Atlanta in fiction

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Atlanta, Georgia, United States has been the setting of many movies, books and television programs.

1 Books
2 Movies
3 Television
4 Comic Books

[edit] Books

The Absence of Space and Time by Christopher Scott Sarno
The Answer Man by Roy Johansen
The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith
Down on Ponce by Fred Willard
Every Crooked Nanny by Kathy Hogan Trocheck
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Gumshoe Gorilla by Keith Hartman
Hand-me-down Heartache by Tajuana Butler
Just As I Am by E. Lynn Harris
The Kidnapping of Aaron Greene by Terry Kay
A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
Money for good by Franklin White
Neuromancer by William Gibson
On Ice by David Ramus
Peachtree Road and Downtown by Anne Rivers Siddons
Replay by Ken Grimwood
Stay: a novel by Nicola Griffith
Sacrificial ground by Thomas H. Cook
Step-Ball-Change by Jeanne Ray
The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall
The Swan House and The Dwelling Place by Elizabeth Musser

[edit] Movies

ATL
Madea's Family Reunion
The Gospel
Beauty Shop
Driving Miss Daisy
Drumline
Gone with the Wind
Love Crimes
The Slugger's Wife
Independence Day-Atlanta is destroyed by an alien destroyer
Diary of a Mad Black Woman
The Dukes of Hazzard
Fled
The Real McCoy
Sharky's Machine
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-The city in which Violet Beauregarde is from is revealed to be Atlanta, Georgia. (Although the segment featuring Violet at her home was actually filmed in Buford, Georgia.)

Atlanta is particularly prominent as the setting of many African American films several independent black films have been shot in or featured storylines about Atlanta not the least of which are:

Trois
Pandora's Box
The Escort
Motives

[edit] Television

The Catlins
Designing Women
Lobo
Matlock
Profiler
Futurama-a single episode where the Planet Express crew explores the 'Lost City of Atlanta', in a parody of the lost city of Atlantis.
I'll Fly Away
Vanished
Class of 3000
Jericho -Atlanta is among the cities that suffered nuclear explosions.