In Popular Culture
Due to its imposing architecture, Senate House is popular with the film and television industries as a shooting location; often for official buildings. Films that have featured the building include the 1995 version of Richard III (Interior of Richard's Headquarters), Nineteen Eighty-Four (the Ministry of Truth), Blue Ice (a hotel), Spy Game (lobby of CIA Headquarters), Batman Begins (Lobby of a Court) and The Dark Knight Rises (a costume ball).
For television, the building has featured in Jeeves and Wooster (the exterior of Wooster's Manhattan apartment building), Dr Who and The Day of the Triffids amongst other programmes.
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