The film "Harvey Milk" was filmed in San Francisco, California, USA.

Filming Locations:

San Francisco City Hall

In the Movie

Scene where Harvey Milk is inside the city hall building.

In Reality

The scene was filmed at San Francisco City Hall, the seat of government for the city and county of San Francisco, California. Reopened in 1915 in the open space of the city's Civic Center, it is a monument to the Beaux-Arts style of the City Beautiful movement, which embodied the high-minded American Renaissance of 1880-1917. The building's dome is 42 feet higher than that of the United States Capitol. The current building replaced an earlier city hall that was destroyed during the 1906 earthquake. The chief architect was Arthur Brown Jr. of Bakewell & Brown, who also designed the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, the Veterans Building, and the federal office building at 50 United Nations Plaza.

San Francisco City Hall

In the Movie

Scene where Harvey speaks to a crowd in front of City Hall.

In Reality

The scene was filmed at San Francisco City Hall, the seat of government for the city and county of San Francisco, California. The building's dome is 42 feet higher than that of the United States Capitol. The beauty of City Hall has not gone unnoticed by filmmakers working in San Francisco; many films have shot scenes in and around the building. Ironically, the most famous scene was set in Washington but filmed at San Francisco City Hall: in the film "Raiders of the Lost Ark," the rotunda was used for a late addition to the production when it was decided that a coda was needed for the relationship between Indiana Jones and Marion Ravenwood. City Hall also appeared in the film "A View to a Kill," when an attempt to kill Bond and Stacey Sutton failed because they managed to escape in a stolen fire truck.