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May 19, 2024 · Stacker compiled a list of movies filmed in Kentucky using data from Movie Locations, with additional information about each film collected from IMDb.
Sep 26, 2023 · Stacker compiled a list of movies filmed in Kentucky using data from Movie Locations, with additional information about each film collected from IMDb.
Apr 9, 2015 · From classics to new-age flicks, Kentucky’s been the backdrop for it all. 1. Elizabethtown: this romantic drama starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst took place in recognizable settings around Louisville, Kentucky like the Brown Hotel and Cave Hill Cemetery.
May 20, 2021 · However, for many movies, it’s these very things, like it being home to the largest cave system in the world, that make it attractive to filmmakers. Check out the below list of some of the most famous movies that came to the birthplace of Post-its.
- "Raintree County"
- "Goldfinger"
- "Harlan County, USA"
- "Coal Miner's Daughter"
- "Stripes"
- "Rain Man"
- "In Country"
- "The Insider"
- "Seabiscuit"
- "Secretariat"
"Raintree County" is based on the 1948 novel with the same title by Ross Lockridge Jr. and tells the story of an abolitionist (Montgomery Clift) who falls for a Southern belle (Elizabeth Taylor) during the Civil War. The film had several shooting locations, including Mississippi, Tennessee, and two Kentucky spots — the Liberty Hall Historic Site in...
The classic 007 film starring Sean Connery as James Bond is set mainly in England and Switzerland, but it was partially filmed at Fort Knox. The plot centers around villain Goldfinger's plan to contaminate the gold kept at the U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox. The exterior of the real Fort Knox is shown in the movie, but all sets for the buildi...
"Harlan County, USA," the winner of the 1976 Oscar Award for Best Documentary, covers the Brookside Strike against the Brookside Mine and Prep Plant in Harlan County. Documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple originally began filming in Harlan County with plans to cover Miners for Democracy and the attempt to unseat Tony Boyle, president of United Mine ...
There was no better place to film the biographical film of country music star Loretta Lynn than her home state. The movie was filmed in Letcher County, a little over an hour away from Johnson County, where Lynn was born and grew up. The story follows Lynn from her teen years to her rise to fame. Whitesburg, Kentucky, newspaper The Mountain Eagle re...
The military comedy starring Bill Murray and John Candy began filming in Kentucky in 1980 before it moved to California. The movie shot scenes at Fort Knox to create the fictional Fort Arnold, as well as in Louisville and on site at the Old Jim Beam Distillery in Clermont. Jim Beam allowed the crew to run a tank through some of its old warehouses t...
Parts of this Oscar Award-winning comedy-drama were filmed in Cincinnati, where the story is set, but the film crew crossed the border a few times to shoot scenes in Northern Kentucky. Shooting locationsincluded Evergreen Cemetery in Southgate, Kentucky, where the funeral scene was filmed, as well as St. Anne Convent in Melbourne and Pompilio's Ita...
Starring Emily Lloyd and Bruce Willis, "In Country" is based on the novel by Bobbie Ann Mason and takes place in the fictional Hopewell, Kentucky. To prepare for her role as a recent Kentucky high school graduate searching for information about her dead father, Lloyd stayed in Paducah with a local lawyer and his family, according to an archived art...
"The Insider," which stars Al Pacino and Russell Crowe, is based on a true story aboutJeffrey Wigand, a whistleblower in the tobacco industry. It was partially filmed in Louisville, where Wigand lived with his family at the time the story took place. The film used the actual courtroom in Pascagoula, Mississippi, where Wigand testified in real life.
This film is loosely based on the story of Seabiscuit, a champion thoroughbred racehorse whose small size and unlikely success made him a media sensation and symbol of hope during the Great Depression. The colt grew up on a farm in Paris, Kentucky, where several scenes of the movie were shot. Lexington's Keeneland race track was used as Maryland's ...
Another story of a legendary race horse, "Secretariat" chronicles the life of the 1973 Triple Crown winner. The crew shot on location in both Lexington and Louisville for three weeks. Ahead of the Disney film's debut, writer Bill Doolittle reportedthat director Randall Wallace knew the on-location scenes in Kentucky would be crucial, "not just for ...
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Feb 20, 2024 · With the steady growth of film production here in Kentucky with recent films like Wildcat (dir. Ethan Hawke, 2023) and Bob Trevino Likes It (dir. Tracie Laymon, 2024), we wanted to put the spotlight on other films you might not have realized were filmed right here in the Bluegrass.
May 25, 2024 · Kentucky locations in the movie: Parts of rural Kentucky and Louisville were used as stages for the horror film, The Courier Journal previously reported.
