🏙 Towns & cities
Honolulu
capital city of the U.S. state of Hawaii and seat of Honolulu County
🇺🇸 United States · 21.3047, -157.8572
Honolulu is recorded as a filming location for 7 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Honolulu, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 7 more. 1 video game is also set here.
13 productions were filmed at 14 places inside Honolulu rather than at Honolulu itself — listed below, each with the place it was shot.
“Most of the film was shot in Honolulu and around Hanalei Bay.”
Movies and TV series filmed in Honolulu
- From Here to Eternity 1953
- Pearl Harbor 2001
- Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970
- Battleship 2012
- Punch-Drunk Love 2002
- Inhumans 2017–
- Molokai: The Story of Father Damien 1999
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Honolulu 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.
- Lost 2004–2010
- Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle 2017
- The Descendants 2011
- 50 First Dates 2004
- Midway 2019
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Aloha
2014
“Cooper was filming in downtown Honolulu on December 18 and 19, 2013.” Wikipedia
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Hawaii Five-O
1968–1980
“Created by Leonard Freeman, Hawaii Five-O was shot on location in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, and throughout the island of Oʻahu and elsewhere in the Hawaiian Islands with occasional filming in locales such as Los Angeles, Singapore, and Hong Kong.” Wikipedia
Movies and TV series filmed elsewhere in Honolulu
13 productions shot at 14 places inside Honolulu, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Honolulu itself.
- Jurassic Park Kualoa Ranch per Wikipedia 1993
- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Halona Blowhole per Wikipedia 2011
- Jurassic World Honolulu Zoo 2015
- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Kualoa Ranch 2018
- Godzilla Waikiki per Wikipedia 2014
- Kong: Skull Island Kualoa Ranch per Wikipedia 2017
- Godzilla vs. Kong Downtown Honolulu per Wikipedia 2021
- Hawaii Five-0 ʻIolani Palace per Wikipedia 2010–2020
- Lilo & Stitch Kualoa Ranch per Wikipedia 2025
- You, Me and Dupree Kualoa Ranch per Wikipedia 2006
- Windtalkers Kualoa Ranch per Wikipedia 2002
- Magnum, P.I. Waikiki per Wikipedia 2018–
- NCIS: Hawaiʻi Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam per Wikipedia 2021–
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🏙 Towns & cities
Kualoa Ranch
🇺🇸 United States
human settlement in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, United States of America
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Hawaii Convention Center
🇺🇸 United States
convention and exhibition center in Hawaii
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Halona Blowhole
🇺🇸 United States
rock formation and a blowhole on the island of Oahu, Hawaii
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Honolulu Zoo
🇺🇸 United States
zoo in Queen Kapiʻolani Park in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, US
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🏙 Towns & cities
Waikiki
🇺🇸 United States
beachfront resort neighborhood on the south shore of Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States
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Chinatown
🇺🇸 United States
Historic neighborhood of Honolulu, Hawaii
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Downtown Honolulu
🇺🇸 United States
neighborhood and central business district in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, United States of America
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Koko Head
🇺🇸 United States
headland in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Manoa Falls
🇺🇸 United States
waterfall in Hawaii, United States
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🏰 Castles & palaces
Fort Kamehameha
🇺🇸 United States
former United States Army military base
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🏰 Castles & palaces
ʻIolani Palace
🇺🇸 United States
former royal residence and capitol building in Hawaii
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Diamond Head
🇺🇸 United States
volcanic tuff cone and state monument on the southeast edge of Waikīkī, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
2 more places are inside Honolulu — 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.
Filming locations nearby
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Oahu
🇺🇸 United States
island of Hawaii, United States
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🏙 Towns & cities
Kualoa Ranch
🇺🇸 United States
human settlement in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, United States of America
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🏙 Towns & cities
Mokulēia
🇺🇸 United States
census-designated place in Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States of America
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Hawaii Convention Center
🇺🇸 United States
convention and exhibition center in Hawaii
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Halona Blowhole
🇺🇸 United States
rock formation and a blowhole on the island of Oahu, Hawaii
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Honolulu Zoo
🇺🇸 United States
zoo in Queen Kapiʻolani Park in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, US
Frequently asked questions
What was filmed in Honolulu?
27 productions are recorded as filmed in Honolulu, 13 of them at places inside it, including From Here to Eternity (1953), Pearl Harbor (2001) and Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970). 7 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed in Honolulu?
From Here to Eternity (1953), covered by 60 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Honolulu?
Honolulu is in the United States, at 21.3047, -157.8572.
What other filming locations are near Honolulu?
Oahu, Kualoa Ranch, Mokulēia, Hawaii Convention Center 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 Farragutful, CC BY-SA 4.0.