Movies that are based in West Virginia or have West Virginia themes or connections!
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1999 October Sky- the story of Homer Hickam NASA engineer from Coalwood, WV


2006 We Are Marshall- movie about the 1970 plane crash and the effect on Huntington, WV

2004 Fictional- LA Movie star comes to West Virginia and falls in love with the local girl!

2002 Mothman Prophecies-1966-67 and the collapse of the bridge in Point Pleasant, WV

2006 Silent Hill (Fictional)- Creepy hauntings in Silent Hill an old coal town in West Virginia

2003 Wrong Turn (Fictional)- Horror -monsters in Greenbrier County, WV

1983 Tom Cruise based in SW PA many of the players are recruited to West Virginia U.


1987 Matewan WV Coal strikes and history of southern West Virginia (James Earl Jones)

1998 (Robin Williams) Story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams Hillsboro, WV
1992 Witney Houston and Kevin Costnar - Costnars character was a former WVU player and WVU logos are in the movie.
1991 Silence of the Lambs -Jodie Fosters character was from West Virginia and references to the state are made in the movie.
2005 They travel through and play in Wheeling, WV in the movie.
2007 Live Free or Die Hard (Bruce Willis) A terrorist attack on Washington DC leads to a super electric generating plant in West Virginia.
Other West Virginia referenced movies
1997 Contact (Jodie Foster) reference to National astronomy observatory in Greenbank,WV
1994 Nobody's Fool (paul Newman)- a fictional WVU English professor trying to establish a better relationship with his father.
X-Files shows have WV themed references
Other Movies filmed in West Virginia /(partial)
1978 The Deer Hunter (Robert DiNero) Wierton, WV
2004 XXX (Vin Diesel)
1994 Lassie -Sandstone Falls and Hinton, WV
2003 Gods and Generals Harpers Ferry, WV
1971 Fools Parade
2006 Roneys Point
2006 Salvage
1998 Whatever
1987 Chillers Charleston,WV
1955 The Night of the Hunter (Robert Mitchum) Moundsville,WV

1984 Reckless Wierton, WV