Rock band Eagles used Monument Valley on the cover of their 1985 UK Best of album.
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.French band Air's 2001 album, 10 000 Hz Legend, features Monument Valley on its cover and throughout the LP's artwork.In the game, Beyond Two Souls, the mission titled "Navajo" takes place in Monument Valley.Horizon Zero Dawn partly takes place in Monument Valley.
in the Nintendo 3DS game Code Name: S.T.E.A.M.
The video game Monument Valley for Windows Phone, Android, and iOS, is a puzzle game with several references to the actual valley.Monument Valley appears along US Route 160 in the 18 Wheels of Steel series.In the video game Counter-Strike, the outside of the map fy_pool_day resembles Monument Valley.In the video game Red Dead Redemption, the region Diez Coronas, Nuevo Paraiso strongly resembles Monument Valley.In the video game The King of Fighters '96, the Art of Fighting Team stage is set in Monument Valley.There is a stage that features Monument Valley in the video game Tekken.In the video game Need for Speed: Shift and its sequel Shift 2: Unleashed, the fictional track Ambush Canyon is situated in a region strikingly similar to Monument Valley.The PlayStation 3 video game MotorStorm released JP:DecemNA:MaPAL:Mais an aggressive off-road racing game set in Monument Valley.Bone County featured in GTA: San Andreas is based on Monument Valley.In the video game F29 Retaliator, the American Desert area includes a base set in Monument Valley.The video game AeroWings for the Dreamcast console has a stage set in Monument Valley.Fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar used Monument Valley as a backdrop for a fashion editorial shot by Yasuhiro Wakabayashi for the January 1969 issue.A Monument Valley photo was used in Windows Vista Beta 2 as wallpaper.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.They have appeared in many television programs, commercials, and Hollywood movies, especially Westerns. 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. It has also been featured in such films as Easy Rider (1969), directed by and co-starring Dennis Hopper Forrest Gump (1994), directed by Robert Zemeckis, and The Eiger Sanction (1972), directed by and starring Clint Eastwood and in two episodes of the popular United Kingdom television show Doctor Who: " The Impossible Astronaut" (23 April 2011) and " Day of the Moon" (30 April 2011). It is perhaps most famous for its use in many John Ford films, such as Stagecoach (1939) and The Searchers (1956). Monument Valley, located on the Navajo Nation within Arizona and Utah, has been featured in many forms of media since the 1930s.