Filming Location: Hong Kong

Films in this library shot in Hong Kong, a territory whose action cinema reshaped choreography worldwide. Location data is sourced from Wikidata property P915, which records where a film was actually shot as distinct from where its story is set.

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Citizenfour (2014)

Citizenfour is Laura Poitras's 2014 American documentary depicting Edward Snowden's June 2013 meetings with Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald in Hong Kong, when Snowden disclosed classified National Security Agency documents revealing extensive surveillance programs. Citizenfour proves how documentary could operate…

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The Dark Knight (2008)

The film that proved comic book films could be major cinema. The Dark Knight is the Christopher Nolan-directed second entry in his Batman trilogy and the film that established the post-2008 standard for superhero cinema.

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Ghost in the Shell (2017)

Ghost in the Shell is the live-action adaptation of Masamune Shirow's manga and the subsequent animated films and television series. Jamie Moss, William Wheeler, and Ehren Kruger wrote.

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Doctor Strange (2016) Review

Cumberbatch as a specifically arrogant intellectual protagonist, Tilda Swinton's Ancient One, reality-folding combat. The 8 reflects honest evaluation of one of the more successful Phase Three MCU entries and the entry that introduced the franchise's mystical-arts dimension.

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