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Johannesburg

largest city in South Africa

South Africa · -26.2044, 28.0416

Johannesburg is recorded as a filming location for 7 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level: somewhere in Johannesburg, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 27 more.

3 productions were filmed at 5 places inside Johannesburg rather than at Johannesburg itself: listed below, each with the place it was shot.

“The next month, the Gauteng Film Commission announced that action sequences would be filmed in Johannesburg, South Africa, and other locations in Gauteng, beginning in mid-February.”

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) · Wikipedia

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Movies and TV series filmed in Johannesburg

Avengers: Age of Ultron 2015
Invictus 2009
Chappie 2015
“The film, set and shot in Johannesburg, is about an artificial general intelligence law enforcement robot captured and taught by gangsters, who nickname it Chappie.” Wikipedia
Tsotsi 2005
Strike Back 2010–2020
“The first series was largely filmed in the Gauteng province, including its capital, Johannesburg.” Wikipedia
The Last Days of American Crime 2020
Catching Feelings 2018
“The film was shot in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2016.” Wikipedia

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Johannesburg 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.

Hotel Rwanda 2004
“Principal filming was shot on location in Kigali, Rwanda, and Johannesburg, South Africa.” Wikipedia
District 9 2009
The Gods Must Be Crazy 1980
Dredd 2012
“Filming locations included Johannesburg and Cape Town Film Studios (Dredd was the first project filmed at the studio).” Wikipedia
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter 2016
The Giver 2014
The Grand Tour 2016–2024
“Studio recording for the first series began in Johannesburg, South Africa on 17 July 2016.” Wikipedia
Goodbye Bafana 2007
Queen of Katwe 2016
“The film was shot in the Katwe slums in Kampala, Uganda and in Johannesburg, South Africa.” Wikipedia
Io sto con gli ippopotami 1979
The Salvation 2014
American Ninja 2: The Confrontation 1987
“By November 1986 the production was filming in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Mauritius.” Wikipedia
Sarafina! 1992
Alien from L.A. 1988
“The film was mostly shot in Johannesburg at producer Avi Lerner's studio, plus additional shooting in Durban, South Africa and Swakopmund, Namibia.” Wikipedia
Endgame 2009
Sniper: Reloaded 2011
“The film was shot from 1 March 2010 to 3 April 2010 on location in Johannesburg, South Africa.” Wikipedia
The Looming Tower 2018–
“Johannesburg, South Africa served as the production base, and was where the bulk of filming took place.” Wikipedia
Gold 1974
“"It was great to start with, and I got tremendously enthusiastic about the mine, but after ten days down there it got very claustrophobic." Studios interiors were filmed at Killarney Film Studios in Johannesburg and Pinewood Studios in London.” Wikipedia
Kite 2014
“On 17 December 2012, Samuel L. Jackson announced that he was the first actor to join the cast of Ellis's Kite, with filming to take place in Johannesburg.” Wikipedia
Cry, the Beloved Country 1951
Indian 2 2024
“On 1 April 2023, the team moved to Taiwan for filming a major sequence, and thereafter, went to Johannesburg for filming the aforementioned train sequence on 12 April 2023.” Wikipedia
Red Dust 2004
Black Is King 2020
“Ponte City Apartments in Johannesburg was chosen as the location for the king's ascension to heaven, as the building used to be a bastion of apartheid in South Africa, and so the film upends that symbol and shows the prince floating out of it.” Wikipedia
Come Back, Africa 1960
“The tiny film crew shot on location in the streets of Johannesburg, Sophiatown and in restricted areas prohibited to whites, where 50,000 African homes were being annihilated to make room for a white suburb called Triumph.” Wikipedia
Winnie Mandela 2011
Singam II 2013
“The film was shot mainly in Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, Tuticorin, Chennai, Tirunelveli and Karaikudi in Tamil Nadu, while some songs, stunts and talkie portions were filmed in Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg in South Africa, as well as Malaysia and Kenya.” Wikipedia
Bakgat 2008
“The film was shot on location in Pretoria and Johannesburg in 2007.” Wikipedia

Movies and TV series filmed elsewhere in Johannesburg

3 productions shot at 5 places inside Johannesburg, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Johannesburg itself.

Malcolm X Soweto per Wikipedia 1992
Wolf Warrior 2 Soweto 2017
SEAL Team 8: Behind Enemy Lines Ponte City Apartments 2014

Filming locations nearby

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Johannesburg?

37 productions are recorded as filmed in Johannesburg, 3 of them at places inside it, including Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Invictus (2009) and Chappie (2015). 27 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in Johannesburg?

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), covered by 82 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Johannesburg?

Johannesburg is in South Africa. Its coordinates are -26.2044, 28.0416. The day trip guide for Johannesburg lists 16 filming locations within 100 km.

What other filming locations are near Johannesburg?

Carlton Hotel (under 1 km), Carlton Centre (under 1 km), Johannesburg CBD (under 1 km), Ellis Park Stadium (2 km east) and 2 more, all within 40 km and listed on this page with photographs.

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 Evan Bench, CC BY 2.0.

Planning a visit? Filming locations near Johannesburg: 16 places within 100 km, with distances and directions.