Badlands (disambiguation)
Badlands are a type of terrain with clay-rich soil, and are found in regions with arid climate.
Badlands, Bad lands or Badland may also refer to:
Places
[edit]Canada
[edit]- Municipal District of Badlands No. 7, Alberta, a former municipal district
United States
[edit]- Philadelphia Badlands, a section of North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Badlands National Park, South Dakota
- Badlands Observatory, an astronomical observatory named after the South Dakota Badlands
- Badlands Wilderness, a wilderness area located entirely within the national park
- The Badlands (California), a mountain range
Arts and entertainment
[edit]Films
[edit]- In the Badlands, 1909 film with Hobart Bosworth, Betty Hartem and Tom Santschi
- The Bad Lands, a 1925 film starring Harry Carey
- Bad Lands (1939 film), an American western film starring Robert Barrat
- Badlands (film), a 1973 Terrence Malick film
- Into the Badlands (film), 1991 Western horror film
- Badland (2007 film), a German-American drama film directed by Francesco Lucente
- Bad Land: The Road to Fury, UK released title of the 2014 film Young Ones
- Badland (2019 film), an American western film starring Kevin Makely
- Bad Lands (2023 film), a Japanese drama film directed by Masato Harada
Music
[edit]Bands
[edit]- Badlands (band), an American hard rock band formed by Jake E. Lee
- Badlands, a British band formed by John Sloman
Albums
[edit]- Badlands (Badlands album), a 1989 album by the band of the same name
- Badlands (Dirty Beaches album), a 2011 album by Dirty Beaches
- Badlands (Peter Erskine), a 2001 album
- Badlands (Halsey album), a 2015 album by Halsey
- Badlands, a 1978 album and song by Bill Chinnock
- Badlands, a 2013 album and song by Trampled Under Foot
EPs
[edit]- Badlands (EP), a 2013 EP by Australian group Bad Dreems
Songs
[edit]- "Badlands" (Bruce Springsteen song), a Bruce Springsteen song from the 1978 album Darkness on the Edge of Town
- "Badlands", a song by AC/DC from Flick of the Switch
- "Badlands", a song by Metal Church from Blessing in Disguise
- "Bad Lands", a song by Zion I & The Grouch from Heroes in the City of Dope
Other
[edit]- Badlands (Swedish musical act), a Swedish semi-electronic music project formed by producer Catharina Jaunviksna
Publications
[edit]- Bad Land: An American Romance, a 1996 travelogue by Jonathan Raban
- Badlands, a comic book mini-series by Steven Grant
- Badlands, a 1975 novel by Robert Kroetsch about the Red Deer Valley of southern Alberta
Television
[edit]- "Badlands", an episode of Jewel Riders
- "Badlands", an episode of Generator Rex
- Into the Badlands (TV series)
Video games
[edit]- Badland (video game), released in 2013
- Badland 2, a sequel of the mobile game
- Badlands (1984 video game), a 1984 laserdisc video game by Konami
- Badlands (video game), a 1989 arcade game published by Atari Games
- Badlands, a playable map in Team Fortress 2
- Badlands, a zone in World of Warcraft
Other
[edit]- Badlands (Star Trek), a location in the fictional Star Trek universe
- The Badlands, one of the six sectors of Mars in Red Faction: Guerrilla
People
[edit]- Annette Badland (born 1950), English actress
- Badlands Booker (born 1969), American hip hop artist and competitive eater
Other uses
[edit]- Operation Badlands, part of the Iraq War that began in 2003
- Battle of the Badlands, fought in Dakota Territory in 1864 between the US Army and several Native American tribes
- Badlands Motor Speedway, a dirt track racing complex in Brandon, South Dakota
- Badlands (San Francisco), a former gay bar in San Francisco's Castro District
- Badlands brand fishing and hunting gear, made by the W. C. Bradley Co. subsidiary Zebco Brands