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Ever since, Montana has served as The Ultimate Location for production companies and filmmakers worldwide. Hundreds of commercials, short films, music videos, and documentaries have been shot here. Below are feature films and major TV network series listed alphabetically by distribution year.
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- Forrest Gump. Quick facts: Release date: 1994. Genre: Comedy-drama. When Forest is jogging across the country: Glacier National Park and Cut Bank, Montana.
- Beethoven’s 2nd (1993) Quick facts: Release date: 1993. Genre: Family. Park scenes: Glacier National Park. This Montana movie follows the second adventure of the Newton family and their wonderful, fluffy, quintessential Saint Bernard named Beethoven.
- The Thing From Another World (The Thing) Quick facts: Release date: 1951. Genre: Science fiction-horror. Much of the film: Glacier National Park.
- The Revenant. Quick facts: Release date: 2015. Genre: Action-drama. When Glass goes through rapids and over a Waterfall: Kootenai Falls.
- The Shining
- The Missouri Breaks
- A River Runs Through It
- The Revenant
- Continental Divide
- The River Wild
- The Thing from Another World
- Call of The Wild
- The Horse Whisperer
- Montana Story
Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 cult classic horror movie, The Shining, follows Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance as he descends into madness while snowed in at a vacant lodge. In some ways, the snow becomes one of the characters, a catalyst to Torrance’s demise. To establish the veracity of the wintry conditions at the fictional Overlook Hotel, many of the e...
Another movie filmed in Montana starring Jack Nicholson, the Missouri Breaks follows a down-on-his-luck rustler as he bands together with his gang to pull off a complicated revenge heist that ends in bloodshed. Originally released in 1976, it became an instant classic, partially due to it being scored by John Williams of Star Wars fame. It takes it...
This epic 1992 film directed by Robert Redford and starring Brad Pitt has become ingrained in the cultural landscape so deeply that it is inextricable to the way folks view Montana. It won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography in 1993 and has since secured its place in the film canon as an American classic. The story is centered around the Macl...
A film based on true events, The Revenant is about the life of Hugh Glass, a fur trapper from the early 1800s. After being left for dead by his companions in his hunting party after being mauled by a bear, he strives to survive in the snowy wilderness of Dakota territory. The film was met with immense critical acclaim, and among other awards, won t...
The very first film to come from Stephen Spielberg’s production company Amblin Entertainment, Continental Divide is a 1981 romantic comedy starring Jim Belushi and Blair Brown. The plot follows a Chicago newspaper reporter as he trades city life for the Wyoming Rockies in pursuit of a story. Though all of the scenes depicting Chicago were shot ther...
This 1994 adventure thriller starring Meryl Streep and David Strathairn is about a family on a white water rafting vacation. Things begin to take a turn when they realize that their three companions, who were at first seemingly friendly, are in fact criminals who have murdered their previous guide. Though the production took many precautions to ens...
The tale of a group of scientists sent to the remote Antarctic to study something they couldn’t yet explain is the basic premise of the 1951 film, The Thing From Another World, or simply The Thing. What they find in the frozen northern tundra is a spaceship and an alien that reanimates once unfrozen. Interestingly, there is some debate over who dir...
Though there have been several adaptations of Jack London’s classic 1903 novel over the years, to date, 2009’s Call of the Wild was the only one shot in 3D. This version also takes the most liberties with the original text: it is set in the present day, and several elements have been changed and updated from the original story. Kind of an outlier o...
This 1998 modern Western stars Robert Redford, as well as both Scarlett Johansson and Kate Bosworth in very early career roles for both of them. The story follows the recovery of a teenaged girl named Grace (played by Johansson) after she was severely injured in an accident riding her horse. The fictional Double Divide Ranch from the movie was crea...
Premiered at the 2021 Toronto Film Festival, Montana Story is an independent drama about a brother and sister who come home to the ranch in Montana where they were raised to take care of their father. When these siblings reunite on the ranch, they haven’t spoken in seven years, and are tasked with taking the reigns of the ranch’s operations and fin...
The principal shooting location of the film takes place on a ranch south of Livingston in Paradise Valley. Secondary locations include downtown Livingston, Ringling (which fills in as Browning) and the Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport.
