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Crossroads, or crossroad, or cross road may refer to:

• A junction (road) where four roads meet

In arts, entertainment, and media

Film

• Cross Roads (film), a 1930 British film directed by Reginald Fogwell
• Crossroads (1937 film), a Chinese film starring Zhao Dan
• Crossroads (1942 film), a mystery film directed by Jack Conway
• Crossroads (1976 film), directed by Bruce Conner
• Crossroad (1976 film), Hong Kong-Taiwanese film directed by Chin Han
• Crossroads (1986 film), starring Ralph Macchio
• Crossroads (2002 film), starring Britney Spears

Literature

• Cross Roads (novel), Christian fiction by William Paul Young
• Crossroads (comics), a five issue limited series from First Comics
• Crossroad (manga), a 2003 seven volume manga series
• Crossroads (series), a high fantasy series of books written by Kate Elliott

Music

Albums

• Cross Road, a 1994 compilation album by Bon Jovi
• Crossroads (1986 soundtrack)
• Crossroads (Eric Clapton album)
  • Its sequel, Crossroads 2: Live in the Seventies (box set)
• Crossroad (Masami Okui album), 2002
• Crossroads (Tracy Chapman album), or the title track
• Crossroads (mind.in.a.box album), 2007
• Crossroads (Sylver album), 2006
• Crossroad: Unplugged Live (Calvin Russell album), 2001

Songs

• "Cross Road" (song), by Mr. Children
• "Cross Road Blues", a 1936 blues song by Robert Johnson, later recorded as "Crossroads" by many other musicians
• "Crossroad" (song), a 2010 Ayumi Hamasaki song
• "Crossroads", a single by Avenged Sevenfold from Live in the LBC & Diamonds in the Rough
• "Crossroads", song by LL Cool J, from the album 14 Shots to the Dome
• "Crossroads", Don McLean song, from American Pie
• "Tha Crossroads", a 1996 Grammy Award winning single by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
  • "Crossroads", a 2002 UK number-one single from Blazin' Squad based on the above
• "Crossroads", a 1991 single by Calvin Russell, composed by Sailor White

Other

• Crossroads (quartet), winner of the 2009 BHS international quartet championship
• Crossroads Guitar Festival, a three-day blues and rock concert arranged by Eric Clapton

Television

Series

• Crossroads (1955 TV series), an anthology centered on the lives of members of the clergy of various religious denominations
• Crossroads (1992 TV series)
• Crossroads (CMT TV series)
• Crossroads (soap opera), a British soap opera (1964–1988 and 2001–2003)
• Crossroads (VH1 TV series)
• America at a Crossroads, a PBS series about radical Islam and the second Gulf War

Episodes

• "Crossroads" (Band of Brothers), the fifth part of HBO's Band of Brothers miniseries
• "Crossroads" (Battlestar Galactica), a 2007 episode of Battlestar Galactica
• "Crossroads" (Jericho episode), a 2006 episode of the CBS drama Jericho
• "Crossroads" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of Stargate SG-1

Other uses

• Crossroads Christian Communications, a media company and television network in Canada

Videogames

• Crossroads (video game), a 1987 chaotic shooter video game for the Commodore 64

In places

Australia

• Cross Road, Adelaide, road in Adelaide, Australia
• Crossroads Medieval Village, a medieval commune style project in NSW, Australia, near Yass

United States

Geography

• Cross Roads, Monroe County, Arkansas
• Cross Roads, Indiana, an unincorporated community in Delaware County
• Crossroads, Kansas City, a neighborhood in downtown Kansas City, Missouri
• Florence, Kentucky, formerly known as Crossroads
• Hustonville, Kentucky, formerly known as The Crossroads
• "The Crossroads", an intersection of U.S. Route 61 and U.S. Route 49 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the Devil
• Crossroads, George County, Mississippi
• Crossroads, Missouri, an unincorporated community in Stone County
• Cross Roads, Pennsylvania, a borough in York County
• Crossroads, Tennessee
• Crossroads, Wayne County, Tennessee
• Cross Roads, Texas, an incorporated town in Denton County
• Cross Roads, Henderson County, Texas, an unincorporated community
• Surry, Virginia, formerly Cross Roads
• Crossroads, Bellevue, Washington, a neighborhood
• Crossroads, Monongalia County, West Virginia
• Crossroads, Summers County, West Virginia

Nicknames

• Crossroads of America, an unofficial nickname for Indiana

Shopping malls

• Crossroads Center, a shopping mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota
• Crossroads Mall (Boulder), a former shopping mall in Boulder, Colorado
• Crossroads Mall (Florida), a former shopping mall in the Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida Bay Area
• Crossroads Mall (Oklahoma), a shopping mall in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
• Crossroads Mall (Omaha), a shopping mall in Omaha, Nebraska
• Crossroads Center (Waterloo, IA), a shopping mall in Waterloo, Iowa
• Crossroads Plaza (North Carolina), a shopping district in Cary, North Carolina, near Raleigh
• The Crossroads (Portage, Michigan), a shopping mall in Portage, Michigan

Elsewhere

• Cross Roads, Jamaica a primarily commercial neighbourhood of Kingston, Jamaica
• Cross Roads, West Yorkshire, England, UK
• Crossroads, Cape Town, South Africa
• Crossroads Centre, an addiction rehabilitation facility on Antigua in Antigua and Barbuda
• Crossroads Mall (Mumbai), the first shopping mall in Bombay, India – possibly the first such mall in India
• The Cross-roads, a location in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth

In companies and organizations

• American Crossroads, a non-profit political organization
• Crossroads Care, a charity for carers in England and Wales
  • Crossroads Caring Scotland, a parallel charity in Scotland
• Crossroad Publishing Company, a New York-based publishing house
• Carrefour (English: Crossroads), an international supermarket chain founded in France

In other uses

• Crossroads (hieroglyph), an Egyptian language hieroglyph
• Crossroads (mythology), in folk magic, a location "between the worlds"
• Crossroads Movement, which gave rise to the International Churches of Christ
• Crossroads village, a term for a settlement situated at a crossroads
• Operation Crossroads, the 1946 atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll

See also

• Burial at cross-roads, a place where executed criminals and suicides were traditionally buried
• Crossroads Church (disambiguation)
• Crossroads School (disambiguation)
• Fork in the road (disambiguation)