🏞 Landscapes & nature
Alcatraz Island
island in San Francisco, California, United States of America
🇺🇸 United States · 37.8267, -122.4228
Alcatraz Island is named as a filming location in the Wikipedia articles of 2 productions — in the section each entry below links back to. No Wikidata filming statement points here yet, so this page says plainly which kind of evidence it rests on. 1 video game is also set here.
“Most of The Rock was shot on location in the Alcatraz Prison on Alcatraz Island.”
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Alcatraz Island as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, and labelled as what it is — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.
- The Rock 1996
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Point Blank
1967
“To establish Walker's mythic stature, Soderbergh noted in the commentary that the film cuts from a shot of Walker swimming from Alcatraz Island to a shot of him on a ferry overlooking the same island, while a woman on the loudspeaker describes the impossibility of leaving the island.” Wikipedia
Set here
Video games that take place here. A game is filmed nowhere, so this is where the story is set rather than where a camera stood — a different claim from everything above, and kept under its own heading for that reason.
Drawn from this place
Video games whose Japanese Wikipedia article names Alcatraz Island as a real place their setting was modelled on. Nothing was filmed here and no story happens here: somebody drew it from here. That is the weakest claim this atlas makes about a place, which is why it sits under its own heading, and each production’s page links the article the claim came from.
Filming locations nearby
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San Francisco
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consolidated city and county in California, United States
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San Francisco Zoo
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San Rafael
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Skywalker Ranch
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Berkeley
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Frequently asked questions
What was filmed at Alcatraz Island?
2 productions are recorded as filmed at Alcatraz Island, including The Rock (1996) and Point Blank (1967). 2 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed at Alcatraz Island?
The Rock (1996), covered by 48 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Alcatraz Island?
Alcatraz Island is in the United States, at 37.8267, -122.4228.
What other filming locations are near Alcatraz Island?
San Francisco, San Francisco Zoo, San Fierro, San Rafael and 2 more, all within about 40 km and listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0.