Assault (disambiguation)

Assault is a crime and a tort involving physically harming, or threatening to harm, another person.

Assault may also refer to:

Law

• Assault (tort), in common law, an intentional act causing the reasonable apprehension of harmful contact
• Common assault, an offence in English law similar to the above
• Psychic assault, a term sometimes used as a synonym for assault to distinguish from the crime of battery

Arts and entertainment

Films

• Assault (film), a 1971 British crime thriller
• The Assault (1936 film), a French drama
• The Assault (1986 film), a Dutch film set in WWII, based on the 1982 Mulisch novel
• The Assault (1996 film), an American action movie
• The Assault (2010 film), a French action thriller
• The Assault (2017 film), an American crime action movie

Video games

• Assault (1983 video game), a fixed shooter game for the Atari 2600
• Assault (1988 video game), a multi-directional shooter arcade game
• Assault: Retribution, a 1998 video game for the PlayStation console
• Star Fox: Assault, a 2005 video game for the Nintendo GameCube console

Other media

• The Assault, a 1982 Dutch novel by Harry Mulisch
• Assault Championship Wrestling, Connecticut, U.S.
• "Assault", a 1994 song by Daft Punk

Other uses

• Assault (horse) (1943–1971), a Texas-bred American racehorse
• Assault, a military tactic
• Assault Sethu, fictional gangster in the 2014 Indian film Jigarthanda

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Assault
• All pages with titles containing Assault