The Wave may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Film and television

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 (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 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