Film and Television
- The Jackpot, a 1950 comedy
- Jackpot (1960 film), a British crime film
- Jackpot (1993 film), a 1993 Malayalam-language film
- Jackpot (2001 film), a comedy-drama
- Jackpot (2009 film), a Bengali film
- Jackpot (2013 film)
- Jackpot (game show), a television game show seen in three different runs between 1974 and 1990
- Jackpot (Irish TV series), an Irish general knowledge quiz show
- "Jackpot" (CSI), a 2003 episode from the fourth season of the American television series, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, with a plot set in Jackpot, Nevada
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