Top 5 Classical Music Movie Moments

#3:

Ride of the Valkyries in ‘Apocalypse Now’ (1979)

Paramount Pictures

In his troubled but brilliant anti-war masterpiece; director Francis Ford Coppola punctuates one of his signature scenes by using Richard Wagner’s rousing piece from the “Die Walküre” opera as his own battle-cry, announcing impending doom to the latest Vietnamese village as Colonel Kilgore’s 1st Cavalry Division sweeps in.

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando and Robert Duvall among others.

Genre: Drama, War

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