🏙 Towns & cities
Greater Boston
metropolitan area in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, USA
🇺🇸 United States · 42.3550, -71.0650
Greater Boston is named as a filming location in the Wikipedia articles of 4 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.
“Elsewhere in Greater Boston, scenes were filmed near an MBTA passenger rail station in downtown Natick; a private, mid-century modern estate in Lincoln, Canton, Wellesley, Waltham, Medfield; and an unoccupied, state-owned facility in Marlborough that was chosen for its round shape.”
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Greater Boston 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.
- Good Will Hunting 1997
- Knives Out 2019
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Sound of Metal
2019
“The film was shot in the Greater Boston area, primarily in Ipswich, Massachusetts.” Wikipedia
- The House by the Cemetery 1981
Filming locations nearby
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🏙 Towns & cities
Cambridge
🇺🇸 United States
city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States of America
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🏙 Towns & cities
Newton
🇺🇸 United States
city in Massachusetts, United States
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Boston University
🇺🇸 United States
private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Northeastern University
🇺🇸 United States
private university in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Phillips Academy
🇺🇸 United States
preparatory school in Andover, Massachusetts, United States
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Wheelock College
🇺🇸 United States
former private college in Boston, Massachusetts
Frequently asked questions
What was filmed in Greater Boston?
4 productions are recorded as filmed in Greater Boston, including Good Will Hunting (1997), Knives Out (2019) and Sound of Metal (2019). 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 Greater Boston?
Good Will Hunting (1997), covered by 69 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Greater Boston?
Greater Boston is in the United States, at 42.3550, -71.0650.
What other filming locations are near Greater 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 Henry Han (hequals2henry@yahoo.com), CC BY-SA 3.0.