THE ATLAS
One hundred years of cinema, sorted by passport. Where the films were made, where the cameras turned, where the language landed.
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METHODOLOGY · HONEST DEFAULTS
Country attribution is partial. Roughly 8% of the catalog is verified from TMDB production_countries; another 38% is inferred from original language, a strong but imperfect signal. English-language films without a TMDB hit are intentionally left ungeocoded.
TMDB production_countries lists the production company's country. When TMDB has the film and the field, we record it as verified.
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.
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.
Re-running the geo bake against fresh TMDB pulls grows the verified share. Code lives in scripts/build-catalog-geo.py.