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==In popular culture==
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Most notably, Explosions in the Sky's music is heavily featured in the ''Friday Night Lights'' [[Friday Night Lights (film)|movie]] and [[Friday Night Lights (TV series)|television show]]. It is a common misconception that the band wrote and recorded the television show's theme song. Instead, it is an original composition by [[W. G. Snuffy Walden]]. Music by Explosions in the Sky has been used in several television programs and commercials: 
* "The Birth and Death of the Day" was used in the [[BBC]] documentary ''Lost Land of the Jaguar'', ''[[All the Real Girls]]'', ''[[Shopgirl]]'', ''[[One Tree Hill (TV series)|One Tree Hill]]'', ''[[Love the Beast]]'' and ''[[The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (film)|The Diving Bell and the Butterfly]]'', at the end of the 2015 mountaineering documentary ''[[Meru (film)|Meru]]'', as well as various songs for the [[PBS]] documentary ''The Street Stops Here''. A number of ''[[List of One Tree Hill episodes|One Tree Hill episodes]]'' are named after the band's songs.
* The song "It's Natural To Be Afraid" is featured in the narrative sports documentary series ''[[24/7 (HBO series)|24/7]]'', "Mayweather vs. De La Hoya", and was also used in the [[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (season 8)|season 8]] finale of ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation]]'', "For Gedda (Part 1)".
* The song "Catastrophe and the Cure" is used during the intro to ''Get Collins'', an Irish documentary on [[Michael Collins (Irish leader)|Michael Collins]] and the film ''[[Kaboom (film)|Kaboom]]'' by director [[Gregg Araki]] in which the male lead is also given a signed copy of ''[[All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone]]'' as a birthday gift.
* In 2009, the song "First Breath After Coma" is used for the introduction of feature presentations on the television network, ''[[Versus (TV channel)|Versus]]''. The song is also used in the trailer for the documentary ''Focus'', directed by [[Steve Wang|Steve Hwang]]. "First Breath After Coma", along with "Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean", were featured in the 2010 film ''[[Kalamity (film)|Kalamity]]''.
* The song "The Only Moment We Were Alone" is shortly featured in [[Michael Moore]]'s documentary ''[[Capitalism: A Love Story]]''. It was also featured in the 2008 film ''[[Sleepwalking (film)|Sleepwalking]]'' and in the teaser reveal of ''[[Street Fighter V]]''.
* The song "Your Hand in Mine" is featured in the films ''[[Friday Night Lights (film)|Friday Night Lights]]'', ''[[The Big Empty (2005 film)|The Big Empty]]'', ''[[Love Happens (2009 film)|Love Happens]]'', ''[[The King of Staten Island]]'', the TV series ''[[Prisoners' Wives]],'' the documentary ''[[Gideon's Army]]'' and the [[Pacífico (beer)|Cerveza Pacifico]] TV commercial "Anchors Up".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ispot.tv/ad/w3mI/cerveza-pacifico-anchors-up|title=Cerveza Pacifico TV Commercial, 'Anchors Up'|website=iSpot.tv|language=en|access-date=2019-08-19}}</ref>
* The song "A Poor Man's Memory" is featured in the TV show ''[[Blue Mountain State]]''.
* The song "Glittering Blackness" is featured in the film ''[[Ghosts of Girlfriends Past]]''.
* The song "Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean" is featured in the film ''[[Lunopolis]]''.
* The song "So Long, Lonesome" is featured in the 2010 film ''[[Last Night (2010 film)|Last Night]]''.
* The song "An Ugly Fact of Life" was featured in the film adaptation of ''[[The Kite Runner (film)|The Kite Runner]]''.
* The song "Human Qualities" is featured in the 2012 film ''[[This Means War (film)|This Means War]]''.
* The song "Trembling Hands" is featured on the 2012 video game ''[[Major League Baseball 2K12]]''.
* The song "First Breath After Coma" is used for an [[Adidas]] commercial featuring [[Chicago Bulls]] player [[Derrick Rose]], the end of the television series ''[[Doctors (2000 TV series)|Doctors]]'', the 2005 Israeli film ''[[Close to Home (film)|Close to Home]]'' and in the first episode of ''John Bishop's Australia''.
* The song "The Birth and Death of the Day" is used in the final scene of the mountain biking documentary ''Life Cycles''
* The song "Waking Up" was featured in the film ''[[Lone Survivor]]''.
* The song "Postcard From 1952" was used in the episode "Chicago" of ''[[Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways]]'', and a snippet of the song is used in the ''[[Welcome to Night Vale]]'' episode "The September Monologues".
* Along with David Wingo, Explosions in the Sky wrote the entire soundtrack to the 2013 comedy-drama film ''[[Prince Avalanche]]'', starring [[Paul Rudd]] and [[Emile Hirsch]]. The idea itself came when the band proposed working on a film with director [[David Gordon Green]].
* The band is filmed performing "Last Known Surroundings" for [[Terrence Malick|Terrance Malick's]] 2015 film [[Knight of Cups (film)|Knight of Cups]].
* The song "Remember Me as a Time of Day" was used in the 2015 film ''[[Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (film)|Me and Earl and the Dying Girl]]''.
* Their song "Logic of a Dream" was used in the trailer of the 2016 film ''[[Deepwater Horizon (film)|Deepwater Horizon]]''.
* Their song "The Ecstatics" was used in the 2017 film ''[[Power Rangers (film)|Power Rangers]]''.
* Austin-based movie theater chain [[Alamo Drafthouse Cinema]] uses "[[The Wilderness (Explosions in the Sky album)|Wilderness]]" in their ''Feature Presentation'' [[Bumper (broadcasting)|bumper]].