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- Filmed in Ohio: Movies locations you can visit in the Buckeye State. CLEVELAND, Ohio – The best of moviemaking will be celebrated in Hollywood this weekend.
- The Shawshank Redemption, Mansfield. Many of these sites are open to the public and are featured on the Shawshank Trail. Among them: * The Ohio State Reformatory, which substitutes for Shawshank State Prison in the movie.
- The Avengers, Cleveland. Downtown Cleveland stands in for both New York City and Stuttgart, Germany, in this action-packed superhero flick, released in 2012.
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Cleveland. Cleveland subs for Washington, D.C., in this 2014 Marvel movie, which features a downtown chase scene, Tower City Center, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Lake View Cemetery and other sites.
20 Movies That Were Made in Ohio. Academy Award-winning tales, lesser-known finds and, yes, even a couple of couple box-office bombs have been filmed in the Buckeye State. When it comes to movies made in Ohio, “A Christmas Story” and “The Shawshank Redemption” are often the first two those who live here think of as being tied to the ...
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994) — Mansfield/Sandusky
- Rain Man (1988) — Cincinnati
- A Christmas Story (1983) — Cleveland
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) — Cleveland
- Tommy Boy (1995) — Sandusky
- The Ides of March (2011) — Cincinnati/Oxford
- My Friend Dahmer (2017) — Akron/Bath/Middleburg Heights
- The Avengers (2012) — Cleveland/Sandusky
- Air Force One (1997) — Cleveland/Mansfield
- Spider-Man 3 (2007) — Cleveland
The Shawshank Redemptionis widely considered one of the best films of all time. Based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, the film is technically set in Maine. However, it was filmed almost entirely in Ohio. Locations used for filming include the Ohio State Reformatory, the Wyandot County Courthouse in Sandusky, and other sites around Mansf...
1988’s Rain Manfollows a man from Los Angeles as he travels to Ohio to meet his autistic savant brother. The film is set in Ohio and indeed was largely filmed in Ohio and Kentucky. Many locations in Cincinnati are noticeable throughout the film, including the Dixie Terminal Building. Cincinnati natives will also recognize the John A. Roebling Suspe...
Arguably one of the most famous movies shot and based in Ohio is A Christmas Story. At the time, only the exterior of the Parkers’ home was used, with the rest of the filming taking place on a set. These days, the property is a museum dedicated to the film, having been turned into an exact replica, from the green bathroom to the infamous leg lamp. ...
Marvel fans from Ohio were probably excited to see some familiar places in 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Though the movie was set in Washington, DC, it was filmed in downtown Cleveland. Many of the city’s landmarks can be spotted in chase scenes, including the downtown area, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Lake View Cemetery, and Tower C...
1995’s Tommy Boywas filmed in Sandusky, and Sandusky natives might be able to spot some familiar sites throughout the movie. The film’s plot centers on Sandusky as the hometown of the protagonist, and filming took place in Sandusky as well as Marblehead, Ohio(in addition to other locations throughout the United States and Canada). While it wasn’t e...
The Ides of Marchwas a political thriller released in 2011, starring George Clooney. While some filming took place elsewhere in the country, many of the film’s pivotal scenes were shot at Miami University in Ohio, as well as other locations throughout Cincinnati and Oxford. The university was used as the set for Clooney’s character’s political deba...
The 2017 film My Friend Dahmerfollows Jeffrey Dahmer, the future serial killer, throughout his senior year of high school. The real Dahmer did indeed attend Revere High School in Bath Township, Ohio. The movie was filmed in several locations in Northeast Ohio, most notably Akron and Middleburg Heights. Some scenes were also filmed in Jeffrey Dahmer...
The Marvel franchise seems to have a penchant for filming in Cleveland and passing the city off as other cities — even ones on the other side of the world! In 2012’s The Avengers, Cleveland was used as a stand-in for not just New York City, but also Stuttgart, Germany. Scenes were shot throughout downtown Cleveland and in some parts of Sandusky. Yo...
Air Force One’s opening scene supposedly takes place in the presidential palace in Kazakhstan. But viewers with a quick eye will spot Severance Hall in Cleveland standing in for that official government building. Other scenes in the movie were also filmed in Ohio, including the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, made famous by its use in The Shaw...
Like we said, Marvel seems to love using Cleveland as the location for many of its films, whether or not the movie actually takes place in The Forest City. 2007’s Spider-Man 3, starring Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst, might have taken place in New York City, but it was filmed all over the country. Some of the film’s biggest scenes were shot in dow...
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- Northern Ireland. While a good portion of Game of Thrones was filmed on-location throughout the world, a lot of the series was filmed at the Paint Hall Studios in Belfast, Ireland.
- Morocco. Morocco was a primary shooting location for Game of Thrones' unaired pilot. It was later used for the cities of Astapor and Yunkai in Slaver's Bay during the show's third season.
- Malta. After Morocco served as the site of Southern regions of Westeros in the Game of Thrones pilot, on-location filming shifted to Malta, the island country in the Mediterranean Sea.
- Croatia. Following the show's debut season, production in Malta moved to Croatia, and remained there for the duration of Game of Thrones. The city of Dubrovnik served as one of the primary shooting locations, being used for the exterior of King's Landing.
The earliest history of what became known as Horn’s Hill centered on the burial of a Mound builder of the Adena culture. On October 5 and 6, 1933, Dr. E. F. Greenman, curator of the Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society, conducted excavations of at least three sites on Horn’s Hill and confirmed at least one burial of a prominent ...
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The Deer Hunter film location: the steel town: Mingo Junction, Ohio. The town, however, is an amalgamation of eight separate locales. Three are in Pennsylvania: the real Clairton; McKeesport, over the Monongahela River; and Pittsburgh. Two more are towns to the west, Weirton and Follansbee, in the sliver of West Virginia between the Ohio River ...
