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* In 1991, ''[[The Guardian]]'' commissioned British anti-war poet [[Tony Harrison]] to commemorate the war, and in particular the Highway of Death.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2003/feb/14/features11.g2|title=A cold coming|last=Harrison |first=Tony|date=14 February 2003|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=2009-07-27}}</ref> His poem, ''A Cold Coming'', began with an [[Ekphrasis|ekphrastic]] representation of a graphic photograph taken on Highway 8 by photojournalist [[Kenneth Jarecke]].
* [[Iain Banks]]'s 1993 novel ''[[Complicity (novel)|Complicity]]'' has chapter 12 (of 13) called "Basra Road" and uses the imagery, although not the phrase.
* The 2005 film ''[[Jarhead (film)|Jarhead]]'' contains a scene in which a group of U.S. Marines
* In the 2010 video game ''[[Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction]]'' there is a flashback level where a 4-man [[United States Navy SEALs|U.S. Navy SEAL]] team gets ambushed on the highway.
* In the 2011 video game ''[[Battlefield 3]]'' "Thunder Run" mission, the player travels along a similar highway and is attacked by car bombs.
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