Ride of the Valkyries

'Ride of the Valkyries' Arthur Rackham In Francis Ford Coppola's seminal Vietnam War epic, Apocalypse Now, Air Cavalry Colonel Kilgore, flies into battle out of the sun to the sound of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries, enough to extract shock and awe from the inhabitants of a soon to be decimated village. Kilgore's primary purpose …