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  • Featured Movies
    • 12 Years a Slave (2013)
    • 1941 (Spielberg) >
      • 1941: Part 2
    • Affair of the Necklace
    • Alice's Restaurant: best of the American counterculture movies?
    • Army of Crime
    • Army of Shadows
    • The Artist >
      • 'The Artist':2
    • Anthropoid: the Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, 1942: Four Very Different Movies >
      • Hangmen Also Die: Hollywood meets emigres from Nazi Germany
    • Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
    • Battle of the Rails ( La bataille du rail)
    • Belle (2014)
    • Bhowani Junction
    • Blackboard Jungle >
      • Blackboard Jungle Pt.2
    • Carry On Up the Khyber
    • Charlie Wilson's War
    • The City Across the River
    • The Counterculture : best movies about the American counterculture era
    • Custer - two contrasting movie portrayals: "They Died With Their Boots On" and "Little Big Man" >
      • They Died With Their Boots On
      • Stalin and the Movies >
        • Stalin, Disney, Eisenstein, & Ivan the Terrible
      • Death of Stalin
      • Little Big Man (1970)
    • Dark Knight Rises >
      • Dark Knight Rises Pt.2
    • The Deceivers
    • Diplomacy / Diplomatie (2014) movie
    • Dunkirk: Christopher Nolan's epic movie
    • El Cid
    • The Enigma Machine : four movies about the Enigma machine
    • Generation War >
      • Generation War: Jazz and the Swing Kids
      • Generation War: German women and the war
    • The Great Gatsby On the Big Screen
    • Gunga Din
    • A Hard Day's Night: Influences on the Movie
    • Hemingway & Gellhorn >
      • Martha Gellhorn >
        • Women war correspondents
    • Hyde Park on Hudson
    • The Imitation Game (2014) >
      • The Imitation Game Part 2: the truth about Turing and the Bletchley 'Bombe'. >
        • The Imitation Game: Turing, Bletchley and the Colossus >
          • Imitation Game: Turing, Bletchley Park and the Soviet spy
    • The Inner Circle (1991)
    • Is Paris Burning? >
      • Is Paris Burning? General von Choltitz
    • KIng of the Khyber Rifles
    • Kim
    • Léon Morin, Priest
    • Les Miserables (2012) >
      • Les Miserables in Movies: Fantine the grisette >
        • Les Miserables 3: guide to some historical references
    • "Les Misérables": Claude Lelouch updates a classic
    • Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
    • The Long Duel
    • Looking at Lincoln - Spielberg's "Lincoln" & its predecessors and influences >
      • Spielberg's Lincoln
      • Abraham Lincoln: D.W. Griffith's version
      • Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
      • Abe Lincoln in Illinois
    • Mandingo (1975) Dir: Richard Fleischer
    • The Man Who Would Be King
    • Marie Antoinette (2006)
    • Marie-Antoinette / Shadow of the Guillotine
    • Farewell, My Queen
    • Marie Antoinette (1938) >
      • Marie Antoinette (1938) Pt.2
    • Mayerling
    • Midnight in Paris >
      • Midnight in Paris:2 >
        • Midnight in Paris:3
    • The Monuments Men (2014) Dir: George Clooney
    • North West Frontier / Flame Over India
    • La Nuit de Varennes - a post-modern take on a key episode in the French Revolution
    • Le Pere Tranquille (The Quiet Father) 1946
    • Peterloo: MIke Leigh's New Movie >
      • Peterloo2
    • Pompeii in the movies >
      • Pompeii (2014) Paul W.S. Anderson director
    • Rebel Without a Cause
    • Ridicule
    • Scott Fitzgerald Goes to Hollywood
    • Sergeant Rutledge
    • Silence of the Sea
    • Swing Kids (1993)
    • The Train
    • Train to Pakistan
    • Stranglers of Bombay
    • Tonka
    • Tulip Fever
    • Viceroy's House
    • The Vikings
    • Vietnam Westerns: western movies and the Vietnam war
    • Wee Willie Winkie
    • The Wind and the Lion
    • Woman in Gold >
      • Woman in Gold Pt.2: the Vienna Scene in early 20th Century Vienna
    • Un village française: French TV series
    • Waterloo: the movie about Napoleon's final battle
    • Zabriskie Point
  • Places
    • Settings: the North West Frontier
    • Movies Set in the North-West Frontier >
      • Thuggees
    • Movies Set in Paris and Versailles
  • Events
    • Events That Inspired Movies 2
    • French Resistance and Collaboration in World War II: Selected Movies
  • People
    • People Part 2
  • Music
    • Rock Around the Clock
    • Don't Knock the Rock
    • The Girl Can't Help It >
      • Pt2:The Girl Can't Help It
  • Free State of Jones
  • Great Wall (2017)
  • Rogue One & World War 2
  • Hollywood and anti-Americanism in a small country: Amercan movies & their critics in New Zealand 1916 - 1956
    • New Zealanders' Love of Movies 1900s-1956
    • Campaign against Hollywood movies in New Zealand
    • Campaign against HollywoodPt 2
  • Hollywood versus Pinewood Pt2
  • New Zealanders and Movies: the Enigmatic Gordon Mirams: film critic, film censor and public intellectual
  • Aryan Papers: Stanley Kubrick's Proposed Movie

Movie settings around the world

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England's Bletchley Park, the home of the team trying to break Nazi Germany's Enigma machine's military codes, features in two movies: 2014"s The Imitation Game and  Enigma 2001), and very indirectl;y in the submarine thriller U-571. Visitors can now see some of the buildings that housed the mathematicians, cryptologists, technicians, typistes and clerks who helped win the war by breaking the secrets of Enigma and revelaing vital German military plans.

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Belmonte Castle
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Calahorra
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The famous jousting scene in "El Cid".
The 1961 movie El Cid, directed by Anthony Mann, gains much of its considerable impact and sense of epic spectacle from the fact that most of its locations are authentic and overwhelmingly impressive on the big screen.  The movie is about  Spain's 11th century warrior-hero Rodrigo Diaz. Its exterior scenes were shot on locations of actual medieval Spanish castles and cathedrals , which tower in the background, framing the action.

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The doomed town of Pompeii has featured in at least twelve feature films and TV movies, most recently Paul W.S. Anderson's 3D disaster epic (2014). Images above show restored sections of the twon today, with a fast food outlet above left and a street (right)
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The plantation mansions of the pre-Civil War South have featured in many movies about that era. The most famous of course is Tara in Gone With the Wind. Director Steve McQueen [center] is shown at one of the locations filmed in 12 Years a Slave. The opening title of Richard Fleischer's Mandingo significantly shows a run-down, shabby drive and mansion that symbolise the decaying family it houses.
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Coffee bars, night clubs and dance halls in London and other big British cities saw the birth of British rock 'n' roll in the mid-1950s.
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In one of the most unconvincing portrayals of Paris ever seen on film, the very English buildings at Greenich were used as backdrop for the 1832 Paris uprising in Tom Hooper's lachrymose version of the musical "Les Miserables".
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The North West Frontier -Khyber Pass
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Versailles Palace.
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Hollywood in its golden age.
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Paris, 1920s.
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Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, early 1940s, setting for Steven Spielberg's comedy '1941'.
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Mayerling Lodge, Austria, setting for several movies about the Mayerling scandal.
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France under German control, World War II. The 'Free' or Southern Zone was in the hands of the collaborationist Vichy government. Both sections were the settings for the acts of resistance and collaboration that provide the content and themes for many films about that period.
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India, August, 1947: the British withdraw from India, which was partitioned into India and Pakistan. The various nationalist movements had achieved their goal of independence, but immediately confronted a legacy of ethnic and religious division.
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Fighting during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. Much of HBO's movie "Hemingway and Gellhorn" is set in this conflict.
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Paris under Nazi occupation - the crucial setting for many movies about the French Resistance and Nazi Occupation.
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Roosevelt estate, Hyde Park, as featured in movie "Hyde Park on Hudson".