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Minneapolis

city in and seat of Hennepin County, and largest city in State of Minnesota, United States

🇺🇸 United States · 44.9819, -93.2692

Minneapolis is recorded as a filming location for 5 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Minneapolis, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 5 more.

3 productions were filmed at 6 places inside Minneapolis rather than at Minneapolis itself — listed below, each with the place it was shot.

“Much of the cityscape and its surrounding suburbs were used to emulate Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Atlanta, Georgia, in addition to serving as backdrop for Chicago itself.”
Contagion (2011) · Wikipedia

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Minneapolis
Photo: Bobak Ha'Eri · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Movies and TV series filmed in Minneapolis

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Minneapolis 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.

  • The Sound of Music 1965
    “Wise arranged for two sneak-preview showings in Minneapolis on Friday, January 15, 1965, at the Mann Theater and Tulsa, Oklahoma, the following night.” Wikipedia
  • Gran Torino 2008
    “The original script was inspired by the Northeast community of Minneapolis, Minnesota, but filmmakers chose to shoot in Michigan, becoming one of the first productions to take advantage of the state's new law that provided lucrative incentive packages to film productions.” Wikipedia
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986
    “Rebuilt, it ended up at Planet Hollywood in Minneapolis and was moved to Planet Hollywood in Cancún when this one was closed." The car was later sold by Heritage Auctions on December 17, 2022, for $337,000 and is now in a private collection in Massachusetts.” Wikipedia
  • North Country 2005
    “The film was shot in the northern Minnesota towns of Eveleth, Virginia, Chisholm, and Hibbing; Minneapolis; as well as Silver City and Santa Fe in New Mexico.” Wikipedia
  • The Bishop's Wife 1947
    “Location filming was in Minneapolis, Minnesota.” Wikipedia

Movies and TV series filmed elsewhere in Minneapolis

3 productions shot at 6 places inside Minneapolis, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Minneapolis itself.

Set here, per Wikipedia

Games whose English Wikipedia article says they are set in Minneapolis, 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.

Filming locations nearby

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Minneapolis?

13 productions are recorded as filmed in Minneapolis, 3 of them at places inside it, including Contagion (2011), A Serious Man (2009) and Jingle All the Way (1996). 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 Minneapolis?

Contagion (2011), covered by 52 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Minneapolis?

Minneapolis is in the United States, at 44.9819, -93.2692.

What other filming locations are near Minneapolis?

Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Bloomington, Edina, Richfield 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 Bobak Ha'Eri, CC BY 3.0.