Where was The Great Dictator filmed?
1940 film directed by Charlie Chaplin
The Great Dictator (1940) was filmed in Los Angeles and Malibu — 2 recorded filming locations in the United States. Every one is a filming-location statement on Wikidata, not a guess.
See them on the map → Wikipedia Source data
Filming locations
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🏙 Towns & cities
Los Angeles
🇺🇸 United States
seat of Los Angeles County, and largest city in California, United States
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🏙 Towns & cities
Malibu
🇺🇸 United States
city in Los Angeles County, California, United States
Also per Wikipedia's Origins and development section
Wikipedia’s Origins and development section names 2 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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🎬 Studios & sets
Charlie Chaplin Studios
🇺🇸 United States
American filming studios
“The film was shot largely at the Charlie Chaplin Studios and other locations around Los Angeles.” Wikipedia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Laurel Canyon
🇺🇸 United States
neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States
“The elaborate World War I scenes were filmed in Laurel Canyon.” Wikipedia
Recorded only at country level
Wikidata also records this film as shot in 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.
Also shot in these places
- Pulp Fiction 1994
- The Dark Knight 2008
- Back to the Future 1985
- Fight Club 1999
- The Terminator 1984
- Interstellar 2014
- The Avengers 2012
- The X-Files 1993–2018
- How I Met Your Mother 2005–2014
- Blade Runner 1982
- Spider-Man 2002
- Iron Man 2008
Set in the same places
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
- L.A. Noire
- Duke Nukem 3D
- Battlefield Hardline
- 24: The Game
- Duke Nukem
- Mario Kart Tour
- Hotel Dusk: Room 215
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction per its source work 2022
- Track & Field
- Wasteland 2
- Great Pretender
Frequently asked questions
How many filming locations does The Great Dictator have?
2 places recorded on Wikidata, and 2 places named in its Wikipedia article, labelled per Wikipedia, across the United States.
Which other productions were filmed at the same places?
Pulp Fiction (1994), The Dark Knight (2008), Back to the Future (1985), Fight Club (1999) and 8 more, each listed on this page.
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.