in Forrest Gump, Netflix's House of Cards, America: The Motion Picture, and the Rob Zombie film The Devil's Rejects. The song was featured in the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and is heard on the in-game radio station K-DST. The song is playable on the 2010 video game Rock Band 3. The song is playable as the final encore of the 2006 video game Guitar Hero II. The 2014 film Kingsman: The Secret Service sees the song play during the scene in which Colin Firth's character Harry Hart fights hundreds of people who have become dangerously violent as a result of a SIM card transmission. Director Matthew Vaughn revealed he picked "Free Bird" specifically because its guitar solo was long enough to encompass the whole scene. The Netflix film Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs the Reverend has Titus Andromedon, played by Tituss Burgess, singing "Free Bird" in a West Virginia bar. While the character claims to have learned the lyrics because in his Mississippi city "all four years of high school English was the poetry of Lynyrd Skynyrd," the actor had never heard the song before recording it. The song was also featured during the ending credits of Shellshock 2: Blood Trails. The song was featured during the ending of Willy's Wonderland. The song was heard in the 2019 comedy action film Zombieland: Double Tap in the RV shootout scene. References 1973 songs 1974 singles Lynyrd Skynyrd songs Number-one singles in Norway Joey + Rory songs Hard rock ballads 1970s ballads Song recordings produced by Al Kooper Songs written by Allen Collins Songs written by Ronnie Van Zant MCA Records singles