Of note, The Sting II has its world premiere at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk due to being partially filmed there.

Films: Human Highway, Bob Le Flambeur, Motion, Channels/Inserts, Burden of Dreams, Fitzcarraldo, On the Beach, Dark Circle, An Evening with James Broughton, Whatever Happened to Susan Jane?, Kind Hearts and Coronets, No World for Men, Everest in Winter, Star Lore
People: Jeremy Paul Kagan, Karl Malden, Mac Davis, Jackie Gleason, Neil Young, Bernard Shakey, L A Johnson, Dennis Hopper, Russ Tamblyn, Dean Stockwell, Charlotte Stewart, Jean Pierre Melville, Ron Levaco, Merce Cunningham, Charles Atlas, Murray Louis, Tandy Beal, Les Blank, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kramer, Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire, Judy Irving, Chris Beaver, Ruth Landy, Marc Huestis, Vivian Sobchack, Robert Hamer, Alec Guinness, Michael Balcon, Bill Rosser, Chris Film, Nicolas Jaeger, Faith Hubley, John Hubley
Other notables: Rio Theater, Sash Mill Cinema / Sash Mill Theater, India Joze, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant, Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Facility, Independent Cinema, Alice in Wonderland