# Nightfall

Nightfall or night fall may refer to:

## Time of day

* Sunset or sundown, the daily disappearance of the Sun below the western half of the horizon
* Twilight, the period during which the Sun is at most 18° below the horizon and when the sky is illuminated by indirect sunlight scattered in the upper atmosphere
* Nautical dusk, the last stage of twilight in the evening before night

## Film

* Nightfall (1956 film), an American film noir by Jacques Tourneur
* Nightfall (1988 film), a film starring David Birney
* Nightfall (1999 film), a film starring Jeff Rector
* Nightfall (1999 German film), a film by Fred Kelemen
* Nightfall (2000 film), a film starring Ashish Vidyarthi
* Nightfall (2012 film), a Hong Kong crime thriller by Chow Hin-yeung

## Gaming

* Nightfall (video game), the first real-time 3D adventure game, released in 1998
* Nightfall Games, a UK role-playing game publishing company
* Guild Wars Nightfall, a 2006 computer game in the Guild Wars series
* Nightfall, a deck-building card game by Alderac Entertainment Group
* Nightfall: Escape, a first-person survival horror game by Zeenoh, released in 2016
* Nightfall, a cancelled video game by Maxis South

## Literature
### Stories and novels

* "Nightfall" (Asimov novelette and novel), a 1941 science fiction story by Isaac Asimov, and a 1990 adapted novel by Asimov and Robert Silverberg
** Nightfall and Other Stories, a 1969 collection of short stories by Asimov
* Night Fall (novel), a 2004 novel by Nelson DeMille
* Nightfall, a novel by Will Elliott
* Nightfall, a 1947 novel by David Goodis
* Nightfall, a 2017 fantasy book in the Keeper of the Lost Cities series by Shannon Messenger
* Nightfall, a two-novel fantasy series by Mickey Zucker Reichert
* The Return: Nightfall, a 2009 novel by L. J. Smith
* "Nightfall" (Clarke story), or "The Curse", a 1947 short story by Arthur C. Clarke
* "Nightfall", a 2003 short story incorporated into the 2005 Manfred Macx novel Accelerando by Charles Stross

### Comics

* Nightfall (comics), a DC Comics supervillain
* Nightfall: The Black Chronicles, a 1999–2000 comic book mini-series published by Wildstorm/Homage Comics
* Nightfall, a graphic novel by Scott O. Brown

## Music

* Nightfall (band), a Greek heavy metal band
* Nightfall (Candlemass album), 1987
* Nightfall (Louis Hayes album), 1991
* Nightfall (Charlie Haden album), 2004
* Nightfall (Little Big Town album), 2020
* "Nightfall", a song by Amorphis from Tuonela
* "Nightfall", a song by Blind Guardian from Nightfall in Middle-Earth
* "Nightfall", a song by Circle of Dust from Circle of Dust
* "Nightfall", a song by The Devil Wears Prada from ZII
* "Nightfall", a song by the Incredible String Band from The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
* "Nightfall", a song by Stratovarius from Fourth Dimension
* "Nightfall", a song by Xandria from Sacrificium
* "Nightfall" (Interlude), a song by Tinashe from Aquarius
* "Nightfalls", a song by Keith Urban

## Radio and television

* Nightfall (radio series), a 1980–1983 Canadian supernatural/horror series
* "Night Fall" (Yin-Yang-Yo!), an episode of the TV series Yin-Yang-Yo!
* "Nightfall", an episode of the radio program Dimension X, based on the Isaac Asimov story (see above)
* Operation Nightfall, a fictional operation in the first season of the TV series 24
* Halo: Nightfall, a 2014 series set in the Halo universe

## Other

* Nightfall meteorite, the colloquial name for the El Ali meteorite
* Nocturnal emission, a spontaneous orgasm during sleep that includes ejaculation for a male, or vaginal wetness or an orgasm (or both) for a female.