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Title: "Die Walküre"
"Ride Of The Valkyries"
Composer (year): Wagner (1856)
Number: 33
Notable uses: Inevitable. From the climactic Klan ride in The Birth of a Nation (1915), Bugs Bunny's masterpiece What's Opera, Doc? (1957), the helicopter attack in Apocalypse Now (1979) and the three-mirrors bathroom sequence in Fellini's 8½ (1963), this truly is the ultimate 'operatic' ride.