Brotherhood Explained

Brotherhood or The Brotherhood may refer to:

Family, relationships, and organizations

• Fraternity (philosophy) or brotherhood, an ethical relationship between people, which is based on love and solidarity
• Fraternity or brotherhood, a male social organization
• Brother, a male sibling
• Brother (Christian), the title used for a monk in certain monastic orders
  • Lay brother, a monk primarily focused on secular work rather than prayer and worship
  • Orthodox brotherhood, also Bratstva, members of an urban Eastern Orthodox community in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
• Brotherhood (Order of the Arrow), a membership level in the Boy Scouts of America honor society
• The Brotherhood, a video game company whose publications include the 2015 horror adventure game Stasis

Film

• The Brotherhood (1968 film), an American crime drama directed by Martin Ritt, starring Kirk Douglas
• The Brotherhood (2001 film), a homoerotic horror film by David Decoteau, the first in a series
• The Brotherhood (2017 film), a 2017 Indian documentary film
• The Brotherhood (film series), a series of homoerotic horror films
• Brotherhood, a 1986 film directed by Stephen Shin
• , a 2004 South Korean film
• Brotherhood (2009 film) (Danish: Broderskab|links=no), a Danish drama
• Brotherhood (2010 film), an American thriller directed by Will Canon
• Brotherhood (2016 film), a British drama film and third and final installment to Noel Clarke's Kidulthood Trilogy
• Brotherhood (2018 film), a Canadian short film directed by Meryam Joobeur
• Brotherhood (2019 film), a Canadian drama film directed by Richard Bell
• Brotherhood (2022 film), a Nigerian film directed by Loukman Ali

Music

• Brotherhood (3T album), 1995
• Brotherhood (B'z album), 1999
• Brotherhood (The Chemical Brothers album), 2008
• Brotherhood (The Doobie Brothers album), 1991
• Brotherhood (New Order album), 1986
• The Brotherhood (Lynch Mob album), 2017
• The Brotherhood (Running Wild album), 2002
• The Brotherhood (rap group), a 1990s British hip hop group

Television

• Brotherhood (2002 TV series), a 2002 Singaporean-Chinese drama series
• Brotherhood (American TV series), a 2006–2008 American crime drama series
• Brotherhood (British TV series), a 2015 British sitcom
• Brotherhood (Brazilian TV series), a 2019 Brazilian crime drama web television series
• "Brotherhood" (Arrow), an episode of Arrow
• "Brotherhood" (Person of Interest), an episode of Person of Interest
• "The Brotherhood" (Stargate Atlantis), an episode of Stargate Atlantis
• , the second anime version of the manga Fullmetal Alchemist
• The Love School, a 1975 British series also known as The Brotherhood
• , an original net animation series supplementing Final Fantasy XV

Fiction

• The Brotherhood (comics), a Marvel series featuring a version of the Brotherhood of Mutants
• The Brotherhood, an organization based on the Communist party in Ralph Ellison's novel Invisible Man
• The Brotherhood (Nineteen Eighty-Four), a fictitious organization in George Orwell's novel Nineteen-Eighty Four

Video games

• , a 2010 video game
• The Brotherhood, a fictional gang in the 2008 video game Saints Row 2

Other uses

• The Brotherhood, a professional wrestling tag team composed of Cody and Dustin Rhodes
• Brotherhood (Ukrainian political party), a Ukrainian national Christian anarchist political party
• The Brotherhood, a 1984 expose of Freemasonry by Stephen Knight
• The Brotherhood, an alternative name for the Brodhull, an assembly for representatives of the Cinque Ports, a historic confederation of towns in England

See also

• Brother (disambiguation)
• Brothers (disambiguation)
• Ahva (disambiguation) (Hebrew: אחווה|links=no, lit. Brotherhood), for Israel-related articles
• Swedish: [[Brödraskapet]] (English: The Brotherhood), a Swedish prison gang
• Sodality, a type of religious organization
  • • Band of Brothers (disambiguation)
• Brothers in Arms (disambiguation)
• Fraternity (disambiguation)
• Sisterhood (disambiguation)