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Boston

capital city of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and seat of Suffolk County

🇺🇸 United States · 42.3603, -71.0578

Boston is recorded as a filming location for 9 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Boston, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 44 more. 8 video games are also set here.

10 productions were filmed at 33 places inside Boston rather than at Boston itself — listed below, each with the place it was shot.

“However, other scenes were shot in Boston, Lynn, Cambridge, Danvers, Framingham, Lawrence, Malden, Rowley, and Topsfield.”
Sound of Metal (2019) · Wikipedia

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Photo: Robert Linsdell from St. Andrews, Canada · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Movies filmed in Boston

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Boston 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.

Movies and TV series filmed elsewhere in Boston

10 productions shot at 33 places inside Boston, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Boston itself.

21 more places are inside Boston — see them on the map.

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. The rows marked per its source work are placed by the book they adapt rather than by a statement of their own.

Set here, per Wikipedia

Games whose English Wikipedia article says they are set in Boston, where Wikidata’s narrative-location statement stops at the country. Still a setting and not a shoot, and still a sentence rather than a statement — two steps from the strongest evidence on this atlas, and labelled at both.

Drawn from this place

Video games whose Japanese Wikipedia article names Boston 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.

  • Mafia II 2010
    “Most of the game is set in the fictional city of Empire Bay, based on New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, and Detroit, during the mid-1940s and early 1950s.” Wikipedia

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Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Boston?

63 productions are recorded as filmed in Boston, 10 of them at places inside it, including Spotlight (2015), Don't Look Up (2021) and The New Mutants (2020). 44 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in Boston?

Spotlight (2015), covered by 63 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Boston?

Boston is in the United States, at 42.3603, -71.0578. The day trip guide for Boston lists 248 filming locations within 100 km.

What other filming locations are near Boston?

Cambridge, Newton, Boston University, Northeastern University 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 Robert Linsdell from St. Andrews, Canada, CC BY 2.0.

Planning a visit? Filming locations near Boston — 248 places within 100 km, with distances and directions.