List of book-based war films (1927–45 wars)


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 US For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway[5] 1940 Novel
Man's Hope (French: L'espoir) 1945 André Malraux & Boris Peskine Spain & 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 & Spain Homage to Catalonia[7] (unofficial) "George Orwell"
(unofficial) 		1938 Memoir
Bethune 1977 Eric Till Canada The Scalpel, the Sword: The Story of Dr. Norman Bethune Ted Allan 1952 Non-fiction
Bethune: The Making of a Hero 1990 Phillip Borsos Canada & China The Scalpel, the Sword: The Story of Dr. Norman Bethune Ted Allan 1952 Non-fiction
Talk of Angels 1998 Nick Hamm US Mary Lavelle Kate O'Brien 1936 Novel
Behold a Pale Horse 1964 Fred Zinnemann US 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 Trece rosas rojas (uncredited) Carlos Fonseca (uncredited) 200? Non-fiction
Frente de Madrid
Frente de Madrid 		1939 Edgar Neville Spain & Italy Frente de Madrid Edgar Neville 193? Novel
Carmen fra i rossi
Carmen fra i rossi 		1939 Edgar Neville Spain & Italy Frente de Madrid Edgar Neville 193? Novel
Butterfly
La lengua de las mariposas 		1999 José Luis Cuerda Spain "La lengua de las mariposas" (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 US The Death of Lorca
La represión nacionalista de Granada en 1936 y la muerte de Federico García Lorca 		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 US Disputed Passage Lloyd C. Douglas 1939[8] Novel
Behind the Rising Sun 1943 Edward Dmytryk US Behind the Rising Sun James R. Young 1941 Novel?
China 1943 John Farrow US Fourth Brother Archibald Forbes 18?[9]¤ Play
Dragon Seed 1944 Harold S. Bucquet & Jack Conway US Dragon Seed Pearl S. Buck[10] 1942 Novel
Red Sorghum 1987 Zhang Yimou China Red Sorghum & Sorghum Wine 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

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 Ocean Devil: The Life and Legend of George Hogg[11] (uncredited) James MacManus 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 & Dan Sturman US 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 Ocean Devil: The Life and Legend of George Hogg[11] (uncredited) James MacManus 2008 Non-fiction

Military hospitals

Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type
Dr. Bethune 1964 Gao Zheng & Li Shutian China Baiqiuen dai fu Zhou Erfu 196? Non-fiction
Bethune 1977 Eric Till Canada The Scalpel, the Sword: The Story of Dr. Norman Bethune Ted Allan 1952 Non-fiction
Bethune: The Making of a Hero 1990 Phillip Borsos Canada & China The Scalpel, the Sword: The Story of Dr. Norman Bethune 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 The Small Woman Alan Burgess 1957 Non-fiction?
Pavilion of Women 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 Karl Aloys Schenzinger 1932 Novel
The Mortal Storm 1940 Frank Borzage US The Mortal Storm Phyllis Bottome 1938 Novel
Education for Death 1943 Clyde Geronimi US Education for Death, the Making of the Nazi Gregor Ziemer 1941[8] Non-fiction
Hitler's Children 1943 Edward Dmytryk US Education for Death, the Making of the Nazi Gregor Ziemer 1941[8] Non-fiction
Hitler: The Last Ten Days 1973 Ennio De Concini Italy, UK The Last Days of the Chancellery Gerhardt Boldt 197? Non-fiction
The Bunker 1981 George Schaefer US The Bunker James P. O'Donnell 1978 Non-fiction
The Nightmare Years 1990 Anthony Page US The Nightmare Years William L. Shirer 1984 Memoir
Selling Hitler 1991 Alastair Reid UK Selling Hitler Robert Harris 1986 Non-fiction
Blood on the Sun 1945 Frank Lloyd US Tanaka Memorial Baron Tanaka Giichi (ascribed) 1927 Non-fiction
Japan's Longest Day 1967 Kihachi Okamoto Japan Nihon no ichiban nagai hi Soichi Oya 196? Novel
Allied Powers
Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type
Mission to Moscow 1943 Michael Curtiz US Mission to Moscow Joseph E. Davies 194? Memoir
The Gathering Storm 1974 Herbert Wise UK & US The Second World War, Volume 1, The Gathering Storm Winston Churchill[12] 1948 Memoir/
Non-fiction
Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking 1976 Daniel Petrie US Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman[13] Merle Miller 1974 Memoir/
Non-fiction
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years 1977 Daniel Petrie US 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 US 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 US Uncommon Danger 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 Report on a Fugitive (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 "The Lieutenant Died Last" Graham Greene 194? Story ---
2 To Hell and Back 1955 Jesse Hibbs US To Hell and Back Audie Murphy with David McClure (ghostwriter) 1949 Memoir ---
3 The Young Lions 1958 Edward Dmytryk US The Young Lions Irwin Shaw 1949 Novel ---
4 Kings Go Forth 1958 Delmer Daves US 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 & US 'Is Paris Burning?' —Adolf Hitler, August 25, 1944 Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre 1965 Non-fiction ---
7 The Bridge at Remagen 1969 John Guillermin US The Bridge at Remagen Ken Hechler 1957 Non-fiction ---
8 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Richard Attenborough UK & US A Bridge Too Far Cornelius Ryan 1974 Non-fiction ---
9 Band of Brothers ** 2001 Mikael Salomon, David Frankel,
et al.		 US & UK Band of Brothers, E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest Stephen Ambrose 1992 Non-fiction ---
Battle of the Bulge
# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 Attack! 1956 Robert Aldrich US Fragile Fox Norman Brooks 195?[9] Play ---
2 Castle Keep 1969 Sydney Pollack US Castle Keep William Eastlake 1965[8] Novel ---
3 Patton[18] 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner US Patton: Ordeal and Triumph Ladislas Farago 1963 Non-fiction ---
3 A Soldier's Story 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.		 US & UK Band of Brothers, E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest Stephen Ambrose 1992 Non-fiction ---

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 US Mrs. Miniver Jan Struther 1939 Novel (originally newspaper columns) ---
2 Dunkirk 1958 Leslie Norman UK The Story of Dunkirk Lt. Col. Ewan Butler & Major J.S. Bradford 1955 Non-fiction ---
2 The Big Pickup 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 ---
Dieppe Raid

19 August 1942

# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 Dieppe * 1993 John N. Smith Canada Unauthorized Action: Mountbatten and the Dieppe Raid Brian Loring Villa 1989[26]¤ Non-fiction ---
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 US The Sixth of June[27] Lionel Shapiro 1955 Novel ---
2 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki US The Longest Day Cornelius Ryan 1959 Non-fiction ---
3 The Americanization of Emily 1964 Arthur Hiller US The Americanization of Emily William Bradford Huie 1959 Novel ---
4 Ike ** 1979 Boris Sagal & Melville Shavelson US Past Forgetting:
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.		 US & UK Band of Brothers, E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest Stephen Ambrose 1992 Non-fiction ---

Land operations – Eastern Front

There appears to be no film about the Spanish Blue Division other than the 1942 documentary La división Azul española.
(There is one: Attack and Retreat.)

# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 Rainbow Радуга 1944 Mark Donskoy USSR Tęcza
Raduga[28] 		Wanda Wasilewska 1942 Novel ---
2 Days and Nights
Дни и ночи 		1945 Aleksandr Stolper USSR Dni i nochi[6] Konstantin Simonov[29] 194? Novel ---
3 Nashestviye
Нашествие		 1945 Abram Room & Oleg Zhakov USSR Nashestviye Leonid Leonov 1942 Play ---
4 Counter-Attack aka One Against Seven 1945 Zoltan Korda US Counterattack Janet Stevenson & Philip Stevenson 194? Play ---
4 Pobyeda[30]
Победа 		Mikhail Ruderman & Ilya Vershinin 194? Play ---
5 Ivan's Childhood
Иваново детство		 1962 Andrei Tarkovsky USSR "Ivan" "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 Retribution
Возмездие		 1967 Aleksandr Stolper USSR Vozmezdiye 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 Wheels of Terror Sven Hassel 1958 Novel ---
12 August of '44
В августе 44-го… 		2001 Mikhail Ptashuk USSR In August of '44[33] Vladimir Bogomolov 1973 Novel ---
13 Tertium non datur ♠ 2005 Lucian Pintilie France & Romania "Capul de zimbru" Vasile Voiculescu 1966 (posthumous) Story ---
14 Karol: A Man Who Became Pope ** 2005 Giacomo Battiato Poland, Italy, France, Germany, CanadaStories of Karol: The Unknown Life of Pope John Paul II Gian Franco Svidercoschi 2001 Non-fiction ---
15 Pope John Paul II ** 2005 John Kent Harrison Italy, US, Poland "Gods and Man" ♦
"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 The Forgotten Soldier 201? Paul Verhoeven ? The Forgotten Soldier[34]
Le Soldat oublié 		"Guy Sajer" 1967 Memoir ---
Battle of Stalingrad
# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 Four Soldiers from Stalingrad
Солдаты 		1956 Aleksandr Ivanov USSR Front-line Stalingrad[35]
В окопах Сталинграда 		Viktor Nekrasov 1946 Novel ---
2 The Hot Snow
Горячий снег 		1972 Gavril Yegiazarov USSR Goryachiy sneg 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 Svejk i anden verdenskrig * 1970 Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt Denmark Schweyk im Zweiten Weltkrieg Bertolt Brecht 1943/1957 Play ---
3 Schweik na Segunda Guerra Mundial
(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 The Winter War Antti Tuuri 198? Novel ---
2 Max Manus: Man of War 2008 Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg NorwayDet vil helst gå godt[38] (uncredited) Max Manus (uncredited) 1945 Memoir ---
2 Det blir alvor[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 Elämä isänmaalle Antti Tuuri 1998 Novel ---
3 Rukajärven linja Antti Tuuri 1992 Novel ---
3 Rukajärven aika Antti Tuuri 1991 Novel ---
3 Rukajärven tiellä Antti Tuuri 1990 Novel ---
Frequently filmed: The Dawns Here Are Quiet
# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 The Dawns Here Are Quiet
А зори здесь тихие * 		1970 Ivan Rassomakhin USSR "A zori zdes tikhie" Boris Vasilyev 1969 Story ---
2 The Dawns Here Are Quiet
А зори здесь тихие 		1972 Stanislav Rostotsky USSR "A zori zdes tikhie" Boris Vasilyev 1969 Story ---
3 The Dawns Here Are Quiet
А зори здесь тихие 		2005 Mao Vei-nin
(Мао Вэйнин)		 Russia & China "A zori zdes tikhie" Boris Vasilyev 1969 Story ---

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 Bill Anderson UK Sword of Honour
[40] [6] [41] 		Evelyn Waugh 1952–1961 Trilogy ---

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 Immortal Sergeant John Brophy 194? Novel ---
2 The Desert Fox 1951 Henry Hathaway US Rommel[41] Desmond Young 1950 Non-fiction ---
3 Ice-Cold in Alex 1958 J. Lee Thompson UK Ice Cold in Alex Christopher Landon 1957 Novel ---
4 How I Won the War 1967 Richard Lester UK How I Won the War Patrick Ryan 1963 Novel ---
5 Seven Against the Sun 1967 David Millin South Africa Seven Against the Sun James Ambrose Brown 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 ---
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 & Here Is Your War (uncredited) Ernie Pyle[42] 1944 & 1943[8] Non-fiction ---
2 Patton[18] 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner US Patton: Ordeal and Triumph Ladislas Farago 1963 Non-fiction ---
2 A Soldier's Story 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 A Walk in the Sun 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 & Here Is Your War (uncredited) Ernie Pyle[42] 1944 & 1943[8] Non-fiction ---
4 Up Front 1951 Alexander Hall US Up Front Bill Mauldin[44] 1945? Memoir/Cartoons ---
5 Anzio 1968 Duilio Coletti & Edward Dmytryk Italy Anzio Wynford Vaughan-Thomas 1961 Non-fiction ---
6 The Devil's Brigade 1968 Andrew V. McLaglen US The Devil's Brigade Robert H. Adleman & George Walton 1966 Non-fiction ---
7 Patton ♠[18] 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner US Patton: Ordeal and Triumph ♦ Ladislas Farago 1963 Non-fiction ---
7 A Soldier's Story 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 Miracle at St. Anna James McBride 2003 Novel ---

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 Povest o nastoyashchem cheloveke 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 The Narrow Margin Derek Wood & Derek Dempster 1961 Novel ---
Angels One Five 1952 George More O'Ferrall UK What Are Your Angels Now? Pelham Groom
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 Victory Through Air Power 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 "For Johnny" et al.
Flare Path (uncredited) 		John Pudney
Terence Rattigan (uncredited) 		1941
1942 		Poems
Play
Twelve O'Clock High[45] 1949 David Lean 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 Winged Defense (uncredited) Billy Mitchell (uncredited) 1925 Non-fiction ---
The War Lover 1962 Philip Leacock UK The War Lover John Hersey 1959 Novel ---
633 Squadron 1964 Walter Grauman UK & US 633 Squadron 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 Murphy's War Max Catto 1969 Novel ---
Twelve O'Clock High *** 1964–1967 Robert Douglas, Don Medford et al. US Twelve O'Clock High Sy Bartlett & Beirne Lay, Jr. ♦ 1948 Novel ---
Transports
# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 Island in the Sky 1953 William A. Wellman US Island in the Sky Ernest K. Gann 1944 Novel ---
Missiles
# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 Prüfstand VII 2002 Robert Bramkamp Germany Gravity's Rainbow[47] [6] (excerpts) Thomas Pynchon 1973 Novel ---

Naval operations

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 I Was A Prisoner on the Graf Spee (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 Processen mod Hamsun Thorkild Hansen 1978 Non-fiction ---
1 Regnbuen Marie Hamsun 1953 Autobiography ---
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 Bless our Ship: Mountbatten and the Kelly (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 Schiff 16. Tatsachenbericht. Die Kaperfahrten des schweren Hilfskreuzers „Atlantis“ auf den 7 Weltmeeren[48] Bernhard Rogge & Wolfgang Frank 1955 Memoir ---
4 Atlantis, The story of a German Surface Raider (uncredited) Ulrich Möhr & A.V. Sellwood (uncredited) 195? Non-fiction ---
5 The Valiant ♣ 1962 Roy Ward Baker UK & Italy L'Équipage au complet Robert Mallet 1958 Play ---
Submarines
Further information: Submarine films
# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 Above Us the Waves 1955 Ralph Thomas UK Above Us the Waves Charles Esme Thornton Warren & James D. Benson 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 L'Équipage au complet Robert Mallet 1958 Play ---
4 Mystery Submarine 1963 C.M. Pennington-Richards UK Mystery Submarine (?) Jon Manchip White 195?[9] Play ---
5 Das Boot 1981 Wolfgang Petersen West Germany Das Boot[6] Lothar-Günther Buchheim 1973 Novel ---
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 The Moon of the Caribees Eugene O'Neill[49] 1918 Play ---
1 In The Zone Eugene O'Neill[49] 1917 Play ---
1 Bound East for Cardiff Eugene O'Neill[49] 1914 Play ---
1 The Long Voyage Home Eugene O'Neill[49] 1917 Play ---
2 The Navy Comes Through ♠ 1942 A. Edward Sutherland US "Pay To Learn" 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
Men Without Country 		Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall 1942 Novel ---
5 Lifeboat 1944 Alfred Hitchcock US Lifeboat John Steinbeck[50] 1942 Novella (unpublished) ---
6 The Viking Watch of the Danish Seaman 1948 Bodil Ipsen & Lau Lauritzen Jr. Denmark ? Kaj Frische 194? Diary ---
7 Sealed Cargo 1951 Alfred L. Werker US The Gaunt Woman Edmund Gilligan 1943[8] Novel ---
8 Murphy's War 1971 Peter Yates UK Murphy's War Max Catto 1969 Novel ---

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 ---

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 The Dirty Dozen 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 Steve Gethers US & UK Jenny's War Jack Stoneley 195? Novel ---
A Man Called Intrepid ** 1979 Peter Carter Canada & UK A Man Called Intrepid William Stevenson 1976 Non-fiction ---
Brothers in Arms 2011 Marcel Langenegger US Brothers in Arms Richard Baron, Abe Baum, Richard Goldhurst 200? Non-fiction ---
Central Europe
# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 Hitler's Madman 1943 Douglas Sirk US Hangman's Village Bart Lytton 1943? Novel ---
1 "Lidice" Edna St. Vincent Millay 1943? Poem ---
2 Operation Daybreak 1975 Lewis Gilbert UK & CzechoslovakiaSeven 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 Call It Treason 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 Carve Her Name with Pride 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
--- 7 Inglourious Basterds 2009 Quentin Tarantino US -
Eastern Europe
# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 The Star
Звезда 		1949 Aleksandr Ivanov USSR "Zvezda"
"Звезда" 		Emmanuil Kazakevich 1947 Story ---
2 The Star
Звезда 		2002 Nikolai Lebedev Russia "Zvezda"
"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 CzechoslovakiaSmrť sa volá Engelchen Ladislav Mňačko 1959 Novel/Memoir ---
2 Želary 2003 Ondřej Trojan Czech Republic & SlovakiaJozova Hanule[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 PolandPokolenie Bohdan Czeszko 1951 Novel ---
3 Bołdyn
Bołdyn 		1981 Ewa Petelska & Czesław Petelski PolandBołdyn Jerzy Putrament 1969 Novel ---
4 Sophie's Choice 1982 Alan J. Pakula USSophie's Choice [58] [4] [6] William Styron 1979 Novel ---
5 The Wall * 1982 Robert Markowitz Poland & USThe Wall 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, HungaryFor 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 USA Surplus of Memory: Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Yitzhak Zuckerman ‡ 1976/1991 Memoir ---
8 Memoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto Fighter: The Past within Me Simha Rotem "Kazik" ♦ ‡ 1994 Memoir ---
8 Between Tumbling Walls Tuvia Borzykowski 1972 Memoir ---
8 The Jews of Warsaw, 1939–1943: Ghetto, Underground, Revolt
Yehude Varshah, 1939–1943: geto, mahteret, mered 		Israel Gutman ♦
ישראל גוטמן 		1977[8] Non-fiction ---
8 Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Israel Gutman ♦ 1994[8] Non-fiction ---
8 The Revolt of the Besieged: The Biography of Mordechai Anielewicz
Mered ha-netsurim 		Israel Gutman ♦ 1963[8] Non-fiction ---
8 In the Days of Destruction and Revolt Zivia Lubetkin ‡ 1981 Memoir ---
8 Shielding the Flame: 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, CanadaStories of Karol: The Unknown Life of Pope John Paul II Gian Franco Svidercoschi 2001 Non-fiction ---
10 Pope John Paul II ** 2005 John Kent Harrison Italy, US, Poland "Gods and Man"
"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 ---
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 Edge of Darkness William Woods 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 None But the Brave
Shetlands-Larsen 		Frithjof Sælen 1947 Non-fiction ---
5 Max Manus: Man of War 2008 Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg NorwayDet vil helst gå godt (uncredited) Max Manus (uncredited) 1945 Memoir ---
5 Det blir alvor (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 Cloak and Dagger Corey Ford & Alastair MacBain 1946 Non-fiction? ---
2 The Train 1964 John Frankenheimer US, France, ItalyLe Front de l'art Rose Valland 1961 Non-fiction ---
3 Army of Shadows 1969 Jean-Pierre Melville FranceL'Armée des ombres Joseph Kessel 1943 Novel/Memoir ---
4 The Train 1973 Pierre Granier-Deferre France & ItalyThe Train Georges Simenon 1961 Novel ---
5 L'Affiche Rouge 1976 Frank Cassenti France "Red Poster"
"Affiche rouge" 		Vichy Ministry
of Information 		1944 Propaganda poster ---
6 Boulevard des hirondelles 1993 Josée Yanne FranceIls partiront dans l'ivresse Lucie Aubrac 1984 Memoir ---
7 Lucie Aubrac 1997 Claude Berri FranceIls partiront dans l'ivresse 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
Бахрудин Ченгић 		Yugoslavia Silent Gunpowder
Глуви барут 		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 Heavy Sand ***
Тяжёлый песок 		2008 Anton Barshchevsky
Антон Барщевский		 Russia Heavy Sand Anatoly Rybakov 1979 Novel ---
Italy
# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 General della Rovere 1959 Roberto Rossellini ItalyIl 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, ItalyThe Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican J. P. Gallagher 1967 Non-fiction ---
4 Il partigiano Johnny 2000 Guido Chiesa ItalyIl 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 USTo 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" USGoose Step Shepard Traube[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 USWatch on the Rhine[68] Lillian Hellman 1941 Play ---
4 The Night of the Generals 1967 Anatole Litvak UK & FranceDie Nacht der Generale[69] Hans Hellmut Kirst 1962 Novel ---
5 Lili Marleen 1981 Rainer Werner Fassbinder West GermanyDer Himmel hat viele Farben Lale Andersen 1972 Memoir ---
6 Christabel ** 1988 Adrian Shergold UK The Past is Myself[41] Christabel Bielenberg 1968 Memoir ---
6 The Road Ahead (unconfirmed) Christabel Bielenberg 196? Memoir ---
7 Karol: A Man Who Became Pope ♦ ** 2005 Giacomo Battiato Poland, Italy, France, Germany, CanadaStories of Karol: The Unknown Life of Pope John Paul II 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] ---

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 ? Leon G. Turrou 193? Articles ---
2 Night Train to Munich 1940 Carol Reed UK Report on a Fugitive (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 Operation Cicero L.C. 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 The Easter Dinner Donald Downes 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 The Eddie Chapman Story Frank Owen 196? Non-fiction ---
10 Seventeen Moments of Spring **
Семнадцать мгновений весны 		1973 Tatyana Lioznova USSR The Himmler Ploy "Yulian Semyonov" 1968 Novel ---
11 Salon Kitty 1976 Tinto Brass Italy, West Germany, France Salon Kitty. Report einer geheimen Reichssache Peter Norden 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 ---
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 Connie Goes Home Edward Childs Carpenter 194? Play ---
1 "Sunny Goes Home" Fannie Kilbourne 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 The English Patient
[76] [77] [78] [6] 		Michael Ondaatje 1992 Novel ---
2 Something The Lord Made ♠ * 2004 Joseph Sargent US "Like Something the Lord Made" Katie McCabe 1989 Article ---
3 The Haunted Airman * 2006 Chris Durlacher UK The Haunting of Toby Jugg Dennis Wheatley 1948 Novel ---

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 Winged Defense (uncredited) Billy Mitchell (uncredited) 1925 Non-fiction ---
2 The Execution of Private Slovik * 1974 Lamont Johnson US The Execution of Private Slovik ♦ William Bradford Huie 1954 Non-fiction ---
3 Firing Squad * 1991 Michel Andrieu Canada & France Execution[79] Colin McDougall 1958 Novel ---

Involuntary confinement

Allied POWs
# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 The Wooden Horse 1950 Jack Lee UK The Wooden Horse Eric Williams 1949 Novel/Memoir ---
2 Stalag 17 1953 Billy Wilder US Stalag 17 Donald Bevan & Edmund Trzcinski 195? Play ---
3 The Password is Courage 1962 Andrew L. Stone UK Charles Coward: My Life is Yours John Castle 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 Von Ryan's Express 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 Hart's War John Katzenbach 1999 Novel ---
11 Colditz * 2005 Stuart Orme UK Colditz: The Definitive History[81] (uncredited) Henry Chancellor (uncredited) 200? Non-fiction ---
12 Katyń 2007 Andrzej Wajda Poland Post Mortem: The Story of Katyń[82] Andrzej Mularczyk 2007 Novel ---
13 The Way Back 2010 Peter Weir US The Long Walk:
The True Story of a Trek to Freedom 		Slavomir Rawicz with Ronald Downing (ghostwriter) 1956? Memoir (purported) ---
n The Cow and I
La Vache et le prisonnier 		1959 Henri Verneuil France & Italy Une histoire vraie Jacques Antoine 195? Novel ---
Frequently filmed: Colditz: The Colditz Story
# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 The Colditz Story 1955 Guy Hamilton UK Colditz: The Colditz Story P.R. Reid 1952 Memoir ---
2 The Birdmen * 1971 Philip Leacock US Colditz: The Colditz Story (uncredited) P.R. Reid (uncredited) 1952 Memoirs ---
2 Latter Days at Colditz (uncredited) P.R. Reid (uncredited) 1953 Memoirs ---
3 Colditz *** 1972–1974 Peter Cregeen, Viktors Ritelis, Michael Ferguson et al. UK Colditz: The Colditz Story (uncredited) P.R. Reid ♠ 1952 Memoir ---
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 ♠
Embajadores en el infierno 		1956 José María Forqué Spain Embajador en el infierno[83]
Embajador en el infierno. Memorias del Capitán Palacios (once años de cautiverio en Rusia) 		Torcuato Luca de Tena & Teodoro Palacios Cueto 1956? Novel/
Memoir 		---
2 The One That Got Away 1957 Roy Ward Baker UK The One That Got Away Kendal Burt & 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 		Josef M. Bauer 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 Hardy Martins Germany As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me
So weit die Füße tragen 		Josef M. Bauer 1955 Novel ---
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 Fuga sul Kenya
Fuga sul Kenya 		2009 Gabriele Iacovone 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 The Hill Ray Rigby & R.S. Allen 196? Play ---
2 Borstal Boy 2000 Peter Sheridan UK & Ireland Borstal Boy Brendan Behan 1958 Novel/
Memoir 		---
3 The Final Battle of Major Pugachov Последний бой майора Пугачёва 2005 Vladimir Fatyanov Russia "The Final Battle"
"Последний бой"[84]
from The Kolyma Tales 		Varlam Shalamov 1959/
1954–1973 		Story ---
n Punishment Battalion
Strafbataillon 999 		1960 Harald Philipp West Germany Strafbataillon 999 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 Sendung und Gewissen Hellmuth Unger 194? Novel ---
2 Naked Among Wolves 1959 Frank Beyer East Germany Nackt unter Wölfen Bruno Apitz 1958 Novel ---
3 Reportáž psaná na oprátce 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 Night and Hope
Noc a naděje 		Arnošt Lustig 1957 Novel ---
5 Playing for Time * 1980 Daniel Mann US Sursis pour l'orchestre 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 Escape from Sobibor Richard Rashke 19?? Non-fiction ---
8 Korczak 1990 Andrzej Wajda Poland King Matthew the First
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 Aimée & Jaguar. Eine Liebesgeschichte, Berlin 1943 Erica Fischer ♦ 1994 Non-fiction ---
11 Tea with Mussolini 1999 Franco Zeffirelli Italy & UK Autobiografia Franco Zeffirelli 199? Autobiography ---
12 The Grey Zone 2001 Tim Blake Nelson US Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account Miklós Nyiszli 19?? Memoir ---
13 The Ninth Day 2004 Volker Schlöndorff Germany, Luxembourg, Czech Republic Pfarrerblock 25487 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 Des Teufels Werkstatt: Im Fälscherkommando des KZ Sachsenhausen 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 ♦♦
Le procès de Shamgorod tel qu'il se déroula le 25 février 1649 (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 The Nazi 2002 Rod Lurie US The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness Simon Wiesenthal 1976 Memoir ---
n Pastor Hall 1940 Ray Boulting UK Pastor Hall Ernst Toller 1939 Play ---


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 ---
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, Charlie Grant, Maximilian Kolbe, Nicholas Winton

# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type Saviour
1 Wallenberg: A Hero's Story * 1985 Lamont Johnson US & YugoslaviaWallenberg: A Hero's Story Thurston B. Clarke 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 Surrender on Demand Varian Fry 1945 Memoir Varian Fry
5 Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man 2002 Alberto Negrin Italy La banalità del bene ♠ Enrico Deaglio 1993 Novel Giorgio Perlasca
6 The Pianist 2002 Roman Polanski France, Poland, Germany, United Kingdom The Pianist
Śmerć miasta 		Władysław Szpilman 1946 Memoir Wilm Hosenfeld
7 The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler * 2009 John Kent Harrison US The Mother of the Holocaust Children
Matka dzieci Holocaustu. Historia Ireny Sendlerowej 		Anna Mieszkowska 2004[99] Non-fiction Irena Sendler

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 Death in Rome Robert Katz 1967 Non-fiction ---
6 Strange Gardens ♦♦♦ 2003 Jean Becker France Effroyables jardins Michel Quint 2000 Novel ---

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 The Juggler Michael Blankfort 195? Novel ---
3 Me and the Colonel 1958 Peter Glenville US Jacobowsky and the Colonel[100]
Jacobowsky und der Oberst.
Komödie einer Tragödie in drei Akten 		Franz Werfel 1944 Play ---
4 Jacobowsky und der Oberst 1967 Rainer Wolffhardt West Germany Jacobowsky und der Oberst.
Komödie einer Tragödie in drei Akten 		Franz Werfel 1944 Play ---
5 Dita Saxová 1968 Antonín Moskalyk Czechoslovakia Dita Saxova
Dita Saxová 		Arnošt Lustig 1962 Novel ---
6 Voyage of the Damned 1976 Stuart Rosenberg US Voyage of the Damned Gordon Thomas & Max Morgan-Witts 1974 Non-fiction ---
7 The Boat Is Full
Das Boot ist voll 		1981 Markus Imhoof Switzerland, West Germany, Austria Das Boot ist voll. Die Flüchtlingspolitik der Schweiz 1933–1945 Alfred A. Häsler 1967 Non-fiction ---
8 The Truce 1997 Francesco Rosi Italy, France, Germany The Truce Primo Levi 1962 Memoir ---

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 "Past" 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 GermanyDer Bockerer Ulrich Becher & Peter Preses 1946 Play ---
4 Europa Europa 1990 Agnieszka Holland Germany, France, Poland Ich war Hitlerjunge Salomon Solomon Perel 1989 Memoir ---
5 Der Bockerer * 2009 Hannes Rossacher AustriaDer Bockerer Ulrich Becher & Peter Preses 1946 Play ---
6 The Nazi Officer's Wife 2011 Mike Figgis US (?) The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust Edith Hahn Beer with Susan Dworkin 1999 Memoir ---
Poland
# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 Unvanquished City
Robinson warszawski 		1950 Jerzy Zarzycki Poland The Pianist
Śmerć miasta (uncredited) 		Władysław Szpilman ♠ (uncredited) 1946 Memoir ---
2 The Pianist 2002 Roman Polanski France, Poland, Germany, United Kingdom The Pianist
Śmerć miasta 		Władysław Szpilman 1946 Memoir ---
3 Katyń 2007 Andrzej Wajda Poland Post Mortem: The Story of Katyń[82] Andrzej Mularczyk 2007 Novel ---
4 Wartime Lies 2011 ? US Wartime Lies
[101] [102] [6] 		Louis Begley 1991 Novel/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 Processen mod Hamsun Thorkild Hansen 1978 Non-fiction ---
1 Regnbuen Marie Hamsun 1953 Autobiography ---
France
# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 The Killing of Father Christmas
L'Assassinat du Père Noël 		1941 Christian-Jaque Occupied France L'Assassinat du Père Noël 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 Action ! Jean-Devaivre 2002 Memoir ---
n Eyes of Love
Les Yeux de l'amour 		1959 Denys de La Patellière France & Italy Une histoire vraie ♠ Jacques Antoine 195? Novel ---
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 Seven Thunders Rupert Croft-Cooke 1955[105] Novel ---
Oradour Massacre

10 June 1944

# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 Souvenir 1989 Geoffrey Reeve UK Souvenir Paul Wheeler 198? Novel ---
Balkans
# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 The Last Mission
Τελευταία αποστολή 		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 ---
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 Ferdinand Fairfax, Douglas Camfield, et al. UK Unexploded Bomb, a History of Bomb Disposal Major A. B. Hartley, MBE 1958 Memoir ---
n Mrs. Miniver * 1960 Marc Daniels US Mrs. Miniver Jan Struther 1939 Novel ---
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 Land Girls Angela Huth 19?? Novel ---
6 Nowhere in Africa 2001 Caroline Link Germany Nirgendwo in Afrika 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 Zosya
Зося		 1967 Mikhail Bogin USSR & Poland "Zosya" "Зося" Vladimir Bogomolov 1963 Story ---
3 Dzhamilya
Джамиля		 1969 Irina Poplavskaya USSR Jamilya Chingiz Aytmatov 1958 Novel ---
4 Twenty Days Without War ♠
Двадцать дней без войны		 1976 Aleksei German USSR "Dvadtsat dney bez voyny" (?) Konstantin Simonov[29] 196? Story ---
5 Jamila 1994 Monica Teuber Germany & Kyrgyzstan Jamilya Chingiz Aytmatov 1958 Novel ---
6 La dernière lettre 2002 Frederick Wiseman France & US Lettre au fils Alexis Berelowitch (translator) 199? Play ---
6 Life and Fate[6] (excerpt) Vasily Grossman 1959 Novel ---
7 Waltz with Bashir ♦ † α 2008 Ari Folman Israel Waltz with Bashir: A Lebanon War Story Ari Folman &
David Polonsky 		2009 Memoir/
Graphic novel 		---
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 ---
Legacy
# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 Mariana, Mariana 1987 Alberto Isaac Mexico Las batallas en el desierto ♠ José Emilio Pacheco 1981 Novel ---

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 The Brick Foxhole 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 "I was an Alien Spouse of Female Military Personnel..." Henri Rochard 1946? Story/Memoir ---
5 Path of Hope ♥
Il cammino della speranza		 1950 Pietro Germi Italy Cuori negli abissi[115] Nino de Maria 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 Up Front (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 Post Mortem: The Story of Katyń[82] Andrzej Mularczyk 2007 Novel ---

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 Les Séquestrés d'Altona 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 The Man in the Glass Booth & The Man in the Glass Booth[120] (uncredited) Robert Shaw (uncredited) 1967 Novel & Play ---
5 Marathon Man 1976 John Schlesinger US Marathon Man William Goldman 1974 Novel ---
6 The House on Garibaldi Street * 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 The Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign: A Study of Failure in High Command (uncredited) Lt. Col. John A. English (uncredited) 1991 Non-fiction ---
8 The Man Who Captured Eichmann 1996 William A. Graham US Eichmann in My Hands Peter Z. Malkin & Harry Stein 1990 Memoir ---
9 Mother Night 1996 Keith Gordon US Mother Night Kurt Vonnegut 1961 Novel ---
10 Nuremberg * 2000 Yves Simoneau Canada & US Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial 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 The Zoo Gang Paul Gallico 1971 Novel ---
n Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story * 1989 Brian Gibson Hungary, UK, US, West Germany The Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Memoirs (uncredited) Simon Wiesenthal & Joseph Wechsberg 1967 Memoir ---
Fascists
# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 Captain Carey, U.S.A. 1950 Mitchell Leisen US No Surrender 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 ---
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 Executioner: Pierrepoint 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 ---

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 Souvenir Paul Wheeler 198? Novel ---
6 Decoration Day * 1990 Robert Markowitz US Decoration Day John William Corrington 198? Novella ---
7 Everything Is Illuminated 2005 Liev Schreiber US Everything Is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer 2002 Novel ---

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 & JapanAt 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 ---
Frequently filmed: Sunset at Chaophraya

คู่กรรม

# 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 "Donovan's Army" 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 The Day the Century Ended 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 Great Raid on Cabanatuan: Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor William Breuer 1994 Non-fiction ---
7 Ghost Soldiers (uncredited)(unconfirmed) Hampton Sides (uncredited)(unconfirmed) 2001 Non-fiction ---
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 "We Mopped Up Makin Island" Lt. W.S. LeFrançois 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 Al Schmid, Marine Roger Butterfield 194? Non-fiction ---
3 The Thin Red Line 1964 Andrew Marton USThe 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 Red Blood, Black Sand Chuck Tatum 195? Memoir ---
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 Picture Letters from Commander in Chief Tadamichi Kuribayashi & Tsuyoko Yoshido 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 195? Novel ---
2 Never So Few 1959 John Sturges US Never So Few Tom T. Chamales 1957 Novel ---
3 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 USThirty Seconds Over Tokyo Ted W. Lawson & Robert Considine 1943 Memoir ---
2 Baa Baa Black Sheep * 1976 Russ Mayberry USBaa Baa Black Sheep Gregory "Pappy" Boyington 197? Memoir ---
3 Baa Baa Black Sheep *** 1976–1978 Russ Mayberry, Dana Elcar, et al. USBaa Baa Black Sheep Gregory "Pappy" Boyington 197? Memoir ---

Naval operations 

# 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 Kenneth M. Dodson 1953 Novel ---
5 PT 109 1963 Leslie H. Martinson US PT 109: John F. Kennedy in World War II Robert J. Donovan 1961 Non-fiction ---
6 In Harm's Way 1965 Otto Preminger US Harm's Way James Bassett 1962 Novel ---
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 ---
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 Escape from the Deep 201? Zowie Bowie (Duncan Jones) US Escape from the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew 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 ---

Atomic weapons programme 

# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 Day One * 1989 Joseph Sargent US Day One: Before Hiroshima and After Peter Wyden 198? Non-fiction ---

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 Up Periscope 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 Fortress in the Rice Benjamin Appel 196? Novel ---
3 Once Before I Die 1966 John Derek US Quit for the Next Lt. Anthony March 1945 Novel ---
Guam, Marianas
# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 No Man Is an Island 1962 Richard Goldstone & John Monks Jr. US Robinson Crusoe, USN. (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 L'Adieu au Roi[132] Pierre Schoendoerffer 1969 Novel ---
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 Francis David Stern 1946[8]¤ Novel ---

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 William Seaton US The Magnificent Bastards 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 I Served on Bataan Lt. Juanita Redmond 1943[8] Memoir ---
2 Cry 'Havoc' 1943 Richard Thorpe US Cry Havoc Allan Kenward 1942 Play ---
3 The Story of Dr. Wassell 1944 Cecil B. DeMille US "?" Commander Corydon M. Wassell 194? Story ---
3 The Story of Dr. Wassell James Hilton 1944 Novel ---
4 Pride of the Marines 1945 Delmer Daves US Al Schmid, Marine Roger Butterfield 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 Captain Newman, M.D. 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 No Names No Pack Drill Bob Herbert 198? Play ---

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 ♠
Shiiku 		1961 Nagisa Ōshima Japan The Catch 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 The Night of the New Moon 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 Escape from the Deep 201? Zowie Bowie (Duncan Jones) US Escape from the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew Alex Kershaw 2008 Non-fiction ---
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 White Coolies 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 Through a Diamond:
100 Years of Japanese American Baseball (uncredited) 		Kerry Yo Nakagawa[145] (uncredited) 2002 Non-fiction ---
n A Town Like Alice ** 1981 David Stevens Australia A Town Like Alice[6] Nevil Shute 1950 Novel ---

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 ---

Refugees 

# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 The Longest Hundred Miles ♠ * 1967 Don Weis US "?" Hennie Leon 196? Story ---

Home front 

Commonwealth 
# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 The Jewel in the Crown ♠ ** 1984 Jim O'Brien &
Christopher Morahan		 UK Raj Quartet Paul Scott 1966–1975 Tetralogy ---
2 Australia ♦ 2008 Baz Luhrmann Australia & US The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire[146] (uncredited) Edward Gibbon (uncredited) 1776–1789 Non-fiction ---
n Until They Sail 1957 Robert Wise US "Until They Sail" from Return to Paradise James A. Michener 1951 Story ---
Bengal famine of 1943
# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 Distant Thunder
অশনি সংকেত 		1973 Satyajit Ray India Ashani Sanket 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 "Anchors Aweigh" (?) 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 Sandakan Brothel No. 8: An Episode in the History of the Lower Class Tomoko Yamazaki 1972 Non-fiction ---
1 The Graves of Sandakan Tomoko Yamazaki 197? Non-fiction ---
2 Black Rain
黒い雨 		1989 Shohei Imamura Japan Black Rain[148] Masuji Ibuse 1965 Novel ---
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 Toya Sato
(Tōya Satō)		 Japan Grave of the Fireflies Akiyuki Nosaka 1967 Novel/Memoir ---
3 Grave of the Fireflies α 2008 Taro Hyugaji Japan Grave of the Fireflies Akiyuki Nosaka 1967 Novel/Memoir ---

Demobilization 

# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 The Outsider ♠ 1961 Delbert Mann US "The Outsider" from
Wolf Whistle and Other Stories 		William Bradford Huie 1959 Non-fiction ---
2 Snow Falling on Cedars 1999 Scott Hicks US Snow Falling on Cedars[149] David Guterson 1994 Novel ---

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 The Thick-Walled Room 1953 Masaki Kobayashi Japan ? ? 194? Diaries ♠ ---

Memorial 

# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes 1991 George Levenson 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[151] 1956–1958? Novel ---
2 The Mountain Road 1960 Daniel Mann US The Mountain Road Theodore H. White 1956 Novel ---
3 Assembly 2: The Cold Flame
集结号2-烽火 		2008 Feng Xiaogang (?) China Guan Si (?) 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 God Is My Co-Pilot 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 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 Akai tenshi Yoriyoshi Arima 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[151] 1956–1958? Novel ---
2 The Human Condition III:
A Soldier's Prayer 		1961 Masaki Kobayashi Japan Ningen no jōken Junpei Gomikawa[151] 1956–1958? Novel ---
3 Devils on the Doorstep 2000 Jiang Wen China Survival
Shengcun 		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 The Mountain Road 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
Shengcun 		You Fengwei 199? Novella ---

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
Shengcun 		You Fengwei 199? Novella ---

Histories never filmed

# Source
work 		Author Date Type Country Category
1 August Storm:
The Soviet 1945 Strategic Offensive in Manchuria[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
And All Will Be Quiet
Potem nastąpi cisza 		1965 Janusz Morgenstern Poland Potem nastąpi cisza
Zanim przemówią 		Zbigniew Safjan 196? Novel
Men and War
Senso to ningen: Unmei no jokyoku 		1970 Satsuo Yamamoto Japan Senso to ningen: Unmei no jokyoku (?) Junpei Gomikawa[151] 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/
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# 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 The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility Charles Berlitz & William L. Moore 1979 Non-fiction ---
5 River of Death 1989 Steve Carter 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 & Cellin Gluck Japan Formal translation or transliteration required
終戦のローレライ 		Harutoshi Fukui 2002 Novel ---
9 Ghostboat * 2006 Stuart Orme UK Ghostboat (?) George E. Simpson &
Neal R. Burger 		199? Novel ---

Franco-Thai War

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Ecuadorian–Peruvian War

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For later conflicts, see the List of films based on war books — post-1945.

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Notes

Notes
  1. ↑ Recipient of the Tony Award in 1960 and nominated for the Tony Award for Best Revival in 1998.
Citations
  1. ↑ The novel was published in Breslau, Lower Silesia; now Wrocław, Poland.
  2. ↑ Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of the German National Library.
    Source: Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek.
  3. ↑ Recipient of the Prix Goncourt in 1933.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Listed in the 100 livres du siècle, from a poll organized by FNAC and Le Monde in 1999.
  5. 1 2 Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32
    Recommended by Sebastian Faulks. Source: Faulks and Hensgen (q.v.).
  7. ↑ Source: Clarke (q.v.), p. 239.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of the US Library of Congress.
    Source: Library of Congress Online Catalog.
  9. 1 2 3 4 No publication details for this title are available at the US Library of Congress.
    Source: Library of Congress Online Catalog.
  10. 1 2 Buck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938.
  11. 1 2 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).
  12. ↑ Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953.
  13. ↑ Miller's biography is now controversial due to allegations of falsification.
  14. ↑ Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1972.
  15. ↑ Recipient of the National Book Award in 1972.
  16. ↑ Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1993.
  17. ↑ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 2001.
  18. 1 2 3 Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 2003.
  19. 1 2 3 4 Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 2009.
  20. ↑ Recipient of the Prix Goncourt in 1949.
  21. ↑ Merle was awarded the Grand Prix Jean-Giono in 2003.
  22. ↑ Designated an O. Henry Prize Story in 1941, but failed to receive an O. Henry Award.
  23. ↑ Recipient of the WH Smith Literary Award in 2002.
  24. ↑ Recipient of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2002.
  25. ↑ Source: DVD commentary by Stephen Fry.
  26. 1 2 Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of Library and Archives Canada.
    Source: Library Search.
  27. ↑ Recipient of the Governor General's Award in 1955.
  28. ↑ Polish title, then Russian title. Both words mean "rainbow". The novel received the Stalin Prize in 1943.
  29. 1 2 3 4 Simonov was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1974, specifically for his poetry.
  30. ↑ 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: (Russian) and (Russian)
  31. ↑ Recipient of the Prix du Meilleur livre étranger in 1962.
  32. ↑ Grass was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999.
  33. ↑ 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.
  34. ↑ Recipient of the Prix des Deux Magots in 1968.
  35. ↑ Recipient of the Stalin Prize in 1947.
  36. 1 2 Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965.
  37. ↑ Brecht was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1954.
  38. 1 2 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).
  39. ↑ Recipient of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1995.
  40. ↑ Recipient of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1952 (Men at Arms).
  41. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
    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.
  42. 1 2 Pyle was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1944.
  43. ↑ Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1945.
  44. ↑ 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.
  45. ↑ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 1998.
  46. ↑ Posthumous publication
  47. ↑ Recipient of the National Book Award in 1974.
  48. ↑ 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.
  49. 1 2 3 4 O'Neill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936.
  50. 1 2 Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.
  51. ↑ Recipient of the Evening Standard Award for Best Play in 1998.
  52. ↑ Recipient of the Palmarès du Molière for meilleure pièce de création (Best New Play) in 1999 (Copenhague).
  53. ↑ Recipient of the Tony Award in 2000.
  54. ↑ Recipient of the Drama Desk Award in 2000.
  55. ↑ Recipient of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play in 2000.
  56. ↑ Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1998.
  57. 1 2 Source: The Legátová Phenomenon, Transcript, the "European internet review of books and writing". Retrieved 2009-5-19.
  58. ↑ Recipient of the National Book Award in 1980.
  59. ↑ Source: IBDB. "Setting: A street in Warsaw. Spring of 1940 to the spring of 1943."
  60. ↑ Recipient of a National Jewish Book Award in 1950. Source: "John Hersey".
  61. ↑ Recipient of the Hillman Prize in 1950. Source: "Past Honorees".
  62. 1 2 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.
  63. 1 2 Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 1989.
  64. ↑ From Bassani's collection Cinque storie ferraresi, Five Ferrara Stories.
  65. ↑ Recipient of the Premio Florio in 1968 per la miglior versione inglese di un testo italiano.
  66. ↑ Source: Keegan (q.v.), pp. 112–113.
  67. ↑ 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.
  68. ↑ Recipient of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play in 1941.
  69. ↑ Nominated for the Edgar Award in 1965.
  70. ↑ 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.
  71. ↑ Recipient of the Edgar Award in 1979.
  72. ↑ Source: Manvell (q.v.), pp. 31–32.
  73. ↑ Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1982.
  74. ↑ Recipient of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play in 1982.
  75. ↑ Recipient of the Tony Award in 1985.
  76. ↑ Recipient of the Booker Prize in 1992.
  77. ↑ Recipient of the Governor General's Award in 1992.
  78. ↑ Recipient of the Trillium Award in 1992.
  79. ↑ Recipient of the Governor General's Award in 1958.
  80. ↑ Recipient of the Prix Goncourt in 1970.
  81. ↑ Source: Colditz drama planned for ITV, BBC News, 31 March 2003. Retrieved 2009-9-23.
  82. 1 2 3 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.
  83. ↑ Recipient of the Spanish Premio Nacional de Literatura in 1962.
  84. ↑ Source: article Кто он, майор Пугачёв? by Валерий Есипов (Valeri Yesipov), from Scepsis, the "magazine of science and social criticism". Retrieved 2009-9-6.
  85. ↑ 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.
  86. ↑ Nominated for the Tony Award in 1980.
  87. ↑ Kertész was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002.
  88. ↑ Nominated for the Carnegie Medal in 2007.
  89. ↑ Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.
  90. ↑ Recipient of the Viareggio Prize in 1962.
  91. ↑ This surprisingly unhysterical hospital film plays like a 1970s medical TV movie.
  92. ↑ Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1956.
  93. ↑ Recipient of the Tony Award in 1956.
  94. ↑ Recipient of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play in 1956.
  95. ↑ Nominated for the Tony Award for Best Revival in 1998.
  96. ↑ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 2004.
  97. ↑ Recipient of the Booker Prize in 1982.
  98. ↑ Recipient of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 1983.
  99. ↑ Source: Matka Dzieci Holocaustu: Historia Ireny Sendlerowej (Polish Edition), Amazon.com.
  100. ↑ Recipient of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play in 1944.
  101. ↑ Recipient of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in 1992.
  102. ↑ Recipient of the Prix Médicis étranger in 1992.
  103. ↑ Miłosz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980.
  104. ↑ Hamsun was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.
  105. ↑ Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of the Open Library.
    Source: Open Library.
  106. ↑ Petiot is the subject of the film Docteur Petiot with Michel Serrault.
  107. ↑ Source: cine.gr. Retrieved 2009-9-4.
    Greek language sources list a release date of 1949. The IMDb has 1950.
  108. ↑ Recipient of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1948.
  109. ↑ Recipient of the Governor General's Award in 1947.
  110. ↑ Recipient of the Prix Femina in 1947.
  111. ↑ Roy was awarded the Lorne Pierce Medal in 1948.
  112. ↑ Recipient of the Evening Standard Award for Best Play in 1980.
  113. ↑ Source: IMDb review by "Vlad B.", 2007.
  114. ↑ Source: Las batallas en el desierto; José Emilio Pacheco, section Otro resumen, from El Rincón del Vago, en Salamanca desde 1998. (Spanish)
  115. ↑ The novel's title Cuori negli abissi translates as Hearts in the Depths.
  116. ↑ Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of the British Library.
    Source: British Library Integrated Catalogue.
  117. ↑ The title means "Little Rooster", in the same way that Tit-Jean would mean "Johnny".
  118. ↑ Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964, but declined to accept.
  119. ↑ Recipient of the Edgar Award in 1966.
  120. ↑ Nominated for the Tony Award in 1969.
  121. ↑ Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970.
  122. ↑ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 2002.
  123. ↑ Recipient of the National Book Award in 1952.
  124. 1 2 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).
  125. ↑ Source: Once-An-Eagle.com Retrieved 2009-08-22.
  126. ↑ Recipient of the Evening Standard Award for Best Play in 1959.
  127. ↑ Nominated for the Tony Award for Best Revival in 1983.
  128. ↑ Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1952.
  129. ↑ Recipient of the Tony Award in 1948.
  130. ↑ Heggen and Logan were awarded the Tony Award in 1948.
  131. ↑ Haley covers his World War II career in Ch. 118 of Roots, p. 569 (upper half).
  132. ↑ Recipient of the Prix Interallié in 1969.
  133. ↑ Valiant is a little intense for younger children.
  134. ↑ Recipient of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical in 1949.
  135. ↑ Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1950.
  136. ↑ Recipient of the Tony Award in 1950.
  137. ↑ Recipient of the Tony Award for Best Revival in 2008.
  138. ↑ Hammerstein and Logan were awarded the Tony Award in 1950.
  139. ↑ Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1948.
  140. ↑ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 1997.
  141. ↑ Ōe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994.
  142. ↑ Fast was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1953.
  143. ↑ Recipient of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1984.
  144. ↑ Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of the National Library of Australia.
    Source: Catalogue Home.
  145. ↑ Nakagawa is credited as associate producer and actor, rather than author.
  146. ↑ Gibbon is mentioned by Jack Thompson's accountant character.
  147. ↑ Japanese troops killing by pistol rather than bayonet is not especially historical.
    See A Savage Christmas for the murder of bound POWs in Hong Kong by bayonet.
  148. ↑ Recipient of the Noma Prize in 1966.
  149. ↑ Recipient of the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1995.
  150. ↑ Source: Manvell (q.v.), pp. 333–334. The film's script is by Kōbō Abe, Nobel-nominated author.
  151. 1 2 3 4 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.

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