About FilmMap
FilmMap answers one question: where was this actually filmed? Search a title to see the real places it was shot in, or open a place to see what was made there. 12,583 locations in 85 countries, 8,025 films and television series with a page of their own, and 1,342 video games. Free, no signup, no ads.
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Where the data comes from
The backbone is filming location (P915) statements on Wikidata, joined to each place's coordinates, its Wikipedia article and its photograph on Wikimedia Commons. Nothing is taken from fan wikis or listicles, and nothing is generated. If a page here says a production was shot somewhere, an editor wrote that down, and every page carries a “Source data” link straight to the record it was built from.
Two kinds of evidence, never mixed
Since August 2026 the atlas also reads the Filming section of each production's English Wikipedia article, because Wikipedia's prose often knows more than Wikidata's statements do — the article for a film can name fifteen towns where the database records none. Those places are on the map too, and every one is labelled “per Wikipedia” wherever it appears: on the card, on the production's page, in the downloads and through the MCP endpoint. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a statement an editor wrote as data, so the two kinds are kept in separate lists, separate columns and separate counts, and each prose claim links the exact section it came from. 18,768 links across 4,698 productions currently rest on Wikipedia evidence, including 1,711 productions for which Wikidata records no filming location at all.
Video games are a different claim
A video game is filmed nowhere. The places on a game's page come from narrative location (P840) — where the story is set, not where a camera stood. They live under /game/ rather than /film/ for that reason, and are never described as filming locations anywhere on this site.
Which productions get a page
A production earns a page when the page has something to say: two or more recorded locations, or enough Wikipedia coverage that people ask the question. Roughly three thousand titles have a single location and almost no coverage, and a page each would be three thousand stubs, so they stay on the map and on their locations' pages, where they read as a detail rather than as a page that failed to be about anything.
What is missing, and why the map is not the world
This atlas is curated, and a sparse-looking country means sparse data or titles below that bar — never that nothing was filmed there. Coverage is as complete as volunteers have made it, which is unevenly: some famous productions have no filming location recorded at all, and 810 of the pages here are for productions Wikidata places only by country or state. Casablanca, Gladiator and Psycho are all in that group. A dot in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote, so those pages say what is known in words and leave the map alone.
What a scene row does and does not say
The ranking of 150 famous scenes pairs a place with the most widely covered production filmed there, ordered by how many languages Wikipedia covers that production in. A row asserts only that the production filmed at the place, never which scene. Where English Wikipedia describes what was shot there, one sentence is quoted and attributed in place.
How often it changes, and how to correct it
The site is rebuilt from a fresh Wikidata query rather than on a fixed schedule. The data behind these pages was last rebuilt on . If something here is wrong, the fix belongs upstream: correct the statement on Wikidata and it flows into this site on the next rebuild, along with every other atlas and tool built on the same record.
Who makes it
A personal, non-commercial project published as “Flightmussy”. No ads, no advertising networks, no signup, nothing sold or shared. Visits are counted anonymously on this site's own server in the EU, and the privacy notice sets out exactly what that means.
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Licences
Data, and the one-line description under each place: Wikidata, CC0. Scene quotes: English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, verbatim and attributed. Photographs: Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence. Basemap: OpenFreeMap and OpenMapTiles, from OpenStreetMap data.