List of fictional military schools and academies
This is a list of fictional military schools and academies as portrayed in various novels, films, and TV series.
- The Battle School in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game sci-fi novel series.
- Bradley Military Academy of Altadena, California, USA. School attended by cadet "R.C. Collins," a recurring character on the syndicated comedy talk radio program, The Phil Hendrie Show.
- Bunker Hill Military Academy, from the film Taps.[1] Filmed at Valley Forge Military Academy.
- The Carolina Military Institute (CMI), from Pat Conroy's book (and later, a movie) The Lords of Discipline, is based on The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina and the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), but the location used in the filming of the movie was Wellington College the United Kingdom. The "cadet drum-out" scene is based on a traditional ceremony still practiced at VMI.
- The Command School in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game sci-fi novel series.
- Davidson Military Academy, from the film Damien: Omen II. It was filmed at Northwestern Military and Naval Academy and St. John's Military Academy (now merged as St. John's Northwestern Military Academy. Northwestern Military and Naval Academy was founded by Harlan Page Davidson, and was sometimes referred to as Davidson Military Academy).
- Fort Berk Military Academy, in King of the Hill, Cotton Hill's old military school, which Bobby attended for one episode.
- Hudson Military Institute is the school to which Tony and Carmela Soprano consider sending their son, AJ, after AJ is expelled from Verbum Dei (an all-boys Catholic high school) in the "Army of One" episode of The Sopranos. However, the Sopranos relent when AJ collapses from a panic attack, while being fitted for his military school uniform.
- Kent Military School, from the film Child's Play 3 (1991). Filmed at Kemper Military School and College, Boonville, Missouri.
- Marlin Academy in Malcolm in the Middle, which Francis attended prior to his emancipation. Clearly based on the real life Marion Military Academy, also located in Alabama.
- North Shore Military Academy, a fictionalized version of Eastern Military Academy, appearing in the time travel adventure novel Time for Patriots
- Rommelwood Military Academy in "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" episode of The Simpsons
- Starfleet Academy, located in San Francisco, California in the fictional Star Trek universe.
- The U.S. Grant Military Academy in the TV mini-series Dress Gray as adapted by Gore Vidal from the novel of the same name written by Lucian Truscott IV. The location of the academy isn't easily discernible from the miniseries. The academy used as the filming location is the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, NM.