Editing Taft, California (section)

==In popular culture==
* ''[[25 Hill]]''
* ''[[Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman (1993 film)|Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman]]''
* ''[[The Best of Times (1986 film)|The Best of Times]]''. A movie, starring Robin Williams and Kurt Russell, set in Taft.
* ''[[Five Easy Pieces]]''. The main character of the 1970 movie, Robert Eroica Dupea (portrayed by [[Jack Nicholson]]), lives in a small house on the corner of Philippine Street and 5th Ave with his girlfriend Rayette Dipesto. 
* ''[[A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night]]''
* ''[[Meteor (miniseries)|Meteor]]''
* ''No Breaks''. A 1976 film detailing the town's attempts to break the world record for longest loaf of bread and longest submarine sandwich in the ''[[Guinness Book of World Records]]'', which it did successfully.
* ''[[Thelma & Louise]]''
* ''[[Too Young to Die?]]''
* ''[[Robbers (The 1975 song)#Music video|Robbers]]'' by [[The 1975]]. A music video directed by Tim Matti in 2014. The video depicts a couple who rob a shop to obtain money to "fund their alcohol and drug addiction."
* ''[[John Dies at the End]]''. A 2012 film based on the book of the same name written by David Wong, which features many of Taft's iconic Center Street scenes.
* ''[[Break Up (1998 film)|Break Up]]''. A 1998 film starring Kiefer Sutherland and Bridget Fonda.
* ''[[Today (The Smashing Pumpkins song)|Today]]''. A 1993 music video by [[The Smashing Pumpkins]]; opens with [[Billy Corgan]] sitting on the curb outside Wilson's Taft Hardware store.
* ''[[California's Gold]]'', Episode 609<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 8, 1995 |title=Oil – California's Gold (609) – Huell Howser Archives at Chapman University |url=https://blogs.chapman.edu/huell-howser-archives/1995/11/08/oil-californias-gold-609/ |access-date=January 19, 2022 |archive-date=September 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929150437/https://blogs.chapman.edu/huell-howser-archives/1995/11/08/oil-californias-gold-609/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''[[California's Gold]]'', Episode 13002<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 8, 2010 |title=Oil Workers – California's Gold (13002) – Huell Howser Archives at Chapman University |url=https://blogs.chapman.edu/huell-howser-archives/2010/11/08/oil-workers-californias-gold-13002/}}</ref>
* ''Oildorado - Road Trip with [[Huell Howser]]'' Episode 137<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 25, 2006 |title=Oildorado – Road Trip with Huell Howser (137) – Huell Howser Archives at Chapman University |url=https://blogs.chapman.edu/huell-howser-archives/2006/09/25/oildrorado-road-trip-137/}}</ref>
*  "There Will Be Blood," based on Upton Sinclair's [["Oil!"]] blogs.chapman.edu/Huell-Howser-archives/2009/01/25/oildorado-137
the town of Taft is mentioned and though the time period of the film appears to be 1907, the town is referred to as "TAFT" rather than "Moron" by Eil Sunday [[Paul Dano]].  The exact years of the film "There Will Be Blood" appears to be the era between 1903 and 1910, given the age progression of Daniel Plainview's [[Daniel Day-Lewis]] son Henry W. Plainview; the characters are roughly derived from the composite characters of James Arnold "Dad" Ross and Jimmy "Bunny" Ross, Jr.  While Eli and Paul Sunday are based on Eli and his sister Ruth from the 1926 novel.