South Bend: 1993 Rudy depicts a
Notre Dame football player. 1940
Knute Rockne: All American
starred Ronald Reagan.
Gary: 2010 Nightmare on
Elm Street filmed here.
Hammond: 1983 A Christmas
Story is based on writer Jean
Shepherd’s childhood here.
1994 Natural Born Killers was
filmed in the city court.
Warsaw: 2008 American
Teen: This documentary film
shows the cliques in a small
Indiana town’s high school.
Rensselaer: 1971 Brian’s Song:
Most of the classic football
movie was filmed here.
Lights,
Camera,
Action:
Indiana
in the
Movies
Oxford: 1949 The Great Dan
Patch: This movie tells the
story of the legendary
trotting horse born here.
Geneva: 1924-1990 Several
movies have been made of
the Gene Stratton Porter
book, A Girl of the Limberlost.
Frankfort: 1994
Blue Chips: Game
segments of the
basketball film were
filmed in the high
school gym.
Muncie: 1977
Close Encounters
of the Third Kind
is set in Muncie.
Crawfordsville: 1927 The College
Widow: Based on George Ade’s
play, the movie is set on the
Wabash College campus.
Knightstown: 1986
Hoosiers: Game
segments of the
basketball film were
filmed in the high
school gym.
Indianapolis: 2013 Turbo: This animated film tells the
story of a snail racing in the Indianapolis 500. 1987 Eight
Men Out was filmed here and Evansville. 1942 Booth
Tarkington’s The Magnificent Ambersons is set here.
Shelbyville: 1995 Fictional
town of “Shelby” near the
actual town of Greenfield is the
setting for Now and Then.
Franklin County: 1988
Rainman: Parts of the
Dustin Hoffman-Tom
Cruise movie were shot
throughout the county.
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Bloomington: 1979
Breaking Away: The
Indiana University “Little
500” bicycle race is the
focus of this movie set in
and filmed here.
Vernon, Jennings County: 1956
Friendly Persuasion, Hoosier
author Jessamyn West’s book,
takes place here and became a
movie starring Gary Cooper.
Madison: 1958 Some
Came Running, a Frank
Sinatra movie, was
filmed here.
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Pike County: 1948 So Dear to My
Heart, the classic Burl Ives film, is set
here.
Evansville: 1992 A
League of Their Own
was filmed here and
in Huntingburg.
30 miles
Gentryville: 2012 Real life boyhood home
of Lincoln is the setting for the fictional
movie Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
Map created by the Ball State University Libraries’ GIS Research and Map Collection. Source: IMDB web page. So Dear to My Heart
image source: Walt Disney. Knute Rockne: All American (Ronald Reagan) image source: Warner Brothers. Close Encounters of the
Third Kind image source: Columbia Pictures. Hoosiers image source: MGM and 20th Century Fox. Ball State University Digital Media
Repository images—Spurgeon-Greene Photographs Collection and Muncie and Delaware County Historic Photographs Collection.