Where was Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi filmed?

1983 film directed by Richard Marquand

Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983) was filmed in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park — 1 recorded filming location in the United States. It is a filming-location statement on Wikidata, not a guess.

Part of the Star Wars film series · the Star Wars original trilogy

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Filming locations

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  🏞 Landscapes & nature

  Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park

  🇺🇸 United States

  state park in California, USA

Also per Wikipedia's Filming section

Wikipedia’s Filming section names 7 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.

Places whose own article says it was shot there

3 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.

• Smith River United States

  “Smith River was listed as one of the filming sites for the 1983 film Return of the Jedi, alongside Buttercup Valley and Death Valley in the eastern and southeastern portions of the state, respectively.” Wikipedia

• Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park United States

  “Cheatham Grove has a small trail about a mile long and was one of the filming sites for Return of the Jedi as the forest moon of Endor.” Wikipedia

• Smith River United States

  “For the 1983 movie Return of the Jedi, the 3rd film in the Star Wars franchise, the Smith River and its surrounding forests and the community of Smith River were used as filming locations for most of the Endor scenes, although a miniaturized set was used for the battle sequences.” Wikipedia

Recorded only at country level

Wikidata also records this film as shot in Arizona, California, 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.

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