There isn't a definitive list of every production ever filmed in Fremont County because many silent films from 1910–1925 have been lost or had incomplete records. Historians estimate that more than 40 feature films and dozens of shorts, documentaries, commercials, and television productions have been filmed in Fremont County.
This list was assembled from the Royal Gorge Film Commission, local historians, AI and film records.
Silent Films (1911–1929)
Many of these starred Tom Mix and were filmed around Cañon City and the Royal Gorge. Unfortunately, several have been lost to history.
- The Range Riders (1911)
- Ranch Life in the Great Southwest (1912)
- The Great K & A Train Robbery (1926)
- Numerous Tom Mix western shorts filmed between 1911 and 1917 (many titles are lost or disputed).
Feature Films
- Stagecoach (1939)
- Cañon City (1948)
- The Outcast (1953)
- Big House, U.S.A. (1955)
- The Maverick Queen (1956)
- Saddle the Wind (1957)
- Cat Ballou (1965)
- In Cold Blood (1967)
- True Grit (1969)
- Brother of the Wind (also known as Brother's O'Toole) (1973)
- Continental Divide (1981)
- Fast Getaway (1991)
- Cannibal! The Musical (1993)
- Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011)
Productions filmed at Buckskin Joe
The old Buckskin Joe western town, just west of Cañon City, was one of Colorado's busiest movie sets.
Among the productions filmed there were:
- Stagecoach
- Cat Ballou
- True Grit
- The Outcast
- Saddle the Wind
- Brother's O'Toole
- Cannibal! The Musical
- Numerous television westerns, commercials, and documentaries.
Television
Documented television productions include:
- Gunsmoke (location footage)
- The Virginian
- Laramie
- Death Valley Days
- National Geographic specials
- Discovery Channel documentaries
- History Channel documentaries
- Travel Channel productions
- PBS documentaries
- A&E productions
- The History Detectives
- Numerous episodes of regional travel and outdoor television shows.
Music Videos & Commercials
The Royal Gorge and surrounding landscapes have also appeared in:
- Jeep commercials
- Ford truck commercials
- Subaru commercials
- Coors advertisements
- Colorado Tourism campaigns
- Outdoor recreation promotional videos
- Railroad documentaries
- Whitewater rafting promotions
A few fun facts
- Cañon City was once nicknamed "The Gateway to the Rockies for Films."
- In the 1950s, Cañon City had its own Film Committee, whose sole purpose was to attract Hollywood productions.
- Local ranches supplied hundreds of horses, cattle, and wagons, as well as stunt riders, for westerns. The Draper Ranch alone worked on more than 20 films.
- Karol Smith of Cañon City later helped establish the Colorado Film Commission, the first statewide film commission in the United States
Not listed are some Netflix productions, including Our Souls at Night 2017 in Florence, CO. Most of the list furnished by AI
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