In Film
Id-Dwejra is one of several filming locations in the Maltese Islands used for the 2011 HBO TV Series, Game of Thrones.
Gozo was the location for Calypso's Island in the 1997 Hallmark Mini-Series "The Odyssey" based on Homer's epic poem.
In 1981, parts of Episode 7 from Brideshead Revisited were recorded on the island, particularly in the village of Kercem, to depict Fez in Morocco.
Two days of shooting in Gozo's strong Mediterranean light provided shots used to represent the desolate surface of the alien planet in the 1981 British horror film Inseminoid (known in the U.S. as Horror Planet).
In 1978, Kevin Connor's film Warlords of Atlantis starring Doug McClure (The Virginian) was shot in Marsalform Bay.
Gozo was used to depict "Resolution Island" in Single-Handed (1953 film), based on CS Forester's book Brown on Resolution. For much of the film, the German raider "Essen" (depicted by HMS Manxman) is holed up in the semi-circular Dwejra bay, behind Fungus Rock on the west coast of Gozo, and there are several scenes set among the desolate limestone cliffs above the bay as Able Seaman Brown single-handedly detains the German ship until her pursuers can catch up with her.
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