In Popular Culture
- The bridge's opening is fictionalized as the "Amerigo-Columbus Bridge" in the 1966 "The Bookworm Turns" episode of Batman using news footage of the actual bridge opening.
- The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is an important location in the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever.
- The bridge and its proximity to the open ocean feature prominently at the end of the 2009 film Against the Current.
- In the special edition of the 1989 science fiction film The Abyss, the bridge is surrounded by a giant tsunami.
- The bridge is featured in the final shot of Terrence Malick's 2011 film The Tree of Life.
- In The Avengers, superhero Iron Man flies under, reverses course, and overflies the bridge on the way to intercepting a nuclear missile.
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