Editing Santa Monica, California (section)

=== Film and television ===
[[File:Santa Monica End 66 P4060286.jpg|thumb|End of Route 66]]
Hundreds of moving pictures have been shot or set in part in Santa Monica.<ref name="www.imdb.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/search/title?endings=on&&locations=Santa%20Monica,%20California,%20USA&&heading=18;with+locations+including;Santa%20Monica,%20California,%20USA|title=Most Popular Titles With Location Matching "Santa Monica, California, USA"|website=IMDb|access-date=May 24, 2016|archive-date=March 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160320174334/http://www.imdb.com/search/title?endings=on&&locations=Santa%20Monica,%20California,%20USA&&heading=18;with+locations+including;Santa%20Monica,%20California,%20USA|url-status=live}}</ref>

====Films====
One of the oldest exterior shots in Santa Monica is [[Buster Keaton]]'s ''[[Spite Marriage]]'' (1929) which shows much of 2nd Street. The comedy ''[[It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World]]'' (1963) included several scenes shot in Santa Monica, including those along the [[California Incline]], which led to the movie's treasure spot, "The Big W". The [[Sylvester Stallone]] film ''[[Rocky III]]'' (1982) shows [[Rocky Balboa]] and [[Apollo Creed]] training to fight [[Clubber Lang]] by running on the [[Santa Monica State Beach|Santa Monica Beach]], and Stallone's ''[[Demolition Man (film)|Demolition Man]]'' (1993) includes Santa Monica settings. In ''[[Pee-wee's Big Adventure]]'' (1985), the theft of Pee-wee's bike occurs on the Third Street Promenade.<ref name=peewee>{{cite news |last=Martino |first=Alison |date=August 28, 2014 |title=Third Street Promenade Before the Gap Even Existed |url=https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/this-is-what-third-street-promenade-looked-like-before-the-gap-even-existed/ |work=CityThink |publisher=Los Angeles Magazine |access-date=February 6, 2019 |archive-date=February 9, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209124547/https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/this-is-what-third-street-promenade-looked-like-before-the-gap-even-existed/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Henry Jaglom]]'s indie ''[[Someone to Love (1987 film)|Someone to Love]]'' (1987), the last film in which [[Orson Welles]] appeared, takes place in Santa Monica's venerable Mayfair Theatre. ''[[Heathers]]'' (1988) used Santa Monica's [[John Adams Middle School, Santa Monica, California|John Adams Middle School]] for many exterior shots. ''[[The Truth About Cats & Dogs]]'' (1996) is set entirely in Santa Monica, particularly the Palisades Park area, and features a radio station that resembles [[KCRW]] at [[Santa Monica College]]. ''[[17 Again (film)|17 Again]]'' (2009) was shot at [[Santa Monica High School|Samohi]]. Other films that show significant exterior shots of Santa Monica include ''[[Fletch (film)|Fletch]]'' (1985), ''[[Species (film)|Species]]'' (1995), ''[[Get Shorty (film)|Get Shorty]]'' (1995), and ''[[Ocean's Eleven (2001 film)|Ocean's Eleven]]'' (2001). [[Richard Rossi]]'s biopic ''Aimee Semple McPherson'' opens and closes at the beach in Santa Monica. ''[[Iron Man (2008 film)|Iron Man]]'' features the Santa Monica pier and surrounding communities as Tony Stark tests his experimental flight suit.

The documentary ''[[Dogtown and Z-Boys]]'' (2001) and the related dramatic film ''[[Lords of Dogtown]]'' (2005) are both about the influential skateboarding culture of Santa Monica's [[Santa Monica neighborhoods|Ocean Park]] neighborhood in the 1970s.

Santa Monica (and in particular the Santa Monica Airport) was featured in Roland Emmerich's disaster film ''[[2012 (film)|2012]]'' (2009). A magnitude 10.9 earthquake destroys the airport and the surrounding area as a group of survivors escape in a personal plane. The Santa Monica Pier and the whole city sinks into the Pacific Ocean after the earthquake.

====Television====
A number of television series have been set in Santa Monica, including ''[[Baywatch]]'', ''[[Goliath (TV series)#Setting|Goliath]]'',<ref>{{cite web|website=Moviefone|url=https://www.moviefone.com/2016/10/14/david-e-kelley-goliath-interview/|title=David E. Kelley Has a Romantic Reason for Setting 'Goliath' in Santa Monica|date=October 14, 2016|author=Huver, Scott Huver|access-date=October 30, 2019|archive-date=October 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191030085900/https://www.moviefone.com/2016/10/14/david-e-kelley-goliath-interview/|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[Pacific Blue (TV series)|Pacific Blue]]'' (1996–2000), ''[[Private Practice (TV series)|Private Practice]]'' (2007–2013), and ''[[Three's Company]]'' (1977–1984), which was set in the [[Ocean Park, Santa Monica|Ocean Park]] neighborhood of Santa Monica.<ref>{{Cite web |date=February 9, 2019 |title="Three's Company" and Santa Monica |url=https://smmirror.com/2019/02/threes-company-and-santa-monica/ |access-date=October 25, 2023 |website=SM Mirror |language=en-US}}</ref> The Santa Monica pier is shown in the main theme of [[CBS]] series ''[[NCIS: Los Angeles]]''. In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', the main exterior set of the town of [[Sunnydale (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Sunnydale]] that includes the infamous "sun sign", was in Santa Monica in a lot on [[Olympic Boulevard (Los Angeles)|Olympic Boulevard]].{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}