In Popular Culture
- Scenes for the 2006 film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan were filmed in Imperial County, but were not used in the finished film.
- The majority of Jarhead and the Salton Sea was filmed in the Imperial Valley.
- Scenes from Star Wars were filmed in the Imperial Valley sand dunes, Top Gun were also filmed in the El Centro Naval Air Station and Independence Day was located in the Imperial Valley.
- Rock en Espanol group Calexico glean their name from the Imperial Valley border town that adjoins Mexicali, Baja California of Mexico.
- Imperial, by William T. Vollmann, published July 30, 2009, documents the history and culture of Imperial County, California. A companion volume of photographs was published August 18, 2009.
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