I got tired of searching “where was this filmed” and landing on listicles, so I built the map instead. Search a title to see where it was shot, or search a place to see what was made there.
2,538 locations, 4,214 films and series. It is all built from Wikidata, one statement per pin, so every card links back to the source and you can check me.
It is honest about what it does not know, which no listicle is. 938 productions are recorded only at country level and the page says so. Gladiator is Malta and Morocco and nothing finer. Casablanca resolves to California. It also never claims which scene was shot where, because filming records do not carry that.
430 video games are on there too, placed by where they are set rather than shot, because a game is filmed nowhere.
I imagine the data set also excludes most of Bollywood because India is not lit up on the map as if it were actually Las Vegas. Mumbai, for instance, has a grand total of seven titles listed, at least four of which leap out at me as being Western titles anyway.
Yes for the moment because Bollywood is not for the global audience, although there are movies which came from India that are globally recognizable. Even if I hate many parts of Hollywood, it is globally recognized. Hence, I start with Hollywood.
I working on finding a good solution for that, because there are many globally recognizable movies, series and video games that are currently missing on the map.