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The United States is such a diverse country with countless different types of terrain. Within the U.S., there are 63 national parks alone – this doesn't include national forests, monuments, and other protected areas. These places are so beautiful they are frequently used in film. Click through the slideshow for the 12 movies showing off the beauty of our national parks.
"North by Northwest" (1959)
- Location: Mount Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota
- Director: Alfred Hitchcock
- Stars: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason
- Running Time: 136 minutes
"Shutter Island" (2010)
- Location: Acadia National Park, Maine
- Director: Martin Scorsese
- Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow and Michelle Williams
- Running Time: 139 minutes
"Into the Wild" (2007)
- Location: Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska
- Director: Sean Penn
- Stars: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Jena Malone, and Catherine Keener
- Running Time: 148 minutes
"Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope" (1977)
- Location: Death Valley National Park, California
- Director: George Lucas
- Stars: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, and Alec Guinness
- Running Time: 121 minutes
"The Incredible Hulk" (2008)
- Location: Arches National Park, Utah
- Director: Louis Leterrier
- Stars: Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, and William Hurt
- Running Time: 112 minutes
"Rocky IV" (1985)
- Location: Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
- Director: Sylvester Stallone
- Stars: Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Brigitte Nielsen, and Dolph Lundgren
- Running Time: 93 minutes
"Boyhood" (2014)
- Location: Big Bend National Park, Texas
- Director: Richard Linklater
- Stars: Patricia Arquette, Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater, and Ethan Hawke
- Running Time: 165 minutes
"The Shining" (1980)
- Location: Glacier National Park, Montana
- Director: Stanley Kubrick
- Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, and Scatman Crothers
- Running Time: 144 minutes
"Free Solo" (2018)
- Location: Yosemite National Park, California
- Director: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin
- Stars: Alex Honnold, Sanni McCandless, Jimmy Chin, and Tommy Caldwell
- Running Time: 100 minutes
"Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977)
- Location: Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming
- Director: Steven Spielberg
- Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François Truffaut
- Running Time: 135 minutes
"Django Unchained" (2012)
- Location: Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
- Director: Quentin Tarantino
- Stars: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, and Samuel L. Jackson
- Running Time: 165 minutes
"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969)
- Location: Zion National Park, Utah
- Director: George Roy Hill
- Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, and Jeff Corey
- Running Time: 110 minutes