List of book-based war films (1898–1926 wars)
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This is a list of list of war films that are based on books. All wars in this list took place between 1898 and 1926.
Spanish–American War (1898)[edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stars and Stripes Forever | 1952 | Henry Koster | USA | Marching Along | John Philip Sousa | 19?? | Memoir |
| The Private History of a Campaign That Failed | 1981 | Peter H. Hunt | USA & West Germany |
"The Private History of a Campaign That Failed" | "Mark Twain" | 1885 | Story/Memoir |
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sampson-Schley Controversy | 1901 | Edwin S. Porter | USA | History of the Navy (uncredited) | E.S. Maclay (uncredited) | 1901? | Non-fiction |
| A Message to Garcia | 1916 | Richard Ridgely | USA | A Message to Garcia | Elbert Hubbard | 1899 | Essay |
| A Message to Garcia | 1936 | George Marshall | USA | A Message to Garcia | Elbert Hubbard | 1899 | Essay |
Philippine–American War (1899-1913)[edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Real Glory | 1939 | Henry Hathaway | USA | The Real Glory | Charles L. Clifford | 1937 | Novel |
Second Boer War (1899-1902)[edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Young Winston | 1972 | Richard Attenborough | UK | My Early Life: A Roving Commission | Winston Churchill | 1930 | Memoir |
| The Little Princess | 1939 | Walter Lang | USA | A Little Princess | Frances Hodgson Burnett | 1905 | Novel |
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)[edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Breath of the Gods | 1920 | Rollin S. Sturgeon | USA | The Breath of the Gods | Sidney McCall | 191? | Novel |
| Mount Hakkoda 八甲田山 |
1977 | Shiro Moritani | Japan | Death March on Mount Hakkōda 八甲田山死の彷徨 |
"Jirō Nitta" | 197? | Novel |
| Thunder in the East | 1934 | Nicolas Farkas & Viktor Tourjansky | France & UK | La Bataille | Claude Farrère[1] | 1909 | Novel |
Russian Revolution (1905-1907)[edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mother | 1926 | Vsevolod Pudovkin | USSR | The Mother (Мать) | Maxim Gorky | 1907 | Novel |
Mexican Revolution (1910-1920)[edit]
Italo-Turkish War (1911-1912)[edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Events Portrayed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lo squadrone bianco | 1936 | Augusto Genina | Fascist Italy | L'Escadron blanc | Joseph Peyré | 193? | Novel | Libyan resistance to Italian occupation |
Contestado War (1912-1916)[edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Guerra dos Pelados | 1970 | Sylvio Back | Brazil | Geração do Deserto | Guido Wilmar Sassi | 196? | Novel |
World War I (1914-1918)[edit]
Politics and Diplomacy[edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| My Four Years in Germany | 1918 | William Nigh | USA | My Four Years in Germany | James W. Gerard | 1917 | Non-fiction |
| Beware! aka Germany on Trial | 1919 | William Nigh | USA | "Beware!" | James W. Gerard | 1919? | Story |
| Paris 1919 : Un traité pour la paix | 2009 | Paul Cowan | Canada & France | Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War aka Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World | Margaret MacMillan | 2001 | Non-fiction |
| The Guns of August | 1964 | Nathan Kroll | USA | The Guns of August | Barbara Tuchman | 1962 | Non-fiction |
Regular Military Operations[edit]
Land operations[edit]
Western Front[edit]
Italian and Serbian Fronts[edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| My Life for Maria Isabella | 1935 | Erich Waschneck | Germany | The Standard | Alexander Lernet-Holenia | 1934 | Novel |
| Many Wars Ago | 1970 | Francesco Rosi | Italy & Yugoslavia | Un anno sull'altipiano | Emilio Lussu | 1938 | Novel |
| The Standard | 1977 | Ottokar Runze | West Germany, Austria, Spain | The Standard | Alexander Lernet-Holenia | 1934 | Novel |
| Captain Conan | 1996 | Bertrand Tavernier | France | Capitaine Conan | Roger Vercel | 1934 | Novel |
Dardanelles Front[edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tell England | 1931 | Anthony Asquith & Geoffrey Barkas | UK | Tell England: A Study In A Generation | Ernest Raymond | 1922 | Novel |
| The Lions of Gallipoli Çanakkale Aslanları |
1964 | Turgut Demirdağ & Nusret Eraslan | Turkey | Çanakkale Aslanları (?) | Fahri Celal Göktulga | 196? | Story |
| All the King's Men | 1999 | Julian Jarrold | UK & USA | All the King's Men: The Vanished Battalion | Nigel McCrery | 199? | Non-fiction |
Levantine and Mesopotamian Fronts[edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Drum | 1924 | Sinclair Hill | UK | "The Drum" | F. Britten Austin | 192? | Story |
| Lost Patrol | 1929 | Walter Summers | UK | Patrol | Philip MacDonald | 1927 | Novel |
| The Lost Patrol | 1934 | John Ford | USA | Patrol | Philip MacDonald | 1927 | Novel |
| The Last Outpost | 1935 | Charles Barton & Louis J. Gasnier | USA | "The Drum" | F. Britten Austin | 192? | Story |
| Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | UK | Seven Pillars of Wisdom[4] (uncredited) | T.E. Lawrence (uncredited) | 1922 | Memoir |
| A Dangerous Man | 1990 | Christopher Menaul | UK | Seven Pillars of Wisdom (uncredited) | T.E. Lawrence (uncredited) | 1922 | Memoir |
Air operations [edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Eagle and the Hawk | 1933 | Stuart Walker | USA | "Death in the Morning" | John Monk Saunders | 192? | Story |
| Lafayette Escadrille | 1958 | William A. Wellman | USA | Go, Get 'em! The True Adventures of an American Aviator of the Lafayette Flying Corps (uncredited) | William A. Wellman (uncredited) | 1918 | Memoir |
| The Blue Max | 1966 | John Guillermin | UK | The Blue Max | Jack D. Hunter | 1964 | Novel |
| Billy Bishop Goes to War | 1982 | ? | Canada & UK | Billy Bishop Goes to War | John Gray & Eric Peterson |
1978 | Musical |
[edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Man's Land | 1918 | Will S. Davis | USA | No Man's Land | Louis Joseph Vance | 1910 | Novel |
| Hell Below | 1933 | Jack Conway | USA | Pigboats | Edward Ellsberg | 1931 | Novel |
| Brown on Resolution | 1935 | Walter Forde | UK | Brown on Resolution | C. S. Forester | 1929 | Novel |
| The Spy in Black | 1939 | Michael Powell | UK | The Spy in Black | J. Storer Clouston | 1917 | Novel |
| The African Queen | 1952 | John Huston | UK & USA | The African Queen | C.S. Forester | 1935 | Novel |
| Shout at the Devil | 1976 | Peter R. Hunt | UK | Shout at the Devil | Wilbur Smith | 1968 | Novel |
| Moonzund | 1987 | Aleksandr Muratov | USSR | Moonzund | Valentin Pikul | 1975 | Novel |
Military intelligence and Espionage [edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Case of Colonel Redl | 1931 | Karl Anton | Germany & Czechoslovakia | Der Fall des Generalstabschefs Redl | Egon Erwin Kisch | 1924 | Non-fiction |
| Secret Agent | 1936 | Alfred Hitchcock | UK | Ashenden; or, The British Agent | W. Somerset Maugham | 1928 | Stories |
| Secret Document: Vienna Fusillé à l'aube |
1950 | André Haguet | France | Fusillé à l'aube | "Maurice Dekobra" | 1931 | Novel |
| Ashenden | 1991 | Christopher Morahan | UK | Ashenden; or, The British Agent | W. Somerset Maugham | 1928 | Stories |
| The Thirty Nine Steps | 1978 | Don Sharp | UK | The Thirty-Nine Steps | John Buchan | 1915 | Novel |
| The 39 Steps | 2008 | James Hawes | UK | The Thirty-Nine Steps | John Buchan | 1915 | Novel |
Military hospitals [edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Farewell to Arms | 1932 | Frank Borzage | USA | A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway | 1929 | Novel[2] |
| A Farewell to Arms | 1957 | Charles Vidor | USA | A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway | 1929 | Novel[2] |
| Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man | 1962 | Martin Ritt | USA | Nick Adams stories | Ernest Hemingway | 1920s | Stories |
| Johnny Got His Gun | 1971 | Dalton Trumbo | USA | Johnny Got His Gun | Dalton Trumbo | 1939 | Novel |
| Testament of Youth | 1979 | ? | UK | Testament of Youth | Vera Brittain | 1933 | Memoir |
| The Return of the Soldier | 1982 | Alan Bridges | UK | The Return of the Soldier | Rebecca West | 1918 | Novel |
| In Love and War | 1996 | Richard Attenborough | USA | Hemingway in Love and War: the Lost Diary of Agnes von Kurowsky, Her Letters and Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway | Henry S. Villard & James Nagel (editors) | 1989[5] | Diary |
| Regeneration | 1997 | Gillies MacKinnon | UK & Canada | Regeneration | Pat Barker | 1991 | Novel |
| The Officers' Ward | 2001 | François Dupeyron | France | The Officers' Ward | Marc Dugain | 1998 | Novel |
Military justice and Courts-martial [edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paths of Glory | 1957 | Stanley Kubrick | UK & USA | Paths of Glory | Humphrey Cobb | 1935 | Novel |
| King & Country | 1964 | Joseph Losey | UK | Return to the Wood (uncredited) & Hamp | J.L. Hodson & John Wilson | 196? & 196? | Novel & Play |
| The Wars | 1983 | Robin Phillips | Canada | The Wars | Timothy Findley | 1977 | Novel |
| Le Pantalon | 1997 | Yves Boisset | France | Le Pantalon | Alain Scoff | 1982 | Non-fiction |
| A Very Long Engagement | 2004 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | France & USA | Un long dimanche de fiançailles | "Sébastien Japrisot" | 1991 | Novel |
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Case of Sergeant Grischa | 1930 | Herbert Brenon | USA | The Case of Sergeant Grischa[2] & Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa | Arnold Zweig | 1927 | Novel |
| Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa | 1968 | Helmut Schiemann | East Germany | The Case of Sergeant Grischa Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa |
Arnold Zweig | 1927 | Novel |
| Die Frau und der Fremde | 1985 | Rainer Simon | East Germany | Karl und Anna | Leonhard Frank | 1927 | Novella |
Atrocities[edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ravished Armenia aka Armenia Crucified | 1919 | Oscar Apfel | USA | Ravished Armenia; the Story of Aurora Mardiganian ... | Aurora Mardiganian & Henry Leyford Gates | 1918? | Non-fiction |
| Life Triumphs | 1977 | Henrik Malyan | USSR (Armenian SSR) |
? from Spitak Girquh | Hrachya Kochar | 1965 | Novel |
| 40 Days of Musa Dagh | 1982 | Sarky Mouradian | USA | Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh | Franz Werfel | 1933 | Novel |
| Ararat | 2002 | Atom Egoyan | Canada | An American Physician in Turkey: A Narrative of Adventures in Peace and War | Clarence Douglas Ussher | 1917 | Non-fiction |
| Waiting for the Clouds | 2004 | Yeşim Ustaoğlu | Germany, Greece, Turkey,[6] France, Japan | Tamama: The Missing Girl of Pontos Ταμάμα |
George Andreadis Γιώργος Ανδρεάδης | 1993 | Novel |
Demobilization[edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bolshevism on Trial | 1919 | Harley Knoles | USA | Comrades | Rev. Thomas F. Dixon Jr. | 1909 | Novel |
| The Road Back | 1937 | James Whale | USA | The Road Back | Erich Maria Remarque | 1931 | Novel |
| Three Comrades | 1938 | Frank Borzage | USA | Three Comrades | Erich Maria Remarque | 1937 | Novel |
| The Razor's Edge | 1984 | John Byrum | USA | The Razor's Edge | W. Somerset Maugham | 1944 | Novel |
| The Garden of Eden | 2008 | John Irvin | UK | The Garden of Eden | Ernest Hemingway | 1986 | Novel |
| The Mating Call | 1928 | James Cruze | USA | The Mating Call (?) | Rex Beach | 192? | Novel |
Resistance movements [edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le héros de la Marne La Famille Lefrançois |
1938 | André Hugon | France | La Famille Lefrançois (?) | Paul Achard | 193? | Novel |
| Guerrilla Brigade Всадники |
1939 | Igor Savchenko Игорь Савченко |
USSR | Vsadniki | Yuri Yanovsky | 193? | Novel |
Home front [edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain of Diamonds | 1991 | Jeannot Szwarc | Italy, France, Germany | The Burning Shore | Wilbur Smith | 1985 | Novel |
| Carrington | 1995 | Christopher Hampton | UK & France | Lytton Strachey: The New Biography | Michael Holroyd | 1994 | Biography |
| A Little Princess | 1995 | Alfonso Cuarón | USA | A Little Princess | Frances Hodgson Burnett | 1905 | Novel |
| Two Soldiers | 2003 | Aaron Schneider | USA | "Two Soldiers" | William Faulkner | 1942 | Story |
Refugees[edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Life Triumphs | 1977 | Henrik Malyan | USSR (Armenian SSR) |
? from Spitak Girquh | Hrachya Kochar | 1965 | Novel |
| Austeria | 1983 | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Poland | Austeria | Julian Stryjkowski | 1966 | Novel |
| Mayrig | 1991 | Henri Verneuil | France | Mayrig | Henri Verneuil | 198? | Novel |
Neutral powers[edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Füsilier Wipf. Aus der schweizerischen Grenzbesetzung 1914/1918 | 1938 | Leopold Lindtberg & Hermann Haller | Switzerland | Füsilier Wipf. Eine Geschichte aus dem schweizerischen Grenzdienst | Robert Faesi | 1917 | Novel |
Yaqui-Mexican War (1916-1927)[7][edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 Rifles | 1969 | Tom Gries | USA | 100 Rifles | Robert MacLeod | 196? | Novel |
Russian Revolution (1917)[edit]
Russian Civil War (1917-1921)[edit]
Operations[edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Forty-First Сорок первый |
1927 | Yakov Protazanov | USSR | The Forty-First | Boris Lavrenyov | 1924 | Novel |
| The Forty-First Сорок первый |
1956 | Grigori Chukhrai | USSR | The Forty-First | Boris Lavrenyov | 1924 | Novel |
Finnish Civil War (1918)[edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nuorena nukkunut | 1937 | Teuvo Tulio | Finland | The Maid Silja | Frans Eemil Sillanpää | 1931 | Novel |
| Silja – nuorena nukkunut Silja – nuorena nukkunut |
1956 | Jack Witikka | Finland | The Maid Silja | Frans Eemil Sillanpää | 1931 | Novel |
| Here, Beneath the North Star | 1968 | Edvin Laine | Finland | Under the North Star | Väinö Linna | 1959–1962 | Novel trilogy |
Latvian War of Independence (1918-1920)[edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coup de Grâce Der Fangschuß |
1976 | Volker Schlöndorff | France & West Germany |
Coup de Grâce | Marguerite Yourcenar | 1939 | Novel |
Irish War of Independence (1919-1921)[edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Informer | 1929 | Arthur Robison | UK | The Informer | Liam O'Flaherty | 1925 | Novel |
| The Informer | 1935 | John Ford | USA | The Informer | Liam O'Flaherty | 1925 | Novel |
| Shake Hands with the Devil | 1959 | Michael Anderson | Ireland & USA | Shake Hands with the Devil | Rearden Conner | 19?? | Novel |
| The Dawning | 1988 | Robert Knights | UK | The Old Jest | Jennifer Johnston | 1979 | Novel |
| Troubles | 1988 | Christopher Morahan | UK | Troubles | J.G. Farrell | 1970 | Novel |
Irish Civil War (1922-1923)[edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Last September | 1999 | Deborah Warner | UK | The Last September | Elizabeth Bowen | 1929 | Novel |
Turkish War of Independence (1919-1923)[edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Küçük Ağa | 1983 | Yücel Çakmaklı | Turkey | Küçük Ağa | Tarık Buğra | 1963 | Novel |
Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)[edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922 | 1978 | Nikos Koundouros | Greece | To noumero 31328 Το νούμερο 31328 |
Ilias Venezis | 1931 | Novel |
| Strike the Whore Vurun Kahpeye |
1949 | Lütfi Akad | Turkey | Kill the Whore Vurun Kahpeye |
Halide Edip Adıvar | 1926 | Novel |
| Vurun Kahpeye | 1964 | Orhan Aksoy | Turkey | Kill the Whore Vurun Kahpeye |
Halide Edip Adıvar | 1926 | Novel |
| Vurun Kahpeye | 1973 | Halit Refiğ | Turkey | Kill the Whore Vurun Kahpeye |
Halide Edip Adıvar | 1926 | Novel |
Rif War (1920-1926)[edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Bandera | 1935 | Julien Duvivier | France | La Bandera | "Pierre Mac Orlan" | 1931 | Novel |
| Renegades | 1930 | Victor Fleming | USA | Le Renégat | André Armandy | 192? | Novel |
Cristero War (1926-1929)[edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Fugitive | 1947 | John Ford | USA | The Power and the Glory | Graham Greene | 1940 | Novel |
| The Power and the Glory | 1961 | Marc Daniels | USA | The Power and the Glory | Graham Greene | 1940 | Novel |
| No One Writes to the Colonel[8] | 1999 | Arturo Ripstein | Mexico | No One Writes to the Colonel | Gabriel García Márquez | 1961 | Novella |
See also[edit]
- Lists of book-based war films
- War film
- War novel
- List of war films
- Fiction based on World War I
- Literature of World War I
- List of United States military books
- Assassinations in fiction
References[edit]
Unless otherwise stated, the source for film information is the IMDb.
Notes[edit]
- ↑ Farrère interceded in the assassination of French President Doumer by a Russian exile in May 1932, and was twice wounded.
French Wikipédia: « Le 6 mai 1932, s'interposant entre le président Doumer et son assassin Paul Gorgulov, il est blessé de deux balles dans le bras. » - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Faulks, Sebastian and Jörg Hensgen. The Vintage Book of War Stories, Vintage, London, 1999.
- ↑ The French title Debout les morts! could be translated roughly as Get Up, Dead Guys! or perhaps as The dead! Arise!
- ↑ Recommended by John Keegan. Source: Keegan (q.v.).:71
- ↑ Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of the US Library of Congress.
Source: Library of Congress Online Catalog. - ↑ Source: DVD opening credits, for the list of originating sovereign states.
- ↑ Source: A Short History of the Yaqui Indians Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine, Edith te Wechel, and Yaqui: A Short History Archived 2012-01-06 at the Wayback Machine, Edith te Wechel.
- ↑ The novel does not take place precisely during the Cristero War, but during a later anti-Catholic period of the Maximato.
Bibliography[edit]
- Clarke, James. Virgin Film: War Films, Virgin Books, London, 2006.
- Faulks, Sebastian and Jörg Hensgen. The Vintage Book of War Stories, Vintage, London, 1999.
- Keegan, John. The Battle for History: Re-fighting World War Two (Barbara Frum lecture series), Vintage Canada, Toronto, 1995.
Republished by Vintage Books, New York, 1996. - 100 Greatest War Movies, special issue of Military History Magazine, Weider History Group, Leesburg, Virginia, 2007.
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