🏙 Towns & cities
Socorro
city in and county seat of Socorro County, New Mexico, United States
🇺🇸 United States · 34.0617, -106.8994
Socorro is recorded as a filming location for 1 production. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Socorro, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 2 more.
“12 Strong (2018) includes several scenes set in Afghanistan that were recorded in the Socorro area, including several days of filming at M Mountain within the Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center's bomb range.”
Movies filmed in Socorro
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Socorro 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.
Filming locations nearby
Frequently asked questions
What was filmed in Socorro?
3 productions are recorded as filmed in Socorro, including Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Contact (1997) and 12 Strong (2018). 2 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed in Socorro?
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), covered by 42 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Socorro?
Socorro is in the United States, at 34.0617, -106.8994.
What other filming locations are near Socorro?
Socorro County, 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 Jimwmurphy, CC BY 3.0.