Welcome to the MOD Film Locations web pages
Halton House, Buckinghamshire
What are MOD Film locations?
The Ministry of Defence is one of the UK's largest landowners with some 600,000 acres, consisting of some 4000 built and rural sites. There are more than 45,000 buildings excluding housing, including barracks, bunkers, naval bases, historic buildings, hangers and hospitals. The rural sites include areas of outstanding natural beauty such as woods, plains and lakes, many of which are untouched by modern buildings or features.
How can you use MOD film locations?
Please bear in mind that Defence is our 'core' business and obviously takes priority though we will always endeavour to deal with your requests in a timely manner and will do our utmost to minimise delays. You can help by giving us as much notice as possible when submitting requests - typically 10 working days minimum is required. You should complete the Application Form available in the right hand links on this page, attach it to an email and send it to the team at: dgfm-filmlocations@mod.uk
N.B. If the request contains any military content it will have to be cleared by our PR Department so please factor in some extra time for these types of requests. Depiction of actual MOD sites by name is not allowed.
If you have found a specific site or sites on the MOD Film Locations website that you are interested in visiting, please list them on the form.
Example of an urban film location
Contact MOD about film locations
We are constantly looking to improve the service we offer to the film location industry and are always interested to hear opinions on how we could improve this service. To let us have yours views please contact the team using the email address above.
Mod Film Library
The MOD also has an extensive library of film material containing footage depicting most aspects of the Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and the Army. The library holds some 40 years worth of material. For details of this please access the British Defence Film Library.
Defence Image database
There is also an image database which contains thousands of images contributed by Royal Navy, Royal Air Force, Army and MOD photographers. Please access the Defence Image Database.