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.

• Palmetto Pointe
• Army Wives (Most of the show is filmed at the old Navy base, in the City of North Charleston, where they built a fake town for the series. There is a sound stage for the show that is located in the Oakridge Shopping Center off Dorchester Road, in the City Of North Charleston)
• Scarlett, a 1994 TV miniseries based on Alexandra Ripley's sequel to "Gone with the Wind." (*)
• Deadly Pursuits, a 1996 TV movie with Tori Spelling.(*)
• TV Miniseries of the trilogy of North and South, Love and War, Heaven & Hell: North & South, Book III (Calhoun Mansion at 16 Meeting St.)
• TV movie The Hunley (1999) (*)
• The series on The Learning Channel called The Real Estate Pros with local Real Estate agency, Trademark Properties and its owner Richard C. Davis.
• Special Bulletin, a 1983 TV-film 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. (*)
• The 1990s Nick Jr. 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.
• Pilot episode for mini series, "El Cid" (Citadel campus) (*). Directed and produced by 2004 Citadel graduate Nicholas Collins, the series is a dramatization based on the lives of Citadel Cadets. The show also stars and was co-produced by notable Charlestonian and 2004 Citadel Alumnus Yanni Bohren.

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
• An Occasional Heaven
• Angel Camouflaged
• Chasers
• Consenting Adults
• Deceiver
• Dear John (2010 film)
• Dear Osama bin Laden
• Die Hard with a Vengeance (old Cooper River bridges)
• Don't Tell Her It's Me (aka The Boyfriend School)
• For the Boys
• Kitty Kitty
• Leo
• Little Senegal
• Look Out, Here Comes Tomorrow
• Major League: Back to the Minors
• Mary Janes Last Dance
• My Man Done Me Wrong
• O
• Other Voices, Other Rooms
• Paradise
• Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story
• Rich in Love
• The Break
• The Corn Dog Man
• The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
• The Great Santini (*)
• The In Crowd
• The Jackal
• The Legend of Bagger Vance
• The Lords of Discipline (*)
• The Notebook - 2004 (upper King St. near Cannon St. and Spring St.)
• The Patriot - 2000 (College of Charleston; lower Meeting St.) (*)
• The Prince of Tides - 1991
• White Squall
• Cold Mountain