Film and Television
- Wasteland Speech, a 1961 speech by FCC chairman Newton N. Minow in which he compares television to "a vast wasteland"
- Wasteland (TV series), an American television drama, debuted in 1999
- Teenage Wasteland (film), 2006 film written and directed by Welsh director Andrew Jones
- Waste Land (film), 2010 documentary about Brazilian trash-pickers and an artist who changed their lives
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