List of television shows and films in Charleston, South Carolina

Because of its classic Old South buildings and scenery, Charleston, South Carolina has been featured in many films and television shows.

Television shows

The following television shows have been filmed in part in or near Charleston, South Carolina. Filming locations that are identifiable in the final production are indicated in parentheses. When the filming location was meant to represent Charleston as the setting, an asterisk has been added.

• Army Wives, mainly filmed at the old Navy base, in the City of North Charleston, where they built a fake town for the series; a sound stage for the show is located in the Oakridge Shopping Center off Dorchester Road, in the City of North Charleston; 2007-13 (*)
• Deadly Pursuits, 1996 TV movie with Tori Spelling (*)
• Pilot episode for miniseries El Cid, dramatization of the lives of Citadel cadets; Citadel campus (*)
• The 1990s Nickelodeon show Gullah Gullah Island took place on a fictional barrier island near Charleston, South Carolina; one episode featured the family visiting downtown Charleston, showing things like sweet-grass baskets; 1994-98 (*)
• TV movie The Hunley on TNT
• The Inspectors on CBS; 2015-2016
• ABC TV miniseries of the trilogy of North and South (1994, starring Patrick Swayze and Kirstie Alley), Love and War, Heaven & Hell: North & South, Book III; Calhoun Mansion at 16 Meeting St. and Boone Hall Plantation (*)
• Palmetto Pointe (*)
• The Learning Channel series The Real Estate Pros with local real estate agency Trademark Properties and its owner Richard C. Davis, 2007 (*)
• Reckless, 2014, CBS (*)
• Scarlett, 1994 TV miniseries based on Alexandra Ripley's sequel to Gone with the Wind (*)
• Southern Charm, 2014–present, Bravo reality show (*)
• Special Bulletin, a 1983 TV-film on NBC presented as a simulated news broadcast of a nuclear terrorism-related hostage taking and subsequent nuclear explosion resulting in the total destruction of the City of Charleston (*)
• Vice Principals Filmed in the North Charleston, South Carolina in the neighborhood of Park Circle. Scenes that take place in the school were shot on the campus of R.B. Stall High School and also filmed on campus of West Ashley High School.

Films

The following movies were filmed at least in part in Charleston, South Carolina. Identifiable locations shown in the films are indicated in parentheses. When the filming location was meant to represent Charleston as the setting, an asterisk has been added.

• Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, 1995, starring Jim Carrey; #1 film in U.S.
• Angel Camouflaged 2010, James Brolin
• The Break, 1995, Martin Sheen; about tennis
• Chasers 1994, Tom Berenger
• Cold Mountain, 2003, set in the Civil War (1864), starring Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, and Renee Zellweger
• Consenting Adults, 1992, Kevin Kline and Kevin Spacey
• The Corn Dog Man
• The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, 2002, starring Emile Hirsch and Kieran Culkin and Jodie Foster
• Deceiver
• Dear John, starring Amanda Seyfried and Channing Tatum; #1 film in the U.S.
• Dear Osama bin Laden
• Die Hard with a Vengeance, 1995, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson; old Cooper River bridges; #1 film in the U.S.
• Don't Tell Her It's Me (aka The Boyfriend School)
• For the Boys 1991, Bette Midler and James Caan; set in the 1940s
• The Great Santini, 1979, starring Robert Duvall and Blythe Danner; set in 1962; written by Pat Conroy (*)
• The In Crowd
• The Jackal, 1997, starring Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, and Sidney Poitier
• Kitty Kitty
• The Legend of Bagger Vance, 2000, starring Will Smith, Matt Damon, and Charlize Theron; set in 1930; about golf
• Leo, Spanish film
• Little Senegal
• Look Out, Here Comes Tomorrow
• The Lords of Discipline, 1983, written by Pat Conroy (*)
• Major League: Back to the Minors 1998, Scott Bakula
• Mary Jane's Last Dance
• My Man Done Me Wrong
• The New Daughter, 2009, Kevin Costner
• The Notebook, 2004, upper King St. near Cannon St. and Spring St., and Boone Hall Plantation
• O, 2001, starring Josh Hartnett, Julia Stiles, Mekhi Phifer, and Martin Sheen; based on Shakespeare's Othello (*)
• An Occasional Hell
• Other Voices, Other Rooms
• Paradise, 1982, Phoebe Cates
• The Patriot, 2000, College of Charleston, lower Meeting St. and Cypress Gardens in Goose Creek (*)
• The Prince of Tides, 1991, starring Nick Nolte, Barbra Streisand, and Blythe Danner, written by Pat Conroy (#1 film in U.S.)
• Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story
• Rich in Love
• Swamp Thing, 1982, directed by Wes Craven; filmed at Cypress Gardens
• White Squall, 1996, starring Jeff Bridges and Ryan Phillipe; about sailing