Movie 	Year 	Location 	Approximate location 
In Old Chicago	1938	Chicago, IL	
Gone with the Wind	1939	Atlanta, GA	
Panic in Year Zero!	1962	Los Angeles, CA	
Fail-Safe	1964	New York, NY	
Tora! Tora! Tora!	1970	Pearl Harbor, HI	
The Towering Inferno	1974	San Francisco, CA	
Smash Up On Interstate 5	1976	Interstate 5, CA	Sun Valley, CA
The Day After	1983	Kansas City, MO	
Testament	1983	San Francisco, CA	
Red Dawn	1984	Calumet, CO	
Return of the Living Dead	1985	Louisville, KY	
Miracle Mile	1988	Los Angeles, CA	
By Dawn's Early Light	1990	Washington, DC	
Backdraft	1991	Chicago, IL	
Daylight	1996	New York, NY	
Chain Reaction	1996	Chicago, IL	
Atomic Train	1999	Denver, CO	
On the Beach	2000	San Francisco, CA	
Pearl Harbor	2001	Pearl Harbor, HI	
Sum of All Fears	2002	Baltimore, MD	
Waterborne	2005	Los Angeles, CA	
Right at Your Door	2006	Los Angeles, CA	
World Trade Center	2006	New York, NY	
Next	2007	Los Angeles, CA	
Red Dawn	2012	Spokane, WA	
Star Trek Into Darkness	2013	San Francisco, CA