🏙 Towns & cities
Bakersfield
city and county seat of Kern County, California, United States
🇺🇸 United States · 35.3733, -119.0189
Bakersfield is recorded as a filming location for 1 production. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Bakersfield, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 4 more.
“Principal photography for the film began on November 7, 2007, and culminated on March 27, 2008; however second unit filming occurred in Bakersfield, California, in April 2008, which stood in for Kirk's childhood home in Iowa.”
Movies filmed in Bakersfield
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Bakersfield as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than the statements above, so it gets its own list — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.
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Thelma & Louise
1991
“The primary filming locations were rural areas around Bakersfield, California and Moab, Utah.” Wikipedia
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Letters from Iwo Jima
2006
“Although the film is set in Japan, it was filmed primarily in Barstow and Bakersfield in California.” Wikipedia
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The Cell
2000
“Other filming locations included in Africa at Deadvlei in the Namib-Naukluft National Park, as well as several locations in California, including the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, California; Bakersfield; and at Linda Vista Community Hospital in Los Angeles.” Wikipedia
- The Rocketeer 1991
Filming locations nearby
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🏙 Towns & cities
Kern County
🇺🇸 United States
county in California, United States
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🏙 Towns & cities
Wasco
🇺🇸 United States
city in Kern County, California, United States
Frequently asked questions
What was filmed in Bakersfield?
5 productions are recorded as filmed in Bakersfield, including Star Trek (2009), Thelma & Louise (1991) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006). 4 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed in Bakersfield?
Star Trek (2009), covered by 61 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Bakersfield?
Bakersfield is in the United States, at 35.3733, -119.0189.
What other filming locations are near Bakersfield?
Kern County and Wasco, 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 Robert Hale, CC BY-SA 2.0.