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* One of the most famous shots of the movie ''[[Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves]]'' was Kevin Costner's Robin letting fly with one of these in slow-mo.

* ''[[Robin Hood: Men in Tights|Robin Hood Men in Tights]]'' parodies the trope's overuse in [[Robin Hood]] films. It featured an opening credits sequence back by random shots of people shooting [[Arrows on Fire]]... and then they show the thatch-roofed village that they destroyed with these arrows "every time they make a new Robin Hood movie."

* Done in ''[[Braveheart]]''. The night before the battle of Falkirk, Wallace's soldiers had coated the ground under the English army with pitch. He then used archers with lit arrows to light it and set many of the English troops on fire. How he knew ''exactly'' where they would be standing is another question. Other questions are why the English did not notice that the ground they were standing on was soaked with pitch and where did they get that large of a quantity of pitch? <ref>It was obviously a [[Just for Pun|pitched battle]].</ref>

* Used in the opening battle of ''[[Gladiator (film)|Gladiator]]''. The Romans initially held the barbarians back with conventional arrows then, once the battle started, they shot flaming arrows and flaming catapult projectiles which seemed to have a longer range. We see a lot of barbarians break and run: smoke and fire clogging up your side of the field, watching allies being burned alive -- not good.

* King Arthur's troops made use of these in ''First Knight.'' Interestingly, the arrows appeared to use something like magnesium as the flammable agent, which, at least, [[Rule of Cool|looked cool.]]

* The Allied soldiers in ''[[Red Cliff]]'' use flaming arrows to complement their more creative ways of using fire in the ultimate battle. Both sides mostly use a regular [[Rain of Arrows]], though.

* ''[[The Dukes of Hazzard]]'' had bomb arrows, that is, arrows with dynamite tied to them. But then they also had cars with Feather Fall permanently cast on them, able to land safely after flying hundreds of feet in the air.

* In the Season 3 finale of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]]'', the students have a flaming arrow unit in their offensive against the Mayor. Buffy-verse vampires tend to be about as flammable as the average person after a dip in the swimming in the ol' gasoline swimming pool.

* In the ''[[Lost]]'' episode "The Lie," the left-behinders get attacked by flaming arrows just as they're bemoaning their lack of fire.

* Used several times in the BBC's version of [[Robin Hood]], typically to detonate explosives (most notably, {{spoiler|Robin's final arrow is used to spark off the explosion that destroys Nottingham Castle}}).