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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Type of work United States United Kingdom Notes
Album Security Peter Gabriel (1982 album)* This was the fourth album released by Peter Gabriel with the name Peter Gabriel.
Autobiography All Will Be Well Memoir (John McGahern Book)*
Book Holy Blood, Holy Grail The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail*
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 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 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 "Philosopher's Stone" conveyed an incorrect idea of the subject matter
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 The Unsleeping Eye* The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe Filmed as Death Watch
Novel The War of Dreams The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman*
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 *
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".
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