List of films shot in Big Bear Valley

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This is an incomplete list of films shot in Big Bear Valley in the U.S. state of California.

Films

Film TitleYear ReleasedLocation(s) UsedRef(s)
When a Stranger Calls 2006Running Springs [1]
Dr. Dolittle 2 2001Big Bear City, Bluff Lake [2]
Gone with the Wind 1939Big Bear Lake
Running Springs		 [1] [3]
The Insider 1999Big Bear Lake [1]
Magnolia 1999Big Bear Lake [1] [4]
Beethoven's 3rd 2000Big Bear Lake, Bluff Lake [1]
WarGames 1983Big Bear Lake [1]
Grey's Anatomy 2005- [1]
The King of Queens 1998-2007 [1]
Average Joe 2003-2005 [1]
Little Dove's Romance 1911 [5] [6]
The Call of the North 1914 [5] [6]
The Birth of a Nation 1915Big Bear Lake [5]
Davy Crockett 1916Big Bear Lake [5]
A Fight for Love 1919Big Bear Lake [5]
The Courtship of Myles Standish 1923Big Bear Lake [5]
Heidi 1937Big Bear Lake [5]
Brigham Young 1940Big Bear Lake [5]
High Sierra 1941Big Bear Lake [5]
Lassie Come Home 1943Big Bear Valley [5]
Magnificent Obsession 1954Big Bear Lake [5]
Old Yeller 1957Big Bear Lake [5]
Paint Your Wagon 1969Holcomb Valley [5]
The Main Event 1979Big Bear Lake
Cedar Lake		 [5]
The American President 1995Big Bear Lake [5]
Fighting Trooper 1934Big Bear Lake [5]
Sabretooth 2002Big Bear Lake [5]
I'll Be Home for Christmas 1998Big Bear Lake [5]
City of Angels 1998Big Bear Lake [5]
Code of the Mounted 1935Big Bear Lake [5]
Colorado Sundown 1952Big Bear Lake [5] [7]
Border Saddlemates 1952Big Bear Lake
Virginia McDougald Fox Farm		 [5] [8]
Riders of the Whistling Pines 1949Big Bear Lake [5]
Trail of Robin Hood 1950Big Bear Lake
Cedar Lake		 [5] [9]
King Dinosaur 1955Big Bear Lake [10]
Giant from the Unknown 1958Big Bear Lake [10]
The Werewolf 1956Big Bear Lake
Fawnskin		 [10]
Act of Violence 1949Big Bear Lake [11]
Heart of the North 1938Big Bear Lake [12]
Next 2007Running Springs
Small Town Saturday Night 2010Running Springs
I'm Reed Fish 2006Running Springs [5]
Messenger of Death 1988Running Springs
Communion 1989Running Springs [13]
Shane 1953Big Bear Lake [14]
Woman Obsessed 1959Big Bear [15]
Kissin' Cousins 1959Big Bear Lake
Cedar Lake		 [16]
North West Mounted Police 1940Big Bear Lake [17]
Law of the Northwest 1943Big Bear Lake [18]
Through the Wrong Door 1919Lucky Baldwin Mine (Holcomb Valley) [19]
Rocky Mountain Mystery 1935Lucky Baldwin Mine (Holcomb Valley) [19]
Mona, the Mountain Maid 1914Big Bear [20]
The White Scar 1915Big Bear [20]
God's Country and the Woman 1916Big Bear [21]
Broadway Arizona 1917Big Bear [21]
Ace High 1918Big Bear [21]
The Eagle 1918Big Bear [21]
The Last of His People 1919Big Bear [21]
The Wilderness Trail 1919Big Bear [21]
The River's End 1920Big Bear [21]
The High Land 1926Big Bear [21]
Man of the Forest 1933Big Bear [21]
To The Last Man 1933Big Bear [21]
Fighting Shadows 1935Big Bear [21]
Skull and Crown 1935Big Bear [21]
Wilderness Mail 1935Big Bear [21]
Drift Fence 1936Big Bear [21]
Girl of the Ozarks 1936Big Bear [21]
The Last of The Mohicans 1936Big Bear [21]
Trail of the Lonesome Pine 1936Big Bear [21]
Trigger Tom 1936Big Bear [21]
King of the Royal Mounted 1940Big Bear Lake [22]
Dillinger 1945Cedar Lake [23]
Strangers in Paradise 1984Cedar Lake [24]
The Heart of Humanity 1918Big Bear Lake [25]
Deep Valley 1947Bartlet’s Lake [26]
North of the Great Divide 1950Cedar Lake
Big Bear Lake		 [27]
Don’t Fence Me In 1945Cedar Lake
Big Bear Lake		 [27]
Untamed 1940Cedar Lake [28]
Rites of Passage 1999Big Bear Lake [29]
King of the Mounties 1942Cedar Lake
Boulder Bay		 [30]
Trail of the Yukon 1949Big Bear Lake [31]
Lumberjack 1944Cedar Lake [32]
Frontiersman 1940Cedar Lake [33]
Mrs. Mike 1949Big Bear Lake [34]
Hound-Dog Man 1959Big Bear Lake [35]
North to Alaska 1960Big Bear Lake [35]
Canadian Mounted 1948Big Bear Airport [36]
Law of the Timber 1941Big Bear Lake [37]
Witchboard 1985Big Bear Lake [38]
The Shepherd of the Hills 1941Big Bear Lake [39]
Take a Letter, Darling 1942Big Bear Lake [40]
Little Bigfoot 1997Big Bear Lake
Cedar Lake		 [41]
Fear Runs Silent 1999Big Bear Lake [42]
Doctor Dolittle 1998Big Bear Lake [43]
The Last Shot 1993Big Bear [44]
The Magnificent Ambersons 1942Big Bear Lake [45]
Main Event 1947Cedar Lake [46]
The Parent Trap (1961 film) 1961Bluff Lake Camp [47]

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