Where was Saving Private Ryan filmed?
1998 film directed by Steven Spielberg
Saving Private Ryan (1998) was filmed in Hatfield, Thame, Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial and Curracloe — 4 recorded filming locations in the United Kingdom, France, Ireland. Every one is a filming-location statement on Wikidata, not a guess.
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Filming locations
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🏙 Towns & cities
Thame
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
market town and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England
“The German machine-gun nest and following ambush of a half-track vehicle were filmed on the grounds of Thame Park, Thame, in Oxfordshire; the chapel interior where Miller's men rest was filmed in the Thame Park chapel.” Wikipedia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Hatfield
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England
“The land was used as a film set for Steven Spielberg's movie Saving Private Ryan and most of the BBC/HBO television drama Band of Brothers.” Wikipedia
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial
🇫🇷 France
cemetery located in Calvados, in France
“Scenes featuring the elderly Ryan were filmed at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, France, adjacent to Omaha Beach.” Wikipedia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Curracloe
🇮🇪 Ireland
village in Leinster, Ireland
“Ballinesker Beach and Curracloe Strand, Ballinesker, were used for the filming of the D-Day sequence in Saving Private Ryan, due to similarity to Omaha Beach in Normandy.” Wikipedia
Also per Wikipedia's Filming in England and France section
Wikipedia’s Filming in England and France section names 3 more places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Omaha Beach
🇫🇷 France
1944 one of the five sectors of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Hatfield Aerodrome
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
airport in the United Kingdom
“Filming relocated to the Hatfield Aerodrome in Hertfordshire, England, at the end of August, for the remaining scenes and the battle of Ramelle.” Wikipedia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Colleville-sur-Mer
🇫🇷 France
commune in Calvados, France
Places whose own article says it was shot there
2 places whose own Wikipedia article names this film as something shot there, where Wikidata records nothing and this film’s own article does not say so either. The weakest evidence on this atlas: no pin on the map, and nothing in the downloads. Each sentence is quoted whole and linked to the article it came from, so it can be judged rather than taken on trust.
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Hatfield Aerodrome United Kingdom
“The airfield closed but was later used as a film set for Saving Private Ryan and the television series Band of Brothers.” Wikipedia
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Seaham United Kingdom
“According to the Sunderland Echo (11 February 1999), scenes from Saving Private Ryan (1998) were also going to be filmed in Seaham, but government intervention moved production elsewhere.” Wikipedia
Recorded only at country level
Wikidata also records this film as shot in Calvados, County Wexford, Ireland, without saying where. Those statements are true but unmappable — a pin in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote — so they are listed here instead of guessed at.
Frequently asked questions
How many filming locations does Saving Private Ryan have?
4 places recorded on Wikidata, and 3 places named in its Wikipedia article, labelled per Wikipedia, across 3 countries.
In which countries was Saving Private Ryan filmed?
the United Kingdom, France and Ireland.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, plus places named in the production's own Wikipedia article, which are labelled per Wikipedia. Nothing is scraped from listicles and nothing is generated.