Even before our islands became a state of the U.S., there had been many great movies filmed in Hawaii. The Pacific Islands have always been some of the most desirable locations for filming, and there’s no question as to why. Just look at our beautiful islands, landscapes, and oceans,...
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Zeros over Oahu (Tora! Tora! Tora!) Click here for a short video. Hawaii was a relatively quiet place when this movie was filmed in the late 1960s and I remember looking up at the skies on Oahu one day to see a squadron a 1940s era Japanese Zeros flying south to Pearl Harbor. Whe...
Born January 29, 1945 in Detroit, the actor rose to stardom as the Hawaii-dwelling private investigator Thomas Magnum across all eight seasons ofMagnum, P.I. In addition to highlighting Magnum’s aspirational life on a lush Oahu estate with a red Ferrari at his disposal, the series further ...
Set in the very real Turtle Bay Resort in Oahu this pick on our travel movies list stars Jason Seigel as a Hollywood Writer who goes to Hawaii to heal his wounds after getting dumped by his girlfriend Kristen Bell. It turns out, she is there on vacation with her new boyfriend and shena...
The North Shore of Oahu Island in Hawaii is prominently featured and the cinematography shows off the island’s beauty. Many scenes were filmed at Turtle Bay Resort, which is gorgeous. The surfing scenes were filmed at Hale’iwa beach in Waialua Bay. Perhaps most stunning, are the cliffs wh...
Slow-motion sequences highlight this examination of the surfing lifestyle in Southern California and Hawaii. Initial release: 1972 Director: Greg MacGillivray Crystal Voyage (1973) A visual tribute to surfing, with the final segment filmed from the front of a surfboard, to the accompaniment of ...
Filming and sound recording for the big budget musical romantic comedyBlue Hawaii(1961) began in March 1961 in Hawaii on the islands of Oahu and Kauai.Blue Hawaiiwas a #2 hit movie when it was released in November 1961. 26-year-old Elvis played rich boy tour operator Chadwick Hack, and ...