Stowe On Film
- The North Front doubled as Berlin in the Steven Spielberg 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The scene was filmed at night and depicted a Nazi book burning.
- The television series Inspector Morse used the gardens in the 1989 episode "Ghost in the Machine" to represent the grounds of 'Hanbury Hall'.
- The 1998 television series Vanity Fair used the gardens to represent London's Hyde Park.
- The Gothic Temple appears (cleverly shot to double as a Scottish church) in the 1999 James Bond film The World Is Not Enough.
- The 2001 Bollywood film Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham used the house as a location.
- The opening scene of 2007 film Stardust was shot in the Marble Saloon, the gardens were also used.
- In 2010, the funeral of Talbot's brother in The Wolfman was filmed in the gardens.
- In 2012 the Antiques Roadshow visted Stowe.
The house and gardens have also featured in documentary films:
- In 2006 Simon Thurley's Buildings That Shaped Britain: The Country House.
- In 2007 Jonathan Meades's Abroad Again, in the episode "Stowe Gardens".
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