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San Jose

city and county seat of Santa Clara County, California, United States

🇺🇸 United States · 37.3042, -121.8728

San Jose is named as a filming location in the Wikipedia articles of 3 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.

1 production was filmed at 2 places inside San Jose rather than at San Jose itself — listed below, each with the place it was shot.

“The Cyberdyne Building's destruction was filmed at an abandoned office in San Jose, scheduled for demolition.”
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) · Wikipedia

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San Jose
Photo: Payton Chung · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names San Jose 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.

Movies filmed elsewhere in San Jose

1 production shot at 2 places inside San Jose, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against San Jose itself.

Filming locations nearby

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in San Jose?

4 productions are recorded as filmed in San Jose, 1 of them at places inside it, including Back to the Future (1985), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and The Rookie (1990). 3 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in San Jose?

Back to the Future (1985), covered by 103 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is San Jose?

San Jose is in the United States, at 37.3042, -121.8728.

What other filming locations are near San Jose?

Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Redwood City, San Francisco Bay, Junípero Serra High School 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 Payton Chung, CC BY 2.0.