Fortress (disambiguation)
Appearance
A fortress is a fortification, a defensive military construction.
Fortress or The Fortress may also refer to:
Places
[edit]- Fortress Pass, a pass on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada
- The Fortress (Alberta), a mountain in Canada
- Fortress Mountain Resort, Alberta
- The Fortress (Antarctica), a geological formation
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]Comics
[edit]- Fortress (comics), a character from Image Comics
Films
[edit]- The Fortress (1947 film), written by George Zuckerman
- Fortress (1985 film), an Australian thriller film directed by Arch Nicholson
- Fortress (1992 film), a science fiction action film starring Christopher Lambert directed by Stuart Gordon
- The Fortress (1979 film) (Az erőd), a 1979 Hungarian science fiction film
- The Fortress (1994 film) (Pevnost), a 1994 Czech film by Drahomíra Vihanová
- Fortress (2012 film), a war film directed by Michael R. Phillips
- The Fortress (2017 film) (Namhan Sansong), a 2017 South Korean film
- Fortress (2021 film), an American film starring Bruce Willis
- Fortress: Sniper's Eye, a 2022 sequel
Games
[edit]- Fortress (chess), an endgame drawing technique
- Fortress (solitaire), a solitaire or patience playing card game
- Fortress (1983 video game) for the Atari 8-bit family and Apple II
- Fortress (1984 video game) for the BBC Micro
- Fortress (2001 video game) for the Game Boy Advance
- Fortress (2001 online video game), South Korean online game
- Fortress (cancelled video game), code name for a cancelled game circa 2008
- "Fortress," the English translation of the Yagura opening in shogi
Literature
[edit]- Fortress, a 1980 novel by Gabrielle Lord, on which the 1985 film was based
- The Fortress (Die Festung), a 1962 semi-autobiographical prison novel by Henry Jaeger
- The Fortress (Tvrđava), a 1970 Yugoslav novel by Meša Selimović
- The Fortress, a 1956 book by Raleigh Trevelyan
- The Fortress, a 1932 novel by Hugh Walpole
- Fortress Press, an imprint of 1517 Media
Music
[edit]- Fortress (Alter Bridge album), 2013
- Fortress (Miniature Tigers album), 2010
- Fortress (Protest the Hero album), 2008
- Fortress (Sister Hazel album), 2000
- "Fortress" (Thee Oh Sees song), 2016
- "Fortress", a song by Bloc Party from Hymns
- "Fortress", a song by Dala from This Moment Is a Flash
- "Fortress", a song by Illenium from Ashes
- "Fortress", a song by Robert Forster from Warm Nights
Television
[edit]- "The Fortress" (Flashpoint), an episode of Flashpoint
- "The Fortress" (How I Met Your Mother), a 2013 episode of How I Met Your Mother
- "The Fortress" (Joe 90), an episode of Joe 90
- The Fortress (TV show), a Norwegian tv show, aired on Viaplay
Other uses
[edit]- Fortress (programming language), a Sun Microsystems language
- Fortress Investment Group, an asset management firm
See also
[edit]- All pages with titles containing Fortress
- Castle (disambiguation)
- Estadio Ciudad de Lanús – Néstor Díaz Pérez, widely known as "La Fortaleza", a multi-use stadium in Lanús, Argentina
- Fort (disambiguation)
- La Fortaleza ("The Fortress"), the official residence of the governor of Puerto Rico