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. Copyright 2011, Ball State University Digital Media Repository. 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. Copyright 2010, Ball State University Digital Media Repository. N 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.