Sri Lankan Civil War in popular culture

With the Sri Lankan Civil War spanning nearly 30 years, (1983-2009), it has been portrayed in a wide range of ways in popular culture.

Literature[]

Biography[]

• Tamil Tigress, Niromi de Soyza, (2011)

Non fiction[]

• This Divided Island, Samanth Subramanian (2015)
• , Anita Pratap, (2003)
• The Tamil Genocide by Sri Lanka, Francis Boyle (2009)
• The Cage, (2011)
• Still Counting the Dead, Frances Harrison (2012)
• Gota’s War: The Crushing of Tamil Tiger Terrorism in Sri Lanka, C. A. Chandraprema, (2012)
• , (2012)
• , ,(2012)

Novels[]

• Tech War (Able Team), Dick Stivers (1985)
• Funny Boy, Shyam Selvadurai (1994)
• The Road from Elephant Pass, Nihal De Silva, (2003)
• , Nayomi Munaweera, (2012)
• , (2012)
• The Story of a Brief Marriage, Anuk Arudpragasam (2016)

Film & TV[]

• Unakkaga Piranthen (1992) - Balu Anand
• Purahanda Kaluwara (1997) - Prasanna Vithanage
• Saroja (2000) - Somaratne Dissanayake
• In the Name of Buddha (2002) - Rajesh Touchriver
• Kannathil Muthamittal (2002) - Mani Ratnam
• Ira Madiyama (2003) - Prasanna Vithanage
• Aanivaer (2006) - John Mahendran
• Kuttrapathirikai (2007) - R. K. Selvamani
• Prabhakaran (2008) -
• The Road from Elephant Pass (2008) - Chandran Rutnam
• Flying Fish (2011) - Sanjeewa Pushpakumara
• Matha (2011) - Boodee Keerthisena
• A Common Man (2013) - Chandran Rutnam
• Madras Cafe (2013) - John Abraham
• Ceylon (2013) - Santosh Sivan
• A Private War (2018) - Matthew Heineman

Documentaries[]

• Crayons and Paper - (2009) - Bruce David Janu
• Sri Lanka's Killing Fields - (2011) - Callum Macrae
• Lies Agreed Upon - (2011) - Ministry of Defence, Sri Lanka
• Sri Lanka's Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished - (2012) - Callum Macrae
• Ruthless - (2012) - Ministry of Defence, Sri Lanka
• No Fire Zone - (2013) - Callum Macrae
• Sri Lanka's Unfinished War - (2013) - BBC

Music[]

• , (2009) - Ranidu Lankage
• , (1997) -

Video games[]

PSP[]

• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Predator, (2010) - Ubisoft

PC/Android[]

• NERO: The Sniper, (2021) -

See also[]

• World War I in popular culture
• World War II in popular culture
• Culture during the Cold War

References[]