14 movies and TV shows you probably didn't know were filmed at UBC

It’s no secret that Vancouver is a hot location for film and tv shoots, which is why it has earned the nickname ‘Hollywood North’ (even though it doesn’t always play itself). What you might know is that many of the filming locations are actually at UBC.

UBC’s campus can be spotted in everything from the classic sci-fi series ‘X-Files’ to the 2006 Amanda Bynes comedy ‘She’s The Man’.  It was even featured most recently in the new Netflix series, Altered Carbon.

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Here are 14 movies and TV you never knew were shot at UBC.

1. Battlestar Galactica

UBC’s beautiful rose gardens are often featured in film and tv projects, including this scene in the sci-fi show Battlestar Galactica.

Rose Garden (Battlestar Galactica/Universal Television)

UBC Rose Garden. (UBC Media Relations)

2. Altered Carbon

Netflix’s Altered Carbon was partly filmed at UBC; here’s the Rose Garden as the garden of Bancroft’s Palace.

Scene from Altered Carbon. (Netflix)

3. The Man In The High Castle

The area around Koerner Library and the Rose Garden were used as filming locations for this dystopian alternate-history show.

The Man In The High Castle Filmed at UBC (Xicotencatl/Wikimedia)

4. The Butterfly Effect

Ashton Kutcher’s 2001 mind-bending time travel movie was partly filmed at UBC. Here’s Kutcher’s character Evan Treborn cycling down Main Mall.

Ashton Kutcher in The Butterfly Effect (The Butterfly Effect/Film Engine, BenderSpink, Katalyst Films)

5. Smallville

Anyone who was a teenager in the early 2000’s will remember the television adaptation of Superman, Smallville.  Considering the show is set in Kansas, you wouldn’t guess it was filmed at UBC.  Here’s Koerner library playing the ‘Central A&M Kansas’ campus library for the show.

UBC’s Koerner Library as ‘Central A&M Campus’ (traintracks/Flickr)

Walter C. Koerner Library (Reina Takamatsu/Mapio.net)

6. She’s The Man

This adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night featuring Amanda Bynes was filmed at UBC.

Thunderbird Stadium played ‘Illyria Stadium’ in She’s The Man (She’s The Man/Dreamworks Pictures)

Thunderbird Stadium (UBC Sports Facilities)

7. Josie and the Pussycats

The Chan Centre for Performing Arts was spruced up to be used as the filming location for the MegaRecords party scene in the 2001 musical comedy Josie and the Pussycats.

Party Scene (Josie and the Pussycats/Universal Pictures)

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (Jeff Hitchcock/Flickr)

8. X-Men Origins: Wolverine

X-Men Origins: Wolverine filmed the scene for the raid on the Lagos compound outside Buchanan Tower at UBC.

Buchanan Tower in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (X-Men Origins: Wolverine/Marvel Entertainment)

Buchanan Tower at UBC (Google Street View)

9.  Good Luck Chuck

The 2007 comedy Good Luck Chuck, starring Dane Cook and Jessica Alba, was filmed mostly in Vancouver, with Cecil Green Park House being the chosen filming location for the wedding scenes.

Cecil Green Park House (Jeff Hitchcock/Flickr)

The Wedding Scene in Good Luck Chuck (Good Luck Chuck/Lionsgate Films)

10. Tomorrowland

UBC’s Main Mall was the chosen location for the New York World’s Fair scenes in The George Clooney fantasy movie Tomorrowland – as you can see, a lot was added in post-production.

1964 World’s Fair in Tomorrowland (Tomorrowland/Walt Disney Pictures)

UBC Main Mall (freebody.zhang/Flickr)

11. The X-Files

Some of the earliest episodes of the original X-Files series featured some shots at UBC, but the campus was used more in the recent reboot of the show. Main Mall was the chosen locations for one of Agent Fox Mulder’s scenes.

X-Files filmed on Main Mall at UBC (Tiia/FanGirl Quest)

12. Hellcats

Hellcats, starring Ashley Tisdale as a cheerleader, depicted UBC as a fictional American college – Lancer University. Here are the Hellcats training on the grass outside of Irving K Barber library.

(Hellcats/The CW Network)

Irving K Barber Library (Xicotencatl/Wikimedia)

13. Legion

Legion, based on a Marvel Comic book series, was partly filmed on the UBC campus. Here’s the new exterior of the Buchanan D building featured in the show.

(Legion/FX Productions)

Buchanan D Building at UBC (hsili/Flickr)

14. Supernatural

The long-running horror/fantasy show Supernatural is filmed entirely in Vancouver. Here’s the beautiful Iona Building at UBC as Crawford Hall for the show.

The Iona Building at UBC as ‘Crawford Hall’ in Supernatural (Supernatural/The CW)

The Iona Building at UBC (Google Street View)