Towns & cities

Oakland

city in and county seat of Alameda County, California, United States

United States · 37.8000, -122.2500

Oakland is recorded as a filming location for 2 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level: somewhere in Oakland, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 44 more. 1 video game is also set here.

10 productions were filmed at 11 places inside Oakland rather than at Oakland itself: listed below, each with the place it was shot.

“Some portions of the chase were also filmed in Oakland, California, and the tunnel shown briefly is the Webster Tube, which connects Oakland and Alameda.”

The Matrix Reloaded (2003) · Wikipedia

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Movies filmed in Oakland

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Oakland 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 Matrix Reloaded 2003
The Matrix Revolutions 2003
Top Gun 1986
The Pursuit of Happyness 2006
Mrs. Doubtfire 1993
“Parts were filmed at the studios of television station KTVU in Oakland.” Wikipedia
A View to a Kill 1985
Hulk 2003
“Locations included Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Oakland, Treasure Island military base, and the sequoia forests of Porterville, before several weeks in the Utah and California deserts.” Wikipedia
Mona Lisa Smile 2003
Predator 2 1990
Magnum Force 1973
Romeo Must Die 2000
The Rainmaker 1997
Howard the Duck 1986
High Crimes 2002
Sneakers 1992
True Crime 1999
Into the Storm 2014
The Champion 1915
Phantasm 1979
“The exteriors of the Morningside Mortuary were shot at Oakland's Dunsmuir House in Northern California.” Wikipedia
Made in America 1993
Nine Months 1995
Baraka 1992
The High and the Mighty 1954
Rent 2005
Angels in the Outfield 1994
Fruitvale Station 2013
Tucker: The Man and His Dream 1988
So I Married an Axe Murderer 1993
Treasure Island 1934
Class Action 1991
Switchback 1997
Hemingway & Gellhorn 2012
“Pat Jackson, the film's sound effects editor, said that the biggest challenge in doing sound for the film was "making the archival footage and the live-action footage shot locally appear seamless." Much of the film was shot in the San Francisco Bay Area, with the abandoned 16th Street station in Oakland standing in for the Hotel Florida.” Wikipedia
Burnt Offerings 1976
“Co-produced by Italian producer Alberto Grimaldi's Produzioni Europee Associati, Burnt Offerings was filmed on location at the historic Dunsmuir House in Oakland, California in the late summer of 1975.” Wikipedia
Sorry to Bother You 2018
Bee Season 2005
The Principal 1987
“Written by Frank Deese and directed by Christopher Cain, it was filmed in Oakland, California, and at Northgate High School in nearby Walnut Creek and distributed by Tri-Star Pictures on Panavision.” Wikipedia
Hurlyburly 1998
True Believer 1989
Freaky Tales 2024
Illusion 2004
“Illusion was shot in Calistoga, Oakland, San Francisco, and Berkeley, as well as at Douglas' portions in Beverly Hills, California.” Wikipedia
Nightmare in Blood 1978
Kamillions 1989
“The film was shot primarily in the Dunsmuir House and Gardens in Oakland, California.” Wikipedia
Drylongso 1998
“The film, which was shot on location in Oakland, California on 16-millimeter film, centers on a young black photography student and deals with numerous issues relating to race, gender and identity.” Wikipedia
Redemption Trail 2013

Movies and TV series filmed elsewhere in Oakland

10 productions shot at 11 places inside Oakland, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Oakland itself.

House M.D. University of California per Wikipedia 2004–
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation University of California per Wikipedia 2000–
Moneyball Oakland Coliseum per Wikipedia 2011
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport per Wikipedia 1986
Junior University of California per Wikipedia 1994
Patch Adams University of California per Wikipedia 1998
So Undercover University of California per Wikipedia 2012
Skyjacked Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport per Wikipedia 1972
The Cheerleaders Laney College per Wikipedia 1973
Nina Takes a Lover Lake Merritt per Wikipedia 1994

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.

Watch Dogs 2 2016

Filming locations nearby

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Oakland?

56 productions are recorded as filmed in Oakland, 10 of them at places inside it, including Blindspotting (2018), San Francisco Earthquake & Fire: April 18, 1906 (1906) and The Matrix Reloaded (2003). 44 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in Oakland?

Blindspotting (2018), covered by 11 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Oakland?

Oakland is in the United States. Its coordinates are 37.8000, -122.2500.

What other filming locations are near Oakland?

Lake Merritt (under 1 km), Laney College (1 km west), University of California (2 km west), Fox Oakland Theatre (2 km north-west) 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 Basil D Soufi, CC BY-SA 3.0.