List of films based on war books

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A list of war films that are based on books. If a book has been turned into both a film and a tv series (or tv film), then the tv series is included.

Contents 1 Trojan War 2 11th Century Scotland 3 Hundred Years' War 4 French and Indian War 5 American Revolutionary War 6 French Revolution 7 Napoleonic Wars 8 American Civil War 9 Battle of Omdurman 10 World War I 11 Russian Revolution 12 Spanish Civil War 13 World War II 14 Korean War 15 Vietnam War 16 Cold War 17 Gulf War 18 Bosnian War 19 Battle of Mogadishu 20 See also

[edit] Trojan War

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Troy	2004	Wolfgang Petersen	USA & Malta & UK	Iliad	Homer	8th century BC	Epic poetry	-	-	-

[edit] 11th Century Scotland

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Macbeth	1908	J. Stuart Blackton	USA	Macbeth	William Shakespeare	1605?	Play	-	-	-
2	Macbeth	1909	Mario Caserini	Italy	Macbeth	William Shakespeare	1605?	Play	-	-	-
3	Macbeth	1948	Orson Welles	USA	Macbeth	William Shakespeare	1605?	Play	-	-	-

[edit] Hundred Years' War

1337-1453

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France	1944	Laurence Olivier	UK	Henry V	William Shakespeare	1599	Play	-	-	-
2	Henry V	1989	Kenneth Branagh	UK	Henry V	William Shakespeare	1599	Play	-	-	-

[edit] French and Indian War

1754–1763 See Also: Seven Years' War

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Last of the Mohicans	1920	Clarence Brown & Maurice Tourneur	USA	The Last of the Mohicans	James Fenimore Cooper	1826	novel	The Last of the Mohicans	1971	UK
2	Northwest Passage	1940	King Vidor	USA	Northwest Passage	Kenneth Roberts	1937	novel	Northwest Passage	1958-1959	USA
3	The Last of the Mohicans	1992	Michael Mann	USA	The Last of the Mohicans	James Fenimore Cooper	1826	novel	-	-	-

[edit] American Revolutionary War

1775–1783

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Janice Meredith	1924	E. Mason Hopper	USA	Janice Meredith	Paul Leicester Ford	1901	Novel	-	-	-
2	Drums Along the Mohawk	1939	John Ford	USA	Drums Along the Mohawk	Walter D. Edmonds	1936	Novel	-	-	-
3	The Howards of Virginia	1940	Frank Lloyd	USA	The Tree of Liberty	Elizabeth Page	1939	Novel	-	-	-
4	Johnny Tremain	1957	Robert Stevenson	USA	Johnny Tremain	Esther Forbes	1944	Novel	-	-	-
5	The Bastard*	1978	Lee H. Katzin	USA	The Bastard	John Jakes	1974	Novel	-	-	-
6	The Rebels*	1979	Russ Mayberry	USA	The Rebels	John Jakes	1975	Novel	-	-	-
7	April Morning	1988	Delbert Mann	USA	April Morning	Howard Fast	1961	Novel	-	-	-
8	The Crossing	2000	Robert Harmon	USA	The Crossing	Howard Fast	1971	Novel	-	-	-

• * The Bastard and The Rebels are both tv mini-series, and both are a part of John Jakes The Bicentennial Series.

[edit] French Revolution

1789-1799

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	A Tale of Two Cities	1935	Jack Conway	USA	A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens	1859	Novel	-	-	-
2	Scaramouche	1952	George Sidney	USA	Scaramouche	Rafael Sabatini	1921	Novel	-	-	-

[edit] Napoleonic Wars

1799–1815

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Voyna i mir	1915	Vladimir Gardin & Yakov Protazanov	Russia	War and Peace	Leo Tolstoy	1863-1869	Novel	War and Peace	1972	UK
2	Captain Horatio Hornblower	1951	Raoul Walsh	USA & UK	The Happy Return, A Ship of the Line, and Flying Colours (Horatio Hornblower series)	C.S. Forester	1937 & 1938	Novel	Hornblower	1998-2003	USA & UK
3	War and Peace	1956	King Vidor	Italy & USA	War and Peace	Leo Tolstoy	1863-1869	Novel	-	-	-
4	H.M.S. Defiant	1962	Lewis Gilbert	UK & USA	Mutiny	Frank Tilsley	?	Novel	-	-	-
5	Voyna i mir	1968	Sergei Bondarchuk	Soviet Union	War and Peace	Leo Tolstoy	1863-1869	Novel	-	-	-
6	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	2003	Peter Weir	USA	Master and Commander, HMS Surprise, & The Far Side of the World (Aubrey–Maturin series)	Patrick O'Brian	1936	Novel	-	-	-

[edit] American Civil War

1861–1865

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Birth of a Nation	1915	D.W. Griffith	USA	The Clansman & The Leopard's Spots	Thomas F. Dixon Jr.	1905 & 1902	Novel	-	-	-
2	Gone with the Wind	1939	Victor Fleming	USA	Gone with the Wind	Margaret Mitchell	1936	Novel	-	-	-
3	The Red Badge of Courage	1951	John Huston	USA	The Red Badge of Courage	Stephen Crane	1895	Novel	The Red Badge of Courage	1974	USA
4	The Outlaw Josey Wales	1976	Clint Eastwood	USA	Gone to Texas: The Rebel Outlaw Josey Wales	Forrest Carter	1973	Novel	-	-	-
5	North and South	1985	Richard T. Heffron	USA	North and South	John Jakes	1982	Novel	-	-	-
6	North and South, Book II	1986	Kevin Connor	USA	Love and War	John Jakes	1984	Novel	-	-	-
7	Glory	1989	Edward Zwick	USA	book 1: Lay This Laurel & book 2: One Gallant Rush	author 1: Lincoln Kirstein & author 2: Peter Burchard	book 1: 1973 & book 2: 1965	Novel	-	-	-
8	Gettysburg	1993	Ronald F. Maxwell	USA	The Killer Angels	Michael Shaara	1974	Novel	-	-	-
9	Heaven & Hell: North & South, Book III	1994	Larry Peerce	USA	Heaven and Hell	John Jakes	1987	Novel	-	-	-
10	Ride with the Devil	1999	Ang Lee	USA	Woe to Live On	Daniel Woodrell	1998	Novel	-	-	-
11	Gods and Generals	2003	Ronald F. Maxwell	USA	Gods and Generals	Jeffrey Shaara	1998	Novel	-	-	-
12	Cold Mountain	2003	Anthony Minghella	USA	Cold Mountain	Charles Frazier	1997	Novel	-	-	-

• The three North and South "movies" listed above are three separate mini-series.

[edit] Battle of Omdurman

September 2, 1898, part of the The Mahdist War (War of the Sudan) See also: Battle of Khartoum, Battle of Abu Klea, Battle of Umm Diwaykarat, and Muhammad Ahmad

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Four Feathers	1915	J. Searle Dawley	USA	The Four Feathers	A. E. W. Mason	1902	Novel	-	-	-
2	The Four Feathers	1921	René Plaissetty	UK	The Four Feathers	A. E. W. Mason	1902	Novel	-	-	-
3	The Four Feathers	1929	Merian C. Cooper, Lothar Mendes, & Ernest B. Schoedsack	USA	The Four Feathers	A. E. W. Mason	1902	Novel	-	-	-
4	The Four Feathers	1939	Zoltan Korda	UK	The Four Feathers	A. E. W. Mason	1902	Novel	-	-	-
5	Storm Over the Nile	1955	Zoltan Korda & Terence Young	UK	The Four Feathers	A. E. W. Mason	1902	Novel	-	-	-
5	The Four Feathers*	1977	Don Sharp	UK	The Four Feathers	A. E. W. Mason	1902	Novel	-	-	-
6	The Four Feathers	2002	Shekhar Kapur	UK & USA	The Four Feathers	A. E. W. Mason	1902	Novel	-	-	-

* TV movie.

[edit] World War I

1914-1918

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	All Quiet on the Western Front	1930	Lewis Milestone	USA	All Quiet on the Western Front	Erich Maria Remarque	1929	Novel	All Quiet on the Western Front	1979	UK & USA
2	Westfront 1918	1930	Georg Wilhelm Pabst	Germany	Vier von der Infanterie	Ernst Johannsen	?	Novel	-	-	-
3	A Farewell to Arms	1932	Frank Borzage	USA	A Farewell to Arms	Ernest Hemingway	1929	Novel	-	-	-
4	Brown on Resolution	1935	Walter Forde	UK	Brown on Resolution	C. S. Forester	1929	Novel	-	-	-
5	The Road Back	1937	James Whale	USA	The Road Back	Erich Maria Remarque	1931	Novel	-	-	-
6	Three Comrades	1938	Frank Borzage	USA	Three Comrades	Erich Maria Remarque	1937	Novel	-	-	-
7	Sergeant York	1941	Howard Hawks	USA	Diary	Alvin York	1940	-	-	-	-
8	The African Queen	1952	John Huston	UK & USA	The African Queen	C.S. Forester	1935	Novel	-	-	-
9	A Farewell to Arms	1957	Charles Vidor	USA	A Farewell to Arms	Ernest Hemingway	1929	Novel	-	-	-
10	Paths of Glory	1957	Stanley Kubrick	UK & USA	Paths of Glory	Humphrey Cobb	1935	Novel	-	-	-
11	The Blue Max	1966	John Guillermin	UK	The Blue Max	Jack D. Hunter	1964	Novel	-	-	-
12	Johnny Got His Gun	1971	Dalton Trumbo	USA	Johnny Got His Gun	Dalton Trumbo	1939	Novel	-	-	-
13	The Return of the Soldier	1982	Alan Bridges	UK	The Return of the Soldier	Rebecca West	1918	Novel	-	-	-
14	The Wars	1983	Robin Phillips	Canada	The Wars	Timothy Findley	1977	Novel	-	-	-

[edit] Russian Revolution

1917

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Scarlet Dawn	1932	William Dieterle	USA	Revolt	Mary C. McCall Jr.	?	Novel	-	-	-
2	Doctor Zhivago	1965	David Lean	USA	Doctor Zhivago	Boris Pasternak	1957	Novel	-	-	-

[edit] Spanish Civil War

1936-1939

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	For Whom the Bell Tolls	1943	Sam Wood	USA	For Whom the Bell Tolls	Ernest Hemingway	1940	Novel	For Whom the Bell Tolls	1965	UK

[edit] World War II

1939-1945

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Mrs. Miniver	1942	William Wyler	USA	Mrs. Miniver	Jan Struther	1939	Novel (originally newspaper columns)	Mrs. Miniver (TV film)	1960	USA
2	Edge of Darkness	1943	Lewis Milestone	USA	Edge of Darkness	William Woods	1942	Novel	-	-	-
3	Raduga	1944	Mark Donskoy	Soviet Union	Tęcza	Wanda Wasilewska	1944	Novel	-	-	-
4	A Walk in the Sun	1945	Lewis Milestone	USA	A Walk in the Sun	Harry Brown (writer)	1944	Novel	-	-	-
5	Twelve O'Clock High	1949	David Lean	UK & USA	Twelve O'Clock High	Sy Bartlett & Beirne Lay, Jr.	1948	Novel	Twelve O'Clock High (TV series)	1964-1967	USA
6	The Cruel Sea	1953	Charles Frend	UK	The Cruel Sea	Nicholas Monsarrat	1951	Novel	-	-	-
7	From Here to Eternity	1953	Fred Zinnemann	USA	From Here to Eternity	James Jones (author)	1951	Novel	-	-	-
8	The Dam Busters	1954	Michael Anderson	UK	The Dam Busters	Paul Brickhill	1951	Novel	-	-	-
9	The Caine Mutiny	1954	Edward Dmytryk	USA	The Caine Mutiny	Herman Wouk	1951	Novel	-	-	-
10	The Man Who Never Was	1956	Ronald Neame	UK	The Man Who Never Was	Ewen Montagu	1954	Novel	-	-	-
11	The Bridge on the River Kwai	1957	David Lean	UK & USA	The Bridge over the River Kwai	Pierre Boulle	1952	Novel	-	-	-
12	Ill Met by Moonlight	1957	Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger	UK	Ill Met by Moonlight	W. Stanley Moss	1950s	Novel	-	-	-
13	Dunkirk	1958	Leslie Norman	UK	1: The story of Dunkirk 2: The Big Pickup	1: Lt. Col. Ewan Butler & Major J.S. Bradford MBE MC 2: Trevor Dudley Smith	1: 1955 2: 1955	Novel	-	-	-
14	Never So Few	1959	John Sturges	USA	Never So Few	Tom T. Chamales	1957	Novel	-	-	-
15	Sink the Bismarck!	1960	Lewis Gilbert	UK	The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck	C.S. Forester	1959	Novel	-	-	-
16	The Guns of Navarone	1961	J. Lee Thompson	Yugoslavia & USA	The Guns of Navarone	Alistair MacLean	1957	Novel	-	-	-
17	The Longest Day	1962	Ken Annakin & Andrew Marton & Bernhard Wicki	USA	The Longest Day	Cornelius Ryan	1959	Novel	-	-	-
18	The Great Escape	1963	John Sturges & Andrew Marton & Bernhard Wicki	USA	The Great Escape	Paul Brickhill	1950	Novel	-	-	-
19	The Thin Red Line	1964	Andrew Marton	USA	The Thin Red Line	James Jones (author)	1962	Novel	-	-	-
20	633 Squadron	1964	Walter Grauman	UK & USA	633 Squadron	Frederick E Smith	1958	Novel	-	-	-
21	Von Ryan's Express	1965	Mark Robson	USA	Von Ryan's Express	David Westheimer	1964	Novel	-	-	-
22	The Dirty Dozen	1967	Robert Aldrich	UK & USA	The Dirty Dozen	E.M. Nathanson	1965	Novel	-	-	-
23	Battle of Britain	1969	Guy Hamilton	UK	The Narrow Margin	Derek Wood and Derek Dempster	1961	Novel	-	-	-
24	Catch-22	1970	Mike Nichols	USA	Catch-22	Joseph Heller	1961	Novel	-	-	-
25	Slaughterhouse-Five	1972	George Roy Hill	USA	Slaughterhouse-Five	Kurt Vonnegut	1969	Novel	-	-	-
26	A Bridge Too Far	1977	Richard Attenborough	UK & USA	A Bridge Too Far	Cornelius Ryan	1974	Novel	-	-	-
27	Force 10 from Navarone	1978	Guy Hamilton	UK	Force 10 From Navarone	Alistair MacLean	1967	Novel	-	-	-
28	The Sea Wolves: The Last Charge of the Calcutta Light Horse	1980	Andrew V. McLaglen	UK & Switzerland & USA	Boarding Party	James Leasor	1980?	Novel	-	-	-
29	Empire of the Sun	1987	Steven Spielberg	USA	Empire of the Sun	J. G. Ballard	1984	Novel	-	-	-
30	Schindler's List	1993	Steven Spielberg	USA	Schindler's Ark	Thomas Keneally	1982	Novel	-	-	-
31	The English Patient	1996	Anthony Minghella	USA	The English Patient	Michael Ondaatje	1992	Novel	-	-	-
32	The Thin Red Line	1998	Terrence Malick	USA & Canada	The Thin Red Line	James Jones	1962	Novel	-	-	-
33	Enemy at the Gates	2001	Jean-Jacques Annaud	USA, UK, Germany, & Ireland	1: War of the Rats & 2: Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad	1: David L. Robbins 2: William Craig	1: 1999 2: 2001	Novel	-	-	-
34	Captain Corelli's Mandolin	2001	John Madden	USA	Corelli's Mandolin	Louis de Bernières	1994	Novel	-	-	-
35	Hart's War	2002	Gregory Hoblit	USA	Hart's War	John Katzenbach	1999	Novel	-	-	-
36	The Great Raid	2005	John Dahl	USA & Australia	Great Raid on Cabanatuan: Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor	William Breuer	1994	Novel	-	-	-
37	Flags of Our Fathers	2006	Clint Eastwood	USA	Flags of Our Fathers	James Bradley	2000	Novel	-	-	-

[edit] Korean War

1950-1953 (cease fire, war not yet officially concluded)

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Bridges at Toko-Ri	1955	Mark Robson	USA	The Bridges at Toko-Ri	James Michener	1953	Novel	-	-	-
2	The Hunters	1958	Dick Powell	USA	The Hunters	James Salter	1956	Novel	-	-	-
3	Porkchop Hill	1959	Lewis Milestone	USA	Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Action,Korea, Spring, 1953	S.L.A. Marshall	1956	Non-fiction	-	-	-
4	MASH	1970	Robert Altman	USA	M*A*S*H	Richard Hooker	1953	Novel	M*A*S*H	1972-1983	USA

[edit] Vietnam War

1957-1975

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Quiet American	1958	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	USA	The Quiet American	Graham Greene	1955	Novel	-	-	-
2	Apocalypse Now	1979	Francis Ford Coppola	USA	“Inspired by” Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad	1902	Novella	-	-	-
3	Full Metal Jacket	1987	Stanley Kubrick	USA	The Short-Timers	Gustav Hasford	1980	Novel	-	-	-
4	Gardens Of Stone	1987	Francis Ford Coppola	USA	Gardens Of Stone	Nicholas Proffitt	1983	Novel	-	-	-
5	Casualties of War	1989	Brian De Palma	USA	Casualties of War	Daniel Lang	1969	Novel	-	-	-
6	Air America	1990	Roger Spottiswoode	USA	Air America	Christopher Robbins	1979	Novel	-	-	-
7	Flight of the Intruder	1991	John Milius	USA	Flight of the Intruder	Stephen Coonts	1986	Novel	-	-	-
8	We Were Soldiers	2002	Randall Wallace	USA	We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young	Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (Ret.) and Joseph L. Galloway	1953	Novel	-	-	-
8	The Quiet American	2002	Phillip Noyce	USA	The Quiet American	Graham Greene	1955	Novel	-	-	-

[edit] Cold War

1947-1989

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Hunt for Red October	1990	John McTiernan	USA	The Hunt for Red October	Tom Clancy	1984	Novel	-	-	-

[edit] Gulf War

1991

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Jarhead	2005	Sam Mendes	USA	Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles	Anthony Swofford	2003	Novel	-	-	-

[edit] Bosnian War

1992-1995

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Welcome To Sarajevo	1997	Michael Winterbottom	USA & UK	Natasha's Story	Michael Nicholson	1993	Novel	-	-	-

[edit] Battle of Mogadishu

1993 See Also: Somalian Civil War

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Black Hawk Down	2001	Ridley Scott	USA	Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War	Mark Bowden	1999	Novel	-	-	-

[edit] See also

• War film
• War novel
• List of war films
• List of United States military books
• Fiction based on World War I
• Literature of World War I
• Fiction based on World War II
• List of world war II films
• Fiction based on the Vietnam War