Landscapes & nature
Sahara
desert on the African continent
Niger · 23.0797, 12.6122
Sahara is named as a filming location in the Wikipedia articles of 16 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.
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Sahara 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.
- Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope 1977
- Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace 1999
- Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981
- The Mummy 1999
- Cabiria 1914
- The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 1974
- Spies Like Us 1985
- The Physician 2013
- Legend of the Lost 1957
- Ishtar 1987
- Fort Saganne 1984
- Vagabond 2019–
- Ashanti 1979
- L'Atlantide 1921
- Aadujeevitham: The Goat Life
- The Mistress of Atlantis 1932
Other filming locations in Niger
Frequently asked questions
What was filmed at Sahara?
16 productions are recorded as filmed at Sahara, including Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977), Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). 16 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed at Sahara?
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977), covered by 96 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Sahara?
Sahara is in Niger. Its coordinates are 23.0797, 12.6122.
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 Project Apollo Archive, Public domain.