Nevada in the Movies
Hoover Dam, the largest single public works project in the history of the
United States and the highest concrete dam in the U.S., contains 3.25 million cubic yards of concrete, which is enough to pave a two-lane highway from San
Francisco to New York. The dam face was used in an amazing stunt for Roland Emerich's Universal Soldier and has been seen in such films as Viva
Las Vegas and Fools Rush In.
Nevada has about 50,000 miles of paved road, much of it featured in films
like Vanishing Point, Breakdown, Rainman, and Lethal Weapon 4.
Tribal lands have been used to film such movies as Independence Day,
Misery, and The Greatest Story Ever Told.
Las Vegas has been host to many movies including Viva Las Vegas, Cooler,
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, I Shot a Man in Vegas, Indecent Proposal, Las
Vegas Lady, Las Vegas Nights, Las Vegas Shakedown, Leaving Las Vegas, Little Vegas, Las Vegas Serial Killer, Las Vegas Weekend, The Las Don, Lady Luck, Lost
in America, Meet Me in Las Vegas, Melvin and Howard, Midnight Run, Moon Over Las Vegas, The Neon Empire, Ocean's Eleven, Rain Man, Rocky IV, Showgirls, Sister
Act II, Salvador, Prizzi's Honor, Play It to the Bone, Players, Starman, Swingers, They Came to Rob Las Vegas, Vega$, Vegas Vacation, Wedding Bell Blues,
Widow's Kiss, Vampirella, The Winner, Zero Tolerance, Agove the Law, Austin Poers, Black Moon Rising, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Breathless, Hot Shots,
Cannonball Run I and II, Cold Heat, City Slickers II, Con Air, Confessions of a Hit Man, Cool World, Dance with Me, Bugsy, Danger Zone I and II, Deadly Impact,
Duets, The Electric Horseman, Elvis and Me, The Entertainers, Fast Lane to Vegas, Feeling Minnesota, Final Impact, Fit to Kill, The Gauntlet, Grand Theft
Auto, Great White Hope, Guns, The Greatest, Harry & Tonto, Hearts are Wild, Heldorado, The Hitcher, Honeymoon in Vegas, and many more.
For more about Nevada movie sites, see http://www.intercomm.com/koala/home.htm.
