List of films and television shows shot in Northern California
While the California film industry is based in Los Angeles, over the years many films have shot in Northern California, looking for rural towns, forests, rivers and beaches that can double for New England and even Scotland. Hollywood has been filming in California's northern most 18 counties since at least 1916 and the region has played host to some of Hollywood's biggest films, including The Adventures of Robin Hood, Gone with the Wind, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, and Stand by Me.[1][2][3][4]
This list of films shot is organized first by county, and then chronologically by year. Some films may appear more than once if they were shot in more than one county.
The list of movies filmed in Nevada County's Truckee is too extensive for this page. Some of the movies include Cobb, The Gold Rush, and St. Elmo's Fire. A partial list has been compiled by the Truckee-Donner Historical Society on their website truckeehistory.org, The Union and IMDb.
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External links
Film in America - Northern California Movies, a partial list of movies filmed in Northern California.
AFI Film Catalog, a catalogue of Hollywood films that include filming location information.
Humboldt-Del Norte Film Commission, includes a map of famous filming locations and filmography lists for both counties.
Chico Chamber of Commerce - Butte County’s Film History
Film Shasta - Film Credits
Mendocino County Film Commission - Filmography
Truckee-Donner Historical Society - Truckee Filmography