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List of works with different titles in the UK and US

This page lists works with different titles in the United Kingdom and United States. US titles will usually also be used in Canada; UK titles will also be used in the Republic of Ireland and often in Commonwealth countries excluding Canada. Not listed are minor changes due to American and British English spelling differences (for example, Rumor Has It... was titled Rumour Has It... in the UK). An asterisk* indicates which country the work originated in.

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This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness.

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Type of work	United States	United Kingdom	Notes
Album	Security	Peter Gabriel*	This was the fourth album released by Peter Gabriel with the name Peter Gabriel.
Autobiography	All Will Be Well	Memoir*
Book	Holy Blood, Holy Grail	The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail*
Book	Where's Waldo	Where's Wally*
Cartoon	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles	Violent "ninja" considered inappropriate for children.
Collection of short stories	The Umbrella Man and Other Stories	The Great Automatic Grammatizator*	By Roald Dahl
Collection of short stories	Young Archimedes	Little Mexican*	By Aldous Huxley
Comic strip	U.S. Acres*	Orson's Farm
Film	Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story	A Cock and Bull Story*
Film	American Wedding*	American Pie: The Wedding	Third movie in the American Pie series. Also American Pie 3 in some markets.
Film	The Triplets of Belleville	Belleville Rendez-vous	Original French title Les Triplettes de Belleville
Film	Dennis the Menace*	Dennis	Avoid confusion with unrelated British character Dennis the Menace
Film	Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle*	Harold and Kumar get the Munchies	White Castle restaurants unknown in the UK
Film	Highlander: The Final Dimension	Highlander 3: The Sorcerer*	Also Highlander 3: The Final Conflict in some markets.
Film	Howard the Duck*	Howard: A New Breed of Hero	Based on the comic Howard the Duck
Film	Live Free or Die Hard*	Die Hard 4.0	"Live Free or Die", the state motto of New Hampshire, is little known in the UK.
Film	Madonna: Truth or Dare*	In Bed With Madonna
Film	Out of the Past*	Build My Gallows High
Film	Sabrina * (1954)	Sabrina Fair	Sabrina Fair was the title of the original play.
Film	Stairway to Heaven	A Matter of Life and Death*
Film	The Concorde ... Airport '79*	Airport '80: The Concorde	Title matches year of initial release in each country
Film	The Conqueror Worm	Witchfinder General*	Lead Vincent Price had starred in several Edgar Allan Poe adaptations. This film has almost no connection to Poe's The Conqueror Worm.
Film	The Great Train Robbery*	The First Great Train Robbery	Based on The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton, unconnected to the 1963 heist known by that name in the UK.
Film	Victory	Escape to Victory
Film	Waking Ned Devine	Waking Ned
Film	xXx: State of the Union*	xXx 2: The Next Level	Non-Americans would be less familiar with the State of the Union Address
Film	Young Man with a Horn*	Young Man of Music	Avoid association "horn" = "erection"
Film	Zentropa	Europa	Name changed to avoid confusion with Europa Europa
Folk tale	Chicken Little	Chicken Licken	Usual names for The Sky Is Falling (fable)
Games console	Sega Genesis	Sega Mega Drive	Japanses company Sega could not get permission to use "Mega Drive" in the US due to a copyright dispute
Mock history	There'll Always be a Drayneflete	Drayneflete Revealed	U.S. title echoes There'll Always Be an England
Novel	A House Called Awful End	Awful End	Original German title Schlimmes Ende
Novel	Babe The Gallant Pig	The Sheep-Pig*	The corresponding film was titled Babe.
Novel and film	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone*	US editor felt that the original title "conveyed an incorrect idea of the subject matter"
Novel	A Silver Lining	If You Could See Me Now	By an Irish author. If You Could See Me Now is the original title.
Novel	His Majesty's Dragon*	Temeraire
Novel	Little Women, Part II*	Good Wives
Novel	Outlander*	Cross Stitch
Novel	Pigs Might Fly	Daggie Dogfoot*
Novel	Red Alert	Two Hours to Doom*
Novel	Rosie Dunne	Where Rainbows End*
Novel	Smilla's Sense of Snow	Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow	Titles of distinct translations of Danish Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne. Filmed as Smilla's Sense of Snow
Novel	Murder in the Calais Coach	Murder on the Orient Express*	avoid confusion with the novel Stamboul Train which had been published in the U.S. as Orient Express
Novel	The Children of the Sea: A Tale of the Forecastle	The Nigger of the 'Narcissus': A Tale of the Sea*	U.S. publisher objected to "nigger"
Novel	The Golden Compass	Northern Lights*	US publishers changed title due to vague resemblance of alethiometer on cover to a compass. The film version was titled The Golden Compass in all markets.
Novel	The Time Travelers	Gideon the Cutpurse
Novel	Orient Express	Stamboul Train*
Novel	The Unsleeping Eye*	The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe	Filmed as Death Watch
Novel	The War of Dreams	The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman*
Novel	Love, Rosie, or Rosie Dunne	Where Rainbows End	By an Irish author. Where Rainbows End is the original title.
Song	Morning Train (Nine to Five)	9 to 5* (Sheena Easton song)	Avoid confusion with 9 to 5 (Dolly Parton song)
TV series	Brilliant	The Fast Show*	Avoid confusion with unrelated US series The Fast Show
TV series	The Office (US)*	The Office: An American Workplace	Avoid confusion with original The Office (UK)
TV series	MI-5	Spooks*	In British slang, "spooks" are spies; in the US "spook" is an offensive term for African Americans.
TV series	Robin Hood	Robin of Sherwood*
Video game	Bully	Canis Canem Edit	A Canadian-made game. UK censors found "Bully" title unacceptable, although the title of Bully: Scholarship Edition was not changed. The UK title is Latin for "Dog eat dog".