List of book-based war films (1927–1945 wars)
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Book-based war films |
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A list of films that are based on war books.
For earlier conflicts, see the List of films based on war books — 1898–1926.
Chinese Civil War — First stage[]
1927–1950 (First stage, Sino-Japanese War, World War II — China Theatre, Final stage)
(See also Sino-German cooperation (1911–1941) for Chinese diplomacy before the Sino-Japanese War)
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Flüchtlinge ♠ | 1933 | Gustav Ucicky | Nazi Germany | Flüchtlinge : Erlebnis d. Heimat in fernen Ländern ; Roman[1] | Gerhard Menzel ♦ | 1933[2] | Novel |
The Bitter Tea of General Yen | 1933 | Frank Capra | US | The Bitter Tea of General Yen | Grace Zaring Stone | 1932 | Novel |
Oil for the Lamps of China | 1935 | Mervyn LeRoy | US | Oil for the Lamps of China | Alice Tisdale Hobart | 1933 | Novel |
The Keys of the Kingdom | 1944 | John M. Stahl | US | The Keys of the Kingdom | A. J. Cronin | 1941 | Novel |
The Sand Pebbles | 1966 | Robert Wise | US | The Sand Pebbles | Richard McKenna | 1962 | Novel |
High Road to China | 1983 | Brian G. Hutton | US & Yugoslavia | High Road to China | Jon Cleary | 1977 | Novel |
Man's Fate | 201? | Michael Cimino | US | Man's Fate[3][4] | André Malraux | 1933 | Novel |
Second Italo-Abyssinian War (1935–1936)[]
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Scoop | 1987 | Gavin Millar | UK | Scoop | Evelyn Waugh | 1938 | Novel | - | - | - |
Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)[]
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
For Whom the Bell Tolls | 1943 | Sam Wood | U.S. | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway[5] | 1940 | Novel |
Man's Hope (French: L'espoir) | 1945 | André Malraux and | Spain and France | Man's Hope (French: L'espoir)[6] | André Malraux | 1937 | Novel |
Mich dürstet | 1956 | Karl Paryla | Germany | "Mich dürstet" | Walter Gorrisch | 1946 | Short story |
Land and Freedom | 1995 | Ken Loach | UK and Spain | Homage to Catalonia[7] (unofficial) | "George Orwell" (unofficial) |
1938 | Memoir |
Bethune | 1977 | Eric Till | Canada | Ted Allan | 1952 | Non-fiction | |
Bethune: The Making of a Hero | 1990 | Phillip Borsos | Canada and China | Ted Allan | 1952 | Non-fiction | |
Talk of Angels | 1998 | Nick Hamm | US | Kate O'Brien | 1936 | Novel | |
Behold a Pale Horse | 1964 | Fred Zinnemann | U.S. | Killing a Mouse on Sunday | Emeric Pressburger | 1961 | Novel |
Soldados de Salamina Soldados de Salamina |
2003 | David Trueba | Spain | Soldiers of Salamina Soldados de Salamina |
Javier Cercas | 2001 | Novel |
13 Roses Las trece rosas |
2007 | Emilio Martínez Lázaro | Spain | (uncredited) | (uncredited) | 200? | Non-fiction |
Frente de Madrid |
1939 | Edgar Neville | Spain and Italy | Frente de Madrid | Edgar Neville | 193? | Novel |
Carmen fra i rossi |
1939 | Edgar Neville | Spain and Italy | Frente de Madrid | Edgar Neville | 193? | Novel |
Butterfly La lengua de las mariposas |
1999 | José Luis Cuerda | Spain | "" (in Spanish) "A lingua das bolboretas" from ¿Que me queres, amor? |
Manuel Rivas | 1995 | Story |
The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca Muerte en Granada |
1997 | Marcos Zurinaga | U.S. | Ian Gibson | 1972/ 1971 |
Non-fiction |
Second Sino-Japanese War (1931–1945)[]
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Disputed Passage | 1939 | Frank Borzage | U.S. | Lloyd C. Douglas | 1939[8] | Novel | |
Behind the Rising Sun | 1943 | Edward Dmytryk | U.S. | 1941 | Novel? | ||
China | 1943 | John Farrow | U.S. | Archibald Forbes | 18?[9]¤ | Play | |
Dragon Seed | 1944 | Harold S. Bucquet & Jack Conway | U.S. | Dragon Seed | Pearl S. Buck[10] | 1942 | Novel |
Red Sorghum | 1987 | Zhang Yimou | China | Red Sorghum & | Mo Yan | 1987 | Novels |
Farewell My Concubine 霸王别姬 |
1993 | Chen Kaige | China | Farewell My Concubine | Lilian Lee | 1993 | Novel |
The Last Emperor | 1987 | Bernardo Bertolucci | China & Italy | From Emperor to Citizen | Puyi | 1964 | Memoir |
The White Countess | 2005 | James Ivory | UK, U.S., Germany & China | The White Countess | Kazuo Ishiguro screenplay | 2005 | Screenplay |
Rape of Nanking[]
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Children of Huang Shi 黄石的孩子 |
2008 | Roger Spottiswoode | Australia, China, Germany | [11] (uncredited) | 2008 | Non-fiction | |
Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre | 1994 | Mou Tun Fei | Hong Kong | The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe (uncredited) | John Rabe (uncredited) | 1996 | Diary |
Nanking † | 2007 | Bill Guttentag & | U.S. | The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe | John Rabe | 1996 | Diary |
City of Life and Death 南京! 南京! |
2009 | Lu Chuan | China | The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe (uncredited) | John Rabe (uncredited) | 1996 | Diary |
John Rabe | 2009 | Florian Gallenberger | China, France, Germany | The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe | John Rabe | 1996 | Diary |
Resistance movement[]
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Once an Eagle | 1976 | Richard Michaels & E.W. Swackhamer | US | Once an Eagle | Anton Myrer | 1968 | Novel |
Lust, Caution | 2007 | Ang Lee | China & Taiwan | "Lust, Caution" | Eileen Chang | 1979 | Novella |
The Children of Huang Shi 黄石的孩子 |
2008 | Roger Spottiswoode | Australia, China, Germany | [11] (uncredited) | 2008 | Non-fiction |
Military hospitals[]
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dr. Bethune | 1964 | & | China | 196? | Non-fiction | ||
Bethune | 1977 | Eric Till | Canada | Ted Allan | 1952 | Non-fiction | |
Bethune: The Making of a Hero | 1990 | Phillip Borsos | Canada & China | Ted Allan | 1952 | Non-fiction |
Occupation[]
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness | 1958 | Mark Robson | US | Alan Burgess | 1957 | Non-fiction? | |
2001 | Ho Yim | China & US | Pavilion of Women | Pearl S. Buck[10] | 1946 | Novel |
World War II[]
1939–1945
European, North African, and Atlantic Theatres[]
Politics and diplomacy[]
Axis Powers[]
! Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hitlerjunge Quex: Ein Film vom Opfergeist der deutschen Jugend | 1933 | Hans Steinhoff | Nazi Germany | Der Hitlerjunge Quex | 1932 | Novel | |
The Mortal Storm | 1940 | Frank Borzage | U.S. | Phyllis Bottome | 1938 | Novel | |
Education for Death | 1943 | Clyde Geronimi | U.S. | Gregor Ziemer | 1941[8] | Non-fiction | |
Hitler's Children | 1943 | Edward Dmytryk | U.S. | Gregor Ziemer | 1941[8] | Non-fiction | |
Hitler: The Last Ten Days | 1973 | Ennio De Concini | Italy, UK | Gerhard Boldt | 197? | Non-fiction | |
The Bunker | 1981 | George Schaefer | U.S. | The Bunker | James P. O'Donnell | 1978 | Non-fiction |
The Nightmare Years | 1990 | Anthony Page | U.S. | The Nightmare Years | William L. Shirer | 1984 | Memoir |
1991 | Alastair Reid | UK | Robert Harris | 1986 | Non-fiction | ||
Blood on the Sun | 1945 | Frank Lloyd | U.S. | Tanaka Memorial | Baron Tanaka Giichi (ascribed) | 1927 | Non-fiction |
Japan's Longest Day | 1967 | Kihachi Okamoto | Japan | Soichi Oya | 196? | Novel |
Allied Powers[]
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mission to Moscow | 1943 | Michael Curtiz | U.S. | Mission to Moscow | Joseph E. Davies | 194? | Memoir |
The Gathering Storm | 1974 | Herbert Wise | UK & U.S. | The Second World War, Volume 1, The Gathering Storm | Winston Churchill[12] | 1948 | Memoir/ Non-fiction |
1976 | Daniel Petrie | U.S. | [13] | Merle Miller | 1974 | Memoir/ Non-fiction | |
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years | 1977 | Daniel Petrie | U.S. | Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers[14][15] | Joseph P. Lash | 197? | Non-fiction |
Truman | 1995 | Frank Pierson | U.S. | Truman[16] | David McCullough | 1992 | Non-fiction |
Neutral Powers[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Background to Danger | 1943 | Raoul Walsh | U.S. | Eric Ambler | 1937 | Novel | - | - | - |
Anschluss, Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, Albania[]
1938–1939
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Night Train to Munich | 1940 | Carol Reed | UK | (uncredited) | Gordon Wellesley (uncredited) | 193? | Novel | - | - | - |
1 | Die Trapp-Familie | 1956 | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | West Germany | The Story of the Trapp Family Singers | Maria Augusta von Trapp | 1949 | Memoir | - | - | - |
2 | The Sound of Music[17] | 1965 | Robert Wise | US | The Sound of Music[nb 1] itself based uponThe Story of the Trapp Family Singers | Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse (book), Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) |
1959 | Musical | - | - | - |
Land operations – Western Europe[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Went the Day Well? | 1942 | Alberto Cavalcanti | UK | "" | Graham Greene | 194? | Story | - | - | - |
2 | To Hell and Back | 1955 | Jesse Hibbs | U.S. | To Hell and Back | Audie Murphy with David McClure (ghostwriter) | 1949 | Memoir | - | - | - |
3 | The Young Lions | 1958 | Edward Dmytryk | U.S. | The Young Lions | Irwin Shaw | 1949 | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | Kings Go Forth | 1958 | Delmer Daves | U.S. | Kings Go Forth | Joe David Brown | 1956 | Novel | - | - | - |
5 | Die Brücke | 1959 | Bernhard Wicki | West Germany | The Bridge Die Brücke |
"Manfred Gregor" | 1958 | Novel | - | - | - |
6 | Is Paris Burning? | 1966 | René Clément | France & U.S. | Is Paris Burning? | Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre | 1965 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
7 | The Bridge at Remagen | 1969 | John Guillermin | U.S. | Ken Hechler | 1957 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | |
8 | A Bridge Too Far | 1977 | Richard Attenborough | UK & U.S. | A Bridge Too Far | Cornelius Ryan | 1974 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
9 | Band of Brothers ** | 2001 | Mikael Salomon, David Frankel, et al. |
U.S. & UK | Band of Brothers, E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest | Stephen Ambrose | 1992 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- ** TV miniseries.
Battle of the Bulge[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Attack! | 1956 | Robert Aldrich | U.S. | 195?[9] | Play | - | - | - | ||
2 | Castle Keep | 1969 | Sydney Pollack | U.S. | William Eastlake | 1965[8] | Novel | - | - | - | |
3 | Patton[18] | 1970 | Franklin J. Schaffner | U.S. | Ladislas Farago | 1963 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | |
3 | Omar N. Bradley | 1951 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | |||||
4 | A Midnight Clear | 1992 | Keith Gordon | US | A Midnight Clear | William Wharton | 1982 | Novel | - | - | - |
5 | Band of Brothers ** | 2001 | Mikael Salomon, David Frankel, et al. |
U.S. & UK | Band of Brothers, E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest | Stephen Ambrose | 1992 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- ** TV miniseries.
Amphibious operations – Western Europe[]
Miracle of Dunkirk[]
May–June 1940
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Mrs. Miniver ♠[19] | 1942 | William Wyler | U.S. | Mrs. Miniver | Jan Struther | 1939 | Novel (originally newspaper columns) | - | - | - |
2 | Dunkirk | 1958 | Leslie Norman | UK | Lt. Col. & Major | 1955 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | |
2 | Trevor Dudley Smith | 1955 | Novel | - | - | - | |||||
3 | Weekend at Dunkirk[20] Week-end à Zuydcoote |
1964 | Henri Verneuil | France & Italy | Week-end at Zuydcoote Week-end à Zuydcoote |
Robert Merle[21] | 1949 | Novel/ Memoir |
- | - | - |
4 | The Snow Goose * | 1971 | Patrick Garland | UK | The Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk [22] [6] |
Paul Gallico | 1940 & 1941 | Story & Novella | - | - | - |
5 | Bright Young Things ♦ | 2003 | Stephen Fry | UK | Vile Bodies | Evelyn Waugh | 1930 | Novel | - | - | - |
6 | Atonement | 2007 | Joe Wright | UK & France | Atonement[23][24] | Ian McEwan | 2001 | Novel | - | - | - |
7 | Dunkirk (2017 film) | 2017 | Christopher Nolan | UK | Screenplay | - | - | - |
- ♠ The film includes the Dunkirk evacuation.
- ♦ The operation depicted in the film resembles the Dunkirk evacuation.[25]
- * TV movie.
Dieppe Raid[]
19 August 1942
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Dieppe * | 1993 | John N. Smith | Canada | 1989[26]¤ | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
D-Day[]
6 June 1944 at H-hour
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | D-Day the Sixth of June | 1956 | Henry Koster | U.S. | The Sixth of June[27] | Lionel Shapiro | 1955 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | The Longest Day | 1962 | Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki | U.S. | The Longest Day | Cornelius Ryan | 1959 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
3 | The Americanization of Emily | 1964 | Arthur Hiller | U.S. | William Bradford Huie | 1959 | Novel | - | - | - | |
4 | Ike ** | 1979 | Boris Sagal & Melville Shavelson | U.S. | : My Love Affair with Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Kay Summersby with Barbara Wyden (ghostwriter) | 1975 | Autobiography | - | - | - |
5 | Band of Brothers ** | 2001 | Mikael Salomon, David Frankel, et al. |
U.S. & UK | Band of Brothers, E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest | Stephen Ambrose | 1992 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- ** TV miniseries.
Land operations – Eastern Front[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Rainbow Радуга | 1944 | Mark Donskoy | USSR | Raduga[28] |
Wanda Wasilewska | 1942 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | Days and Nights Дни и ночи |
1945 | Aleksandr Stolper | USSR | [6] | Konstantin Simonov[29] | 194? | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | 1945 | Abram Room & Oleg Zhakov | USSR | Leonid Leonov | 1942 | Play | - | - | - | ||
4 | Counter-Attack aka One Against Seven | 1945 | Zoltan Korda | US | Janet Stevenson & Philip Stevenson | 194? | Play | - | - | - | |
4 | [30] Победа |
& | 194? | Play | - | - | - | ||||
5 | Ivan's Childhood Иваново детство |
1962 | Andrei Tarkovsky | USSR | "" "Иван" | Vladimir Bogomolov | 1957 | Story | - | - | - |
6 | The Alive and the Dead Живые и мёртвые |
1964 | Aleksandr Stolper | USSR | Zhivye i myortvye | Konstantin Simonov[29] | 1959 | Novel | - | - | - |
7 | Возмездие |
1967 | Aleksandr Stolper | USSR | Konstantin Simonov[29] | 1963–1964 | Novel | - | - | - | |
8 | Cross of Iron | 1977 | Sam Peckinpah | UK & West Germany | The Willing Flesh | Willi Heinrich | 1956 | Novel | - | - | - |
9 | The Tin Drum | 1979 | Volker Schlöndorff | West Germany | The Tin Drum [31] [6] |
Günter Grass[32] | 1959 | Novel | - | - | - |
10 | Come and See Иди и смотри | 1985 | Elem Klimov | USSR | ? | Ales Adamovich | 19?? | Stories | - | - | - |
11 | The Misfit Brigade | 1987 | Gordon Hessler | US, UK, Yugoslavia | "Sven Hassel" | 1958 | Novel | - | - | - | |
12 | В августе 44-го… |
2001 | Mikhail Ptashuk | USSR | [33] | Vladimir Bogomolov | 1973 | Novel | - | - | - |
13 | ♠ | 2005 | Lucian Pintilie | France & Romania | "" | Vasile Voiculescu | 1966 (posthumous) | Story | - | - | - |
14 | Karol: A Man Who Became Pope ** | 2005 | Giacomo Battiato | Poland, Italy, France, Germany, Canada | Gian Franco Svidercoschi | 2001 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | |
15 | Pope John Paul II ** | 2005 | John Kent Harrison | Italy, US, Poland | "" ♦ "Bogowie i człowiek" from Vade-mecum |
Cyprian Norwid | 1866 | Poem | - | - | - |
15 | The Communist Manifesto ♦ | Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels | 1848 | Manifesto | - | - | - | ||||
15 | Hamlet ♦ | William Shakespeare | c. 1600 | Play | - | - | - | ||||
16 | 201? | Paul Verhoeven | ? | The Forgotten Soldier[34] Le Soldat oublié |
"Guy Sajer" | 1967 | Memoir | - | - | - |
- ♠ About Romania switching sides, from Axis to Allies.
- ♦ Writings quoted and discussed by the young Karol Wojtyła.
- ** TV miniseries.
Battle of Stalingrad[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Солдаты |
1956 | USSR | [35] В окопах Сталинграда |
Viktor Nekrasov | 1946 | Novel | - | - | - | |
2 | Горячий снег |
1972 | USSR | Yuri Bondarev | 1969 | Novel | - | - | - | ||
3 | They Fought for Their Country Они сражались за Родину |
1975 | Sergei Bondarchuk | USSR | Oni srazhalis za Rodinu | Mikhail Sholokhov[36] | 1943/1969 | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | Enemy at the Gates | 2001 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | US, UK, Germany, & Ireland | War of the Rats Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad |
David L. Robbins William Craig |
1999 2001 |
Novel Non-fiction |
- | - | - |
Frequently filmed: Schweik in the Second World War[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Schweyk im Zweiten Weltkrieg * | 1961 | Rainer Wolffhardt | West Germany | Schweyk im Zweiten Weltkrieg | Bertolt Brecht[37] | 1943/1957 | Play | - | - | - |
2 | * | 1970 | Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt | Denmark | Schweyk im Zweiten Weltkrieg | Bertolt Brecht | 1943/1957 | Play | - | - | - |
3 | (TV movie) |
1975 | Victor Manuel & Artur Ramos | Portugal | Schweyk im Zweiten Weltkrieg | Bertolt Brecht | 1943/1957 | Play | - | - | - |
3 | ? | Alexandre O'Neill | 19?? | Poems | - | - | - |
Bertolt Brecht wrote the play as a sequel to Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk
Winter War[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Talvisota | 1989 | Pekka Parikka | Finland | Antti Tuuri | 198? | Novel | - | - | - | |
2 | Max Manus: Man of War | 2008 | Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg | Norway | Det vil helst gå godt[38] (uncredited) | Max Manus (uncredited) | 1945 | Memoir | - | - | - |
2 | [38] (uncredited) | Max Manus (uncredited) | 1946 | Memoir | - | - | - |
Continuation War[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Unknown Soldier | 1955 | Edvin Laine | Finland | The Unknown Soldier | Väinö Linna | 1954 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | Tuntematon sotilas | 1985 | Rauni Mollberg | Finland | The Unknown Soldier | Väinö Linna | 1954 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | Rukajärven tie | 1999 | Olli Saarela | Finland | Antti Tuuri | 1998 | Novel | - | - | - | |
3 | Antti Tuuri | 1992 | Novel | - | - | - | |||||
3 | Antti Tuuri | 1991 | Novel | - | - | - | |||||
3 | Antti Tuuri | 1990 | Novel | - | - | - | |||||
4 | The Unknown Soldier | 2017 | Aku Louhimies | Finland | The Unknown Soldier | Väinö Linna | 1954 | Novel | - | - | - |
Frequently filmed: The Dawns Here Are Quiet[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | * |
1970 | USSR | "" | Boris Vasilyev | 1969 | Story | - | - | - | |
2 | The Dawns Here Are Quiet А зори здесь тихие |
1972 | Stanislav Rostotsky | USSR | "" | Boris Vasilyev | 1969 | Story | - | - | - |
3 | А зори здесь тихие |
2005 | (Мао Вэйнин) |
Russia & China | "" | Boris Vasilyev | 1969 | Story | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Land operations – Balkan Campaign[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Travelling Players Ο Θίασος |
1975 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | Greece | Oresteia (uncredited) | Aeschylus (uncredited) | 458 BC | Trilogy | - | - | - |
2 | Fortunes of War ** | 1987 | James Cellan Jones | UK | The Balkan Trilogy[6] | Olivia Manning | 1960–1965 | Novels | - | - | - |
2 | The Levant Trilogy[6] | Olivia Manning | 1977–1980 | Novels | - | - | - | ||||
3 | Captain Corelli's Mandolin | 2001 | John Madden | US | Corelli's Mandolin[39] | Louis de Bernières | 1994 | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | Sword of Honour ** | 2001 | UK | Sword of Honour [40] [6] [41] |
Evelyn Waugh | 1952–1961 | Trilogy | - | - | - |
- ** TV miniseries.
Land operations – North African and East African Campaigns[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Immortal Sergeant | 1943 | John M. Stahl | US | John Brophy | 194? | Novel | - | - | - | |
2 | The Desert Fox | 1951 | Henry Hathaway | US | [41] | Desmond Young | 1950 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
3 | Ice-Cold in Alex | 1958 | J. Lee Thompson | UK | Christopher Landon | 1957 | Novel | - | - | - | |
4 | How I Won the War | 1967 | Richard Lester | UK | Patrick Ryan | 1963 | Novel | - | - | - | |
5 | 1967 | David Millin | South Africa | 196? | Play | - | - | - | |||
6 | Fortunes of War ** | 1987 | James Cellan Jones | UK | The Balkan Trilogy[6] | Olivia Manning | 1960–1965 | Trilogy | - | - | - |
6 | The Levant Trilogy[6] | Olivia Manning | 1977–1980 | Trilogy | - | - | - | ||||
7 | Tobruk Tobruk |
2008 | Václav Marhoul | Czech Republic & Slovakia | The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane | 1895 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ** TV miniseries.
Battle of Kasserine Pass[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Story of G.I. Joe[19] | 1945 | William Wellman | US | Brave Men & (uncredited) | Ernie Pyle[42] | 1944 & 1943[8] | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
2 | Patton[18] | 1970 | Franklin J. Schaffner | US | Ladislas Farago | 1963 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | |
2 | Omar N. Bradley | 1951 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
Land operations – Italian Campaign[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | A Walk in the Sun | 1945 | Lewis Milestone | US | Harry Brown | 1944 | Novel | - | - | - | |
2 | A Bell for Adano | 1945 | Henry King | US | A Bell for Adano[43] | John Hersey | 1944 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | The Story of G.I. Joe[19] | 1945 | William Wellman | US | Brave Men & (uncredited) | Ernie Pyle[42] | 1944 & 1943[8] | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
4 | Up Front | 1951 | Alexander Hall | US | Bill Mauldin[44] | 1945? | Memoir/Cartoons | - | - | - | |
5 | Anzio | 1968 | Duilio Coletti & Edward Dmytryk | Italy | Wynford Vaughan-Thomas | 1961 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | |
6 | The Devil's Brigade | 1968 | Andrew V. McLaglen | US | Robert H. Adleman & | 1966 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | |
7 | Patton ♠[18] | 1970 | Franklin J. Schaffner | US | ♦ | Ladislas Farago | 1963 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
7 | Omar N. Bradley | 1951 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | |||||
8 | The Skin | 1981 | Liliana Cavani | Italy | La pelle | Curzio Malaparte | 1949 | Novel | - | - | - |
9 | In Love and War * | 2001 | John Kent Harrison | US | Love and War in the Apennines | Eric Newby | 1971 | Novel/ Memoir |
- | - | - |
10 | Miracle at St. Anna | 2008 | Spike Lee | US | James McBride | 2003 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ Patton, in fact, spans three campaigns, from North Africa (Battle of Kasserine Pass) to Western Europe (Battle of the Bulge).
- ♦ The sequel to Farago's book is entitled The Last Days of Patton.
- * TV movie.
Air operations[]
Fighters[]
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Story of a Real Man ♣ Повесть о настоящем человеке |
1948 | Aleksandr Stolper | USSR | Boris Polevoy | 1946 | Novel | - | - | - | |
Reach for the Sky ♣ | 1956 | Lewis Gilbert | UK | Reach for the Sky: The Story of Douglas Bader DSO, DFC. | Paul Brickhill | 1954 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
Battle of Britain | 1969 | Guy Hamilton | UK | Derek Wood & | 1961 | Novel | - | - | - | |
Angels One Five | 1952 | George More O'Ferrall | UK | What Are Your Angels Now? | Pelham Groom | |||||
Piece of Cake * | 1988 | Ian Toynton | UK | Piece of Cake | Derek Robinson | 1983 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♣ The story of Alexey Maresyev, double amputee Soviet pilot, compares to that of Britain's Douglas Bader.
- *TV series
Bombers[]
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Victory Through Air Power α δ | 1943 | Perce Pearce, Clyde Geronimi, et al. | US | Alexander P. de Seversky | 1942 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | |
Ladies Courageous ♠ | 1943 | John Rawlins | US | Looking For Trouble | Virginia Spencer Cowles | 194? | Novel | - | - | - |
The Way to the Stars | 1945 | Anthony Asquith | UK | "" et al. Flare Path (uncredited) |
John Pudney Terence Rattigan (uncredited) |
1941 1942 |
Poems Play |
|||
Twelve O'Clock High[45] | 1949 | Henry King | UK & US | Twelve O'Clock High | Sy Bartlett & Beirne Lay, Jr. | Novel | ||||
The Dam Busters | 1954 | Michael Anderson | UK | The Dam Busters Enemy Coast Ahead (uncredited) |
Paul Brickhill Guy Gibson |
1951 1946[46] |
Non-fiction Autobiographical |
- | - | - |
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell | 1955 | Otto Preminger | US | (uncredited) | Billy Mitchell (uncredited) | 1925 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
The War Lover | 1962 | Philip Leacock | UK | John Hersey | 1959 | Novel | - | - | - | |
633 Squadron | 1964 | Walter Grauman | UK & US | Frederick E Smith | 1958 | Novel | - | - | - | |
Nebeští jezdci Nebeští jezdci |
1968 | Jindřich Polák | Czechoslovakia | Nebeští jezdci | Filip Jánský | 1964 | Novel | - | - | - |
Catch-22 | 1970 | Mike Nichols | US | Catch-22[6] | Joseph Heller | 1961 | Novel | - | - | - |
Murphy's War | 1971 | Peter Yates | UK | Max Catto | 1969 | Novel | - | - | - | |
Twelve O'Clock High *** | 1964–1967 | , Don Medford et al. | US | Twelve O'Clock High | Sy Bartlett & Beirne Lay, Jr. ♦ | 1948 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ The story of women bomber pilots from the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron.
- ♦ The original novelists became the principal scriptwriters on the series.
- *** TV series.
- α Animated film.
- δ Documentary.
Transports[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Island in the Sky | 1953 | William A. Wellman | US | Ernest K. Gann | 1944 | Novel | - | - | - |
Missiles[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Prüfstand VII | 2002 | Germany | Gravity's Rainbow[47] [6] (excerpts) | Thomas Pynchon | 1973 | Novel | - | - | - |
[]
- Capital ships
Battle of the River Plate[]
13 December 1939
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Battle of the River Plate | 1956 | Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger | UK | (uncredited) | Patrick Dove (uncredited) | 195? | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
Battle of Drøbak Sound[]
9 April 1940
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Hamsun ♠ | 1996 | Jan Troell | Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark | Thorkild Hansen | 1978 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | |
1 | Marie Hamsun | 1953 | Autobiography | - | - | - |
- ♠ The battle footage was excised from the release print of the film.
Battle of the Denmark Strait and Sinking of the Bismarck[]
24–27 May 1941
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sink the Bismarck! | 1960 | Lewis Gilbert | UK | The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck | "C.S. Forester" | 1959 | Novel |
Cruisers and destroyers[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | In Which We Serve ♠ | 1942 | Noël Coward | UK | (uncredited) | Richard Hough (uncredited) | 198? | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
2 | The Cruel Sea | 1953 | Charles Frend | UK | The Cruel Sea[6] | Nicholas Monsarrat | 1951 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | The Enemy Below ♣ | 1957 | Dick Powell | US | The Enemy Below | D.A. Rayner | 1956 | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | Under Ten Flags | 1960 | Duilio Coletti | Italy & US | [48] | Bernhard Rogge & Wolfgang Frank | 1955 | Memoir | - | - | - |
4 | (uncredited) | & (uncredited) | 195? | Non-fiction | - | - | - | ||||
5 | The Valiant ♣ | 1962 | Roy Ward Baker | UK & Italy | Robert Mallet | 1958 | Play | - | - | - |
- ♠ Noël Coward based this story on his friend Louis Mountbatten and the sinking of his destroyer, HMS Kelly. The true story of the episode was written after the war.
- ♣ The stories involve the crews of an Allied warship and an Axis submarine.
Submarines[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Above Us the Waves | 1955 | Ralph Thomas | UK | Charles Esme Thornton Warren & | 1953 | Novel | - | - | - | |
2 | The Enemy Below ♣ | 1957 | Dick Powell | US | The Enemy Below | D.A. Rayner | 1956 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | The Valiant ♣ | 1962 | Roy Ward Baker | UK & Italy | Robert Mallet | 1958 | Play | - | - | - | |
4 | Mystery Submarine | 1963 | C.M. Pennington-Richards | UK | (?) | Jon Manchip White | 195?[9] | Play | - | - | - |
5 | Das Boot | 1981 | Wolfgang Petersen | West Germany | [6] | Lothar-Günther Buchheim | 1973 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♣ The stories involve the crews of an Allied warship and an Axis submarine.
Frogmen[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Silent Enemy | 1958 | William Fairchild | UK | Commander Crabb | Marshall Pugh | 195? | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
Merchant marine[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Long Voyage Home | 1940 | John Ford | US | Eugene O'Neill[49] | 1918 | Play | - | - | - | |
1 | Eugene O'Neill[49] | 1917 | Play | - | - | - | |||||
1 | Eugene O'Neill[49] | 1914 | Play | - | - | - | |||||
1 | Eugene O'Neill[49] | 1917 | Play | - | - | - | |||||
2 | The Navy Comes Through ♠ | 1942 | A. Edward Sutherland | US | "" | Borden Chase | 194? | Story | - | - | - |
3 | Action in the North Atlantic | 1943 | Lloyd Bacon | US | Action in the North Atlantic | Guy Gilpatric | 1943[8] | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | Passage to Marseille ♦ | 1944 | Michael Curtiz | US | Sans Patrie aka |
Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall | 1942 | Novel | - | - | - |
5 | Lifeboat | 1944 | Alfred Hitchcock | US | John Steinbeck[50] | 1942 | Novella (unpublished) | - | - | - | |
6 | The Viking Watch of the Danish Seaman | 1948 | Bodil Ipsen & Lau Lauritzen Jr. | Denmark | ? | 194? | Diary | - | - | - | |
7 | Sealed Cargo | 1951 | Alfred L. Werker | US | Edmund Gilligan | 1943[8] | Novel | - | - | - | |
8 | Murphy's War | 1971 | Peter Yates | UK | Max Catto | 1969 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ The story concerns a USN crew manning a gun on an armed merchantman.
- ♦ Free French and Vichy French fight for control of a freighter.
Atomic weapons programme[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Copenhagen * | 2002 | Howard Davies | UK | Copenhagen[51][52][53][54][55] | Michael Frayn | 1998 | Play | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Commando operations and Secret missions[]
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Guns of Navarone | 1961 | J. Lee Thompson | US & Yugoslavia | The Guns of Navarone | Alistair MacLean | 1957 | Novel | - | - | - |
The Dirty Dozen | 1967 | Robert Aldrich | UK & US | E.M. Nathanson | 1965 | Novel | - | - | - | |
Where Eagles Dare | 1968 | Brian G. Hutton | UK & US | Where Eagles Dare | Alistair MacLean | 1967 | Novel | - | - | - |
Force 10 from Navarone | 1978 | Guy Hamilton | UK | Force 10 From Navarone | Alistair MacLean | 1967 | Novel | - | - | - |
Charlotte Gray | 2001 | Gillian Armstrong | UK | Charlotte Gray[56] | Sebastian Faulks | 1999 | Novel | - | - | - |
Jenny's War * | 1985 | US & UK | 195? | Novel | - | - | - | |||
A Man Called Intrepid ** | 1979 | Peter Carter | Canada & UK | A Man Called Intrepid | William Stevenson | 1976 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
2011 | Marcel Langenegger | US | , , | 200? | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Central Europe[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Hitler's Madman | 1943 | Douglas Sirk | US | Bart Lytton | 1943? | Novel | - | - | - | |
1 | "" | Edna St. Vincent Millay | 1943? | Poem | - | - | - | ||||
2 | Operation Daybreak | 1975 | Lewis Gilbert | UK & Czechoslovakia | Seven Men at Daybreak | Alan Burgess | 19?? | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
Western Europe[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Decision Before Dawn | 1951 | Anatole Litvak | US | George Howe | 195? | Novel | - | - | - | |
2 | Appointment with Venus | 1951 | Ralph Thomas | UK | Appointment with Venus | Jerrard Tickell | 1951 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | The Red Beret | 1953 | Terence Young | UK | The Red Beret | Hilary St. George Saunders | 195? | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
4 | The Cockleshell Heroes | 1955 | José Ferrer | UK | The Cockleshell Heroes | George Kent | 195? | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
5 | Carve Her Name with Pride | 1958 | Lewis Gilbert | UK | R.J. Minney | 195? | Non-fiction | - | - | - | |
6 | Ill Met by Moonlight | 1957 | Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger | UK | Ill Met by Moonlight: The Abduction of General Kreipe | W. Stanley Moss | 1952 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
Eastern Europe[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Звезда |
1949 | USSR | "" "Звезда" |
Emmanuil Kazakevich | 1947 | Story | - | - | - | |
2 | The Star Звезда |
2002 | Nikolai Lebedev | Russia | "" "Звезда" |
Emmanuil Kazakevich | 1947 | Story | - | - | - |
Partisans and resistance movements[]
Central Europe[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Death Is Called Engelchen Smrt si říká Engelchen |
1963 | Ján Kadár & Elmar Klos | Czechoslovakia | Ladislav Mňačko | 1959 | Novel/Memoir | - | - | - | |
2 | Želary | 2003 | Ondřej Trojan | Czech Republic & Slovakia | [57] | Květa Legátová | 2002 | Novella | - | - | - |
2 | Želary[57] | Květa Legátová | 2001 | Stories | - | - | - |
Poland[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2 | A Generation ♠ | 1955 | Andrzej Wajda | Poland | Pokolenie | Bohdan Czeszko | 1951 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | Bołdyn |
1981 | Ewa Petelska & Czesław Petelski | Poland | Jerzy Putrament | 1969 | Novel | - | - | - | |
4 | Sophie's Choice | 1982 | Alan J. Pakula | US | Sophie's Choice [58] [4] [6] | William Styron | 1979 | Novel | - | - | - |
5 | * | 1982 | Robert Markowitz | Poland & US | Millard Lampell | 1960[59] | Play | - | - | - | |
5 | The Wall[60][61] | John Hersey | 1950 | Novel | - | - | - | ||||
6 | Au nom de tous les miens | 1983 | Robert Enrico | France, Canada, Hungary | For Those I Loved | Martin Gray with Max Gallo | 1971 | Memoir | - | - | - |
7 | Warsaw – Year 5703 | 1992 | Janusz Kijowski | Germany, France, Poland | ? | Jerzy Janicki | 199? | Novella | - | - | - |
8 | Uprising * | 2001 | Jon Avnet | US | : Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | Yitzhak Zuckerman ‡ | 1976/1991 | Memoir | - | - | - |
8 | Simha Rotem "Kazik" ♦ ‡ | 1994 | Memoir | - | - | - | |||||
8 | 1972 | Memoir | - | - | - | ||||||
8 | Yehude Varshah, 1939–1943: geto, mahteret, mered |
Israel Gutman ♦ ישראל גוטמן |
1977[8] | Non-fiction | - | - | - | ||||
8 | Israel Gutman ♦ | 1994[8] | Non-fiction | - | - | - | |||||
8 | Mered ha-netsurim |
Israel Gutman ♦ | 1963[8] | Non-fiction | - | - | - | ||||
8 | Zivia Lubetkin ‡ | 1981 | Memoir | - | - | - | |||||
8 | : An Intimate Conversation With Dr. Marek Edelman, the Last Surviving Leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (uncredited) | Marek Edelman ♦ ‡ with Hanna Krall | 1986 | Memoir | - | - | - | ||||
8 | Es gibt keinen jüdischen Wohnbezirk in Warschau mehr ![62] (uncredited) | SS Gen. Jürgen Stroop ‡ | 1943/1979 | Report/Diary | - | - | - | ||||
8 | Conversations with an Executioner[62] Rozmowy z katem (uncredited) |
Kazimierz Moczarski | 1972–1974/1975 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | ||||
8 | Emanuel Ringelblum Archives (uncredited) | Emanuel Ringelblum ‡ (archivist) | 1943 | Archive | - | - | - | ||||
9 | Karol: A Man Who Became Pope ** | 2005 | Giacomo Battiato | Poland, Italy, France, Germany, Canada | Gian Franco Svidercoschi | 2001 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | |
10 | Pope John Paul II ** | 2005 | John Kent Harrison | Italy, US, Poland | "" "Bogowie i człowiek" from Vade-mecum |
Cyprian Norwid | 1866 | Poem | - | - | - |
11 | Defiance ♠♠ | 2008 | Edward Zwick | US | Defiance: The Bielski Partisans | Nechama Tec | 1993 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- ♥ Mel Brooks remade the film in 1983 as To Be or Not to Be.
- ♠ Polish Communist resistance fighters aid the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The first film in Wajda's War Trilogy.
- ♦ Rotem, Gutman, and Edelman were consultants on the film.
- ‡ Zuckerman, Rotem, Lubetkin, Edelman and Stroop are characters in the film. Ringelblum is mentioned.
- ♠♠ The film is set in the area of Eastern Poland occupied by the Soviet Union in 1939 as Germany's ally, then incorporated into Byelorussia.
- * TV movie.
- ** TV miniseries.
Western Europe[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Casablanca[63] | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | US | Everybody Comes to Rick's | Murray Burnett & Joan Alison | 1940 | Play (unproduced) | - | - | - |
2 | Edge of Darkness | 1943 | Lewis Milestone | US | 1942 | Novel | - | - | - | ||
3 | The Moon Is Down | 1943 | Irving Pichel | US | The Moon Is Down[6] | John Steinbeck[50] | 1942 | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | Suicide Mission Shetlandsgjengen |
1954 | Michael Forlong | UK & Norway | The Shetland Bus: A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival, and Adventure | David Howarth | 1951 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
4 | Shetlands-Larsen |
Frithjof Sælen | 1947 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | ||||
5 | Max Manus: Man of War | 2008 | Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg | Norway | Det vil helst gå godt (uncredited) | Max Manus (uncredited) | 1945 | Memoir | - | - | - |
5 | (uncredited) | Max Manus (uncredited) | 1946 | Memoir | - | - | - |
France[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Cloak and Dagger | 1946 | Fritz Lang | US | Corey Ford & | 1946 | Non-fiction? | - | - | - | |
2 | The Train | 1964 | John Frankenheimer | US, France, Italy | Rose Valland | 1961 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | |
3 | Army of Shadows | 1969 | Jean-Pierre Melville | France | L'Armée des ombres | Joseph Kessel | 1943 | Novel/Memoir | - | - | - |
4 | The Train | 1973 | Pierre Granier-Deferre | France & Italy | Georges Simenon | 1961 | Novel | - | - | - | |
5 | L'Affiche Rouge | 1976 | Frank Cassenti | France | "Red Poster" "Affiche rouge" |
Vichy Ministry of Information |
1944 | Propaganda poster | - | - | - |
6 | 1993 | France | Lucie Aubrac | 1984 | Memoir | - | - | - | |||
7 | Lucie Aubrac | 1997 | Claude Berri | France | Lucie Aubrac | 1984 | Memoir | - | - | - | |
8 | The Army of Crime L'Armée du crime |
2009 | Robert Guédiguian | France | "Red Poster" "Affiche rouge" |
Vichy Ministry of Information |
1944 | Propaganda poster | - | - | - |
Frequently filmed: Le Silence de la mer[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Le Silence de la mer | 1949 | Jean-Pierre Melville | France | Put Out the Light[4] Le Silence de la mer |
"Vercors" | 1942 | Novel | - | - | - |
Balkans[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Silent Gunpowder Глуви барут |
1990 | Bato Čengić |
Yugoslavia | Branko Ćopić | 1957 | Novel | - | - | - |
USSR[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Young Guard | 1948 | Sergei Gerasimov | USSR | The Young Guard | Alexander Fadeyev | 1945 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | *** Тяжёлый песок |
2008 | Russia | Anatoly Rybakov | 1979 | Novel | - | - | - |
- *** TV series.
Italy[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | General della Rovere | 1959 | Roberto Rossellini | Italy | Il Generale della Rovere | Indro Montanelli | 1959 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | The Long Night of '43 | 1960 | Florestano Vancini | Italy, France | "Una notte del '43"[64] | Giorgio Bassani | 1956 | Story | - | - | - |
3 | The Scarlet and the Black | 1983 | Jerry London | US, UK, Italy | 1967 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | ||
4 | Il partigiano Johnny | 2000 | Guido Chiesa | Italy | Il partigiano Johnny | Beppe Fenoglio | 1968 | Novel | - | - | - |
n | Little Teachers I piccoli maestri |
1998 | Daniele Luchetti | Italy | The Outlaws[65] I piccoli maestri |
Luigi Meneghello | 1964 | Novel/Memoir | - | - | - |
Caribbean[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | To Have and Have Not | 1944 | Howard Hawks | US | To Have and Have Not | Ernest Hemingway[5] | 1937 | Novel | - | - | - |
German anti-Nazi opposition[]
John Keegan prefers the term "opposition" to the term "resistance" in reference to internal German disagreement.[66]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Hitler, Beast of Berlin | 1939 | "Sherman Scott" | US | [67] | 193?[9] | Novel | - | - | - | |
2 | Pimpernel Smith ♠ | 1941 | Leslie Howard | UK | The Scarlet Pimpernel | Baroness Orczy | 1905 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | Watch on the Rhine | 1943 | Herman Shumlin | US | Watch on the Rhine[68] | Lillian Hellman | 1941 | Play | - | - | - |
4 | The Night of the Generals | 1967 | Anatole Litvak | UK & France | [69] | Hans Hellmut Kirst | 1962 | Novel | - | - | - |
5 | Lili Marleen | 1981 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | West Germany | Lale Andersen | 1972 | Memoir | - | - | - | |
6 | Christabel ** | 1988 | Adrian Shergold | UK | The Past is Myself[41] | Christabel Bielenberg | 1968 | Memoir | - | - | - |
6 | (unconfirmed) | Christabel Bielenberg | 196? | Memoir | - | - | - | ||||
7 | Karol: A Man Who Became Pope ♦ ** | 2005 | Giacomo Battiato | Poland, Italy, France, Germany, Canada | Gian Franco Svidercoschi | 2001 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | |
8 | Sophie Scholl – The Final Days Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage |
2005 | Marc Rothemund | Germany | ? | ? | 1943 | Transcripts (unpublished)[70] | - | - | - |
- ♠ The film that inspired Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg.
- ♦ A Catholic German officer is executed in Poland.
- ** TV miniseries.
Military intelligence and Espionage[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Confessions of a Nazi Spy ♠ | 1939 | Anatole Litvak | US | Nazi Spies in America | Leon G. Turrou | 1939 | Articles | - | - | - |
2 | Night Train to Munich | 1940 | Carol Reed | UK | (uncredited) | Gordon Wellesley (uncredited) | 193? | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | Ministry of Fear | 1944 | Fritz Lang | US | The Ministry of Fear[6] | Graham Greene | 1943 | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | 5 Fingers | 1952 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | US | Ludwig Carl Moyzisch | 1950 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | |
5 | The Man Who Never Was | 1956 | Ronald Neame | UK | The Man Who Never Was | Ewen Montagu | 1954 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
6 | I Was Monty's Double | 1958 | John Guillermin | UK | I Was Monty's Double | M. E. Clifton James | 1954 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
7 | The Pigeon That Took Rome | 1962 | Melville Shavelson | US | 195? | Novel | - | - | - | ||
8 | 36 Hours | 1965 | George Seaton | US | "Beware of the Dog" from Over to You |
Roald Dahl | 1944/ 1946 |
Story | - | - | - |
9 | Triple Cross | 1966 | Terence Young | UK & France | 196? | Non-fiction | - | - | - | ||
10 | Seventeen Moments of Spring ** Семнадцать мгновений весны |
1973 | Tatyana Lioznova | USSR | "Yulian Semyonov" | 1968 | Novel | - | - | - | |
11 | Salon Kitty | 1976 | Tinto Brass | Italy, West Germany, France | 1970 | Novel? | - | - | - | ||
12 | Eye of the Needle | 1981 | Richard Marquand | UK | Eye of the Needle[71] | Ken Follett | 1978 | Novel | - | - | - |
13 | Enigma | 2001 | Michael Apted | UK, US | Enigma[6] | Robert Harris | 1995 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ A libel suit against this film was threatened by Fritz Kuhn of the German American Bund.[72]
- ** TV miniseries.
Neutral powers[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Mask of Dimitrios | 1944 | Jean Negulesco | US | The Mask of Dimitrios | Eric Ambler | 1939 | Novel | - | - | - |
Home Guard[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | 1943 | Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger |
UK | ? | David Low | 193? | Cartoons | - | - | - |
Military bases[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Major and the Minor | 1942 | Billy Wilder | US | Edward Childs Carpenter | 194? | Play | - | - | - | |
1 | "" | 194? | Story | - | - | - | |||||
2 | On the Fiddle | 1961 | Cyril Frankel | UK | Stop at a Winner | R.F. Delderfield | 195? | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall | 1972 | Norman Cohen | UK | Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall | Spike Milligan | 1971 | Memoir | - | - | - |
4 | A Soldier's Story | 1984 | Norman Jewison | US | A Soldier's Play[73][74] | Charles Fuller | 1981 | Play | - | - | - |
5 | Biloxi Blues | 1988 | Mike Nichols | US | Biloxi Blues[75] | Neil Simon | 1985 | Play | - | - | - |
Enlistment[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Lost Boundaries | 1949 | Alfred L. Werker | US | Lost Boundaries | William L. White | 1948 | Novel | - | - | - |
Military hospitals[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The English Patient | 1996 | Anthony Minghella | US & U.K. | The English Patient [76] [77] [78] [6] |
Michael Ondaatje | 1992 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | Something The Lord Made ♠ * | 2004 | Joseph Sargent | US | "" | 1989 | Article | - | - | - | |
3 | The Haunted Airman * | 2006 | UK | The Haunting of Toby Jugg | Dennis Wheatley | 1948 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ A film about pioneering civilian open-heart surgery which led to a World War II military application.
- * TV movie.
Military justice and Courts-martial[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell | 1955 | Otto Preminger | US | (uncredited) | Billy Mitchell (uncredited) | 1925 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
2 | * | 1974 | Lamont Johnson | US | The Execution of Private Slovik ♦ | William Bradford Huie | 1954 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
3 | * | 1991 | Canada & France | Execution[79] | Colin McDougall | 1958 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♦ Huie's book is referenced in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five.
- * TV movie.
Involuntary confinement[]
Allied POWs[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Wooden Horse | 1950 | Jack Lee | UK | Eric Williams | 1949 | Novel/Memoir | - | - | - | |
2 | Stalag 17 | 1953 | Billy Wilder | US | Donald Bevan & Edmund Trzcinski | 195? | Play | - | - | - | |
3 | The Password is Courage | 1962 | Andrew L. Stone | UK | 196? | Non-fiction | - | - | - | ||
4 | The Elusive Corporal | 1962 | Jean Renoir | France | Le Caporal épinglé | Jacques Perret | 1947 | Novel | - | - | - |
5 | The Great Escape | 1963 | John Sturges | US | The Great Escape | Paul Brickhill | 1950 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
6 | Von Ryan's Express | 1965 | Mark Robson | US | David Westheimer | 1964 | Novel | - | - | - | |
7 | Slaughterhouse-Five | 1972 | George Roy Hill | US | Slaughterhouse-Five[6] | Kurt Vonnegut | 1969 | Novel | - | - | - |
8 | The Ogre | 1996 | Volker Schlöndorff | France, Germany, UK | The Erl King Le Roi des aulnes[80] |
Michel Tournier | 1970 | Novel | - | - | - |
9 | In Love and War * | 2001 | John Kent Harrison | US | Love and War in the Apennines | Eric Newby | 1971 | Novel/ Memoir |
- | - | - |
10 | Hart's War | 2002 | Gregory Hoblit | US | John Katzenbach | 1999 | Novel | - | - | - | |
11 | Colditz * | 2005 | UK | [81] (uncredited) | Henry Chancellor (uncredited) | 200? | Non-fiction | - | - | - | |
12 | Katyń | 2007 | Andrzej Wajda | Poland | [82] | Andrzej Mularczyk | 2007 | Novel | - | - | - |
13 | The Way Back | 2010 | Peter Weir | US | Slavomir Rawicz with (ghostwriter) | 1956? | Memoir (purported) | - | - | - | |
n | The Cow and I La Vache et le prisonnier |
1959 | Henri Verneuil | France & Italy | Jacques Antoine | 195? | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Frequently filmed: []
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Colditz Story | 1955 | Guy Hamilton | UK | P.R. Reid | 1952 | Memoir | - | - | - | |
2 | The Birdmen * | 1971 | Philip Leacock | US | (uncredited) | P.R. Reid (uncredited) | 1952 | Memoirs | - | - | - |
2 | (uncredited) | P.R. Reid (uncredited) | 1953 | Memoirs | - | - | - | ||||
3 | Colditz *** | 1972–1974 | Peter Cregeen, , Michael Ferguson et al. | UK | (uncredited) | P.R. Reid ♠ | 1952 | Memoir | - | - | - |
- ♠ Reid is credited as technical consultant, rather than author.
- * TV movie.
- *** TV series.
Frequently filmed: The Last Duel[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
3 | Escape to Victory aka Victory | 1981 | John Huston | US | The Last Duel (uncredited) | ? (uncredited) | 196? | Play | - | - | - |
Axis POWs[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ♠ Embajadores en el infierno |
1956 | José María Forqué | Spain | [83] Embajador en el infierno. Memorias del Capitán Palacios (once años de cautiverio en Rusia) |
Torcuato Luca de Tena & | 1956? | Novel/ Memoir |
- | - | - |
2 | The One That Got Away | 1957 | Roy Ward Baker | UK | The One That Got Away | & James Leasor | 1956 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
3 | As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me ♣ ** So weit die Füße tragen |
1959 | Fritz Umgelter | West Germany | As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me So weit die Füße tragen |
1955 | Novel | - | - | - | |
4 | Summer of My German Soldier * | 1978 | Michael Tuchner | US | Summer of My German Soldier | Bette Greene | 1973 | Novel | - | - | - |
5 | As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me ♣ So weit die Füße tragen |
2001 | Germany | As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me So weit die Füße tragen |
1955 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ Ambassadors in Hell is the story of Spanish POWs in the Soviet Union.
- ♣ The tale of a German POW, Clemens Forell, escaping from a Soviet gulag is based on a genuine prisoner.
- * TV movie.
- ** TV miniseries.
Frequently filmed: No Picnic on Mount Kenya[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Ascent | 1994 | Donald Shebib | Canada & US | No Picnic on Mount Kenya: The Story of Three P.O.W.s' Escape to Adventure | Felice Benuzzi | 1948 | Memoir | - | - | - |
2 | 2009 | Italy | No Picnic on Mount Kenya: The Story of Three P.O.W.s' Escape to Adventure | Felice Benuzzi | 1948 | Memoir | - | - | - |
Convicts[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Hill | 1965 | Sidney Lumet | UK | Ray Rigby & R.S. Allen | 196? | Play | - | - | - | |
2 | Borstal Boy | 2000 | Peter Sheridan | UK & Ireland | Borstal Boy | Brendan Behan | 1958 | Novel/ Memoir |
- | - | - |
3 | Последний бой майора Пугачёва | 2005 | Russia | "The Final Battle" "Последний бой"[84] from The Kolyma Tales |
Varlam Shalamov | 1959/ 1954–1973 |
Story | - | - | - | |
n | 1960 | Harald Philipp | West Germany | Heinz G. Konsalik | 1959 | Novel | - | - | - |
Civilians[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Ich klage an ♠ | 1941 | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Nazi Germany | 194? | Novel | - | - | - | ||
2 | Naked Among Wolves | 1963 | Frank Beyer | East Germany | Nackt unter Wölfen | Bruno Apitz | 1958 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | 1961 | Jaroslav Balík | Czechoslovakia | Notes from the Gallows Reportáž psaná na oprátce |
Julius Fučík[85] | 1947/ 1995 |
Memoir (posthumous) | - | - | - | |
4 | Transport from Paradise Transport z ráje |
1962 | Zbyněk Brynych | Czechoslovakia | Arnošt Lustig | 1957 | Novel | - | - | - | |
5 | Playing for Time * | 1980 | Daniel Mann | US | Fania Fénelon | 1976? | Memoir | - | - | - | |
6 | The Assault | 1986 | Fons Rademakers | Netherlands | The Assault[6] | Harry Mulisch | 1982 | Novel | - | - | - |
7 | Escape from Sobibor * | 1987 | Jack Gold | US | Richard Rashke | 19?? | Non-fiction | - | - | - | |
8 | Korczak | 1990 | Andrzej Wajda | Poland | Król Maciuś Pierwszy (uncredited) |
Janusz Korczak (uncredited) | 1923 | Children's book | - | - | - |
9 | Bent | 1997 | Sean Mathias | UK | Bent[86] | Martin Sherman | 1979 | Play | - | - | - |
10 | Aimée & Jaguar | 1999 | Max Färberböck | Germany | Erica Fischer ♦ | 1994 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | |
11 | Tea with Mussolini | 1999 | Franco Zeffirelli | Italy & UK | Franco Zeffirelli | 199? | Autobiography | - | - | - | |
12 | The Grey Zone | 2001 | Tim Blake Nelson | US | Miklós Nyiszli | 19?? | Memoir | - | - | - | |
13 | The Ninth Day | 2004 | Volker Schlöndorff | Germany, Luxembourg, Czech Republic | Father Jean Bernard | 19?? | Memoir | - | - | - | |
14 | Fateless | 2005 | Lajos Koltai | Hungary & Germany | Fateless | Imre Kertész[87] | 1975 | Novel | - | - | - |
15 | The Counterfeiters | 2007 | Stefan Ruzowitzky | Austria & Germany | Adolf Burger | 1983 | Memoir | - | - | - | |
16 | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | 2008 | Mark Herman | UK & US | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas[88] | John Boyne | 2006 | Novel | - | - | - |
17 | God on Trial * | 2008 | Andy de Emmony | UK & US | The Trial of God ♦♦ (uncredited) |
Elie Wiesel[89] (uncredited) | 1979 | Play | - | - | - |
n | The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | 1970 | Vittorio de Sica | Italy | The Garden of the Finzi-Continis[90] | Giorgio Bassani | 1962 | Novel | - | - | - |
n | 2002 | Rod Lurie | US | The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness | Simon Wiesenthal | 1976 | Memoir | - | - | - | |
n | Pastor Hall | 1940 | Ray Boulting | UK | Ernst Toller | 1939 | Play | - | - | - |
- ♠ The infamous Nazi film which calmly advocates euthanasia for physically ill patients.[91]
- ♦ Fischer's follow-up book is entitled Das kurze Leben der Jüdin Felice Schragenheim. "Jaguar", Berlin 1922-Bergen-Belsen 1945. (English: The Short Life of the Jewess Felice Schragenheim. "Jaguar", Berlin 1922 – Bergen-Belsen 1945), 2002.
- ♦♦ The premise for the film originated in Wiesel's recollection from Auschwitz and the basis for his own play.
- * TV movie.
Frequently filmed: The Diary of a Young Girl[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Diary of Anne Frank | 1959 | George Stevens | US | The Diary of Anne Frank[92][93][94][95] | Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett |
1955 | Play | - | - | - |
1 | The Diary of a Young Girl[4] | Anne Frank | 1947 | Diary | - | - | - | ||||
2 | The Diary of Anne Frank * | 1980 | Boris Sagal | US | The Diary of Anne Frank | Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett |
1955 | Play | - | - | - |
3 | Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank * | 1982 | ? | East Germany | The Diary of Anne Frank | Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett |
1955 | Play | - | - | - |
4 | The Diary of Anne Frank * | 2009 | Jon Jones | UK | The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank | 1947 | Diary | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Twice filmed: Jakob, der Lügner[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jacob the Liar | 1975 | Frank Beyer | East Germany & Czechoslovakia | Jakob der Lügner | Jurek Becker | 1969 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | Jakob the Liar | 1999 | Peter Kassovitz | France, US, Hungary | Jakob, der Lügner | Jurek Becker | 1969 | Novel | - | - | - |
Saviours[]
Original screenplay films only: Salvo D'Acquisto, , Maximilian Kolbe, Nicholas Winton
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Saviour |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Wallenberg: A Hero's Story * | 1985 | Lamont Johnson | US & Yugoslavia | Wallenberg: A Hero's Story | 198? | Non-fiction | Raoul Wallenberg | |
2 | The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank * | 1988 | John Erman | US & UK | Anne Frank Remembered (?) | Miep Gies | 198? | Memoir | Miep Gies |
3 | Schindler's List[96] | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | US | Schindler's Ark[97][98] | Thomas Keneally | 1982 | Novel | Oskar Schindler |
4 | Varian's War | 2001 | Lionel Chetwynd | UK, US, Canada | Varian Fry | 1945 | Memoir | Varian Fry | |
5 | Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man | 2002 | Alberto Negrin | Italy | ♠ | Enrico Deaglio | 1993 | Novel | Giorgio Perlasca |
6 | The Pianist | 2002 | Roman Polanski | France, Poland, Germany, United Kingdom | The Pianist |
Władysław Szpilman | 1946 | Memoir | Wilm Hosenfeld |
7 | The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler * | 2009 | John Kent Harrison | US | Matka dzieci Holocaustu. Historia Ireny Sendlerowej |
2004[99] | Non-fiction | Irena Sendler |
- ♠ The Italian novel is entitled The Banality of Good, in contrast to Hannah Arendt's phrase, "the banality of evil", describing Adolf Eichmann.
- * TV movie.
Other atrocities[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Gentle Gunman ♠ | 1952 | Basil Dearden | UK | The Gentle Gunman | Roger MacDougall | 195? | Play | - | - | - |
2 | Two Women ♠♠ | 1960 | Vittorio De Sica | Italy | La Ciociara | Alberto Moravia | 1958 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | The Camp Followers Le soldatesse ♦ |
1965 | Valerio Zurlini | Yugoslavia, Italy, France, West Germany |
Le soldatesse | Ugo Pirro | 1956 | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | The Adventures of Werner Holt Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt |
1965 | Joachim Kunert | East Germany | Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt. Roman einer Jugend. (Part 1) |
Dieter Noll | 1960 | Novel/ Memoir |
- | - | - |
5 | Massacre in Rome ♦♦ | 1973 | George P. Cosmatos | Italy | Robert Katz | 1967 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | |
6 | Strange Gardens ♦♦♦ | 2003 | Jean Becker | France | Michel Quint | 2000 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ About IRA terrorists who planted bombs in the London Underground during the Blitz.
- ♠♠ About the Marocchinate, Italian women liberated only to be raped by Moroccan Goumiers.
- ♦ About Greek prostitutes who are pressganged into service in an Italian Army brothel in Albania.
- ♦♦ About the Ardeatine Caves massacre.
- ♦♦♦ About a fictional reprisal against French hostages.
Refugees and Displaced persons[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Arch of Triumph | 1948 | Lewis Milestone | US | Arch of Triumph | Erich Maria Remarque | 1945 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | The Juggler ♠ | 1953 | Edward Dmytryk | US | Michael Blankfort | 195? | Novel | - | - | - | |
3 | Me and the Colonel | 1958 | Peter Glenville | US | [100] . Komödie einer Tragödie in drei Akten |
Franz Werfel | 1944 | Play | - | - | - |
4 | 1967 | Rainer Wolffhardt | West Germany | . Komödie einer Tragödie in drei Akten |
Franz Werfel | 1944 | Play | - | - | - | |
5 | 1968 | Antonín Moskalyk | Czechoslovakia | Arnošt Lustig | 1962 | Novel | - | - | - | ||
6 | Voyage of the Damned | 1976 | Stuart Rosenberg | US | Gordon Thomas & Max Morgan-Witts | 1974 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | |
7 | The Boat Is Full Das Boot ist voll |
1981 | Markus Imhoof | Switzerland, West Germany, Austria | Alfred A. Häsler | 1967 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | |
8 | The Truce | 1997 | Francesco Rosi | Italy, France, Germany | The Truce | Primo Levi | 1962 | Memoir | - | - | - |
- ♠ Most of the story takes place in Israel in 1949.
Occupation and Collaboration[]
Central Europe[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Shop on Main Street | 1965 | Ján Kadár & Elmar Klos | Czechoslovakia | "" | Ladislav Grosman | 1962 | Story | - | - | - |
2 | Closely Watched Trains | 1966 | Jiří Menzel | Czechoslovakia | Ostře sledované vlaky | Bohumil Hrabal | 1964 | Novella | - | - | - |
3 | Der Bockerer ♠ | 1981 | Franz Antel | Austria & West Germany | Der Bockerer | Ulrich Becher & | 1946 | Play | - | - | - |
4 | Europa Europa | 1990 | Agnieszka Holland | Germany, France, Poland | Solomon Perel | 1989 | Memoir | - | - | - | |
5 | Der Bockerer * | 2009 | Hannes Rossacher | Austria | Der Bockerer | Ulrich Becher & | 1946 | Play | - | - | - |
6 | 2011 | Mike Figgis | US (?) | The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust | Edith Hahn Beer with | 1999 | Memoir | - | - | - |
- ♠ Vienna during the Nazi occupation of Austria. This film is followed by three sequels, each covering a different episode of Austrian history.
- * TV movie.
Poland[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Unvanquished City Robinson warszawski |
1950 | Jerzy Zarzycki | Poland | The Pianist (uncredited) |
Władysław Szpilman ♠ (uncredited) | 1946 | Memoir | - | - | - |
2 | The Pianist | 2002 | Roman Polanski | France, Poland, Germany, United Kingdom | The Pianist |
Władysław Szpilman | 1946 | Memoir | - | - | - |
3 | Katyń | 2007 | Andrzej Wajda | Poland | [82] | Andrzej Mularczyk | 2007 | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | 2011 | ? | US | Wartime Lies [101] [102] [6] |
Louis Begley | 1991 | Novel/Memoir | - | - | - |
- ♠ The IMDb credits a novel by Czesław Miłosz,[103] but no such novel exists. Another tale of the film's origin has Miłosz basing his screenplay on Szpilman's memoir.
Denmark and Norway[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Hamsun ♣ | 1996 | Jan Troell | Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark | Thorkild Hansen | 1978 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | |
1 | Marie Hamsun | 1953 | Autobiography | - | - | - |
- ♣ The film concerns author Knut Hamsun.[104]
Low Countries[]
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France[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | L'Assassinat du Père Noël |
1941 | Christian-Jaque | Occupied France | Pierre Véry | 1934 | Novel | - | - | - | |
2 | A Soldier's Tale | 1988 | Larry Parr | New Zealand | A Soldier's Tale | M.K. Joseph | 198? | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | Laissez-passer | 2002 | Bertrand Tavernier | France | Jean-Devaivre | 2002 | Memoir | - | - | - | |
n | Eyes of Love Les Yeux de l'amour |
1959 | Denys de La Patellière | France & Italy | ♠ | Jacques Antoine | 195? | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ The "novel" (collection of short stories?) is also the basis for the better-known comedy La vache et le prisonnier (q.v.).
Battle of Marseille[]
22–24 January 1943
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Seven Thunders ♠ aka The Beasts of Marseilles Les Sept Tonnerres |
1989 | Hugo Fregonese | UK | Rupert Croft-Cooke | 1955[105] | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ The story adds a character based on Dr. Marcel Petiot, the Parisian serial killer.[106]
Oradour-sur-glane Massacre[]
10 June 1944
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Souvenir | 1989 | Geoffrey Reeve | UK | Paul Wheeler | 198? | Novel | - | - | - |
Balkans[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Last Mission |
1949[107] | Nikos Tsiforos Νίκος Τσιφόρος |
Greece | Teleftaia apostoli | Nikos Tsiforos | 194? | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | The Travelling Players Ο Θίασος |
1975 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | Greece | Oresteia (uncredited) | Aeschylus (uncredited) | 458 BC | Trilogy | - | - | - |
Baltic states[]
The Baltics were occupied by the USSR in 1940, then by Germany in 1941.
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Hannibal Rising ♠ | 2007 | Peter Webber | US | Hannibal Rising | Thomas Harris | 2006 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ The story of fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter begins in Lithuania in 1944.
USSR[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|
Home front[]
The Blitz[]
7 September 1940 – 10 May 1941
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Mrs. Miniver[19] | 1942 | William Wyler | US | Mrs. Miniver | Jan Struther | 1939 | Novel (originally newspaper columns) | - | - | - |
2 | Journey for Margaret | 1942 | W. S. Van Dyke | US | Journey for Margaret | William Lindsay White | 1941 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | Danger UXB *** | 1979 | , Douglas Camfield, et al. | UK | Major , MBE | 1958 | Memoir | - | - | - | |
n | * | 1960 | Marc Daniels | US | Mrs. Miniver | Jan Struther | 1939 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
- *** TV series.
Commonwealth[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Medal for the General | 1944 | Maurice Elvey | UK | Medal for the General | James Ronald | 194? | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | The Heart of the Matter | 1953 | George More O'Ferrall | UK | The Heart of the Matter[108] | Graham Greene | 1948 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | The Tin Flute Bonheur d'occasion |
1983 | Claude Fournier | Canada | The Tin Flute[109][110] Bonheur d'occasion |
Gabrielle Roy[111] | 1945 | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | The Dresser | 1983 | Peter Yates | UK | The Dresser[112] | Ronald Harwood | 1980 | Play | - | - | - |
5 | The Land Girls | 1998 | David Leland | UK | Angela Huth | 19?? | Novel | - | - | - | |
6 | Nowhere in Africa | 2001 | Caroline Link | Germany | Stefanie Zweig | 1998 | Novel/Memoir | - | - | - |
United States[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|
USSR[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Fate of a Man Судьба человека |
1959 | Sergei Bondarchuk | USSR | "Sudba cheloveka" | Mikhail Sholokhov[36] | 1957 | Story | - | - | - |
2 | Зося |
1967 | Mikhail Bogin | USSR & Poland | "" "Зося" | Vladimir Bogomolov | 1963 | Story | - | - | - |
3 | 1969 | USSR | Jamilya | Chingiz Aytmatov | 1958 | Novel | - | - | - | ||
4 | Twenty Days Without War ♠ Двадцать дней без войны |
1976 | Aleksei German | USSR | "" (?) | Konstantin Simonov[29] | 196? | Story | - | - | - |
5 | Jamila | 1994 | Germany & Kyrgyzstan | Jamilya | Chingiz Aytmatov | 1958 | Novel | - | - | - | |
6 | 2002 | Frederick Wiseman | France & US | (translator) | 199? | Play | - | - | - | ||
6 | Life and Fate[6] (excerpt) | Vasily Grossman | 1959 | Novel | - | - | - | ||||
7 | Waltz with Bashir ♦ † α | 2008 | Ari Folman | Israel | Ari Folman & David Polonsky |
2009 | Memoir/ Graphic novel |
- | - | - |
- ♠ The film concerns a war correspondent, based on Simonov, in Tashkent to oversee a film production based on his work.[113]
- ♦ The film includes a brief World War II scene.
- † Dramatized documentary.
- α Animated film.
Morale[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | This is the Army | 1943 | Michael Curtiz | US | This is the Army | Irving Berlin | 1942 | Musical | - | - | - |
1 | Yip Yip Yaphank | Irving Berlin | 1918 | Musical | - | - | - |
Axis[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | La Storia ♠ * | 1986 | Luigi Comencini | Italy, France, West Germany, Spain |
History: A Novel La Storia[6] |
Elsa Morante | 1974 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ A shortened version of the film was released to cinemas.
- * TV movie.
Legacy[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1987 | Alberto Isaac | Mexico | Las batallas en el desierto ♠ | José Emilio Pacheco | 1981 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ Mexican schoolboys growing up with a Japanese classmate in Colonia Roma, Mexico City in 1948 play at the battles of the desert campaign.[114]
Demobilization[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Best Years of Our Lives[63] | 1946 | William Wyler | US | Glory for Me | MacKinlay Kantor | 1945 | Novella (in blank verse) |
- | - | - |
2 | Crossfire ♠ | 1947 | Edward Dmytryk | US | Richard Brooks | 1945 | Novel | - | - | - | |
3 | Ride the Pink Horse | 1947 | Robert Montgomery | US | Ride the Pink Horse | Dorothy B. Hughes | 1946 | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | I Was a Male War Bride | 1949 | Howard Hawks | US | "" | 1946? | Story/Memoir | - | - | - | |
5 | Path of Hope ♥ Il cammino della speranza |
1950 | Pietro Germi | Italy | [115] | 194? | Novel | - | - | - | |
6 | The Miniver Story | 1950 | H.C. Potter | US | Mrs. Miniver (characters) | Jan Struther | 1939 | Novel (originally newspaper columns) | - | - | - |
7 | Hell Is Sold Out | 1951 | Michael Anderson | UK | Hell Is Sold Out ? |
"Maurice Dekobra" | 1948[116] (in English) | Novel | - | - | - |
8 | Back at the Front ♣ | 1952 | George Sherman | US | (characters) | Bill Mauldin | 1945? | Memoir/Cartoons | - | - | - |
9 | Tit-Coq ♦ | 1953 | René Delacroix & Gratien Gélinas | Canada | Tit-Coq | Gratien Gélinas | 1948 | Play | - | - | - |
10 | Wedding in White | 1972 | William Fruet | Canada | Wedding in White | William Fruet | 1977[26] (collected edition) | Play | - | - | - |
11 | Katyń | 2007 | Andrzej Wajda | Poland | [82] | Andrzej Mularczyk | 2007 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ The victim in the film story is a Jew, changed from the homosexual victim of the novel.
- ♥ Poverty-stricken Sicilians struggle to reach France and a new life.
- ♣ Sequel to Up Front (1951). Now reservists, Willie and Joe are recalled for occupation duty in Japan.
- ♦ The title Tit-Coq may appear rude to English speakers from outside Canada, but it simply employs the standard form for a man's nickname in Quebec French.[117]
Occupation of Greater Germany[]
For Berlin and Vienna, see the List of films based on war books — post-1945.
For Germany and Austria, see the List of films based on war books — peace.
Justice and retribution[]
Nazis[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Condemned of Altona | 1962 | Vittorio De Sica | Italy & France | Jean-Paul Sartre[118] | 1959 | Play | - | - | - | |
2 | The Quiller Memorandum | 1966 | Sidney J. Furie | UK | The Berlin Memorandum[119] | "Adam Hall" | 1965 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | The ODESSA File | 1974 | Ronald Neame | UK & West Germany | The Odessa File | Frederick Forsyth | 1972 | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | The Man in the Glass Booth | 1975 | Arthur Hiller | US | & [120] (uncredited) | Robert Shaw (uncredited) | 1967 | Novel & Play | - | - | - |
5 | Marathon Man | 1976 | John Schlesinger | US | Marathon Man | William Goldman | 1974 | Novel | - | - | - |
6 | * | 1979 | Peter Collinson | US | The House on Garibaldi Street | Isser Harel | 1975 | Memoir | - | - | - |
7 | In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944 ♠ † * | 1992 | Brian McKenna | Canada | The Valour and the Horror | Merilyn Simonds | 1991 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
7 | (uncredited) | Lt. Col. John A. English (uncredited) | 1991 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | ||||
8 | The Man Who Captured Eichmann | 1996 | William A. Graham | US | Peter Z. Malkin & | 1990 | Memoir | - | - | - | |
9 | Mother Night | 1996 | Keith Gordon | US | Mother Night | Kurt Vonnegut | 1961 | Novel | - | - | - |
10 | Nuremberg * | 2000 | Yves Simoneau | Canada & US | Joseph E. Persico | 199? | Non-fiction | - | - | - | |
11 | Taking Sides Der Fall Furtwängler |
2001 | István Szabó | France, UK, Germany, Austria | Taking Sides | Ronald Harwood | 1995 | Play | - | - | - |
11 | ? (uncredited) | Wilhelm Furtwängler (uncredited) | 194? | Diary | - | - | - | ||||
12 | The Reader | 2008 | Stephen Daldry | US, Germany, UK | The Reader Der Vorleser |
Bernhard Schlink | 1995 | Novel | - | - | - |
n | The Zoo Gang ** | 1974 | Sidney Hayers & John Hough | UK | Paul Gallico | 1971 | Novel | - | - | - | |
n | Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story * | 1989 | Brian Gibson | Hungary, UK, US, West Germany | (uncredited) | Simon Wiesenthal & Joseph Wechsberg | 1967 | Memoir | - | - | - |
- ♠ The film includes the trial of SS General Kurt Meyer for the murder of POWs.
- † Dramatized documentary.
- * TV movie.
- ** TV miniseries or limited series.
Fascists[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Captain Carey, U.S.A. | 1950 | Mitchell Leisen | US | Martha Albrand | 194? | Novel | - | - | - |
Pétainistes, Rexists, quislings[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Uranus | 1990 | Claude Berri | France | Uranus | Marcel Aymé | 1948 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | The Statement ♠ | 2003 | Norman Jewison | Canada, France, UK | The Statement | Brian Moore | 1995 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | Hannibal Rising | 2007 | Peter Webber | US | Hannibal Rising | Thomas Harris | 2006 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ The story concerns a former member of the Milice française.
Allied traitors[]
(See also Cocos Islands Mutiny)
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Pierrepoint | 1995 | Adrian Shergold | UK | Albert Pierrepoint | 1974 | Memoir | - | - | - |
Stalinist jurisprudence[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ♠ | 1970 | Caspar Wrede | UK & Norway | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn[121] | 1962 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ A returning Soviet soldier is sentenced to the Gulag for having been captured earlier by the Germans.
Memorial[]
Well-known scenes of this kind appear in Saving Private Ryan. There is a lesser-known scene in Days of Glory.
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium ♠ | 1969 | Mel Stuart | US | "If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium" | The New Yorker | 1965 | Cartoon | - | - | - |
2 | The General of the Dead Army | 1983 | Luciano Tovoli | Italy | The General of the Dead Army[4][6] Gjenerali i ushtrisë së vdekur |
Ismail Kadare | 1963 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | War Requiem | 1988 | Derek Jarman | UK | "Anthem for Doomed Youth" et al. | Wilfred Owen | 1917 | Poems | - | - | - |
4 | The Return of the Dead Army Kthimi i ushtrisë së vdekur |
1989 | Dhimitër Anagnosti | Albania | The General of the Dead Army (characters) | Ismail Kadare | 1963 | Novel | - | - | - |
5 | Souvenir | 1989 | Geoffrey Reeve | UK | Paul Wheeler | 198? | Novel | - | - | - | |
6 | Decoration Day * | 1990 | Robert Markowitz | US | John William Corrington | 198? | Novella | - | - | - | |
7 | Everything Is Illuminated | 2005 | Liev Schreiber | US | Everything Is Illuminated | Jonathan Safran Foer | 2002 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ American and German veterans and spouses visit the monument in Bastogne, Belgium.
- * TV movie.
Pacific and Burma Theatres[]
Pearl Harbor, Hong Kong, Thailand[]
7–8 December 1941
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | From Here to Eternity[122] | 1953 | Fred Zinnemann | US | From Here to Eternity[123] [6] | James Jones | 1951 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | Tora! Tora! Tora! | 1970 | Richard Fleischer | US & Japan | At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor[124]¤ | Gordon W. Prange | 1981 | Non-fiction (in manuscript) |
- | - | - |
2 | The Broken Seal | Ladislas Farago | 1967 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | ||||
3 | A Savage Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong † * | 1992 | Brian McKenna | Canada | The Valour and the Horror | Merilyn Simonds | 1991 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- † Dramatized documentary.
- * TV movie.
Frequently filmed: Sunset at Chaophraya[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|
Land operations – Pacific Campaigns[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Fighting Seabees | 1944 | Edward Ludwig | US | "" | Borden Chase | 194? | Story | - | - | - |
2 | Beachhead | 1954 | Stuart Heisler | US | I've Got Mine | Richard G. Hubler | 1946 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | Between Heaven and Hell | 1956 | Richard Fleischer | US | Francis Gwaltney | 1955 | Novel | - | - | - | |
4 | The Naked and the Dead | 1958 | Raoul Walsh | US | The Naked and the Dead[6][124] | Norman Mailer | 1948 | Novel | - | - | - |
5 | In Love and War | 1958 | Philip Dunne | US | The Big War | Anton Myrer | 1957 | Novel | - | - | - |
6 | Once an Eagle ♦ ** | 1976 | Richard Michaels & E.W. Swackhamer | US | Once an Eagle | Anton Myrer | 1968 | Novel | - | - | - |
7 | The Great Raid | 2005 | John Dahl | US & Australia | William Breuer | 1994 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | |
7 | Ghost Soldiers (uncredited)(unconfirmed) | Hampton Sides (uncredited)(unconfirmed) | 2001 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- ♦ The wide-ranging film covers World War I, the interwar years, the Sino-Japanese War, and World War II (Pacific theatre).
The novel also includes a fictionalized Vietnam War.[125] - ** TV miniseries.
Makin Island raid[]
August 1942
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | "Gung Ho!": The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders | 1943 | Ray Enright | US | "" | Lt. | 1942 | Article | - | - | - |
Battle of Guadalcanal[]
August 1942 – February 1943
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Guadalcanal Diary | 1943 | Lewis Seiler | US | Guadalcanal Diary | Richard Tregaskis | 1943 | Memoir | - | - | - |
2 | Pride of the Marines | 1945 | Delmer Daves | US | 194? | Non-fiction | - | - | - | ||
3 | The Thin Red Line | 1964 | Andrew Marton | US | The Thin Red Line [6][41] |
James Jones | 1962 | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | The Thin Red Line | 1998 | Terrence Malick | US | The Thin Red Line [6][41] |
James Jones | 1962 | Novel | - | - | - |
Battle of Saipan[]
June – July 1944
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Battle Cry | 1955 | Raoul Walsh | US | Battle Cry | Leon Uris | 1953 | Novel | - | - | - |
Battle of Peleliu[]
September – November 1944
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Pacific ** | 2010 | Tim Van Patten, Jeremy Podeswa, Graham Yost, et al. | US & Australia | With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa[41] | E.B. Sledge | 1981 | Memoir | - | - | - |
1 | Helmet for My Pillow | Robert Leckie | 1957 | Memoir | - | - | - | ||||
1 | China Marine | Eugene B. Sledge | 2002 (posthumous) | Memoir | - | - | - | ||||
1 | Chuck Tatum | 195? | Memoir | - | - | - |
- ** TV miniseries.
Battle of Iwo Jima[]
February – March 1945
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Flags of Our Fathers | 2006 | Clint Eastwood | US | Flags of Our Fathers | James Bradley | 2000 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
2 | Letters from Iwo Jima | 2006 | Clint Eastwood | US | Tadamichi Kuribayashi & | 1992 | Letters | - | - | - |
Land operations – Burma and Malaya Campaigns[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Burmese Harp | 1956 | Kon Ichikawa | Japan | The Burmese Harp | Takeyama Michio | 1946 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | The Burmese Harp | 1985 | Kon Ichikawa | Japan | The Burmese Harp | Takeyama Michio | 1946 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | Never So Few | 1959 | John Sturges | US | Never So Few | Tom T. Chamales | 1957 | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | The Long and the Short and the Tall | 1961 | Leslie Norman | UK | The Long and the Short and the Tall[126] | Willis Hall | 1958 | Play | - | - | - |
Air operations[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo | 1944 | Mervyn LeRoy | US | Ted W. Lawson & Robert Considine | 1943 | Memoir | - | - | - | |
2 | * | 1976 | Russ Mayberry | US | Gregory "Pappy" Boyington | 1958 | Memoir | - | - | - | |
3 | Baa Baa Black Sheep *** | 1976–1978 | Russ Mayberry, Dana Elcar, et al. | US | Gregory "Pappy" Boyington | 1958 | Memoir | - | - | - | |
4 | The Eternal Zero | 2013 | Takashi Yamazaki | Japan | The Eternal Zero | Naoki Hyakuta | 2006 | Novel | - | - |
- * TV movie.
- *** TV series.
[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | They Were Expendable | 1945 | John Ford | US | They Were Expendable | William L. White | 1942 | Non-fiction/Novel | - | - | - |
2 | Single-Handed | 1953 | Roy Boulting | UK | Brown on Resolution ♠ | "C. S. Forester" | 1929 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | The Caine Mutiny | 1954 | Edward Dmytryk | US | The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial[127] | Herman Wouk | 1953 | Play | - | - | - |
3 | The Caine Mutiny[128] | Herman Wouk | 1951 | Novel | - | - | - | ||||
4 | Away All Boats | 1956 | Joseph Pevney | US | Away All Boats | 1953 | Novel | - | - | - | |
5 | PT 109 | 1963 | Leslie H. Martinson | US | Robert J. Donovan | 1961 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | |
6 | In Harm's Way | 1965 | Otto Preminger | US | Harm's Way | James Bassett | 1962 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ Forester's novel was also filmed in 1935, set in the original World War I period.
Battle of the Coral Sea[]
4–8 May 1942
Battle of Midway[]
4–7 June 1942
• • • |
Goa harbour raid[]
9 March 1943
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Sea Wolves: The Last Charge of the Calcutta Light Horse | 1980 | Andrew V. McLaglen | UK, Switzerland, US | Boarding Party ♠ | James Leasor | 1978 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- ♠ This attack took place against ships in harbour in neutral Portuguese Goa.
Battle of Leyte Gulf[]
23–26 October 1944
↓↓ |
Sinking of the Yamato[]
7 April 1945
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Yamato 男たちの大和 |
2005 | Junya Sato | Japan | ? | Jun Henmi | 199? | Novel | - | - | - |
Frequently filmed: Mister Roberts[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Mister Roberts | 1955 | John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy, Joshua Logan (uncredited) |
US | Mister Roberts[129] | Thomas Heggen & Joshua Logan[130] |
1948 | Play | - | - | - |
1 | Mister Roberts | Thomas Heggen | 1946 | Novel | - | - | - |
Submarines[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Run Silent, Run Deep | 1958 | Robert Wise | US | Run Silent, Run Deep | Edward L. Beach | 1955 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | 201? | Zowie Bowie (Duncan Jones) | US | Alex Kershaw | 2008 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
Coast guard[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Roots: The Next Generations ** | 1979 | John Erman et al. |
US | Roots: The Saga of an American Family[131] | Alex Haley | 1976 | Autobiography | - | - | - |
- ** TV miniseries.
Atomic weapons programme[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Day One * | 1989 | Joseph Sargent | US | Peter Wyden | 198? | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Commando operations and Secret missions[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison | 1957 | John Huston | US | Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison | Charles Shaw | 1952 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | Up Periscope | 1959 | Gordon Douglas | US | Robb White | 1956 | Novel | - | - | - |
Resistance movements[]
Philippines[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | American Guerrilla in the Philippines | 1950 | Fritz Lang | US | An American Guerrilla in the Philippines | Iliff David Richardson with Ira Wolfert | 1945 | Memoir | - | - | - |
2 | Cry of Battle ♠ | 1963 | Irving Lerner | US | Benjamin Appel | 196? | Novel | - | - | - | |
3 | Once Before I Die | 1966 | John Derek | US | Lt. | 1945 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ One half of the double bill that Lee Harvey Oswald was watching when he was arrested in the assassination of President Kennedy.
Guam, Marianas[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | No Man Is an Island | 1962 | & John Monks Jr. | US | (uncredited) | ? (uncredited) | 1945 | Non-fiction (?) | - | - | - |
Dutch East Indies, Sarawak, North Borneo[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Farewell to the King | 1989 | John Milius | US | [132] | Pierre Schoendoerffer | 1969 | Novel | - | - | - |
Malaya[]
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Thailand[]
Frequently filmed: Sunset at Chaophraya[]
(See above) |
Military intelligence and Espionage[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Francis the Talking Mule ♠ | 1950 | Arthur Lubin | US | 1946[8]¤ | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ For another film about talking animals risking hoof and wing, see Valiant.[133]
Military bases[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Battle Cry | 1955 | Raoul Walsh | US | Battle Cry | Leon Uris | 1953 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | The Proud and Profane | 1956 | George Seaton | US | Lucy Herndon Crockett | 1954 | Novel | - | - | - | |
3 | Don't Go Near the Water | 1957 | Charles Walters | US | Don't Go Near the Water | William Brinkley | 1956 | Novel | - | - | - |
Military hospitals[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | So Proudly We Hail! | 1943 | Mark Sandrich | US | Lt. Juanita Redmond | 1943[8] | Memoir | - | - | - | |
2 | Cry 'Havoc' | 1943 | Richard Thorpe | US | 1942 | Play | - | - | - | ||
3 | The Story of Dr. Wassell | 1944 | Cecil B. DeMille | US | "?" | Commander Corydon M. Wassell | 194? | Story | - | - | - |
3 | James Hilton | 1944 | Novel | - | - | - | |||||
4 | Pride of the Marines | 1945 | Delmer Daves | US | 194? | Non-fiction | - | - | - | ||
5 | South Pacific | 1958 | Joshua Logan | US | South Pacific [134][135][136][137] |
Oscar Hammerstein II & Joshua Logan[138] (book, lyrics) |
1949 | Musical | - | - | - |
5 | Tales of the South Pacific[139] | James A. Michener | 1947 | Stories | - | - | - | ||||
6 | Captain Newman, M.D. | 1963 | David Miller | US | Leo Rosten | 1961[8] | Novel | - | - | - |
Military justice and Courts-martial[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Man in the Middle | 1963 | Guy Hamilton | UK | The Winston Affair | Howard Fast | 1959 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | Rebel ♠ | 1985 | Michael Jenkins | Australia | 198? | Play | - | - | - |
- ♠ A US Marine is AWOL in Australia.
Involuntary confinement[]
Allied POWs[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Bridge on the River Kwai[140] | 1957 | David Lean | UK & US | The Bridge over the River Kwai | Pierre Boulle | 1952 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | The Catch ♠ |
1961 | Nagisa Ōshima | Japan | Kenzaburō Ōe[141] | 196? | Novella | - | - | - | |
3 | King Rat | 1965 | Bryan Forbes | US | King Rat | James Clavell | 1962 | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence | 1983 | Nagisa Oshima | UK & Japan | The Seed and the Sower | Laurens van der Post | 1963 | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | Laurens van der Post | 1970 | Memoir | - | - | - | |||||
5 | Return from the River Kwai | 1989 | Andrew V. McLaglen | US | Return from the River Kwai (?) | Joan Blair & Clay Blair Jr. | 198? | Non-fiction ? | - | - | - |
6 | To End All Wars | 2001 | David L. Cunningham | US, Thailand, UK | Miracle on the River Kwai aka Through the Valley of the Kwai aka To End All Wars |
Ernest Gordon | 19?? | Memoir | - | - | - |
7 | 201? | Zowie Bowie (Duncan Jones) | US | Alex Kershaw | 2008 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- ♠ The film concerns a captured black serviceman and a Japanese village.
Convicts[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Man in the Middle | 1963 | Guy Hamilton | UK | The Winston Affair | Howard Fast[142] | 1959 | Novel | - | - | - |
Civilians[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Three Came Home | 1950 | Jean Negulesco | US | Three Came Home | Agnes Newton Keith | 1947 | Memoir | - | - | - |
2 | A Town Like Alice aka Rape of Malaya | 1950 | Jack Lee | UK | A Town Like Alice[6] | Nevil Shute | 1950 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | Empire of the Sun | 1987 | Steven Spielberg | US | Empire of the Sun[143] [6] | J. G. Ballard | 1984 | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | Paradise Road | 1997 | Bruce Beresford | Australia & US | Betty Jeffrey | 1969[144]¤ | Diary | - | - | - | |
5 | Seven Years in Tibet ♠ | 1997 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | US | Seven Years in Tibet | Heinrich Harrer | 1952 | Memoir | - | - | - |
6 | American Pastime ♦ | 2007 | Desmond Nakano | US | : 100 Years of Japanese American Baseball (uncredited) |
[145] (uncredited) | 2002 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
n | ** | 1981 | David Stevens | Australia | A Town Like Alice[6] | Nevil Shute | 1950 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ Austrians are interned in a British camp in India.
- ♦ Japanese-Americans are interned in a camp in Utah. The director's father, Lane Nakano, had a leading role in Go for Broke!.
- ** TV miniseries.
Other atrocities[]
For atrocities not classified elsewhere.
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Umi to dokuyaku ♠ | 1986 | Kei Kumai | Japan | The Sea and Poison[6]¤ | Shusaku Endo | 1958 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ The true story of Japanese surgeons performing lethal medical experiments on US POWs.
Refugees[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Longest Hundred Miles ♠ * | 1967 | Don Weis | US | "?" | 196? | Story | - | - | - |
- ♠ A priest, orphans, and US soldier flee the Japanese in an old bus.
- * TV movie.
Home front[]
Commonwealth[]
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Jewel in the Crown ♠ ** | 1984 | Jim O'Brien & Christopher Morahan |
UK | Raj Quartet | Paul Scott | 1966–1975 | Tetralogy | - | - | - |
Until They Sail | 1957 | Robert Wise | US | "Until They Sail" from Return to Paradise | James A. Michener | 1951 | Story | - | - | - |
- ♠ The story of Britons in India includes the pro-Japanese Indian National Army and the pro-Nazi Free India Legion.
- ** TV miniseries.
Bengal famine of 1943[]
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Distant Thunder | 1973 | Satyajit Ray | India | Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay | 1966 ? | Novel | - | - | - |
United States[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Anchors Aweigh | 1945 | George Sidney | US | "" (?) | Natalie Marcin | 193? | Story | - | - | - |
Zoot Suit Riots[]
June 1943
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zoot Suit | 1981 | Luis Valdez | US | Zoot Suit | Luis Valdez | 1979 | Play | - | - | - |
Pacific islands[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Return to Paradise | 1953 | Mark Robson | US | "Mr. Morgan" from Return to Paradise | James A. Michener | 1951 | Story | - | - | - |
Japan[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sandakan No. 8 ♠ aka Brothel 8 | 1974 | Kei Kumai | Japan | 1972 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | ||
1 | 197? | Non-fiction | - | - | - | ||||||
2 | Black Rain 黒い雨 |
1989 | Shohei Imamura | Japan | Black Rain[146] | Masuji Ibuse | 1965 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ An involuntary Japanese prostitute overseas in Borneo returns at outbreak of war to face ostracism at home.
Frequently filmed: Grave of the Fireflies[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Grave of the Fireflies 火垂るの墓 α |
1988 | Isao Takahata | Japan | Grave of the Fireflies | Akiyuki Nosaka | 1967 | Novel/Memoir | - | - | - |
2 | Grave of the Fireflies * α | 2005 | (Tōya Satō) |
Japan | Grave of the Fireflies | Akiyuki Nosaka | 1967 | Novel/Memoir | - | - | - |
3 | α | 2008 | Japan | Grave of the Fireflies | Akiyuki Nosaka | 1967 | Novel/Memoir | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
- α Animated film.
Demobilization[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Outsider ♠ | 1961 | Delbert Mann | US | "The Outsider" from |
William Bradford Huie | 1959 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
2 | Snow Falling on Cedars | 1999 | Scott Hicks | US | Snow Falling on Cedars[147] | David Guterson | 1994 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ The tragic story of Ira Hayes, also told in Flags of Our Fathers.
Occupation of Japan[]
See the List of films based on war books — peace.
Justice and retribution[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1953 | Masaki Kobayashi | Japan | ? | ? | 194? | Diaries ♠ | - | - | - |
- ♠ The film is based on the diaries of Japanese war criminals.[148]
Memorial[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1991 | US | Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes | Eleanor Coerr | 1977 | Children's book | - | - | - |
China Theatre[]
Land operations – China and Manchukuo Campaigns[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity |
1959 | Masaki Kobayashi | Japan | Ningen no jōken | Junpei Gomikawa[149] | 1956–1958? | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | The Mountain Road | 1960 | Daniel Mann | US | Theodore H. White | 1956 | Novel | - | - | - | |
3 | Assembly 2: The Cold Flame 集结号2-烽火 |
2008 | Feng Xiaogang (?) | China | (?) | Liu Heng (?) | 199? | Novel | - | - | - |
Air operations[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | God Is My Co-Pilot | 1945 | Robert Florey | US | Col. Robert Lee Scott, Jr. | 194? | Memoir | - | - | - |
Resistance movement[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Lust, Caution | 2007 | Ang Lee | China & Taiwan | "Lust, Caution" | Eileen Chang | 1979 | Novella | - | - | - |
Military bases[]
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Military hospitals[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Red Angel 赤い天使 Akai tenshi |
1966 | Yasuzo Masumura | Japan | 196? | Novel | - | - | - |
Involuntary confinement[]
POWs[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Human Condition I: No Greater Love |
1959 | Masaki Kobayashi | Japan | Ningen no jōken | Junpei Gomikawa[149] | 1956–1958? | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer |
1961 | Masaki Kobayashi | Japan | Ningen no jōken | Junpei Gomikawa[149] | 1956–1958? | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | Devils on the Doorstep | 2000 | Jiang Wen | China | Survival |
You Fengwei | 199? | Novella | - | - | - |
Other atrocities[]
(See also Unit 731)
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|
Refugees[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Mountain Road | 1960 | Daniel Mann | US | Theodore H. White | 1956 | Novel | - | - | - |
Occupation[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Farewell My Concubine 霸王别姬 |
1993 | Chen Kaige | China | Farewell My Concubine | Lilian Lee | 1993 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | Devils on the Doorstep | 2000 | Jiang Wen | China | Survival |
You Fengwei | 199? | Novella | - | - | - |
Home front[]
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Justice and Retribution[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Devils on the Doorstep | 2000 | Jiang Wen | China | Survival |
199? | Novella | - | - | - |
Histories never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country | Category |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | [41] | David M. Glantz | 1983/ 2003 |
Non-fiction | US | Manchukuo |
Unclassified[]
Of uncertain subject matter
Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Potem nastąpi cisza |
1965 | Janusz Morgenstern | Poland | Potem nastąpi cisza |
Zbigniew Safjan | 196? | Novel | |
1970 | Satsuo Yamamoto | Japan | (?) | Junpei Gomikawa[149] | 195? | Novel | ||
A Dance to the Music of Time | 1997 | Christopher Morahan & Alvin Rakoff | UK | A Dance to the Music of Time | Anthony Powell | 1951–1975 | Novels/ | |
Television miniseries |
What if ...[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2 | The Boys from Brazil | 1978 | Franklin J. Schaffner | US | The Boys from Brazil | Ira Levin | 1976 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | The Keep | 1983 | Michael Mann | US | The Keep | F. Paul Wilson | 1981 | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | The Philadelphia Experiment | 1984 | Stewart Raffill | US | Charles Berlitz & | 1979 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | |
5 | River of Death | 1989 | US | River of Death | Alistair MacLean | 1981 | Novel | - | - | - | |
7 | Fatherland * | 1994 | Christopher Menaul | US | Fatherland | Robert Harris | 1992 | Novel | - | - | - |
8 | Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean | 2005 | Shinji Higuchi & | Japan | Formal translation or transliteration required 終戦のローレライ |
2002 | Novel | - | - | - | |
9 | Ghostboat * | 2006 | UK | Ghostboat (?) | & |
199? | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Franco-Thai War[]
1940–1941
Ecuadorian–Peruvian War[]
1941–1942
For later conflicts, see the List of films based on war books — post-1945.
See also[]
- Lists of book-based war films
- List of Holocaust films
- List of United States military books
- List of war films
- List of World War II films
- War film
- War novel
- Assassinations in fiction
Notes[]
- Notes
- ^ Recipient of the Tony Award in 1960 and nominated for the Tony Award for Best Revival in 1998.
- Citations
- ^ The novel was published in Breslau, Lower Silesia; now Wrocław, Poland.
- ^ Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of the German National Library.
Source: Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Archived 2011-05-20 at the Wayback Machine. - ^ Recipient of the Prix Goncourt in 1933.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Listed in the 100 livres du siècle, from a poll organized by FNAC and Le Monde in 1999.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af
Recommended by Sebastian Faulks. Source: Faulks and Hensgen (q.v.). - ^ Source: Clarke (q.v.), p. 239.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of the US Library of Congress.
Source: Library of Congress Online Catalog. - ^ Jump up to: a b c d No publication details for this title are available at the US Library of Congress.
Source: Library of Congress Online Catalog. - ^ Jump up to: a b Buck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Journalist MacManus first learned the story of George Hogg on assignment in Beijing in 1984. He wrote a "lengthy newspaper article on [his] adventures" before becoming the film's screenwriter. His book-length account was published in 2008.
Source: Official site article on James MacManus (writer). - ^ Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953.
- ^ Miller's biography is now controversial due to allegations of falsification.
- ^ Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1972.
- ^ Recipient of the National Book Award in 1972.
- ^ Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1993.
- ^ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 2001.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 2003.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 2009.
- ^ Recipient of the Prix Goncourt in 1949.
- ^ Merle was awarded the Grand Prix Jean-Giono in 2003.
- ^ Designated an O. Henry Prize Story in 1941, but failed to receive an O. Henry Award.
- ^ Recipient of the WH Smith Literary Award in 2002.
- ^ Recipient of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2002.
- ^ Source: DVD commentary by Stephen Fry.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of Library and Archives Canada.
Source: Library Search. - ^ Recipient of the Governor General's Award in 1955.
- ^ Polish title, then Russian title. Both words mean "rainbow". The novel received the Stalin Prize in 1943.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Simonov was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1974, specifically for his poetry.
- ^ A cursory web search in Russian discloses no associations between a dramatist named Mikhail Ruderman (Михаил Рудерман) and a play entitled Pobyeda (Победа), meaning Victory.
Possibly this Ruderman is the same as Mikhail Isaakovich Ruderman,
Михаил Исаакович Рудерман (1905, Харьков – 1984), поэт и прозаик,
a poet and writer, born in Kharkov in 1905.
Source: [1] (in Russian) and [2] (in Russian) - ^ Recipient of the Prix du Meilleur livre étranger in 1962.
- ^ Grass was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999.
- ^ Bogomolov's novel in Russian is called either Момент истины (В августе 44-го) or В августе сорок четвёртого. English translations include In August of '44 and The Moment of Truth.
- ^ Recipient of the Prix des Deux Magots in 1968.
- ^ Recipient of the Stalin Prize in 1947.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965.
- ^ Brecht was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1954.
- ^ Jump up to: a b I 2008 kom filmen Max Manus ut, som vart basert på Max sine bøker Det vil helst gå godt og Det blir alvor.
Source: Norwegian Wikipedia (Nynorsk). - ^ Recipient of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1995.
- ^ Recipient of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1952 (Men at Arms).
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g
Recommended by John Keegan who, in a series of lectures, succinctly summarized the historiography of the Second World War.
Source: Keegan (q.v.), Ch. 2, 3, 4. - ^ Jump up to: a b Pyle was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1944.
- ^ Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1945.
- ^ Sgt. Mauldin was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1945 for Up Front With Mauldin.
The specific cartoon noted in the citation is entitled, 'Fresh, spirited American troops, flushed with victory, are bringing in thousands of hungry, ragged, battle-weary prisoners'.
The cartoon's title is taken from a newspaper headline. The image shows US soldiers with German prisoners, both looking equally exhausted. - ^ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 1998.
- ^ Posthumous publication
- ^ Recipient of the National Book Award in 1974.
- ^ The table includes the variant of the title which appears in the article on Bernhard Rogge. The title from the article on Wolfgang Frank is the similar, but not identical, variant Schiff 16. Die Kaperfahrt des Schweren Hilfskreuzers „Atlantis“ in den 7 Weltmeeren.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d O'Neill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.
- ^ Recipient of the Evening Standard Award for Best Play in 1998.
- ^ Recipient of the Palmarès du Molière for meilleure pièce de création (Best New Play) in 1999 (Copenhague).
- ^ Recipient of the Tony Award in 2000.
- ^ Recipient of the Drama Desk Award in 2000.
- ^ Recipient of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play in 2000.
- ^ Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1998.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Source: The Legátová Phenomenon, Transcript, the "European internet review of books and writing". Retrieved 2009-5-19.
- ^ Recipient of the National Book Award in 1980.
- ^ Source: IBDB. "Setting: A street in Warsaw. Spring of 1940 to the spring of 1943."
- ^ Recipient of a National Jewish Book Award in 1950. Source: "John Hersey".
- ^ Recipient of the Hillman Prize in 1950. Source: "Past Honorees".
- ^ Jump up to: a b Source: DVD commentary and documentary. Actors refer to their sources. Jon Voight mentions Stroop (calling it the Diary) and Moczarski. It is reasonable, and understandable, that books by, and about, a war criminal are not listed in the end credits along with books about survivors of the Uprising.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 1989.
- ^ From Bassani's collection , Five Ferrara Stories.
- ^ Recipient of the in 1968 per la miglior versione inglese di un testo italiano.
- ^ Source: Keegan (q.v.), pp. 112–113.
- ^ Traube is the author of a theatrical guide entitled So you want to to [sic] into the theatre? A "manual", published in 1936, as well as other works. Source: US Library of Congress.
- ^ Recipient of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play in 1941.
- ^ Nominated for the Edgar Award in 1965.
- ^ The film's introduction describes the transcripts as "as yet unpublished".
German Wikipedia provides more detail: Der Film orientiert sich an den Verhörprotokollen von Hans und Sophie Scholl sowie Christoph Probst, die in der DDR bis zur Wende in den Archiven der Stasi lagerten und erst seit 1990 von Historikern eingesehen werden konnten. - ^ Recipient of the Edgar Award in 1979.
- ^ Source: Manvell (q.v.), pp. 31–32.
- ^ Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1982.
- ^ Recipient of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play in 1982.
- ^ Recipient of the Tony Award in 1985.
- ^ Recipient of the Booker Prize in 1992.
- ^ Recipient of the Governor General's Award in 1992.
- ^ Recipient of the Trillium Award in 1992.
- ^ Recipient of the Governor General's Award in 1958.
- ^ Recipient of the Prix Goncourt in 1970.
- ^ Source: Colditz drama planned for ITV, BBC News, 31 March 2003. Retrieved 2009-9-23.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c The openings credits of the film read, no motywach powieści „Post Mortem” ANDRZEJA MULARCZYKA. This is translated as 'Based on Andrzej Mularczyk's novel "Post Mortem"'.
But, in the DVD interview and documentary, director Wajda discusses having spent a dozen years working on the script, which is inspired by the story of his own family, his father having been a victim of the Katyń Massacre. Wajda mentions collaborating with screenwriter Mularczyk and does not make reference to any novel. - ^ Recipient of the Spanish Premio Nacional de Literatura in 1962.
- ^ Source: article Кто он, майор Пугачёв? by Валерий Есипов (Valeri Yesipov), from Scepsis, the "magazine of science and social criticism". Retrieved 2009-9-6.
- ^ This Julius Fučík, the Czech journalist executed by the Gestapo, should not be confused with Julius Fučík, his uncle and the composer of "Entry of the Gladiators", the famous piece of circus music.
- ^ Nominated for the Tony Award in 1980.
- ^ Kertész was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002.
- ^ Nominated for the Carnegie Medal in 2007.
- ^ Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.
- ^ Recipient of the Viareggio Prize in 1962.
- ^ This surprisingly unhysterical hospital film plays like a 1970s medical TV movie.
- ^ Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1956.
- ^ Recipient of the Tony Award in 1956.
- ^ Recipient of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play in 1956.
- ^ Nominated for the Tony Award for Best Revival in 1998.
- ^ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 2004.
- ^ Recipient of the Booker Prize in 1982.
- ^ Recipient of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 1983.
- ^ Source: Matka Dzieci Holocaustu: Historia Ireny Sendlerowej (Polish Edition), Amazon.com.
- ^ Recipient of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play in 1944.
- ^ Recipient of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in 1992.
- ^ Recipient of the Prix Médicis étranger in 1992.
- ^ Miłosz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980.
- ^ Hamsun was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.
- ^ Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of the Open Library.
Source: Open Library. - ^ Petiot is the subject of the film Docteur Petiot with Michel Serrault.
- ^ Source: cine.gr. Retrieved 2009-9-4.
Greek language sources list a release date of 1949. The IMDb has 1950. - ^ Recipient of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1948.
- ^ Recipient of the Governor General's Award in 1947.
- ^ Recipient of the Prix Femina in 1947.
- ^ Roy was awarded the Lorne Pierce Medal in 1948.
- ^ Recipient of the Evening Standard Award for Best Play in 1980.
- ^ Source: IMDb review by "Vlad B.", 2007.
- ^ Source: Las batallas en el desierto; José Emilio Pacheco, section Otro resumen, from El Rincón del Vago, en Salamanca desde 1998. (in Spanish)
- ^ The novel's title Cuori negli abissi translates as Hearts in the Depths.
- ^ Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of the British Library.
Source: British Library Integrated Catalogue. - ^ The title means "Little Rooster", in the same way that Tit-Jean would mean "Johnny".
- ^ Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964, but declined to accept.
- ^ Recipient of the Edgar Award in 1966.
- ^ Nominated for the Tony Award in 1969.
- ^ Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970.
- ^ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 2002.
- ^ Recipient of the National Book Award in 1952.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Damned with faint praise by John Keegan who, in a series of lectures, succinctly summarized the historiography of the Second World War. Source: Keegan (q.v.), Ch. 3 (p. 65), Ch. 4 (p. 80).
- ^ Source: Once-An-Eagle.com Archived 2009-08-12 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2009-08-22.
- ^ Recipient of the Evening Standard Award for Best Play in 1959.
- ^ Nominated for the Tony Award for Best Revival in 1983.
- ^ Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1952.
- ^ Recipient of the Tony Award in 1948.
- ^ Heggen and Logan were awarded the Tony Award in 1948.
- ^ Haley covers his World War II career in Ch. 118 of Roots, p. 569 (upper half).
- ^ Recipient of the Prix Interallié in 1969.
- ^ Valiant is a little intense for younger children.
- ^ Recipient of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical in 1949.
- ^ Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1950.
- ^ Recipient of the Tony Award in 1950.
- ^ Recipient of the Tony Award for Best Revival in 2008.
- ^ Hammerstein and Logan were awarded the Tony Award in 1950.
- ^ Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1948.
- ^ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 1997.
- ^ Ōe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994.
- ^ Fast was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1953.
- ^ Recipient of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1984.
- ^ Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of the National Library of Australia.
Source: Catalogue Home. - ^ Nakagawa is credited as associate producer and actor, rather than author.
- ^ Recipient of the Noma Prize in 1966.
- ^ Recipient of the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1995.
- ^ Source: Manvell (q.v.), pp. 333–334. The film's script is by Kōbō Abe, Nobel-nominated author.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Gomikawa's given name is variously transliterated: Jumpei, Junpei, Junbei, Jyunpei, even Shunpei, perhaps erroneously.
The Criterion Collection DVD release of The Human Condition uses the spelling Junpei.
Bibliography[]
- Clarke, James. Virgin Film: War Films, Virgin Books, London, 2006.
- Deveny, Thomas G. Cain on Screen: Contemporary Spanish Cinema, The Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Md., 1999.
- Faulks, Sebastian and Jörg Hensgen. , Vintage, London, 1999.
- Keegan, John. The Battle for History: Re-fighting World War Two (Barbara Frum lecture series), Vintage Canada, Toronto, 1995.
Republished by Vintage Books, New York, 1996. - Manvell, Roger. Films and the Second World War, A.S. Barnes, Cranbury, N.J., 1974; Dell, New York, N.Y., 1976.
- Murphy, Sean. Letting the Side Down: British Traitors of the Second World War, Sutton Publishing, Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 2005.
- 100 Greatest War Movies, special issue of , Weider History Group, Leesburg, Va., 2007.
- War novels
- Lists of book-based war films
- Films based on military novels
- History of China on film
- Spanish Civil War films
- Second Sino-Japanese War films
- Nanjing Massacre films
- World War II films
- Lists of World War II films
- War drama films