Music:
Pink Floyd; Aenima; Dead Can Dance; Anathema; Rammstein; Dimmu Borgir; COB; Opeth; Therion; The Gathering; Sigur Ros; Zeromancer; Type O Negative; Tool; SOAD; Deftones; APC; Sepultura and much more.
Movies:
Empire of the Sun; Contact; The Lord of the Rings trilogy; Alien (all); The Piano; Equilibrium; Out of Africa; Shindler's List; Apocalypse Now; Gladiator; The Pianist; A Clockwork Orange; V for Vendetta; Black Cat, White Cat; 300; Children of Men ...and the list goes on and on.
Television:
National Geographic, Discovery and History channel, mainly.
Books:
Jack London; Aldous Huxley; Tolkien; Anne Rice; Dan Brown; Christian Jacq; Stephenie Meyer; Sherrilyn Kenyon; Laurell K. Hamilton; Marion Zimmer-Bradley