History Main / NationalAnthem

* ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' has a famous scene: [[ThoseWackyNazis The German officers]] at Rick's are singing ''Die Wacht am Rhein'', effectively lording their superiority over everyone; in response, the infuriated French expatriates, sympathizers, and loyalists drown them out with ''La Marseillaise''. (Actually, ''Die Wacht am Rhein'' wasn't the Third Reich's national anthem, but ''Das Horst-Wessel-Lied'' was under copyright to the Nazi Party, and Warner Brothers would have been forced to pay royalties to them (the movie was produced before Pearl Harbor), so they changed it out. It still worked, however, because ''Die Wacht am Rhein'' is specifically a German patriotic anthem about ''fighting against the French''.)

* The film of ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober'' features the Soviet National Anthem being sung by the crew of ''Red October'' when the silent drive is first engaged, resulting in Jonesy, the sonar operator of ''USS Dallas'', hearing a brief snatch of this on his sonar.
** It's also playing in Admiral Padorin's office.

A common (and TruthInTelevision) joke is that no one knows all the verses of their national anthem. Usually [[SecondVerseCurse only one or two verses are sung]], and the contents of later verses might often shock people.

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Penny's mom is the featured soloist for "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the start of "The Baseball Game". It becomes a 14-minute long production number, complete with yodeling choir backup.

** Also in 1968, Music/JoseFeliciano was asked to sing the anthem at Game 5 of the Cardinals/Tigers World series. As a blind Puerto Rican American, Feliciano took this very seriously and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1ZQawbo4Mo his version]] was intended as grateful, thoughtful, even dreamlike. There were no cheers from the stands, just booing and ominous rumbling. "Real, patriotic" Americans were outraged. Most record stores stopped selling his records, and most radio stations stopped playing him. But an unauthorized recording actually hit the ''Billboard'' charts and sold over 50,000 copies in Detroit alone. On October 14, 2012, Feliciano [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38gfeGjrN1s once again sang the anthem]] at the NLCS, and this time no one booed.

** Meanwhile the largly disregarded black people of [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra Rimwards Howondaland]] have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJrGfTQH5HY&list=PLIa36ETako3MaZaw7-I0qEuflOniBvTWd&index=1 their own anthem]]. The [[StateSec BOSS]] don't likeit very much and it's illegal. It begins ''n'kosi sikeleli' Wondaland...''

* ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'': Wilbur wrote one for the country that he founded, L'Manburg, to the tune of "Hallelujah". It was sung multiple times in the server, for [[DarkReprise various]] [[DespairEventHorizon reasons]].

* The {{UsefulNotes/GBA}} port of VideoGame/{{Wings}} plays the German national anthem if you choose to fly for the Kaiser.

* Former Conservative Secretary of State for Wales John Redwood has never lived down his attempt to fake his way through the Welsh National Anthem at a televised event in 1993. Although, to his credit, he did later learn the words. His successor, William Hague, didn't want to repeat that experience, so asked a civil servant in Wales, Ffion Jenkins, to teach him the words. Hague then married her. So I'm sure he was grateful for Redwood's slip up.

* The [[UsefulNotes/FrenchPoliticalSystem French National Assembly]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRvm0AgvJNY spontaneously began singing La Marseillaise]] in response to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2015_%C3%8Ele-de-France_attacks 2 terrorist attacks in the same week of January 2015]] (which included the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo_shooting Charlie Hebdo Shootings]]). It was as if to make a statement that despite being in their nation's {{darkest hour}} since UsefulNotes/WorldWarII until a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2015_Paris_attacks few months later]], and again [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Nice_attack the following year]], France will not abandon [[WideEyedIdealist its ideals in retaliation to these attacks]].

** Meanwhile the largly disregarded black people of [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra Rimwards Howondaland]] have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhUMsqei7kM&index=6&t=0s&list=PLIa36ETako3P_RKRg1uoedNGuP9RDDA6P their own anthem]]. The [[StateSec BOSS]] don't likeit very much and it's illegal. It begins ''n'kosi sikeleli' Wondaland...''
** And [[TykeBomb a young student]] of [[UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} Rodinian]] language and culture, invited to join expat Rodinians in Ankh-Morpork as part of her teaching, finds the evening finishes on the Great Hymn Of Rodinia. She listens, watching the people around her draw close and clasping hands or arms or shoulders in unity, are singing at least ''three'' different versions. Lieutenant Irena Politeka of the Air Watch, for instance, singing of "the Communist ideal" and of "treading unafraid the path where the Man of Iron did lead". And that Captain Olga Romanoff, also of the Air Watch, was making a point of singing about "a nation glorified under the loving fatherly wisdom of the Tsar", while other went a carefully non-committal third way that just referred to "Sacred Mother Rodinia". But that ''everybody'' came together on the lines about "Great Rus people, eternally unified" and "Sing to the Motherland!" [[note]] The various evolutions of the Russian national anthem across a century:especially the lyrical changes in the 1944-adapted anthem. But with some pre-1917 Tsarism thrown in...[[/note]]

* ''Series/TheStand'': At the end of part 3 of the mini-series, "The Betrayal," the group in Boulder stand and sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" as a moment of solidarity with one another and of quiet defiance against the evil forces trying to take over what's left of America.

* In one of John Sladek's satirical science fiction novels [[note]]That's right, this troper remembered the quote but forgot the exact source[[/note]] it's mentioned that some people are singing different lyrics to "The Star-Spangled Banner", viz:

** And [[TykeBomb a young student]] of [[UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} Rodinian]] language and culture, invited to join expat Rodinians in Ankh-Morpork as part of her teaching, finds the evening finishes on the Great Hymn Of Rodinia. She listens, watching the people around her draw close and clasping hands or arms or shoulders in unity, are singing at least ''three'' different versions. Lieutenant Irena Politeka of the Air Watch, for instance, singing of "the Communist ideal" and of "treading unafraid the path where the Man of Iron did lead". And that Captain Olga Romanoff, also of the Air Watch, was making a point of singing about "a nation glorified under the loving fatherly wisdom of the Tsar", while other went a carefully non-committal third way that just referred to "Sacred Mother Rodinia". But that ''everybody'' came together on the lines about "Great Rus people, eternally unified" and "Sing to the Motherland!" [[note]] The various evolutions of the Russian national anthem across a century:especially the lyrical changes in the 1944-adapted anthem. But with some pre-1917 Tsarism thrown in...[/note[[

** Meanwhile the largly disregarded black people of [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra Rimwards Howondaland]] have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhUMsqei7kM&index=6&t=0s&list=PLIa36ETako3P_RKRg1uoedNGuP9RDDA6P their own anthem]]. The [[StateSec BOSS]] don't like it very much and it's illegal. It begins ''n'kosi sikeleli' Wondaland...''

* In the Irish film ''Film/TheWindThatShakesTheBarley'', the main characters have been imprisoned in a small jail by the British Army, and as one of their number is taken away for torture, they sing the Irish National Anthem, Amhrán na bhFiann, to help him endure. However, Amhrán na bhFiann was not adopted as the national anthem until 1926, 5 years after the movie takes place.

** In the original trilogy, "the anthem" plays on several occasions, notably at the end of each day in the arena when the Capitol seal is projected into the sky, along with the faces of any tributes who've died within the last 24 hours. However, it's not known if the anthem being played is "Gem of Panem" or another tune.

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* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Penny’s mom is the featured soloist for "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the start of “The Baseball Game.” It becomes a 14-minute long production number, complete with yodeling choir backup.

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-->'''Another Website/YouTube commenter:''' Is it just a coincidence that the song sounds like this and that in [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker Peace Walker]] it's revealed that Big Boss believes in Santa Claus?

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* ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'': Wilbur wrote one for the country that he founded, L'Manburg. It was sung multiple times in the server, for [[DarkReprise various]] [[DespairEventHorizon reasons]].

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** In the ''Stormblood'' expansion, [[TheEmpire Garlean soldiers]] sing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMpN_izTc3k "The Measure of Our Reach"]] as the son of the emperor heads to his throne. It's later revealed that this is a bastardized rewriting of the ''Ala Mhigan'' national anthem, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJm7ad2tJw8 "The Measure of His Reach"]]. [[spoiler:After reclaiming Ala Mhigo from the Empire, the resistance sings the true anthem in celebration]].
** In the ''Endwalker'' expansion, we hear the anthem for Garlemald itself; "Home Beyond the Horizon", a melancholy remix of [[{{Leitmotif}} "Imperial Will"]] that sings about the Garleans' stolen homeland and their hope of one day reclaiming it and everything else stolen from their ancestors.

** The first episode has Rigodon nervously humming "la Marseillaise" while waiting for Fog to answer the door when Rigodon goes to Fog's house to be interviewed about the position of butler. In the same episode, Fog hums "Rule Britannia" while on his way to the Reform Club. (This reflect their different nationalities. Fog is British, while Rigodon is French.)

** In the ''Endwalker'' expansion, we hear the anthem for Garlemald itself; "Home Beyond the Horizon", a melancholy remix of [[{{Leitmotif "Imperial Will"]] that sings about the Garleans' stolen homeland and their hope of one day reclaiming it and everything else stolen from their ancestors.

* In the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' expansion ''Stormblood'', [[TheEmpire Garlean soldiers]] sing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMpN_izTc3k "The Measure of Our Reach"]] as the son of the emperor heads to his throne. It's later revealed that this is a bastardized rewriting of the ''Ala Mhigan'' national anthem, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJm7ad2tJw8 "The Measure of His Reach"]]. [[spoiler:After reclaiming Ala Mhigo from the Empire, the resistance sings the true anthem in celebration]].