List of book-based war films (1898–1926 wars)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	Events portrayed
Patria	1917	Leopold & Theodore Wharton, Jacques Jaccard	USA	The Last of the Fighting Channings	Louis Joseph Vance	191?	Novel
Viva Villa!	1934	Jack Conway	USA	Viva Villa!	Edgecumb Pinchon & O.B. Stade	192?	Non-fiction
El compadre Mendoza	1934	Juan Bustillo Oro & Fernando de Fuentes	Mexico	"El compadre Mendoza"	Mauricio Magdaleno	193?	Story
Vámonos con Pancho Villa	1936	Fernando de Fuentes	Mexico	¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa!	Rafael F. Muñoz	193?	Novel
Los de abajo	1940	Chano Urueta	Mexico	The Underdogs	Mariano Azuela	1915	Novel
Las mujeres de mi general	1951	Ismael Rodríguez	Mexico	"La soldadera"	Joselito Rodríguez & Celestino Gorostiza	19??	Story
Viva Zapata!	1952	Elia Kazan	USA	Zapata the Unconquerable	Edgecumb Pinchon	192?	Non-fiction
The Fighter	1952	Herbert Kline	USA	"The Mexican"	Jack London	1911	Story
La escondida	1956	Roberto Gavaldón	Mexico	La escondida	Miguel N. Lira	1948	Novel
Reed, México insurgente	1973	Paul Leduc	Mexico	Insurgent Mexico	John Reed	1914	Non-fiction/Memoir
Los de abajo	1978	Servando González	Mexico	The Underdogs	Mariano Azuela	1915	Novel
Krasnye kolokola, film pervyy - Meksika v ogne	1982	Sergei Bondarchuk	Italy, USSR, Mexico	Insurgent Mexico	John Reed	1914	Non-fiction/Memoir
Old Gringo	1989	Luis Puenzo	USA	Gringo Viejo	Carlos Fuentes	1985	Novel
They Came to Cordura	1959	Robert Rossen	USA	They Came to Cordura	Glendon Swarthout	1958	Novel	Panco Villa Expedition

Italo-Turkish War (1911-1912)

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)

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)

Politics and Diplomacy

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

Western Front

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	Events
All Quiet on the Western Front	1930	Lewis Milestone	USA	All Quiet on the Western Front	Erich Maria Remarque	1929	Novel[2]
Westfront 1918	1930	Georg Wilhelm Pabst	Germany	Vier von der Infanterie	Ernst Johannsen	1929	Novel
Wooden Crosses	1932	Raymond Bernard	France	Les Croix de bois	Roland Dorgelès	1919	Novel/Memoir
Peace on Earth	1939	Hugh Harman	USA	Gospel of Luke	Luke the Evangelist	before 100	Scripture
Thomas l'imposteur	1964	Georges Franju	France	Thomas the Impostor	Jean Cocteau	1923	Novel
My Mother's Castle	1990	Yves Robert	France	Le Château de ma mère & Le Temps des secrets	Marcel Pagnol	1957 & 1959	Novels/Memoirs
Truman	1995	Frank Pierson	USA	Truman	David McCullough	1992	Non-fiction
The Great War	2007	Brian McKenna	Canada	?	Talbot Papineau	1914–1917	Letters
Over the Top	1918	Wilfrid North	USA	Over the Top	Arthur Guy Empey	1917	Novel/Memoir
All Quiet on the Western Front	1979	Delbert Mann	UK & USA	All Quiet on the Western Front	Erich Maria Remarque	1929	Novel[2]
Debout les morts![3]	1916	André Heuzé, Léonce Perret, Henri Pouctal	France	Los cuatro jinetes del apocalipsis	Vicente Blasco Ibáñez	1916	Novel
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse	1921	Rex Ingram	USA	Los cuatro jinetes del apocalipsis	Vicente Blasco Ibáñez	1916	Novel
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse	1962	Vincente Minnelli	USA	Los cuatro jinetes del apocalipsis	Vicente Blasco Ibáñez	1916	Novel
Koenigsmark aka The Secret Spring	1923	Léonce Perret	France	Kœnigsmark	Pierre Benoit	1918	Novel
Königsmark aka Crimson Dynasty	1935	Maurice Tourneur	France	Kœnigsmark	Pierre Benoit	1918	Novel
Koenigsmark	1953	Solange Térac	France & Italy	Kœnigsmark	Pierre Benoit	1918	Novel
Legends of the Fall	1994	Edward Zwick	USA	Legends of the Fall	Jim Harrison	1979	Novella
Sergeant York	1941	Howard Hawks	USA	?	Alvin York	1940	Diary	Meuse-Argonne Offensive
Hangmen, Women and Soldiers	1935	Johannes Meyer	Nazi Germany	Ein Mannsbild namens Prack	Fritz Reck-Malleczewen	1935	Novel
Forest of the Hanged	1964	Liviu Ciulei	Romania	Pădurea spânzuraţilor	Liviu Rebreanu	1922	Novel
His Majesty's Deserters	1986	Janusz Majewski	Poland	C.K. Dezerterzy	Kazimierz Sejda	1985?	Novel
Dobrý voják Švejk	1926	Karel Lamač	Czechoslovakia	The Good Soldier Švejk	Jaroslav Hašek	1923	Novel[2]
Švejk na frontě	1926	Karel Lamač	Czechoslovakia	The Good Soldier Švejk	Jaroslav Hašek	1923	Novel
Švejk v ruském zajetí	1926	Svatopluk Innemann	Czechoslovakia	Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války, IV. tome	Jaroslav Hašek	1923	Novel
Švejk v civilu	1927	Gustav Machatý	Czechoslovakia, Austria	Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války, IV. tome	Jaroslav Hašek	1923	Novel
Dobrý voják Švejk	1931	Martin Frič	Czechoslovakia	The Good Soldier Švejk	Jaroslav Hašek	1923	Novel
Dobrý voják Švejk	1955	Jiří Trnka	Czechoslovakia	The Good Soldier Švejk	Jaroslav Hašek	1923	Novel
Dobrý voják Švejk (1957 film)	1957	Karel Steklý	Czechoslovakia	The Good Soldier Švejk	Jaroslav Hašek	1923	Novel
Poslušně hlásím ze jsem opet zde	1958	Karel Steklý	Czechoslovakia	The Good Soldier Švejk	Jaroslav Hašek	1923	Novel
Der brave Soldat Schwejk	1960	Axel von Ambesser	West Germany	The Good Soldier Švejk	Jaroslav Hašek	1923	Novel
Schwejks Flegeljahre	1963	Wolfgang Liebeneiner	Austria	The Good Soldier Švejk	Jaroslav Hašek	1923	Novel
De avonturen van de brave soldaat Schwejk	1968	Anton Peters	Belgium	The Good Soldier Švejk	Jaroslav Hašek	1923	Novel
Die Abenteuer des braven Soldaten Schwejk	1972	Wolfgang Liebeneiner	West Germany	The Good Soldier Švejk	Jaroslav Hašek	1923	Novel
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka	1986	Stanislav Látal	Czechoslovakia	The Good Soldier Švejk	Jaroslav Hašek	1923	Novel
Tikhiy Don Тихий Дон	1930	Ivan Pravov & Olga Preobrazhenskaya	USSR	And Quiet Flows the Don	Mikhail Sholokhov	1928/1934	Novel
And Quiet Flows the Don Тихий Дон	1957–1958	Sergei Gerasimov	USSR	And Quiet Flows the Don	Mikhail Sholokhov	1928/1934	Novel
Quiet Flows the Don	2006	Sergei Bondarchuk	Russia, UK, Italy	And Quiet Flows the Don	Mikhail Sholokhov	1928/1934	Novel

Italian and Serbian Fronts

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

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

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

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

Naval operations

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

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

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

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

POWs
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

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

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

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

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

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

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]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
100 Rifles	1969	Tom Gries	USA	100 Rifles	Robert MacLeod	196?	Novel

Russian Revolution (1917)

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	Events Portrayed
Nicholas and Alexandra	1971	Franklin J. Schaffner	UK	Nicholas and Alexandra: An Intimate Account of the Last of the Romanovs and the Fall of Imperial Russia	Robert K. Massie	1967	Non-fiction	February Revolution
Scarlet Dawn	1932	William Dieterle	USA	Revolt	Mary C. McCall Jr.	192?	Novel
An Unusual Summer Первые радости	1956	Vladimir Basov Vladimir Basov	USSR	Pervye radosti	Konstantin Fedin	192?	Novel
Doctor Zhivago	1965	David Lean	USA	Doctor Zhivago	Boris Pasternak	1957	Novel
Dauriya Даурия	1971	Viktor Tregubovich	USSR	Dauriya	Konstantin Sedykh	1942–1948	Novel
No Ordinary Summer Первые радости	1977	Grigori Nikulin	USSR	Pervye radosti	Konstantin Fedin	192?	Novel
Lenin: The Train	1988	Damiano Damiani	Italy, France, West Germany, Austria	Lenin's Mistress	Michael Pearson	198?	Novel
October	1928	Sergei Eisenstein & Grigori Aleksandrov	USSR	Ten Days that Shook the World	John Reed	1919	Non-fiction/ Memoir
Reds	1981	Warren Beatty	USA	Ten Days that Shook the World (uncredited)	John Reed (uncredited)	1919	Non-fiction/ Memoir
Krasnye kolokola, film vtoroy - Ya videl rozhdenie novogo mira	1983	Sergei Bondarchuk	Italy, USSR, Mexico	Ten Days that Shook the World	John Reed	1919	Memoir

Russian Civil War (1917-1921)

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Storm Over Asia Потомок Чингисхана	1928	Vsevolod Pudovkin	USSR	"Potomok Chingis-khana" Потомок Чингисхана	Ivan Novokshonov	192?	Story
Chapaev Чапаев	1934	Georgi Vasilyev & Sergei Vasilyev	USSR	Chapaev	Dmitri Furmanov	192?	Novel/Memoir
Unforgettable 1919 Незабываемый 1919-й	1952	Mikheil Chiaureli	USSR	Nezabyvaemyy god 1919	Vsevolod Vishnevsky	1949	Play
An Unusual Summer Необыкновенное лето	1957	Vladimir Basov	USSR	Neobyknovennoye leto	Konstantin Fedin	192?	Novel
The Colt Жеребёнок	1959	Vladimir Fetin	USSR	"Zherebyonok"	Mikhail Sholokhov	192?	Story
Commissar Комиссар	1967	Aleksandr Askoldov	USSR	"In the Town of Berdichev"	Vasily Grossman	1934	Story
The Flight Бег	1970	Aleksandr Alov & Vladimir Naumov	USSR	Flight	Mikhail Bulgakov	1928	Play
Coup de Grâce Der Fangschuß	1976	Volker Schlöndorff	France & West Germany	Coup de Grâce	Marguerite Yourcenar	1939	Novel
No Ordinary Summer Необыкновенное лето	1979	Grigori Nikulin	USSR	Neobyknovennoye leto	Konstantin Fedin	192?	Novel
On Black Ice На чорных лядах	1995	Valery Ponomaryov	Belarus	On Black Ice (Belarusian: На чорных лядах) and Before the End (Belarusian: Перад канцом)	Vasil Bykau	1997	Short stories

Operations

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

References

Unless otherwise stated, the source for film information is the IMDb.

Notes

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. »
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, 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

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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[Farr-1] 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. »

[Vintage-2] Faulks, Sebastian and Jörg Hensgen. The Vintage Book of War Stories, Vintage, London, 1999.

[3] The French title Debout les morts! could be translated roughly as Get Up, Dead Guys! or perhaps as The dead! Arise!

[4] Recommended by John Keegan. Source: Keegan (q.v.).^:71

[LC-5] Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of the US Library of Congress.
Source: Library of Congress Online Catalog.

[6] Source: DVD opening credits, for the list of originating sovereign states.

[7] Source: A Short History of the Yaqui Indians, Edith te Wechel, and Yaqui: A Short History Archived 2012-01-06 at the Wayback Machine, Edith te Wechel.

[8] The novel does not take place precisely during the Cristero War, but during a later anti-Catholic period of the Maximato.