Editing USS Monitor (section)

==In popular culture==
The battle between the ''Monitor'' and the Confederate ironclad [[CSS Virginia|CSS ''Virginia'']] was reenacted using scale models in the 1936 film ''[[Hearts in Bondage]]'' from [[Republic Pictures]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/hearts-in-bondage-v94629|title=Hearts in Bondage (1936)|first=Hal|last=Erickson|year=2020|access-date=September 24, 2020|work=[[AllMovie]]}}</ref> The battle was also dramatized in the 1991 [[made-for-television movie]] ''[[Ironclads (film)|Ironclads]]'', produced by [[Ted Turner]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0iadcMKIPGYC&pg=PA176|title=Gone with the Glory: The Civil War in Cinema|first=Brian Steel|last=Wills|year=2011|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9781461739579|page=176}}</ref> The ship was also mentioned in the book [[True History of the Kelly Gang|True history of the Kelly gang]] and would later be shown in the film adaptation of the book. It is framed as Ned’s inspiration for designing the armour.