🏙 Towns & cities
Broken Hill
town in New South Wales, Australia
🇦🇺 Australia · -31.9650, 141.4511
Broken Hill is recorded as a filming location for 3 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Broken Hill, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 5 more.
“Many scenes, including one where Bernadette encounters a butch, bigoted woman named Shirley, were filmed at the outback town of Broken Hill in New South Wales, largely in a hotel named Mario's Palace (now simply the Palace Hotel), which Al Clark believed was "drag queen heaven".”
Movies and TV series filmed in Broken Hill
- Mission: Impossible 2 2000
- The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert 1994
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The Code
2014–
“The fictional town of Lindara was filmed in Broken Hill, Silverton in New South Wales, and Cockburn in South Australia.” Wikipedia
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Broken Hill 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.
- Mad Max: Fury Road 2015
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
2024
“Miller shot the film at various locations in New South Wales: Broken Hill/Silverton, Hay (the "Stowaway" action sequence), Kurnell (the Bullet Farm and the final confrontation between Furiosa and Dementus), Terrey Hills (the Green Place), Melrose Park (Gastown), and the Disney lot in Sydney (the Citadel).” Wikipedia
- Mad Max 2 1981
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Strangerland
2015
“The filming was also set to take place in Canowindra and Broken Hill in New South Wales, and Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.” Wikipedia
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Wake in Fright
1971
“Filmed on-location in Broken Hill and Sydney, Wake in Fright was an international co-production between Australia, Britain, and the United States.” Wikipedia
Named here by Broken Hill’s own Wikipedia article
Productions this page’s own Wikipedia article says were shot at Broken Hill, where neither Wikidata nor the production’s own article records it. That is the weakest evidence on this atlas, so these get no pin on the map and stay out of the downloads — the sentence is quoted in full below each one so you can judge it.
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“In 2022 filming for Mad Max film Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga took place in Silverton.” Wikipedia
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“One of the most well known films to heavily feature Broken Hill is The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert where various scenes in town and surrounding outback were filmed.” Wikipedia
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Wake in Fright 1971
“The novel was adapted into a 1971 film of the same name, shot on location in Broken Hill and starring Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence and Broken Hill native Chips Rafferty in his final film role.” Wikipedia
Filming locations nearby
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🏙 Towns & cities
Silverton
🇦🇺 Australia
town in New South Wales, Australia
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Palace Hotel, Broken Hill
🇦🇺 Australia
Heritage listed building in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Frequently asked questions
What was filmed in Broken Hill?
8 productions are recorded as filmed in Broken Hill, including Mission: Impossible 2 (2000), The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) and The Code (2014–). 5 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed in Broken Hill?
Mission: Impossible 2 (2000), covered by 56 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Broken Hill?
Broken Hill is in Australia, at -31.9650, 141.4511.
What other filming locations are near Broken Hill?
Silverton and Palace Hotel, Broken Hill, 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 Steve Swayne, CC BY-SA 2.0.