
Literature
Northern Lights (Pullman novel), by Philip Pullman, 1995
Northern Lights (O'Brien novel), by Tim O'Brien, 1975
Northern Lights, a 2009 novel by Nora Roberts, on which the 2009 film is based
Severni sij ('Northern Lights'), a 1984 novel and 2005 play by Drago Jančar
A Northern Light, a 2003 historical novel by Jennifer Donnelly
The Northern Light (college newspaper), of the University of Alaska Anchorage
The Northern Light (Maine), a weekly newspaper
The Northern Light (novel), by A. J. Cronin, 1958
The Northern Lights, a 1991 novel by Howard Norman
The Northern Lights, a 2002 biography of Kristian Birkeland by Lucy Jago
Music
Northern lights chord, an 11-note chord
Northern Lights (bluegrass band), an American group
Northern Lights (Canadian band), a 1985 supergroup that recorded "Tears Are Not Enough"
Toronto Northern Lights, a Canadian men's chorus
Hootenanny Singers, or The Northern Lights, a Swedish folk group
Albums
Northern Light (Ask Embla album) (2013)
Northern Light (Jon Christos album) (2005)
Northern Light (Covenant album) (2002)
Northern Lights (Gareth Emery album) (2010)
Northern Lights (Northern Lights album)
Northern Lights (Sissel album) (2007)
Northern Lights – Southern Cross, a 1975 album by the Band
Northern Lights, a 1996 EP by Klaus Waldeck
Northern Lights, a 2016 album by Zeds Dead
Songs
"Northern Light" (song), by Basshunter, 2012
Northern Lights (Death Cab for Cutie song), 2018
"Northern Lights", by Dala from Everyone Is Someone, 2009
"Northern Lights", by DZ Deathrays, 2014
"Northern Lights", by Ella Henderson from her second album Everything I Didn't Say, 2022
"Northern Lights", by Goldenhorse from Riverhead, 2002
"Northern Lights", by Hunter Brothers from State of Mind, 2019
"Northern Lights" (Megumi Hayashibara song), 2002
"Northern Lights" (Renaissance song), 1978
"Northern Lights", by St.
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