Where Cinema Happens

THE ATLAS

One hundred years of cinema, sorted by passport. Where the films were made, where the cameras turned, where the language landed.

Films Catalogued

103 countries covered

Country-Verified

8.05% from TMDB

Language-Inferred

38.22% via original language

Total coverage46.27%of the catalog is geocoded.·Methodology

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Inferred·Verified

Click any marker to inspect the country.·Marker size = film count.

Ranked by film count

COUNTRIES

103 total

How the Atlas Knows

METHODOLOGY · HONEST DEFAULTS

46.27% of the 74,571-film catalog is geocoded. 8.05% is verified from TMDB production_countries; 38.22% is inferred from original language (a strong but imperfect signal). English-language films without a TMDB hit (39,216) are intentionally left un-geocoded — the language alone cannot pin US vs UK vs CA vs AU. Re-run scripts/build-catalog-geo.py to grow the verified share.

8.05%

6,000 films

Verified from TMDB

TMDB production_countries lists the production company's country. When TMDB has the film and the field, we record it as verified.

38.22%

28,502 films

Inferred from language

Films without a TMDB country but with a non-English original_language are bucketed by the language's primary country. A strong but imperfect signal.

53.73%

40,069 films

Intentionally ungeocoded

English-language films without a TMDB hit. Language alone cannot pin US vs UK vs CA vs AU, so we leave them out rather than guess.

Total geocoded share

46.27%

Re-running the geo bake against fresh TMDB pulls grows the verified share. Code lives in scripts/build-catalog-geo.py.

Read the full methodology