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Wilton House
Wilton House
Wilton
Salisbury
Wiltshire
SP2 0BJ
England
This former 9th century nunnery and home of the present 17th Earl of Pembroke is situated in 21 acres of landscaped parkland. Unwrap over 450 years of history at Wilton House, wh... Click for more
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Chris Larkin
Edward Woodall
James D'Arcy
Paul Bettany
Russell Crowe
'Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World' has the distinction of being the only feature film ever to shoot on the Galapagos Islands. A province of Ecuador, The Galapagos... Click for more
Bernard Hill
Bill Paxton
Billy Zane
Gloria Stuart
Kate Winslet
Kathy Bates
Leonardo DiCaprio
Love story set against the doomed maiden voyage of the Titanic. The movie made superstars of Leonardo DiCaprioiCaprio and Kate Winslet. The awesome special effects of the sinking have t... Click for more
Although many of the scenes in Looney Tunes: Back In Action were shot in the Warner Bros Studio lot in Burbank, it also features many real and exciting locations including down town Las Vegas, Red Rock Canyon and Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada.
The action movie Windtalkers captures some terrifying battle scenes set in Saipan. Who would have thought that these scenes were actually shot on the Kualoa Ranch in Oahu near Honolulu?
Cold Mountain starring Renée Zellweger, Jude Law and /index.php?search=am&actor=Nicole+Kidman" target="_blank">Nicole Kidman is a story of love and war based on a novel by Charles Frazier. Although the story is set in Carolina in 1860s America, the filming took place in the Transylvania mountains in Romania.
Lord of the Rings: The Return to New Zealand
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is the conclusion of J.R.R. Tolkien"s epic masterpiece. Again the characteristic landscapes of New Zealand play a very special part in the movie. "Tolkien describes the locations very vividly in the book," comments director Peter Jackson. "You can just imagine them in your mind"s eye, so finding them was almost like casting an actor."
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is the first feature film ever to be filmed on the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. The voyage of Peter Weir and his crew also lead them to Fox Studios Baja in Mexico, which also is home to the Titanic.
The Missing: A Journey through New Mexico
The Missing is a powerful drama of love, forgiveness and redemption starring Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett. Demanding weather conditions ranging from snow to heat waves was not enough to stop Ron Howard and his team from shooting most of the movie on real locations in New Mexico, including the famous Cook Ranch in Santa Fe.
In The Cut, starring Meg Ryan, is just one of the recent movies shot on location in New York. Another New York based movie on release is the much anticipated family comedy Elf which producer Shauna Robertson wanted to be "a love letter to New York City".
The Last Samurai: A Very Japanese Experience
The Last Samurai starring Tom Cruise is a sweeping epic set in Japan during the 1870s. The movie was the first ever to be filmed in the Japanese town of Himeji. Filming also took place in New Zealand and in the Warner Bros Studios lot in Burbank.
Gothika is a suspense thriller movie about a psychiatrist who wakes up in the very institution where she used to work. The institution is in fact an abandoned prison called St. Vincent-de-Paul Prison located in Laval, Quebec, just northwest of Montreal, Canada. The filmmakers had originally intended to build the penitentiary sets on stages, but then director Mathieu Kassovitz fell in love with this dark, decaying facility.
Glory is a brave movie about brave men. It portrayed the little known yet true story about the all-black members of the 54th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and their courage during the American Civil War. Glory is also a remarkable achievement in terms of production. Several scenes were shot in Savannah, Georgia, a city whose historic character made it a natural for that part of the film set in Boston.
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