Windmills and Watermills as stars of TV and film 🌍

TV

• Aythorpe Roding windmill, Essex - The Protectors: Triple Cross, 1972
• Great Chishill windmill - The Baron: Countdown, 1966
• Meopham windmill, Kent - The Prisoner: The Girl who was Death, 1967
• Pitstone Green windmill, Buckinghamshire - The Champions: The Invisible Man, 1967
• Hambleden watermill, Mill End, nr. Henley-on-Thames, Bucks - Man in a Suitcase: The Revolutionaries, 1967
• Ibstone windmill - The New Avengers: House Of Cards, 1976
• Wimbledon windmill - Dr Who: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve (Bell of Doom), 1966
• Shipley windmill, Sussex - Jonathan Creek
• Sneinton windmill, Nottinghamshire - Boon: The Eyes of Texas, 1989
• Drinkstone windmill, Suffolk - Dads Army: Don't Forget the Diver, 1970
• 'Allo, 'Allo: Fighting With Windmills, 1992 - Denver windmill, Norfolk.
• ... and not forgetting Windy Miller

Factual TV

• Scrapheap Challenge - Building a windmill, Oct 2000
• Treasure Hunt - TV series 1983 - 1989, used windmills at Clayton Sussex, and Skidby, Yorkshire; and watermills at Flatford, Suffolk, Sarehole, Birmingham, Quarry Bank, Cheshire as locations.
• Mythbusters, a "popular science" programme from San Francisco often uses the beach in Golden Gate Park for filming, so shows the Dutch Windmill in the background, 2005-2006

Films

Real life mills

• Unknown British windmill - The Miller and the Sweep, 1897
• Dutch windmill, Golden Gate Park, California - Early documentary "Panorama of beach and Cliff House", 1903
• Murphy windmill, Golden Gate Park, California - A Jitney Elopement, Charlie Chaplin, 1915
• Terling windmill, Essex - Oh, Mr Porter, Will Hay, 1937 - [Plot]
• Ibstone windmill, Buckinghamshire - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 1967
• Jack windmill, Clayton, Sussex - The Black Windmill, 1974
• Don Quixote - filmed several times!
• Letters From My Windmill - 1954
• Bokrijk windmill, Belgium - Dog of Flanders, 1999
• The Old Mill, North Little Rock, Arkansas appears briefly behind the credits in Gone With the Wind, 1937. (More info).
• Pitstone Windmill in The Cherry Picker, 1974 (includes exterior and interior shots for much of the last 15 minutes)

Fantasy and special effect mills

• The Lord of the Rings trilogy
• Unnamed medieval filmset - believed to be "First Knight" with Sean Connery and Richard Gere
• Mill of the Stone Women - 1960 horror film by Wolfgang Preiss
• Frankenstein - 1931 - windmill, recapped in The Bride of Frankenstein - 1935
• Flash Gordon - 1936, another outing for the Frankenstein windmill!
• Moulin Rouge, Paris - 1952
• Moulin Rouge, Paris - 2001

Wind turbines

• Rainman - includes a scene driving through the Californian wind farms

Mills with Literary and Musical connections

• Wimbledon windmill - Baden Powell wrote part of "Scouting for Boys" here
• Shipley windmill, Sussex was owned by the writer Hilaire Belloc
• Rock Mill, Washington, Sussex was owned by the musician John Ireland
• Hogg Hill, Sussex - owned by Sir Paul McCartney
• Rottingdean windmill, Sussex - used as a basis for a logo by Heinemann, the publishers.
• The windmill - a poem by Henry Longfellow
• Alphonse Daudet's windmill - "Letters from My Windmill"
• Sarehole watermill, Birmingham - a childhood playground for Tolkien
• Bateman's, Sussex - was owned by Rudyard Kipling
• The converted remains of Snape windmill, Suffolk were owned by Benjamin Britten
• Addicroft Mill Liskeard, Cornwall - was owned by the cartoonist Thelwell
• Wendover windmill, Bucks was owned by Kenneth Roberton, who ran his music publishing business from the mill.