List of films based on military books (fantasy)
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A list of films that are based on war books. If a book has been turned into both a film and a TV series (or TV film), then the TV series is included.
This is a fictional history page. The films and books are real. The history is not.
For other conflicts, see the List of films based on war books — future.
Hyborian Age[edit]
Campaigns of Thulsa Doom[edit]
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conan the Barbarian | 1982 | John Milius | US | Conan the Barbarian | Robert E. Howard | 1954 | Stories |
War of the Ring[edit]
T.A. 3018–3019
Skirmish on Weathertop[edit]
T.A. 3018?
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings | 1978 | Ralph Bakshi | US | The Fellowship of the Ring[1] | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1954 | Novel |
| 1 | The Two Towers[1] | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1954 | Novel |
Battle of Helm's Deep[edit]
3–4 March, T.A. 3019
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings | 1978 | Ralph Bakshi | US | The Fellowship of the Ring[1] | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1954 | Novel |
| 1 | The Two Towers[1] | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1954 | Novel |
Battle of Pelennor Fields[edit]
15 March, T.A. 3019
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Return of the King | 1980 | Arthur Rankin Jr. & Jules Bass |
US | The Return of the King[1] | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1954 | Novel |
Campaigns of Arthur[edit]
Twice filmed: The Once and Future King[edit]
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Sword in the Stone | 1963 | Wolfgang Reitherman | US | The Sword in the Stone from The Once and Future King |
T. H. White | 1938/ 1958 |
Novel |
| 2 | Camelot | 1967 | Joshua Logan | US | Camelot | Alan Jay Lerner | 1960 | Musical |
| 2 | The Ill-Made Knight from The Once and Future King |
T. H. White | 1940/ 1958 |
Novel | ||||
| 2 | The Candle in the Wind from The Once and Future King |
T. H. White | 1958 | Novel |
Campaigns of Ilya Muromets[edit]
980–1453 (against enemies including the Polovtsi and the Golden Horde)
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ilya Muromets Илья Муромец |
1956 | Aleksandr Ptushko | USSR | Bogatyr cycle | Epic poet | ? | Bylina |
| 2 | Ilya Muromets and Nightingale the Robber Илья Муромец и Соловей-Разбойник |
2007 | Vladimir Toropchin | USSR | Bogatyr cycle | Epic poet | ? | Bylina |
Lilliput–Blefuscu War[edit]
1699–1702
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le Voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les géants | 1902 | Georges Méliès | France | Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships | Jonathan Swift | 1726/1735 | Novel |
| 2 | Gulliver's Travels | 1939 | Dave Fleischer | US | Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift | 1726/1735 | Novel |
Dwarf–Giant War[edit]
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le royaume nain de Lilliput contre Gigas le long, prince des géants ♠ | 1914 | ? | France | Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift | 1726/1735 | Novel |
- ♠ According to the film's title,[2] the French discovered a conflict between the tiny Lilliputians and giant Brobdingnagians which Swift neglected to mention in his account.
Great Lilliputian Proletarian Revolution[edit]
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The New Gulliver ♠ Новый Гулливер |
1935 | Aleksandr Ptushko | USSR | Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift | 1726/1735 | Novel |
- ♠ The Soviets expose the true nature of exploitation and class struggle in capitalistic Lilliputian society.[3]
Wars of Nonestica[edit]
(The Land of Oz and neighbouring countries)
Roly-Rogue War[edit]
c. 1905
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Magic Cloak of Oz | 1914 | J. Farrell MacDonald | US | Queen Zixi of Ix ♠ | L. Frank Baum | 1904–1905 | Novel |
Scarecrow's Rebellion[edit]
c. 1914
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz ♠ | 1914 | J. Farrell MacDonald | US | The Scarecrow of Oz | L. Frank Baum | 1915 | Novel |
| 1 | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum | 1900 | Novel |
- ♠ The rebellion leads to the overthrow of King Krewl, dictator of Oz.
Wars of Magic Land[edit]
(Not to be confused with the Land of Oz, in spite of having a Wizard residing in an Emerald City)
Wooden Soldier Rebellion[edit]
c. 1939
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Wizard of the City of Emeralds Volshebnik izumrudnogo goroda * |
1974 | Valentin Popov & L. Smironov | USSR | Urfin Jus and his Wooden Soldiers Урфин Джюс и его деревянные солдаты |
Aleksandr Volkov | 1963 | Novel |
| 1 | The Wizard of the Emerald City Волшебник Изумрудного города |
Aleksandr Volkov | 1939/1959 | Novel | ||||
| 1 | The Seven Underground Kings Семь подземных королей |
Aleksandr Volkov | 1964 | Novel | ||||
| 1 | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (uncredited) | L. Frank Baum (uncredited) | 1900 | Novel |
- * TV series.
Wars of Narnia[edit]
c. 1940–1949 (Narnian Year 1000–2555)
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe * | 1979 | Bill Melendez | US | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ♠ | C.S. Lewis | 1950 | Novel |
| 2 | The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe * | 1988 | Marilyn Fox | UK | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ♠ | C.S. Lewis | 1950 | Novel |
| 3 | The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe * | 2005 | Andrew Adamson | UK | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ♠ | C.S. Lewis | 1950 | Novel |
- ♠ Lewis chronicles the beginnings of modern Narnian history, and the arrival of the four Kings and Queens.
- * TV movie.
Battle of Aslan's How[edit]
Narnian Year c. 2300
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prince Caspian * | 1989 | Alex Kirby | UK | Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia | C.S. Lewis | 1951 | Novel |
| 2 | Prince Caspian * | 2008 | Andrew Adamson | UK | Prince Caspian ♠ | C.S. Lewis | 1951 | Novel |
- * TV movie.
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Voyage of the Dawn Treader * | 1989 | Michael Apted | UK | The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | C.S. Lewis | 1952 | Novel |
Rebellion of Manor Farm[edit]
1940s[4]
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Animal Farm | 1954 | John Halas & Joy Batchelor | UK | Animal Farm: A Fairy Story[5] | "George Orwell" ♠ | 1945 | Novel |
- ♠ Orwell may have been inspired by the 1924 farm revolt novel, Bunt,[6] the final work by Polish Nobel Laureate Władysław Reymont.[7]
Collapse of Animal Government[edit]
1999
The experimental government by the "more equal" animals ended at the same time as the Bolshevik experiment in the Soviet Union.
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Animal Farm ♠ | 1999 | Joseph Stephenson | US | Animal Farm: A Fairy Story | "George Orwell" | 1945 | Novel |
- ♠ The 1999 film "improves" Orwell by adding the happy ending that people [who?] demanded for half a century.
Efrafan War[edit]
(War of the rabbits of Watership Down with Efrafa)
1970s
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Watership Down | 1978 | Martin Rosen | UK | Watership Down[8] | Richard Adams | 1972 | Novel | Watership Down | 1999–2001 | Canada & UK |
Second Rebellion of Voldemort[edit]
1990s[9]
Prewar[edit]
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | 2001 | Chris Columbus | UK & US | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone[10][11][12] | J.K. Rowling | 1997 | Novel |
Phoney War[edit]
Basilisk Incident[edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 2002 | Chris Columbus | UK & US | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets[13][14] | J.K. Rowling | 1998 | Novel |
Dementor Mutiny[edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 2004 | Alfonso Cuarón | UK & US | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban[15][16][17][18][19] | J.K. Rowling[20] | 1999 | Novel |
Skirmish at Malfoy Manor[edit]
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 | 2010 | David Yates | UK & US | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows[21] | J.K. Rowling | 2007 | Novel |
Battle of Hogwarts[edit]
2 May 1998
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 | 2011 | David Yates | UK & US | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows | J.K. Rowling | 2007 | Novel |
For other conflicts, see the List of films based on war books — future.
References[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 The Lord of the Rings was the recipient of the Prix du Meilleur livre étranger in 1972.
- ↑ The French title translates as The dwarf kingdom of Lilliput against Gigas the tall, prince of the giants.
- ↑ Source: Plot of The New Gulliver
- ↑ The official title of Animal Farm in Spanish is Rebelión en la granja, or Rebellion on the Farm.
- ↑ Recipient of the Hugo Award for Best Novella for 1946.
- ↑ "Bunt" in Polish means "Resist".
- ↑ Reymont was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1924.
- ↑ Recipient of the Carnegie Medal in 1972.
- ↑ J.K. Rowling appears to have modelled her Voldemort character after Adolf Hitler,[citation needed] so the Harry Potter section has been structured like the Second World War.
- ↑ Recipient of the Smarties Prize in 1997.
- ↑ Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal in 1997.
- ↑ Recipient of the British Book Award in 1998.
- ↑ Recipient of the Smarties Prize in 1998.
- ↑ Recipient of the British Book Award in 1999.
- ↑ Recipient of the Whitbread Award in 1999.
- ↑ Recipient of the Bram Stoker Award in 1999.
- ↑ Recipient of the Smarties Prize in 1999.
- ↑ Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal in 1999.
- ↑ Recipient of the Locus Award in 2000.
- ↑ Rowling was awarded the British Book Award for The Author of the Year in 2000.
- ↑ Nominated for the Carnegie Medal in 2008.
Bibliography[edit]
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See also[edit]
- List of films based on war books — future
- List of films based on war books
- List of films based on war books — pre-1775
- List of films based on war books — 1775–1898
- List of films based on war books — 1898–1926
- List of films based on war books — 1927–1945
- List of films based on war books — post-1945
- List of films based on war books — peace
- Assassinations in fiction
- List of films based on Slavic mythology
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