Where was The Uprising filmed? How Germany became 14th-century England

Rothenburg ob der Tauber, the most completely preserved walled medieval town in Germany, looks essentially identical to how it appeared in the 14th century: intact city walls, timber-framed houses, cobblestone streets unchanged since the Middle Ages. Dinkelsbühl, Feuchtwangen and Weissenburg follow the same pattern.

For sequences depicting Black Death-ravaged English countryside – abandoned fields, hollowed-out villages – the Franconian landscape requires almost no art direction. Greengrass reportedly recruited up to 5,000 extras for the battle sequences, using the region's open plains and production infrastructure to stage them at genuine scale.

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Filming also took place in and around Nuremberg. The city's Kaiserburg castle complex, 14th-century city walls, surviving gate towers and compact medieval Altstadt together provide a convincing approximation of a fortified English town. For the sequences in which the marching peasants reach London, Nuremberg's urban medieval fabric is the most credible available substitute. 

The production used various locations to shoot scenes – including St Sebald’s Church, Nuremberg’s Rathausplatz, the Franconian Open-Air Museum in Bad Windsheim and Lichtenau Fortress near Ansbach. 

Interior scenes and technically complex sequences were filmed at the newly established Penzing Studios in Munich – a modern facility in the city's western Penzing district, developed as a hub for international co-productions in Bavaria.

The Uprising opens September 11, 2026.