Eiffel Tower in popular culture


 * 1923: René Clair's Paris qui dort starts, ends and has many scenes on the tower.
 * 1949: In The Man On The Eiffel Tower, the tower plays a central role, and the climax involves a climbing chase that predates the Mount Rushmore scene in North by Northwest.
 * 1951: In The Lavender Hill Mob, models of the tower are central to the plot, and the climax takes place on the real tower.
 * 1953: At the end of The War of the Worlds, the tower is seen destroyed.
 * 1958: At the beginning of Francois Truffaut's The 400 Blows, the tower is seen between Parisian apartment blocks.
 * 1965: At the end of the Blake Edwards' The Great Race, starring Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, the tower is blown up by a misfired cannon shot from Professor Fate's car.
 * 1968–2001: A miniature tower is the home of the puppet Grandpere in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
 * 1970: The tower is shown in the classic animated film The Aristocats.
 * 1980: In Superman II, the tower (and the rest of Paris) are almost blown up by a terrorist nuclear bomb, and Lois Lane almost plunges to her death under its elevator.
 * 1980: Sexy Eiffel Tower, by the pop group Bow Wow Wow.
 * 1981: Condorman attempts to fly off the tower in the movie by the same name.
 * 1985: The James Bond film A View to a Kill contains a scene in the tower, including scenes in the Jules Verne restaurant there (filmed elsewhere), a fight on the stairway, and a BASE jump off the top of the tower.
 * 1985: In National Lampoon's European Vacation, Clark throws Rusty's beret off the tower. A dog, thinking it is a frisbee, jumps after it. Because a PG-13 was sought, the dog's life is saved by landing in a pond at the bottom of the tower.
 * 1991: In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, the tower is shown as still standing in the 23rd century and is visible from the office of the Federation President. The tower is seen in 24th-century Paris in the episode "We'll Always Have Paris" (1988) of Star Trek: The Next Generation and in two episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "Homefront" and "Paradise Lost" (1996).
 * In the 1992 episode Tower of Power of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, Krang has a giant electromagnet, and wants to use it to pull the Technodrome from its Dimension X asteroid location by using the Eiffel Tower as an antenna. The Eiffel Tower begins to be pulled loose from its foundations and towards the dimensional portal. At the last minute, Donatello destroys the generator and the Eifel Tower falls down to the ground.
 * In the 1992 episode Rust Never Sleeps of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, Bebop and Rocksteady blast metals with Krangs "oxidizer rocket". The "oxidizer rocket" was originally planned by Krang to use to send the Technodrome to Earth, and when it failed, Krang thinks that it can be used by threatening to rust metal if the people don't surrender to Krang and Shredder. Even the Eiffel Tower gets blasted, and begins to collapse from rust. In the end, Donatello reverses Krangs device to turn the metals back to normal.
 * 1995: In La Haine, the main protagonists lament the fact that they cannot switch the lights of the tower off like people can in the movies. The lights switch off just after they have given up and turned their backs on the tower.
 * 1995: In French Kiss, Kate misses seeing the tower several times while she wanders around Paris, but later spends several minutes rapturously watching it while on the train to Cannes (from which line it is not possible to see the tower).
 * 1995: In Forget Paris, Miki and Ellen are shown in front of the tower numerous times throughout the film.
 * 1995: In the real-time strategy game of Command & Conquer, the tower is one of four selectable targets for the Global Defense Initiative's hijacked Ion Cannon weapon during the ending sequence of the Brotherhood of Nod scenario.
 * 1996: The tower can be seen on TV in Independence Day (and is destroyed in the French movie version).
 * 1996: The tower appears in the Paris level in the PlayStation game Twisted Metal 2. The tower can be blown up using a remote bomb and falls as a bridge to other buildings.
 * 1996: In Mars Attacks!, the tower is destroyed by Martians.
 * 1998: The tower is destroyed in Armageddon.
 * 2000: In Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, the babies are atop the tower while using the giant Reptar invention.
 * 2000: In the real-time strategy game of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Soviet forces turn the tower into a giant tesla coil capable of destroying all French forces in the area. For copyright reasons, it is called the "Paris Tower" in the game.
 * 2001: In The Royal Tenenbaums, the tower appears reflected on the window in a brief scene of Margot Tenenbaum (Gwyneth Paltrow) with her French lover.
 * 2001: In Moulin Rouge!, a pistol thrown from Montmartre by Christian (Ewan McGregor) during the finale bounces off the tower underneath the smiling moon.
 * 2003: In The Real World Paris television show on the US MTV network, the tower is seen.
 * 2003: The tower features in Looney Tunes: Back in Action.
 * 2004: In Van Helsing, the tower is under construction.
 * 2004: In Team America: World Police, a rocket blows up the tower, and it falls on the Arc de Triomphe.
 * 2004: In Onimusha 3: Demon Siege, the tower is turned into a stronghold time-portal built by Genma Head-Scientist Guildenstein.
 * 2004: The tower flies and moves around Paris in the puppet version of Without a Paddle, in a scene that starts only after the credits end.
 * 2004: In Godzilla: Final Wars, Kamacuras attacks the tower.
 * 2004: The tower is seen in Eurotrip.
 * 2005: The tower features in La vue de la Tour Eiffel by Montenegrin director Nikola Vukcevic.
 * 2005: In Evil Genius, the tower can be shrunk and stolen.
 * 2005: The tower can be built as a World Wonder in Civilization IV.
 * 2005: The tower can be seen in the background, in a scene in the movie Munich
 * 2006: In the game Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII, part of the French Resistance level requires the player to destroy German anti-aircraft guns on and around the tower.