The River is a 1938 short documentary film which shows the importance of the Mississippi River to the United States, and how farming and timber practices had caused topsoil to be swept down the river and into the Gulf of Mexico.
The River is a double album by Bruce Springsteen released in 1980 (see 1980 in music).
The River is a 1951 film directed by Jean Renoir. It was filmed in India, and was seminal to the launching of the careers of Satyajit Ray, who assisted on the film, and Subrata Mitra, Ray's cinematographer whom he met during the filming of The River.
The River was a British TV series from 1989 starring David Essex, Katy Murphy and David Ryall.
The River is a 1991 young adult novel by Gary Paulsen. It takes place two years after the book Hatchet.
"The River" is a song by the pop punk band, Good Charlotte featuring Synyster Gates and M. Shadows of Avenged Sevenfold. The song is to be the first single off of the Good Morning Revival album.
The River is a 1929 film starring Charles Farrell and directed by Frank Borzage. The movie has been mostly lost, but the remaining reels were shown in 2006 by the American Museum of the Moving Image in New York City during a Frank Borzage retrospective, with still slides and explanatory title cards used to bridge the missing gaps. Borzage also directed Farrell with Janet Gaynor in Seventh Heaven (1927), Street Angel (1928), and Lucky Star (1929) during this period.