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ESB In The Movies

A building with this much character can't seem to keep itself out of the movies. Is it any wonder that many films and Television specials have been shot on location at the building?

Several documentaries have also been produced featuring this landmark.

Whether it was your favorite love story about an unlikely couple named Harry and Sally, or a memory from your childhood of a great hulking ape named Kong that hated airplanes, you probably remember our unnamed and magical hero's true identity, The Empire State Building.

A listing of movies that The Empire State Building appeared in:

If you wish to purchase any of these movies, click on either the VHS or DVD links.

  • An Affair to Remember (VHS / DVD)
  • Annie Hall (VHS / DVD)
  • Any Wednesday (VHS)
  • April Fools (VHS)
  • Ask Any Girl (VHS)
  • Auntie Mame (VHS)
  • Bachelor Apartment
  • Ball of Fire (VHS / DVD)
  • Bell Book and Candle (VHS / DVD)
  • Best of Everything (VHS)
  • Bright Lights, Big City (VHS)
  • Big City Blues (VHS / DVD)
  • Blackboard Jungle (VHS)
  • Bon Voyage
  • Broadway Melody (VHS)
  • Butcher's Wife (VHS)
  • Champion (VHS )
  • Charlie Chan of Broadway
  • Come to the Stable (VHS)
  • Coogan's Bluff (VHS)
  • Daddy Long Legs (VHS / DVD)
  • Detective Story
  • Easter Parade (VHS)
  • Edge of the City
  • Fail-Safe (VHS / DVD)
  • FBI Story (VHS)
  • Fine Madness (VHS)
  • Finian's Rainbow (VHS)
  • Footlight Serenade (VHS)
  • Fitzwilly (VHS)
  • French Connection I (VHS / DVD)
  • For Pete's Sake (VHS / DVD)
  • Funny Face (VHS / DVD)
  • French Line
  • Garment Jungle
  • Guys & Dolls (VHS / DVD)
  • Hatful of Rain
  • How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (VHS / DVD)
  • I Take this Woman
  • Independence Day (VHS / DVD)
  • Its Always Fair Weather (VHS)
  • Ivory Ape
  • King of the Gypsies (VHS)
  • King Kong (VHS / DVD)
  • Klute (VHS)
  • Kramer vs. Kramer (VHS)
  • Last Action Hero (VHS / DVD)
  • Law & Disorder (VHS / DVD)
  • Love With a Proper Stranger (VHS)
  • Lullaby of Broadway (VHS)
  • Madigan
  • Man in Gray Flannel Suit (VHS)
  • Manhattan (VHS / DVD)
  • Manhattan Melodrama (VHS)
  • Moon is Blue (VHS)
  • My Man Godfrey (Remake) (VHS)
  • My Sister Eileen (VHS)
  • New York Confidential
  • New York, New York
  • New York Town
  • New York Stories (VHS)
  • North By Northwest (VHS / DVD)
  • Nothing Sacred (VHS / DVD)
  • On the Town (VHS / DVD)
  • On the Waterfront (VHS / DVD)
  • Pawnbroker (VHS)
  • President's Analyst (VHS)
  • Prisoner of Second Avenue (VHS)
  • Rock Around the Clock
  • Saboteur (VHS / DVD)
  • Safety First
  • Saint in New York (VHS)
  • Serpico (VHS)
  • Seven Ups (VHS)
  • Shaft (VHS / DVD)
  • Sky's the Limit (VHS)
  • Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
  • Sleepless in Seattle (VHS / DVD)
  • So This is New York
  • Stand Up and Cheer (VHS)
  • Street Scene (VHS / DVD)
  • Sunday in New York (VHS)
  • Superman II (VHS / DVD)
  • Sweet Charity (VHS)
  • Taxi Driver (VHS / DVD)
  • When Harry Met Sally (VHS / DVD)
  • Who Done It (VHS)
  • World of Henry Orient (VHS)
  • World Flesh & Devil
  • You Gotta Stay Happy (VHS)
An Affair To Remeber
Cary Grant & Debra Kerr in
"An Affair To Remember"


When Harry Met Sally
Billy Crystal & Meg Ryan in
"When Harry Met Sally"


Sleepless In Seattle
Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan
"Sleepless In Seattle"


Last Action Hero
The "Last Action Hero"



King Kong
The Famous "King Kong"



Superman II
The Man Of Steel, "Superman"
starring Christopher Reeve.


Lucy is Envious
Lucy and Ethel "invade" the top
of the Empire State Building
and scare the daylights out of
a group of hotel patrons.
Full Story


 

 


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    Did You Know?


    On December 22, 1931, National Broadcasting Company (NBC) presented the first experimental transmission from its TV station atop the Empire State Building.


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