Wagon Train - American TV show from the '50s or 60's. In one episode there were Scottish immigrants on the train when Indians attacked. The Scotsmen, donned highland attire, played their pipes and scared the Indians away.
Waterloo - 1970 132 minutes. Directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and starring Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer and Orson Wells, the story begins as Europe trys to cope with Napoleon (Steiger) who has returned to power from his imprisonment on Elba and leads up to the Battle of Waterloo. In the first half, the pipes and drums and the dancers of the Gordon Highlanders perform at the Duchess of Richmond's ball. After the first attacks on Hougemont, the French artillery bombard the allied lines in the region of Pictons reserve troops. A massed attack of French infantry sweep away some allied regiments, and while Picton brings up his troops, he sends the Gordon Highlanders down the hill to hold the French. The pipers march towards the battlefield playing MacPherson's Lament while the soldiers sing along to it. Napoleon asks "has Wellington nothing to offer me but these amazons?" Soon his men are pushed back by the infantry and charged by the heavy brigade of cavalry, including the Scots Greys. Later, when the French cavalry are charging the allied squares, a piper is seen being cut down by a French horseman, and his body is seen again at the end as Wellington reviews the horror of the battlefield.
The Way Ahead (aka The Immortal Battalion) - 1944 David Niven and a host of British pre and post war film/stage actors, with supporting actors in minor parts including Peter Ustinov and Trevor Howard. The film (obviously somewhat wartime propaganda in nature) tells the story of a disparate group of working class army recruits undergoing training and their difficulties and ultimate bonding with their officer (David Niven). Eventually they are shipped off to North Africa where, after surviving being torpedoed (enter Trevor Howard), they end up being assigned to defend a small village in the middle of nowhere and set up their mess in the village bar/coffeshop (enter Peter Ustinov as the proprietor). The village is attacked and almost overun and the film ends as the group fixes bayonets and grimly enters the smoke screen laid down by the attacking Germans. The pipes appear briefly during a scene in the middle of the film during a training exercise with tanks, trucks, planes and men going everywhere across the plain - with a piper leading a squad of 20-30 men purposefully somewhere!
Wee Willie Winkie - 1937. Starring Shirley Temple, the little lass is dressed as a member of a Scottish army battalion. The pipes are played during the drills. At one point a dead Scottish soldier is transported to the cemetery by the entire regiment to Lord Lovat's Lament.
Welcome to LA - 1976 103 minutes. Directed by Alan Rudolph, Keith Carridine, the star, is a piper, but doesn't play them in this film.
Whisky Galore (aka A Tight Little Island) - 1949 82 minutes. Directed by Alexander MacKendrick and starring Basil Radford and Joan Greenwood, the film is set in 1943 when a freighter with 50,000 cases of Scotch runs aground on the fictitious Hebridean island of Toddy. The natives recover and hid much of the cargo to comic effect. There is a cameo scene with the great Highland piper Neil Angus MacDonald. In the background music, the tune played is The De'il's Awa' Wi' th' Exciseman. The actual setting of the film was the island of Barra and the freighter, the Politician, ran aground near Eriskay.
The Wicker Man - 1973 87 minutes. Directed by Robin Hardy and starring Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, etc. this weird movie is made up of a hodgepodge of ancient pagan customs and rituals in a modern Scottish setting. The Highland Widow's Lament is played in the sound track on Northumbrian pipes. Later, pipers play Oranges and Lemons said the Bells of St. Clements.
Willow - 1988 125 minutes. Directed by Ron Howard and starring Val Kilmer and Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, the story is set in the 10th century and is a compilation of numerous classic tales. The Nelwyns (midgets) save their kingdom from an evil queen. The film features border pipes in the sound track.
Woody Woodpecker - In one cartoon (from the 1980s?), Chilly Willy the Penguin steals fish from Wally Walrus' store. He sucks them out with a vacuum cleaner, and as he is marching as he does this, it looks as if the fish are marching too, being dragged in a line by him. Then Chilly somehow blows the vacuum cleaner as if it were a set of pipes, and renders a Celtic-sounding tune as if it were played on the Uillean Pipes (the tune has too wide a range for the Great Highland Bagpipes).
Wrongfully Accused - a comedy starring Lesley Nielson. There is a scene where he dresses up in kilts and mixes into a band of pipers playing Scotland the Brave.