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The Wilhelm scream is a stock sound effect first recorded in 1951 for the movie Distant Drums. It has been featured in dozens of movies since. Alongside a certain recording of the cry of the red-tailed hawk, it is probably the most well-known cinematic sound cliché.
The Wilhelm's revival came from Star Wars-series Sound Designer Ben Burtt, who tracked down the original recording (which he found as a studio reel labeled "Man being eaten by alligator"), and named it for a character that emitted it in the 1953 movie Charge at Feather River. Its use in Star Wars was the beginning of something of an in-joke amongst some sound designers of the film industry, (especially at Skywalker Sound). They continue to try to incorporate it into movies wherever feasible; action movies are naturals, but film sound cognoscenti are particularly impressed when it is used naturally in films such as A Star Is Born.

Movies that used The Wilhelm

1950s
Distant Drums Distant Thunder
Charge at Feather River (1953)
Them! (1954)
A Star Is Born A Star Is Born
Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
The Sea Chase
Helen of Troy

1960s
Sergeant Rutledge
PT 109 PT 109
The Green Berets (1968)
The Wild Bunch

1970s
Chisum
Impasse
The Scarlet Blade
Hollywood Boulevard

1980sThe Big Brawl
Swamp Thing
Poltergeist
Howard the Duck
Spaceballs (1987)
Willow
Always

1990s
Legion of Iron
Beauty and the Beast
Mom and Dad Save the World
Aladdin
Reservoir Dogs
Matinee
Evening Class
A Goofy Movie
Toy Story
Dante's Peak
Hercules (1997)
The Fifth Element
Titanic (1997)
Small Soldiers

2000s
Thirteen Days
The Kid
Just Visiting
Tomcats
Osmosis Jones
Planet of the Apes (2001)
The Majestic
Wet Hot American Summer
Life or Something Like It
The Salton Sea
Spider-Man (2002)
Scorched
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Kill Bill
Under the Tuscan Sun