Where was The Color Purple filmed?

1985 film directed by Steven Spielberg

The Color Purple (1985) was filmed in Nairobi, Union County, Anson County, Eatonton, Wadesboro, Lilesville and 2 more places, 8 places named in its Wikipedia article, in the United States, Kenya. Wikidata itself records the shoot only as North Carolina. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a statement, and every claim on this page says which it is.

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Places per Wikipedia's article

The article names 8 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

1 place 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.

• Marshville United States

  “Parts of the 1985 Oscar-nominated movie The Color Purple were filmed in Marshville.” Wikipedia

Recorded only at country level

Wikidata also records this film as shot in North Carolina, 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.

Filming locations that are mapped there: United States

Also shot in these places

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