List of appearances of Monument Valley in the media

Monument Valley, located on the Navajo Nation within Arizona and Utah, has been featured in many forms of media since the 1930s. It is perhaps most famous for its use in many John Ford films, including Stagecoach (1939) and The Searchers (1956). It has also been featured in the film Easy Rider (1969), Robert Zemeckis' film Forrest Gump, Clint Eastwood's film The Eiger Sanction (1975), and recently the popular United Kingdom television show Doctor Who in the two episodes "The Impossible Astronaut" and "Day of the Moon".

The twin buttes of Monument Valley ("the Mittens"), the "Totem Pole", and the Ear of the Wind arch, among other features, have developed iconic status. They have appeared in many television programs, commercials, and Hollywood movies, especially Westerns.

Monument Valley Panorama, taken from the Visitor Center and showing the "Mittens" and the road which makes a loop-tour through the Park

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Music

  • French band Air's 2001 album, 10 000 Hz Legend, features Monument Valley on its cover and throughout the LP's artwork.
  • American band Drive-By Truckers' 2008 CD, Brighter Than Creation's Dark ends with "The Monument Valley", a song with references to film making and movie director John Ford.
  • Rock band Eagles used Monument Valley on the cover of their 1985 UK Best of album. It shows the U.S. Route 163 heading south towards the East and West Mittens
  • The 2003 Led Zeppelin DVD features the West Mitten of Monument Valley on the cover.
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd's Album Twenty is a fictional picture of the mittens
  • The video for "I Disappear" by Metallica was partially shot in Monument Valley. The song was featured on the soundtrack to Mission: Impossible 2.
  • The cover of American Water by the Silver Jews is a stylised painting of Monument Valley by Chris Kysor.
  • Avant-Garde composer Buckethead depicts the valley in the cover and title of his album Monument Valley.
  • Rock band Soulfly shot their music video "Prophecy" in Monument Valley.
  • Al Stewart's 1978 album Time Passages uses the best-known view of the Valley on its cover.
  • The cover of Christian rock group Petra's 1989 album Petra Praise: The Rock Cries Out shows the band posing on top of one of the rock formations in Monument Valley.
  • Panoramas of Monument Valley were frequently shown in Kanye West's music video 'Bound 2' in November 2013.
  • Panic! at the Disco's music video for their single Hallelujah (Panic! at the Disco song) ,(2015) references the game, Monument Valley.
  • Post rock band Valley of the Giants uses imagery from Monument Valley on the cover of their 2004 eponymous album.
  • The Folk Rock band The Byrds features the valley in the counter cover of their album Untitled.

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Film

John Ford's Point in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

Advertising

  • The implied association with John Wayne's tough, macho character made the buttes a natural choice as the background for the Marlboro Man in the marketing of Marlboro-brand cigarettes from the 1950s.

Television

  • The rugged desert scenery for the Coyote and Road Runner (1949-) cartoons takes much of its inspiration from Monument Valley.
  • In the 1978 Super Friends episode "The Pied Piper from Space", alien space ships abduct children, including the Wonder Twins, and they board the spaceships at Monument Valley.
  • In the 1980s American action/espionage television series Airwolf, a hollowed butte is portrayed as the secret hiding place ("The Lair") of the eponymous high-tech military helicopter. Monument Valley is renamed the "Valley of the Gods" in this series. The actual Valley of the Gods is a few miles north in Utah. The shots of The Lair were actually a mix of matte paintings and shots from three locations within close proximity of each other.
  • The MacGyver episode "Eagles" (Season 2, Episode 8) has shots in the Valley. MacGyver is gathering eggs from an eagle's nest on top of a butte.
  • In their final television series De Reis vol Verrassingen, the Dutch duo Bassie en Adriaan spend an entire episode in Monument Valley. Among other things, clown Bassie performs a rain dance in front of The Three Sisters.
  • In the made-for-TV movie 10.5: Apocalypse, Monument Valley is flooded from seismic activity.
  • The 2011 Doctor Who episodes "The Impossible Astronaut" and "Day of the Moon" contain sequences shot in Monument Valley (although not in the exact location given in the episode). This was the first time Doctor Who has filmed principal photography on location in America. Past episodes that take place in America were never shot in the USA, including the 1996 TV film which takes place in San Francisco but was shot in Vancouver.
  • In a 2014 Adult Swim bump Monument Valley was shown with lights going through the trails.
  • Numerous scenes from the HBO series Westworld were filmed in Monument Valley.
  • Monument Valley appears in the third season premiere of the television adaptation of The Man in the High Castle, titled "Now More Than Ever, We Care About You." In this alternate history, the Empire of Japan tests an atomic bomb there.

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