The Wave may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

===Film and television=== <!--The Wave (TV series) and (film) redirects here-->

  • The Wave (1981 film), a TV movie based on The Third Wave social experiment
  • The Wave (2008 film) (Die Welle), a German film, also based on The Third Wave social experiment
  • The Wave (2015 film) (Bølgen), a Norwegian film
  • The Wave (2019 film), an American film starring Justin Long
  • The Wave (2025 film) (La ola), a Chilean film by Sebastián Lelio
  • The Wave (2018 TV series), a British game show
  • Redes (film), a 1936 Mexican film known in English as The Wave

Literature and writing

  • The Wave (novel), by Todd Strasser, based on the 1981 film
  • The Wave, a novel by Lochlan Bloom
  • "The Wave" (poem), by Gruffudd Gryg
  • The Wave of Long Island, a New York newspaper
  • Los Angeles Wave, a weekly newspaper in Los Angeles, California
  • The Wave, a weekly newspaper in Huntington Beach, California published by the Orange County Register
  • The Delaware Wave, a newspaper
  • The Wave, San Francisco magazine where A Deal in Wheat was first published

===Music=== <!--The Wave (song) redirects here-->

  • The Wave (album), by Tom Chaplin, 2016, and a song from the album
  • The Wave, a 2018 album by R3hab
  • "The Wave" (Sneakbo song), 2011
  • "The Wave" (Miike Snow song), 2012
  • "The Wave", a song by Blake Shelton from the 2017 album Texoma Shore
  • "The Wave", a 2018 single by Lion Babe
  • The wave (music), a movement of post-hardcore and emo bands in the late 2000s and 2010s

===Radio stations=== <!-- The Wave (radio) etc redirect here-->

  • The Wave 96.4 FM, former name of Hits Radio South Wales, Swansea, Wales, U.K.
  • CHWV-FM, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
  • CHKX-FM, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
  • CJLS-FM, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
  • CKWV-FM, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
  • KANS, Emporia, Kansas, U.S.
  • KTWV, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
  • WNWV, Elyria, Ohio, U.S.
  • The Wave, a German radio station owned by RTL Group

Visual arts

  • The Wave (Courbet), several paintings between 1869 and 1870
  • The Wave (Paul Gauguin), an 1888 painting
  • The Wave, an 1896 painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
  • The Great Wave off Kanagawa, or The Wave, a 19th-century Japanese woodblock print by Hokusai

Other uses

  • The Wave (audience), a stadium cheer in sports
  • The Wave (company), a British artificial wave pool company
  • The Wave (Gold Coast), a residential skyscraper in Australia
  • The Wave (streetcar), Fort Lauderdale, Florida's planned streetcar line
  • The Wave (Vejle), a residential building complex in Vejle, Denmark
  • The Wave (Arizona), a sandstone formation
  • The Wave, Coventry, an indoor waterpark in Coventry, UK
  • The Wave Transit System, Mobile, Alabama, U.S.
  • Western Washtenaw Area Value Express, also known as The WAVE, a Michigan bus system

See also

  • Wave (disambiguation)
  • Great Wave (disambiguation)
  • The Waves, a 1931 novel by Virginia Woolf
  • The Pearl and the Wave or The Wave and the Pearl, an 1862 painting by Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry
  • We Are the Wave, a German web TV series, based on the novel The Wave