<Ul> <Li> The poem is referenced in Eugene V. Debs' Canton Speech (1918). </Li> <Li> The film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) features a quote from the poem, when United States Navy Commander Shears remarks on the guts of Colonel Nicholson, who stands to face the possibility of death for refusing that his officers participate in manual labor . </Li> <Li> At the beginning of the horror film Burnt Offerings (1976), patriarch Ben prophetically foreshadows his family's destruction by paraphrasing, "Forward into the Valley of Death rode the six hundred ." He says this for no apparent reason as his family first enters an isolated mansion in the country they intend to rent; none of them realize that the mansion is evil and requires periodic human sacrifice to renovate itself . </Li> <Li> In the 1985 film Clue, Tim Curry states he is quoting Sir Alfred Lloyd Tennyson when he says "Ours is not to question why, ours is to do and die ." </Li> <Li> In the 1985 film The Falcon and the Snowman, protagonist Chris Boyce recites several lines of the poem in response to insistent prompting by his father . </Li> <Li> In 1990, a Season 1 episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel - Air entitled, "Def Poet's Society", features a poem based on The Charge of the Light Brigade . The sitcom's character, Geoffrey, impersonating a fictional famous poet named Raphael DeLaGhetto, recites a paraphrased version of the poem . Notably, he quotes, "CANNONS, TO THE LEFT OF THEM . CANNONS, TO THE RIGHT OF THEM . VOLLEYED AND THUNDERED". </Li> <Li> In "Sacrifice of Angels", (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 6 Episode 6, 1997), as the USS Defiant and a Federation fleet are about to go into battle against a much larger enemy force, Miles O'Brien and Julian Bashir recite lines from the poem until Nog asks them to stop . Later in the episode Elim Garak asks how that poem ends, to be told by O'Brien "You don't want to know ." </Li> <Li> In the film Saving Private Ryan (1998), Private Reiben asks why eight men are sent to save one . Corporal Timothy E. Upham replies with a quote from the poem, "Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die". Captain Miller responds that it is about their "duty as soldiers" to follow their orders, which supersedes everything, including their mothers, even if they think the mission is doomed to failure . Captain Miller shows his acquaintance with Emerson's works too . The film later reveals that Captain Miller taught English composition at Thomas Alva Edison High School for eleven years before the war . </Li> <Li> Jean Johnson's military sci - fi book series, Theirs Not To Reason Why, and the first book, A Soldier's Duty, were nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award in 2011 . </Li> <Li> In a response to the near destruction of Taffy 3 at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the padding in Admiral Nimitz's inquiry about Halsey's Battleship Task Force, "Where is TF 34?" was "The world wonders ." Some speculate that it is a reference to the poem and a comment on the heroic but near suicidal charge of the three destroyers, four destroyer escorts, and lightly armed bombers and fighters of Taffy 3 against the Japanese Centre Force, made up of battleships, including the Yamato, heavy cruisers, light cruisers, and 11 destroyers . </Li> <Li> The poem inspired the Iron Maiden song "The Trooper" (1983). </Li> <Li> The character Dr. Reed Akley on Manhattan recites three lines of the poem, in Episode 12 . </Li> <Li> The TV show Top Gear referenced the poem and its origins in series 21, episode 3, during a trip through Ukraine . When stopping at a spot near the battlefield, the team commented on the event and Jeremy Clarkson quoted Tennyson's poem . </Li> <Li> In the film The Blind Side (2009) Michael Oher doesn't know what to write about in his final English essay . His adoptive father quotes the first two stanzas and explains them using a football analogy . </Li> <Li> It is referenced in "The Light Brigade" (1996) episode of The Outer Limits television series . </Li> <Li> The poem is referenced in the closing lyrics of KMFDM's song "Professional Killer" from their 2005 album Hau Ruck . </Li> <Li> It is referenced in the 2016 Johnny Flynn song "Heart Sunk Hank" on the album Sillion . The lyric in the first verse says, "' Ours is but to do and die', said Alfred to the Charging Light". </Li> <Li> Charge of the Light Brigade is the title of a card in Yu - Gi - Oh! trading card game and related media . </Li> </Ul> <Li> The poem is referenced in Eugene V. Debs' Canton Speech (1918). </Li> <Li> The film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) features a quote from the poem, when United States Navy Commander Shears remarks on the guts of Colonel Nicholson, who stands to face the possibility of death for refusing that his officers participate in manual labor . </Li> <Li> At the beginning of the horror film Burnt Offerings (1976), patriarch Ben prophetically foreshadows his family's destruction by paraphrasing, "Forward into the Valley of Death rode the six hundred ." He says this for no apparent reason as his family first enters an isolated mansion in the country they intend to rent; none of them realize that the mansion is evil and requires periodic human sacrifice to renovate itself . </Li>

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