A fifth column is a group of people who undermine a larger group from within.

Fifth Column may also refer to:

Literature

  • The Fifth Column, a 1938 play by Ernest Hemingway, published in the volume The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories
  • Fifth Column, a 1940 book by John Langdon-Davies

Film and television

  • The Fifth Column (film) (also known as Hinkerort zorasune), a 2010 short film set in Beirut
  • "The Fifth Column", episode 2.35 of the military science fiction series Exosquad
  • "The Fifth Column", a group of alien dissidents in the V science fiction franchise, first shown in the original miniseries.
  • ' (The Fifth Column), a German television series

Music

  • Fifth Column (band), an all-women post-punk band from Toronto, Canada
  • The 5ifth Column, an album by industrial rock band Acumen Nation
  • Fifth Column, a 2003 album by British musician U.N.P.O.C.
  • The 5th Column, official street team of the rock band AFI
  • Fifth Column Records, an industrial record label active in the 1990s

Others

  • Fifth Column (intelligence operation), a Second World War deception operation by MI5
  • The Fifth Column, a political and media gossip page in Ireland's Sunday Independent
  • Fifth Column (sotūn-e panjom), an editorial in the Iranian newspaper Jame'e written by Ebrahim Nabavi
  • The 5th Column, a fictional Nazi group in the City of Heroes MMORPG computer game
  • The Fifth Column Podcast, a libertarian-leaning podcast hosted by Kmele Foster, Michael C. Moynihan, Matt Welch.

See also

  • Sixth Column, a 1941 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein