Clint Eastwood in the 1960s and Pam. Filming began at the Cinecittà studio in Rome in mid-May 1966, including the opening scene between Clint and Wallach, when The Man With No Name captures Tuco for the first time and sends him to jail. The production then moved on to Spain's plateau region, near Burgos in the north, which would double for the extreme deep south of the United States. The western scenes were again shot in Almeria in the south. This time, the production required more elaborate sets, including a town under cannon fire, an extensive prison camp and an American Civil War battlefield. For
Historical period drama films set in Asia pertaining to the history of Near Eastern and Western civilisation, please refer to list of historical period drama films and series set in Near Eastern and Western civilization. The films on this page are divided into regions, and within each region the films are listed chronologically by subject matter. There are many more Indian historical movies which are not on the list, especially if movies concerning what may be called mythological movies, are hundreds. (Which are?) "Jidaigeki" 時代劇 is a genre of film, television, and theatre in Japan. Literally "period dramas", they are most often set during the Edo period