List of book-based war films (1927–1945 wars)

For earlier conflicts, see the List of films based on war books — 1898–1926.

A list of films that are based on war books.

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)

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateType
Flüchtlinge1933Gustav UcickyNazi GermanyFlüchtlinge : Erlebnis d. Heimat in fernen Ländern ; Roman[1]Gerhard Menzel1933[2]Novel
The Bitter Tea of General Yen1933Frank CapraUSThe Bitter Tea of General YenGrace Zaring Stone1932Novel
Oil for the Lamps of China1935Mervyn LeRoyUSOil for the Lamps of ChinaAlice Tisdale Hobart1933Novel
The Keys of the Kingdom1944John M. StahlUSThe Keys of the KingdomA. J. Cronin1941Novel
The Sand Pebbles1966Robert WiseUSThe Sand PebblesRichard McKenna1962Novel
High Road to China1983Brian G. HuttonUS & YugoslaviaHigh Road to ChinaJon Cleary1977Novel
Man's Fate201?Michael CiminoUSMan's Fate[3][4]André Malraux1933Novel

Second Italo-Abyssinian War (1935–1936)

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
Scoop1987Gavin MillarUKScoopEvelyn Waugh1938Novel---

Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateType
For Whom the Bell Tolls1943Sam WoodU.S.For Whom the Bell TollsErnest Hemingway[5]1940Novel
Man's Hope (French: L'espoir)1945André Malraux and Boris PeskineSpain and FranceMan's Hope (French: L'espoir)[6]André Malraux1937Novel
Mich dürstet1956Karl ParylaGermany"Mich dürstet"Walter Gorrisch1946Short story
Land and Freedom1995Ken LoachUK and SpainHomage to Catalonia[7] (unofficial)"George Orwell"
(unofficial)
1938Memoir
Bethune1977Eric TillCanadaThe Scalpel, the Sword: The Story of Dr. Norman BethuneTed Allan1952Non-fiction
Bethune: The Making of a Hero1990Phillip BorsosCanada and ChinaThe Scalpel, the Sword: The Story of Dr. Norman BethuneTed Allan1952Non-fiction
Talk of Angels1998Nick HammUSMary LavelleKate O'Brien1936Novel
Behold a Pale Horse1964Fred ZinnemannU.S.Killing a Mouse on SundayEmeric Pressburger1961Novel
Soldados de Salamina
Soldados de Salamina
2003David TruebaSpainSoldiers of Salamina
Soldados de Salamina
Javier Cercas2001Novel
13 Roses
Las trece rosas
2007Emilio Martínez LázaroSpainTrece rosas rojas (uncredited)Carlos Fonseca (uncredited)200?Non-fiction
Frente de Madrid
Frente de Madrid
1939Edgar NevilleSpain and ItalyFrente de MadridEdgar Neville193?Novel
Carmen fra i rossi
Carmen fra i rossi
1939Edgar NevilleSpain and ItalyFrente de MadridEdgar Neville193?Novel
Butterfly
La lengua de las mariposas
1999José Luis CuerdaSpain"La lengua de las mariposas" (in Spanish)
"A lingua das bolboretas"
from ¿Que me queres, amor?
Manuel Rivas1995Story
The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca
Muerte en Granada
1997Marcos ZurinagaU.S.The Death of Lorca
La represión nacionalista de Granada en 1936 y la muerte de Federico García Lorca
Ian Gibson1972/
1971
Non-fiction

Second Sino-Japanese War (1931–1945)

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateType
Disputed Passage1939Frank BorzageU.S.Disputed PassageLloyd C. Douglas1939[8]Novel
Behind the Rising Sun1943Edward DmytrykU.S.Behind the Rising SunJames R. Young1941Novel?
China1943John FarrowU.S.Fourth BrotherArchibald Forbes18?[9]¤Play
Dragon Seed1944Harold S. Bucquet & Jack ConwayU.S.Dragon SeedPearl S. Buck[10]1942Novel
Red Sorghum1987Zhang YimouChinaRed Sorghum & Sorghum WineMo Yan1987Novels
Farewell My Concubine
霸王别姬
1993Chen KaigeChinaFarewell My ConcubineLilian Lee1993Novel
The Last Emperor1987Bernardo BertolucciChina & ItalyFrom Emperor to CitizenPuyi1964Memoir
The White Countess2005James IvoryUK, U.S., Germany & ChinaThe White CountessKazuo Ishiguro screenplay2005Screenplay

Rape of Nanking

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateType
The Children of Huang Shi
黄石的孩子
2008Roger SpottiswoodeAustralia, China, GermanyOcean Devil: The Life and Legend of George Hogg[11] (uncredited)James MacManus2008Non-fiction
Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre1994Mou Tun FeiHong KongThe Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe (uncredited)John Rabe (uncredited)1996Diary
Nanking2007Bill Guttentag & Dan SturmanU.S.The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John RabeJohn Rabe1996Diary
City of Life and Death
南京! 南京!
2009Lu ChuanChinaThe Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe (uncredited)John Rabe (uncredited)1996Diary
John Rabe2009Florian GallenbergerChina, France, GermanyThe Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John RabeJohn Rabe1996Diary

Resistance movement

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateType
Once an Eagle1976Richard Michaels & E.W. SwackhamerUSOnce an EagleAnton Myrer1968Novel
Lust, Caution2007Ang LeeChina & Taiwan"Lust, Caution"Eileen Chang1979Novella
The Children of Huang Shi
黄石的孩子
2008Roger SpottiswoodeAustralia, China, GermanyOcean Devil: The Life and Legend of George Hogg[11] (uncredited)James MacManus2008Non-fiction

Military hospitals

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateType
Dr. Bethune1964Gao Zheng & Li ShutianChinaBaiqiuen dai fuZhou Erfu196?Non-fiction
Bethune1977Eric TillCanadaThe Scalpel, the Sword: The Story of Dr. Norman BethuneTed Allan1952Non-fiction
Bethune: The Making of a Hero1990Phillip BorsosCanada & ChinaThe Scalpel, the Sword: The Story of Dr. Norman BethuneTed Allan1952Non-fiction

Occupation

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateType
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness1958Mark RobsonUSThe Small WomanAlan Burgess1957Non-fiction?
Pavilion of Women2001Ho YimChina & USPavilion of WomenPearl S. Buck[10]1946Novel

World War II

1939–1945

Axis Powers
! FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateType
Hitlerjunge Quex: Ein Film vom Opfergeist der deutschen Jugend1933Hans SteinhoffNazi GermanyDer Hitlerjunge QuexKarl Aloys Schenzinger1932Novel
The Mortal Storm1940Frank BorzageU.S.The Mortal StormPhyllis Bottome1938Novel
Education for Death1943Clyde GeronimiU.S.Education for Death, the Making of the NaziGregor Ziemer1941[8]Non-fiction
Hitler's Children1943Edward DmytrykU.S.Education for Death, the Making of the NaziGregor Ziemer1941[8]Non-fiction
Hitler: The Last Ten Days1973Ennio De ConciniItaly, UKThe Last Days of the ChancelleryGerhard Boldt197?Non-fiction
The Bunker1981George SchaeferU.S.The BunkerJames P. O'Donnell1978Non-fiction
The Nightmare Years1990Anthony PageU.S.The Nightmare YearsWilliam L. Shirer1984Memoir
Selling Hitler1991Alastair ReidUKSelling HitlerRobert Harris1986Non-fiction
Blood on the Sun1945Frank LloydU.S.Tanaka MemorialBaron Tanaka Giichi (ascribed)1927Non-fiction
Japan's Longest Day1967Kihachi OkamotoJapanNihon no ichiban nagai hiSoichi Oya196?Novel
Allied Powers
FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateType
Mission to Moscow1943Michael CurtizU.S.Mission to MoscowJoseph E. Davies194?Memoir
The Gathering Storm1974Herbert WiseUK & U.S.The Second World War, Volume 1, The Gathering StormWinston Churchill[12]1948Memoir/
Non-fiction
Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking1976Daniel PetrieU.S.Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman[13]Merle Miller1974Memoir/
Non-fiction
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years1977Daniel PetrieU.S.Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers[14][15]Joseph P. Lash197?Non-fiction
Truman1995Frank PiersonU.S.Truman[16]David McCullough1992Non-fiction
Neutral Powers
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Background to Danger1943Raoul WalshU.S.Uncommon DangerEric Ambler1937Novel---

Anschluss, Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, Albania

1938–1939

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Night Train to Munich1940Carol ReedUKReport on a Fugitive (uncredited)Gordon Wellesley (uncredited)193?Novel---
1Die Trapp-Familie1956Wolfgang LiebeneinerWest GermanyThe Story of the Trapp Family SingersMaria Augusta von Trapp1949Memoir---
2The Sound of Music[17]1965Robert WiseUSThe Sound of Music[nb 1] itself based uponThe Story of the Trapp Family SingersHoward Lindsay &
Russel Crouse (book),
Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics)
1959Musical---

Land operations – Western Europe

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Went the Day Well?1942Alberto CavalcantiUK"The Lieutenant Died Last"Graham Greene194?Story---
2To Hell and Back1955Jesse HibbsU.S.To Hell and BackAudie Murphy with David McClure (ghostwriter)1949Memoir---
3The Young Lions1958Edward DmytrykU.S.The Young LionsIrwin Shaw1949Novel---
4Kings Go Forth1958Delmer DavesU.S.Kings Go ForthJoe David Brown1956Novel---
5Die Brücke1959Bernhard WickiWest GermanyThe Bridge
Die Brücke
"Manfred Gregor"1958Novel---
6Is Paris Burning?1966René ClémentFrance & U.S.Is Paris Burning?Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre1965Non-fiction---
7The Bridge at Remagen1969John GuillerminU.S.The Bridge at RemagenKen Hechler1957Non-fiction---
8A Bridge Too Far1977Richard AttenboroughUK & U.S.A Bridge Too FarCornelius Ryan1974Non-fiction---
9Band of Brothers **2001Mikael Salomon, David Frankel,
et al.
U.S. & UKBand of Brothers, E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's NestStephen Ambrose1992Non-fiction---
  • ** TV miniseries.
Battle of the Bulge
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Attack!1956Robert AldrichU.S.Fragile FoxNorman Brooks195?[9]Play---
2Castle Keep1969Sydney PollackU.S.Castle KeepWilliam Eastlake1965[8]Novel---
3Patton[18]1970Franklin J. SchaffnerU.S.Patton: Ordeal and TriumphLadislas Farago1963Non-fiction---
3A Soldier's StoryOmar N. Bradley1951Non-fiction---
4A Midnight Clear1992Keith GordonUSA Midnight ClearWilliam Wharton1982Novel---
5Band of Brothers **2001Mikael Salomon, David Frankel,
et al.
U.S. & UKBand of Brothers, E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's NestStephen Ambrose1992Non-fiction---
  • ** TV miniseries.
Miracle of Dunkirk

May–June 1940

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Mrs. Miniver[19]1942William WylerU.S.Mrs. MiniverJan Struther1939Novel (originally newspaper columns)---
2Dunkirk1958Leslie NormanUKThe Story of DunkirkLt. Col. Ewan Butler & Major J.S. Bradford1955Non-fiction---
2The Big PickupTrevor Dudley Smith1955Novel---
3Weekend at Dunkirk[20]
Week-end à Zuydcoote
1964Henri VerneuilFrance & ItalyWeek-end at Zuydcoote
Week-end à Zuydcoote
Robert Merle[21]1949Novel/
Memoir
---
4The Snow Goose *1971Patrick GarlandUKThe Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk
[22] [6]
Paul Gallico1940 & 1941Story & Novella---
5Bright Young Things2003Stephen FryUKVile BodiesEvelyn Waugh1930Novel---
6Atonement2007Joe WrightUK & FranceAtonement[23][24]Ian McEwan2001Novel---
7Dunkirk (2017 film)2017Christopher NolanUKScreenplay---
  • ♠ The film includes the Dunkirk evacuation.
  • ♦ The operation depicted in the film resembles the Dunkirk evacuation.[25]
  • * TV movie.
Dieppe Raid

19 August 1942

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Dieppe *1993John N. SmithCanadaUnauthorized Action: Mountbatten and the Dieppe RaidBrian Loring Villa1989[26]¤Non-fiction---
  • * TV movie.
D-Day

6 June 1944 at H-hour

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1D-Day the Sixth of June1956Henry KosterU.S.The Sixth of June[27]Lionel Shapiro1955Novel---
2The Longest Day1962Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard WickiU.S.The Longest DayCornelius Ryan1959Non-fiction---
3The Americanization of Emily1964Arthur HillerU.S.The Americanization of EmilyWilliam Bradford Huie1959Novel---
4Ike **1979Boris Sagal & Melville ShavelsonU.S.Past Forgetting:
My Love Affair with Dwight D. Eisenhower
Kay Summersby with Barbara Wyden (ghostwriter)1975Autobiography---
5Band of Brothers **2001Mikael Salomon, David Frankel,
et al.
U.S. & UKBand of Brothers, E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's NestStephen Ambrose1992Non-fiction---
  • ** TV miniseries.

Land operations – Eastern Front

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Rainbow Радуга1944Mark DonskoyUSSRTęcza
Raduga[28]
Wanda Wasilewska1942Novel---
2Days and Nights
Дни и ночи
1945Aleksandr StolperUSSRDni i nochi[6]Konstantin Simonov[29]194?Novel---
3Nashestviye
Нашествие
1945Abram Room & Oleg ZhakovUSSRNashestviyeLeonid Leonov1942Play---
4Counter-Attack aka One Against Seven1945Zoltan KordaUSCounterattackJanet Stevenson & Philip Stevenson194?Play---
4Pobyeda[30]
Победа
Mikhail Ruderman & Ilya Vershinin194?Play---
5Ivan's Childhood
Иваново детство
1962Andrei TarkovskyUSSR"Ivan" "Иван"Vladimir Bogomolov1957Story---
6The Alive and the Dead
Живые и мёртвые
1964Aleksandr StolperUSSRZhivye i myortvyeKonstantin Simonov[29]1959Novel---
7Retribution
Возмездие
1967Aleksandr StolperUSSRVozmezdiyeKonstantin Simonov[29]1963–1964Novel---
8Cross of Iron1977Sam PeckinpahUK & West GermanyThe Willing FleshWilli Heinrich1956Novel---
9The Tin Drum1979Volker SchlöndorffWest GermanyThe Tin Drum
[31] [6]
Günter Grass[32]1959Novel---
10Come and See Иди и смотри1985Elem KlimovUSSR?Ales Adamovich19??Stories---
11The Misfit Brigade1987Gordon HesslerUS, UK, YugoslaviaWheels of Terror"Sven Hassel"1958Novel---
12August of '44
В августе 44-го…
2001Mikhail PtashukUSSRIn August of '44[33]Vladimir Bogomolov1973Novel---
13Tertium non datur2005Lucian PintilieFrance & Romania"Capul de zimbru"Vasile Voiculescu1966 (posthumous)Story---
14Karol: A Man Who Became Pope **2005Giacomo BattiatoPoland, Italy, France, Germany, CanadaStories of Karol: The Unknown Life of Pope John Paul IIGian Franco Svidercoschi2001Non-fiction---
15Pope John Paul II **2005John Kent HarrisonItaly, US, Poland"Gods and Man" ♦
"Bogowie i człowiek" from Vade-mecum
Cyprian Norwid1866Poem---
15The Communist ManifestoKarl Marx & Friedrich Engels1848Manifesto---
15HamletWilliam Shakespearec. 1600Play---
16The Forgotten Soldier201?Paul Verhoeven?The Forgotten Soldier[34]
Le Soldat oublié
"Guy Sajer"1967Memoir---
  • ♠ About Romania switching sides, from Axis to Allies.
  • ♦ Writings quoted and discussed by the young Karol Wojtyła.
  • ** TV miniseries.
Battle of Stalingrad
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Four Soldiers from Stalingrad
Солдаты
1956Aleksandr IvanovUSSRFront-line Stalingrad[35]
В окопах Сталинграда
Viktor Nekrasov1946Novel---
2The Hot Snow
Горячий снег
1972Gavril YegiazarovUSSRGoryachiy snegYuri Bondarev1969Novel---
3They Fought for Their Country
Они сражались за Родину
1975Sergei BondarchukUSSROni srazhalis za RodinuMikhail Sholokhov[36]1943/1969Novel---
4Enemy at the Gates2001Jean-Jacques AnnaudUS, UK, Germany, & IrelandWar 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
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Schweyk im Zweiten Weltkrieg *1961Rainer WolffhardtWest GermanySchweyk im Zweiten WeltkriegBertolt Brecht[37]1943/1957Play---
2Svejk i anden verdenskrig *1970Palle Kjærulff-SchmidtDenmarkSchweyk im Zweiten WeltkriegBertolt Brecht1943/1957Play---
3Schweik na Segunda Guerra Mundial
(TV movie)
1975Victor Manuel & Artur RamosPortugalSchweyk im Zweiten WeltkriegBertolt Brecht1943/1957Play---
3?Alexandre O'Neill19??Poems---

Bertolt Brecht wrote the play as a sequel to Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk

Winter War
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Talvisota1989Pekka ParikkaFinlandThe Winter WarAntti Tuuri198?Novel---
2Max Manus: Man of War2008Joachim Rønning & Espen SandbergNorwayDet vil helst gå godt[38] (uncredited)Max Manus (uncredited)1945Memoir---
2Det blir alvor[38] (uncredited)Max Manus (uncredited)1946Memoir---
Continuation War
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Unknown Soldier1955Edvin LaineFinlandThe Unknown SoldierVäinö Linna1954Novel---
2Tuntematon sotilas1985Rauni MollbergFinlandThe Unknown SoldierVäinö Linna1954Novel---
3Rukajärven tie1999Olli SaarelaFinlandElämä isänmaalleAntti Tuuri1998Novel---
3Rukajärven linjaAntti Tuuri1992Novel---
3Rukajärven aikaAntti Tuuri1991Novel---
3Rukajärven tielläAntti Tuuri1990Novel---
4The Unknown Soldier2017Aku LouhimiesFinlandThe Unknown SoldierVäinö Linna1954Novel---
Frequently filmed: The Dawns Here Are Quiet
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Dawns Here Are Quiet
А зори здесь тихие *
1970Ivan RassomakhinUSSR"A zori zdes tikhie"Boris Vasilyev1969Story---
2The Dawns Here Are Quiet
А зори здесь тихие
1972Stanislav RostotskyUSSR"A zori zdes tikhie"Boris Vasilyev1969Story---
3The Dawns Here Are Quiet
А зори здесь тихие
2005Mao Vei-nin
(Мао Вэйнин)
Russia & China"A zori zdes tikhie"Boris Vasilyev1969Story---
  • * TV movie.

Land operations – Balkan Campaign

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Travelling Players
Ο Θίασος
1975Theodoros AngelopoulosGreeceOresteia (uncredited)Aeschylus (uncredited)458 BCTrilogy---
2Fortunes of War **1987James Cellan JonesUKThe Balkan Trilogy[6]Olivia Manning1960–1965Novels---
2The Levant Trilogy[6]Olivia Manning1977–1980Novels---
3Captain Corelli's Mandolin2001John MaddenUSCorelli's Mandolin[39]Louis de Bernières1994Novel---
4Sword of Honour **2001Bill AndersonUKSword of Honour
[40] [6] [41]
Evelyn Waugh1952–1961Trilogy---
  • ** TV miniseries.

Land operations – North African and East African Campaigns

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Immortal Sergeant1943John M. StahlUSImmortal SergeantJohn Brophy194?Novel---
2The Desert Fox1951Henry HathawayUSRommel[41]Desmond Young1950Non-fiction---
3Ice-Cold in Alex1958J. Lee ThompsonUKIce Cold in AlexChristopher Landon1957Novel---
4How I Won the War1967Richard LesterUKHow I Won the WarPatrick Ryan1963Novel---
5Seven Against the Sun1967David MillinSouth AfricaSeven Against the SunJames Ambrose Brown196?Play---
6Fortunes of War **1987James Cellan JonesUKThe Balkan Trilogy[6]Olivia Manning1960–1965Trilogy---
6The Levant Trilogy[6]Olivia Manning1977–1980Trilogy---
7Tobruk
Tobruk
2008Václav MarhoulCzech Republic & SlovakiaThe Red Badge of CourageStephen Crane1895Novel---
  • ** TV miniseries.
Battle of Kasserine Pass
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Story of G.I. Joe[19]1945William WellmanUSBrave Men & Here Is Your War (uncredited)Ernie Pyle[42]1944 & 1943[8]Non-fiction---
2Patton[18]1970Franklin J. SchaffnerUSPatton: Ordeal and TriumphLadislas Farago1963Non-fiction---
2A Soldier's StoryOmar N. Bradley1951Non-fiction---

Land operations – Italian Campaign

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1A Walk in the Sun1945Lewis MilestoneUSA Walk in the SunHarry Brown1944Novel---
2A Bell for Adano1945Henry KingUSA Bell for Adano[43]John Hersey1944Novel---
3The Story of G.I. Joe[19]1945William WellmanUSBrave Men & Here Is Your War (uncredited)Ernie Pyle[42]1944 & 1943[8]Non-fiction---
4Up Front1951Alexander HallUSUp FrontBill Mauldin[44]1945?Memoir/Cartoons---
5Anzio1968Duilio Coletti & Edward DmytrykItalyAnzioWynford Vaughan-Thomas1961Non-fiction---
6The Devil's Brigade1968Andrew V. McLaglenUSThe Devil's BrigadeRobert H. Adleman & George Walton1966Non-fiction---
7Patton[18]1970Franklin J. SchaffnerUSPatton: Ordeal and TriumphLadislas Farago1963Non-fiction---
7A Soldier's StoryOmar N. Bradley1951Non-fiction---
8The Skin1981Liliana CavaniItalyLa pelleCurzio Malaparte1949Novel---
9In Love and War *2001John Kent HarrisonUSLove and War in the ApenninesEric Newby1971Novel/
Memoir
---
10Miracle at St. Anna2008Spike LeeUSMiracle at St. AnnaJames McBride2003Novel---
Fighters
FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
Story of a Real Man
Повесть о настоящем человеке
1948Aleksandr StolperUSSRPovest o nastoyashchem chelovekeBoris Polevoy1946Novel---
Reach for the Sky1956Lewis GilbertUKReach for the Sky: The Story of Douglas Bader DSO, DFC. Paul Brickhill1954Non-fiction---
Battle of Britain1969Guy HamiltonUKThe Narrow MarginDerek Wood & Derek Dempster1961Novel---
Angels One Five 1952 George More O'Ferrall UK What Are Your Angels Now? Pelham Groom
Piece of Cake *1988Ian ToyntonUKPiece of CakeDerek Robinson1983Novel---
Bombers
FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
Victory Through Air Power α δ1943Perce Pearce, Clyde Geronimi, et al.USVictory Through Air PowerAlexander P. de Seversky1942Non-fiction---
Ladies Courageous1943John RawlinsUSLooking For TroubleVirginia Spencer Cowles194?Novel---
The Way to the Stars1945Anthony AsquithUK"For Johnny" et al.
Flare Path (uncredited)
John Pudney
Terence Rattigan (uncredited)
1941
1942
Poems
Play
Twelve O'Clock High[45]1949Henry KingUK & USTwelve O'Clock HighSy Bartlett & Beirne Lay, Jr. Novel
The Dam Busters1954Michael AndersonUKThe Dam Busters
Enemy Coast Ahead (uncredited)
Paul Brickhill
Guy Gibson
1951
1946[46]
Non-fiction
Autobiographical
---
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell1955Otto PremingerUSWinged Defense (uncredited)Billy Mitchell (uncredited)1925Non-fiction---
The War Lover1962Philip LeacockUKThe War LoverJohn Hersey1959Novel---
633 Squadron1964Walter GraumanUK & US633 SquadronFrederick E Smith1958Novel---
Nebeští jezdci
Nebeští jezdci
1968Jindřich PolákCzechoslovakiaNebeští jezdciFilip Jánský1964Novel---
Catch-221970Mike NicholsUSCatch-22[6]Joseph Heller1961Novel---
Murphy's War1971Peter YatesUKMurphy's WarMax Catto1969Novel---
Twelve O'Clock High ***1964–1967Robert Douglas, Don Medford et al.USTwelve O'Clock HighSy Bartlett & Beirne Lay, Jr.1948Novel---
  • ♠ The story of women bomber pilots from the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron.
  • ♦ The original novelists became the principal scriptwriters on the series.
  • *** TV series.
  • α Animated film.
  • δ Documentary.
Transports
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Island in the Sky1953William A. WellmanUSIsland in the SkyErnest K. Gann1944Novel---
Missiles
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Prüfstand VII2002Robert BramkampGermanyGravity's Rainbow[47] [6] (excerpts)Thomas Pynchon1973Novel---
Capital ships
Battle of the River Plate

13 December 1939

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Battle of the River Plate1956Michael Powell & Emeric PressburgerUKI Was Graf Spee's Prisoner (uncredited)Patrick Dove (uncredited)195?Non-fiction---
Battle of Drøbak Sound

9 April 1940

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Hamsun1996Jan TroellGermany, Norway, Sweden, DenmarkProcessen mod HamsunThorkild Hansen1978Non-fiction---
1RegnbuenMarie Hamsun1953Autobiography---
  • ♠ The battle footage was excised from the release print of the film.
Battle of the Denmark Strait and Sinking of the Bismarck

24–27 May 1941

Film Date Director Country Source
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
Sink the Bismarck!1960Lewis Gilbert UK The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck "C.S. Forester" 1959 Novel
Cruisers and destroyers
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1In Which We Serve1942Noël CowardUKBless our Ship: Mountbatten and the Kelly (uncredited)Richard Hough (uncredited)198?Non-fiction---
2The Cruel Sea1953Charles FrendUKThe Cruel Sea[6]Nicholas Monsarrat1951Novel---
3The Enemy Below1957Dick PowellUSThe Enemy BelowD.A. Rayner1956Novel---
4Under Ten Flags1960Duilio ColettiItaly & USSchiff 16. Tatsachenbericht. Die Kaperfahrten des schweren Hilfskreuzers „Atlantis“ auf den 7 Weltmeeren[48]Bernhard Rogge & Wolfgang Frank1955Memoir---
4Atlantis, The story of a German Surface Raider (uncredited)Ulrich Möhr & A.V. Sellwood (uncredited)195?Non-fiction---
5The Valiant1962Roy Ward BakerUK & ItalyL'Équipage au completRobert Mallet1958Play---
  • Noël Coward based this story on his friend Louis Mountbatten and the sinking of his destroyer, HMS Kelly. The true story of the episode was written after the war.
  • ♣ The stories involve the crews of an Allied warship and an Axis submarine.
Submarines
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Above Us the Waves1955Ralph ThomasUKAbove Us the WavesCharles Esme Thornton Warren & James D. Benson1953Novel---
2The Enemy Below1957Dick PowellUSThe Enemy BelowD.A. Rayner1956Novel---
3The Valiant1962Roy Ward BakerUK & ItalyL'Équipage au completRobert Mallet1958Play---
4Mystery Submarine1963C.M. Pennington-RichardsUKMystery Submarine (?)Jon Manchip White195?[9]Play---
5Das Boot1981Wolfgang PetersenWest GermanyDas Boot[6]Lothar-Günther Buchheim1973Novel---
  • ♣ The stories involve the crews of an Allied warship and an Axis submarine.
Frogmen
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Silent Enemy1958William FairchildUKCommander CrabbMarshall Pugh195?Non-fiction---
Merchant marine
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Long Voyage Home1940John FordUSThe Moon of the CaribeesEugene O'Neill[49]1918Play---
1In The ZoneEugene O'Neill[49]1917Play---
1Bound East for CardiffEugene O'Neill[49]1914Play---
1The Long Voyage HomeEugene O'Neill[49]1917Play---
2The Navy Comes Through1942A. Edward SutherlandUS"Pay To Learn"Borden Chase194?Story---
3Action in the North Atlantic1943Lloyd BaconUSAction in the North AtlanticGuy Gilpatric1943[8]Novel---
4Passage to Marseille1944Michael CurtizUSSans Patrie aka
Men Without Country
Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall1942Novel---
5Lifeboat1944Alfred HitchcockUSLifeboatJohn Steinbeck[50]1942Novella (unpublished)---
6The Viking Watch of the Danish Seaman1948Bodil Ipsen & Lau Lauritzen Jr.Denmark?Kaj Frische194?Diary---
7Sealed Cargo1951Alfred L. WerkerUSThe Gaunt WomanEdmund Gilligan1943[8]Novel---
8Murphy's War1971Peter YatesUKMurphy's WarMax Catto1969Novel---
  • ♠ The story concerns a USN crew manning a gun on an armed merchantman.
  • ♦ Free French and Vichy French fight for control of a freighter.

Atomic weapons programme

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Copenhagen *2002Howard DaviesUKCopenhagen[51][52][53][54][55]Michael Frayn1998Play---
  • * TV movie.

Commando operations and Secret missions

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
The Guns of Navarone1961J. Lee ThompsonUS & YugoslaviaThe Guns of NavaroneAlistair MacLean1957Novel---
The Dirty Dozen1967Robert AldrichUK & USThe Dirty DozenE.M. Nathanson1965Novel---
Where Eagles Dare1968Brian G. HuttonUK & USWhere Eagles DareAlistair MacLean1967Novel---
Force 10 from Navarone1978Guy HamiltonUKForce 10 From NavaroneAlistair MacLean1967Novel---
Charlotte Gray2001Gillian ArmstrongUKCharlotte Gray[56]Sebastian Faulks1999Novel---
Jenny's War *1985Steve GethersUS & UKJenny's WarJack Stoneley195?Novel---
A Man Called Intrepid **1979Peter CarterCanada & UKA Man Called IntrepidWilliam Stevenson1976Non-fiction---
Brothers in Arms2011Marcel LangeneggerUSBrothers in ArmsRichard Baron, Abe Baum, Richard Goldhurst200?Non-fiction---
  • * TV movie.
Central Europe
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Hitler's Madman1943Douglas SirkUSHangman's VillageBart Lytton1943?Novel---
1"Lidice"Edna St. Vincent Millay1943?Poem---
2Operation Daybreak1975Lewis GilbertUK & CzechoslovakiaSeven Men at DaybreakAlan Burgess19??Non-fiction---
Western Europe
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Decision Before Dawn1951Anatole LitvakUSCall It TreasonGeorge Howe195?Novel---
2Appointment with Venus1951Ralph ThomasUKAppointment with VenusJerrard Tickell1951Novel---
3The Red Beret1953Terence YoungUKThe Red BeretHilary St. George Saunders195?Non-fiction---
4The Cockleshell Heroes1955José FerrerUKThe Cockleshell HeroesGeorge Kent195?Non-fiction---
5Carve Her Name with Pride1958Lewis GilbertUKCarve Her Name with PrideR.J. Minney195?Non-fiction---
6Ill Met by Moonlight1957Michael Powell & Emeric PressburgerUKIll Met by Moonlight: The Abduction of General KreipeW. Stanley Moss1952Non-fiction---
Eastern Europe
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Star
Звезда
1949Aleksandr IvanovUSSR"Zvezda"
"Звезда"
Emmanuil Kazakevich1947Story---
2The Star
Звезда
2002Nikolai LebedevRussia"Zvezda"
"Звезда"
Emmanuil Kazakevich1947Story---
Central Europe
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Death Is Called Engelchen
Smrt si říká Engelchen
1963Ján Kadár & Elmar KlosCzechoslovakiaSmrť sa volá EngelchenLadislav Mňačko1959Novel/Memoir---
2Želary2003Ondřej TrojanCzech Republic & SlovakiaJozova Hanule[57]Květa Legátová2002Novella---
2Želary[57]Květa Legátová2001Stories---
Poland
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
2A Generation1955Andrzej WajdaPolandPokolenieBohdan Czeszko1951Novel---
3Bołdyn
Bołdyn
1981Ewa Petelska & Czesław PetelskiPolandBołdynJerzy Putrament1969Novel---
4Sophie's Choice1982Alan J. PakulaUSSophie's Choice [58] [4] [6]William Styron1979Novel---
5The Wall *1982Robert MarkowitzPoland & USThe WallMillard Lampell1960[59]Play---
5The Wall[60][61]John Hersey1950Novel---
6Au nom de tous les miens1983Robert EnricoFrance, Canada, HungaryFor Those I LovedMartin Gray with Max Gallo1971Memoir---
7Warsaw – Year 57031992Janusz KijowskiGermany, France, Poland?Jerzy Janicki199?Novella---
8Uprising *2001Jon AvnetUSA Surplus of Memory: Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto UprisingYitzhak Zuckerman1976/1991Memoir---
8Memoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto Fighter: The Past within MeSimha Rotem "Kazik" ♦ ‡1994Memoir---
8Between Tumbling WallsTuvia Borzykowski1972Memoir---
8The Jews of Warsaw, 1939–1943: Ghetto, Underground, Revolt
Yehude Varshah, 1939–1943: geto, mahteret, mered
Israel Gutman
ישראל גוטמן
1977[8]Non-fiction---
8Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto UprisingIsrael Gutman1994[8]Non-fiction---
8The Revolt of the Besieged: The Biography of Mordechai Anielewicz
Mered ha-netsurim
Israel Gutman1963[8]Non-fiction---
8In the Days of Destruction and RevoltZivia Lubetkin1981Memoir---
8Shielding the Flame: An Intimate Conversation With Dr. Marek Edelman, the Last Surviving Leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (uncredited)Marek Edelman ♦ ‡ with Hanna Krall1986Memoir---
8Es gibt keinen jüdischen Wohnbezirk in Warschau mehr ![62] (uncredited)SS Gen. Jürgen Stroop1943/1979Report/Diary---
8Conversations with an Executioner[62]
Rozmowy z katem (uncredited)
Kazimierz Moczarski1972–1974/1975Non-fiction---
8Emanuel Ringelblum Archives (uncredited)Emanuel Ringelblum ‡ (archivist)1943Archive---
9Karol: A Man Who Became Pope **2005Giacomo BattiatoPoland, Italy, France, Germany, CanadaStories of Karol: The Unknown Life of Pope John Paul IIGian Franco Svidercoschi2001Non-fiction---
10Pope John Paul II **2005John Kent HarrisonItaly, US, Poland"Gods and Man"
"Bogowie i człowiek"
from Vade-mecum
Cyprian Norwid1866Poem---
11Defiance ♠♠2008Edward ZwickUSDefiance: The Bielski PartisansNechama Tec1993Non-fiction---
  • Mel Brooks remade the film in 1983 as To Be or Not to Be.
  • ♠ Polish Communist resistance fighters aid the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The first film in Wajda's War Trilogy.
  • ♦ Rotem, Gutman, and Edelman were consultants on the film.
  • ‡ Zuckerman, Rotem, Lubetkin, Edelman and Stroop are characters in the film. Ringelblum is mentioned.
  • ♠♠ The film is set in the area of Eastern Poland occupied by the Soviet Union in 1939 as Germany's ally, then incorporated into Byelorussia.
  • * TV movie.
  • ** TV miniseries.
Western Europe
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Casablanca[63]1942Michael CurtizUSEverybody Comes to Rick'sMurray Burnett & Joan Alison1940Play (unproduced)---
2Edge of Darkness1943Lewis MilestoneUSEdge of DarknessWilliam Woods1942Novel---
3The Moon Is Down1943Irving PichelUSThe Moon Is Down[6]John Steinbeck[50]1942Novel---
4Suicide Mission
Shetlandsgjengen
1954Michael ForlongUK & NorwayThe Shetland Bus: A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival, and AdventureDavid Howarth1951Non-fiction---
4None But the Brave
Shetlands-Larsen
Frithjof Sælen1947Non-fiction---
5Max Manus: Man of War2008Joachim Rønning & Espen SandbergNorwayDet vil helst gå godt (uncredited)Max Manus (uncredited)1945Memoir---
5Det blir alvor (uncredited)Max Manus (uncredited)1946Memoir---
France
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Cloak and Dagger1946Fritz LangUSCloak and DaggerCorey Ford & Alastair MacBain1946Non-fiction?---
2The Train1964John FrankenheimerUS, France, ItalyLe Front de l'artRose Valland1961Non-fiction---
3Army of Shadows1969Jean-Pierre MelvilleFranceL'Armée des ombresJoseph Kessel1943Novel/Memoir---
4The Train1973Pierre Granier-DeferreFrance & ItalyThe TrainGeorges Simenon1961Novel---
5L'Affiche Rouge1976Frank CassentiFrance"Red Poster"
"Affiche rouge"
Vichy Ministry
of Information
1944Propaganda poster---
6Boulevard des hirondelles1993Josée YanneFranceIls partiront dans l'ivresseLucie Aubrac1984Memoir---
7Lucie Aubrac1997Claude BerriFranceIls partiront dans l'ivresseLucie Aubrac1984Memoir---
8The Army of Crime
L'Armée du crime
2009Robert GuédiguianFrance"Red Poster"
"Affiche rouge"
Vichy Ministry
of Information
1944Propaganda poster---
Frequently filmed: Le Silence de la mer
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Le Silence de la mer1949Jean-Pierre MelvilleFrancePut Out the Light[4]
Le Silence de la mer
"Vercors"1942Novel---
Balkans
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Silent Gunpowder
Глуви барут
1990Bato Čengić
Бахрудин Ченгић
YugoslaviaSilent Gunpowder
Глуви барут
Branko Ćopić1957Novel---
USSR
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Young Guard1948Sergei GerasimovUSSRThe Young GuardAlexander Fadeyev1945Novel---
2Heavy Sand ***
Тяжёлый песок
2008Anton Barshchevsky
Антон Барщевский
RussiaHeavy SandAnatoly Rybakov1979Novel---
  • *** TV series.
Italy
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1General della Rovere1959Roberto RosselliniItalyIl Generale della RovereIndro Montanelli1959Novel---
2The Long Night of '431960Florestano VanciniItaly, France"Una notte del '43"[64]Giorgio Bassani1956Story---
3The Scarlet and the Black1983Jerry LondonUS, UK, ItalyThe Scarlet Pimpernel of the VaticanJ. P. Gallagher1967Non-fiction---
4Il partigiano Johnny2000Guido ChiesaItalyIl partigiano JohnnyBeppe Fenoglio1968Novel---
nLittle Teachers
I piccoli maestri
1998Daniele LuchettiItalyThe Outlaws[65]
I piccoli maestri
Luigi Meneghello1964Novel/Memoir---
Caribbean
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1To Have and Have Not1944Howard HawksUSTo Have and Have NotErnest Hemingway[5]1937Novel---
German anti-Nazi opposition

John Keegan prefers the term "opposition" to the term "resistance" in reference to internal German disagreement.[66]

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Hitler, Beast of Berlin1939"Sherman Scott"USGoose StepShepard Traube[67]193?[9]Novel---
2Pimpernel Smith1941Leslie HowardUKThe Scarlet PimpernelBaroness Orczy1905Novel---
3Watch on the Rhine1943Herman ShumlinUSWatch on the Rhine[68]Lillian Hellman1941Play---
4The Night of the Generals1967Anatole LitvakUK & FranceDie Nacht der Generale[69]Hans Hellmut Kirst1962Novel---
5Lili Marleen1981Rainer Werner FassbinderWest GermanyDer Himmel hat viele FarbenLale Andersen1972Memoir---
6Christabel **1988Adrian ShergoldUKThe Past is Myself[41]Christabel Bielenberg1968Memoir---
6The Road Ahead (unconfirmed)Christabel Bielenberg196?Memoir---
7Karol: A Man Who Became Pope ♦ **2005Giacomo BattiatoPoland, Italy, France, Germany, CanadaStories of Karol: The Unknown Life of Pope John Paul IIGian Franco Svidercoschi2001Non-fiction---
8Sophie Scholl – The Final Days
Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage
2005Marc RothemundGermany??1943Transcripts (unpublished)[70]---
  • ♠ The film that inspired Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg.
  • ♦ A Catholic German officer is executed in Poland.
  • ** TV miniseries.

Military intelligence and Espionage

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Confessions of a Nazi Spy1939Anatole LitvakUSNazi Spies in AmericaLeon G. Turrou1939Articles---
2Night Train to Munich1940Carol ReedUKReport on a Fugitive (uncredited)Gordon Wellesley (uncredited)193?Novel---
3Ministry of Fear1944Fritz LangUSThe Ministry of Fear[6]Graham Greene1943Novel---
45 Fingers1952Joseph L. MankiewiczUSOperation CiceroLudwig Carl Moyzisch1950Non-fiction---
5The Man Who Never Was1956Ronald NeameUKThe Man Who Never WasEwen Montagu1954Non-fiction---
6I Was Monty's Double1958John GuillerminUKI Was Monty's DoubleM. E. Clifton James1954Non-fiction---
7The Pigeon That Took Rome1962Melville ShavelsonUSThe Easter DinnerDonald Downes195?Novel---
836 Hours1965George SeatonUS"Beware of the Dog"
from Over to You
Roald Dahl1944/
1946
Story---
9Triple Cross1966Terence YoungUK & FranceThe Eddie Chapman StoryFrank Owen196?Non-fiction---
10Seventeen Moments of Spring **
Семнадцать мгновений весны
1973Tatyana LioznovaUSSRThe Himmler Ploy"Yulian Semyonov"1968Novel---
11Salon Kitty1976Tinto BrassItaly, West Germany, FranceSalon Kitty. Report einer geheimen ReichssachePeter Norden1970Novel?---
12Eye of the Needle1981Richard MarquandUKEye of the Needle[71]Ken Follett1978Novel---
13Enigma2001Michael AptedUK, USEnigma[6]Robert Harris1995Novel---
Neutral powers
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Mask of Dimitrios1944Jean NegulescoUSThe Mask of DimitriosEric Ambler1939Novel---

Home Guard

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1943Michael Powell &
Emeric Pressburger
UK?David Low193?Cartoons---

Military bases

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Major and the Minor1942Billy WilderUSConnie Goes HomeEdward Childs Carpenter194?Play---
1"Sunny Goes Home"Fannie Kilbourne194?Story---
2On the Fiddle1961Cyril FrankelUKStop at a WinnerR.F. Delderfield195?Novel---
3Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall1972Norman CohenUKAdolf Hitler: My Part in His DownfallSpike Milligan1971Memoir---
4A Soldier's Story1984Norman JewisonUSA Soldier's Play[73][74]Charles Fuller1981Play---
5Biloxi Blues1988Mike NicholsUSBiloxi Blues[75]Neil Simon1985Play---
Enlistment
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Lost Boundaries1949Alfred L. WerkerUSLost BoundariesWilliam L. White1948Novel---

Military hospitals

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The English Patient1996Anthony MinghellaUS & U.K.The English Patient
[76] [77] [78] [6]
Michael Ondaatje1992Novel---
2Something The Lord Made ♠ *2004Joseph SargentUS"Like Something the Lord Made"Katie McCabe1989Article---
3The Haunted Airman *2006Chris DurlacherUKThe Haunting of Toby JuggDennis Wheatley1948Novel---
  • ♠ A film about pioneering civilian open-heart surgery which led to a World War II military application.
  • * TV movie.

Military justice and Courts-martial

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell1955Otto PremingerUSWinged Defense (uncredited)Billy Mitchell (uncredited)1925Non-fiction---
2The Execution of Private Slovik *1974Lamont JohnsonUSThe Execution of Private SlovikWilliam Bradford Huie1954Non-fiction---
3Firing Squad *1991Michel AndrieuCanada & FranceExecution[79]Colin McDougall1958Novel---
Allied POWs
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Wooden Horse1950Jack LeeUKThe Wooden HorseEric Williams1949Novel/Memoir---
2Stalag 171953Billy WilderUSStalag 17Donald Bevan & Edmund Trzcinski195?Play---
3The Password is Courage1962Andrew L. StoneUKCharles Coward: My Life is YoursJohn Castle196?Non-fiction---
4The Elusive Corporal1962Jean RenoirFranceLe Caporal épingléJacques Perret1947Novel---
5The Great Escape1963John SturgesUSThe Great EscapePaul Brickhill1950Non-fiction---
6Von Ryan's Express1965Mark RobsonUSVon Ryan's ExpressDavid Westheimer1964Novel---
7Slaughterhouse-Five1972George Roy HillUSSlaughterhouse-Five[6]Kurt Vonnegut1969Novel---
8The Ogre1996Volker SchlöndorffFrance, Germany, UKThe Erl King
Le Roi des aulnes[80]
Michel Tournier1970Novel---
9In Love and War *2001John Kent HarrisonUSLove and War in the ApenninesEric Newby1971Novel/
Memoir
---
10Hart's War2002Gregory HoblitUSHart's WarJohn Katzenbach1999Novel---
11Colditz *2005Stuart OrmeUKColditz: The Definitive History[81] (uncredited)Henry Chancellor (uncredited)200?Non-fiction---
12Katyń2007Andrzej WajdaPolandPost Mortem: The Story of Katyń[82]Andrzej Mularczyk2007Novel---
13The Way Back2010Peter WeirUSThe Long Walk:
The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
Slavomir Rawicz with Ronald Downing (ghostwriter)1956?Memoir (purported)---
nThe Cow and I
La Vache et le prisonnier
1959Henri VerneuilFrance & ItalyUne histoire vraieJacques Antoine195?Novel---
  • * TV movie.
Frequently filmed: Colditz: The Colditz Story
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Colditz Story1955Guy HamiltonUKColditz: The Colditz StoryP.R. Reid1952Memoir---
2The Birdmen *1971Philip LeacockUSColditz: The Colditz Story (uncredited)P.R. Reid (uncredited)1952Memoirs---
2Latter Days at Colditz (uncredited)P.R. Reid (uncredited)1953Memoirs---
3Colditz ***1972–1974Peter Cregeen, Viktors Ritelis, Michael Ferguson et al.UKColditz: The Colditz Story (uncredited)P.R. Reid1952Memoir---
  • ♠ Reid is credited as technical consultant, rather than author.
  • * TV movie.
  • *** TV series.
Frequently filmed: The Last Duel
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
3Escape to Victory aka Victory1981John HustonUSThe Last Duel (uncredited)? (uncredited)196?Play---
Axis POWs
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Embajadores en el infierno
Embajadores en el infierno
1956José María ForquéSpainEmbajador en el infierno[83]
Embajador en el infierno. Memorias del Capitán Palacios (once años de cautiverio en Rusia)
Torcuato Luca de Tena & Teodoro Palacios Cueto1956?Novel/
Memoir
---
2The One That Got Away1957Roy Ward BakerUKThe One That Got AwayKendal Burt & James Leasor1956Non-fiction---
3As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me ♣ **
So weit die Füße tragen
1959Fritz UmgelterWest GermanyAs Far as My Feet Will Carry Me
So weit die Füße tragen
Josef M. Bauer1955Novel---
4Summer of My German Soldier *1978Michael TuchnerUSSummer of My German SoldierBette Greene1973Novel---
5As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me
So weit die Füße tragen
2001Hardy MartinsGermanyAs Far as My Feet Will Carry Me
So weit die Füße tragen
Josef M. Bauer1955Novel---
  • Ambassadors in Hell is the story of Spanish POWs in the Soviet Union.
  • ♣ The tale of a German POW, Clemens Forell, escaping from a Soviet gulag is based on a genuine prisoner.
  • * TV movie.
  • ** TV miniseries.
Frequently filmed: No Picnic on Mount Kenya
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Ascent1994Donald ShebibCanada & USNo Picnic on Mount Kenya: The Story of Three P.O.W.s' Escape to AdventureFelice Benuzzi1948Memoir---
2Fuga sul Kenya
Fuga sul Kenya
2009Gabriele IacovoneItalyNo Picnic on Mount Kenya: The Story of Three P.O.W.s' Escape to AdventureFelice Benuzzi1948Memoir---
Convicts
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Hill1965Sidney LumetUKThe HillRay Rigby & R.S. Allen196?Play---
2Borstal Boy2000Peter SheridanUK & IrelandBorstal BoyBrendan Behan1958Novel/
Memoir
---
3The Final Battle of Major Pugachov Последний бой майора Пугачёва2005Vladimir FatyanovRussia"The Final Battle"
"Последний бой"[84]
from The Kolyma Tales
Varlam Shalamov1959/
1954–1973
Story---
nPunishment Battalion
Strafbataillon 999
1960Harald PhilippWest GermanyStrafbataillon 999Heinz G. Konsalik1959Novel---
Civilians
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Ich klage an1941Wolfgang LiebeneinerNazi GermanySendung und GewissenHellmuth Unger194?Novel---
2Naked Among Wolves1963Frank BeyerEast GermanyNackt unter WölfenBruno Apitz1958Novel---
3Reportáž psaná na oprátce1961Jaroslav BalíkCzechoslovakiaNotes from the Gallows
Reportáž psaná na oprátce
Julius Fučík[85]1947/
1995
Memoir (posthumous)---
4Transport from Paradise
Transport z ráje
1962Zbyněk BrynychCzechoslovakiaNight and Hope
Noc a naděje
Arnošt Lustig1957Novel---
5Playing for Time *1980Daniel MannUSSursis pour l'orchestreFania Fénelon1976?Memoir---
6The Assault1986Fons RademakersNetherlandsThe Assault[6]Harry Mulisch1982Novel---
7Escape from Sobibor *1987Jack GoldUSEscape from SobiborRichard Rashke19??Non-fiction---
8Korczak1990Andrzej WajdaPolandKing Matthew the First
Król Maciuś Pierwszy (uncredited)
Janusz Korczak (uncredited)1923Children's book---
9Bent1997Sean MathiasUKBent[86]Martin Sherman1979Play---
10Aimée & Jaguar1999Max FärberböckGermanyAimée & Jaguar. Eine Liebesgeschichte, Berlin 1943Erica Fischer1994Non-fiction---
11Tea with Mussolini1999Franco ZeffirelliItaly & UKAutobiografiaFranco Zeffirelli199?Autobiography---
12The Grey Zone2001Tim Blake NelsonUSAuschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness AccountMiklós Nyiszli19??Memoir---
13The Ninth Day2004Volker SchlöndorffGermany, Luxembourg, Czech RepublicPfarrerblock 25487Father Jean Bernard19??Memoir---
14Fateless2005Lajos KoltaiHungary & GermanyFatelessImre Kertész[87]1975Novel---
15The Counterfeiters2007Stefan RuzowitzkyAustria & GermanyDes Teufels Werkstatt: Im Fälscherkommando des KZ SachsenhausenAdolf Burger1983Memoir---
16The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas2008Mark HermanUK & USThe Boy in the Striped Pyjamas[88]John Boyne2006Novel---
17God on Trial *2008Andy de EmmonyUK & USThe Trial of God ♦♦
Le procès de Shamgorod tel qu'il se déroula le 25 février 1649 (uncredited)
Elie Wiesel[89] (uncredited)1979Play---
nThe Garden of the Finzi-Continis1970Vittorio de SicaItalyThe Garden of the Finzi-Continis[90]Giorgio Bassani1962Novel---
nThe Nazi2002Rod LurieUSThe Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of ForgivenessSimon Wiesenthal1976Memoir---
nPastor Hall1940Ray BoultingUKPastor HallErnst Toller1939Play---
  • ♠ The infamous Nazi film which calmly advocates euthanasia for physically ill patients.[91]
  • ♦ Fischer's follow-up book is entitled Das kurze Leben der Jüdin Felice Schragenheim. "Jaguar", Berlin 1922-Bergen-Belsen 1945. (English: The Short Life of the Jewess Felice Schragenheim. "Jaguar", Berlin 1922 – Bergen-Belsen 1945), 2002.
  • ♦♦ The premise for the film originated in Wiesel's recollection from Auschwitz and the basis for his own play.
  • * TV movie.


Frequently filmed: The Diary of a Young Girl
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Diary of Anne Frank1959George StevensUSThe Diary of Anne Frank[92][93][94][95]Frances Goodrich &
Albert Hackett
1955Play---
1The Diary of a Young Girl[4]Anne Frank1947Diary---
2The Diary of Anne Frank *1980Boris SagalUSThe Diary of Anne FrankFrances Goodrich &
Albert Hackett
1955Play---
3Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank *1982?East GermanyThe Diary of Anne FrankFrances Goodrich &
Albert Hackett
1955Play---
4The Diary of Anne Frank *2009Jon JonesUKThe Diary of a Young GirlAnne Frank1947Diary---
  • * TV movie.
Twice filmed: Jakob, der Lügner
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Jacob the Liar1975Frank BeyerEast Germany & CzechoslovakiaJakob der LügnerJurek Becker1969Novel---
2Jakob the Liar1999Peter KassovitzFrance, US, HungaryJakob, der LügnerJurek Becker1969Novel---
Saviours

Original screenplay films only: Salvo D'Acquisto, Charlie Grant, Maximilian Kolbe, Nicholas Winton

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeSaviour
1Wallenberg: A Hero's Story *1985Lamont JohnsonUS & YugoslaviaWallenberg: A Hero's StoryThurston B. Clarke198?Non-fictionRaoul Wallenberg
2The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank *1988John ErmanUS & UKAnne Frank Remembered (?)Miep Gies198?MemoirMiep Gies
3Schindler's List[96]1993Steven SpielbergUSSchindler's Ark[97][98]Thomas Keneally1982NovelOskar Schindler
4Varian's War2001Lionel ChetwyndUK, US, CanadaSurrender on DemandVarian Fry1945MemoirVarian Fry
5Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man2002Alberto NegrinItalyLa banalità del beneEnrico Deaglio1993NovelGiorgio Perlasca
6The Pianist2002Roman PolanskiFrance, Poland, Germany, United KingdomThe Pianist
Śmerć miasta
Władysław Szpilman1946MemoirWilm Hosenfeld
7The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler *2009John Kent HarrisonUSThe Mother of the Holocaust Children
Matka dzieci Holocaustu. Historia Ireny Sendlerowej
Anna Mieszkowska2004[99]Non-fictionIrena Sendler

Other atrocities

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Gentle Gunman1952Basil DeardenUKThe Gentle GunmanRoger MacDougall195?Play---
2Two Women ♠♠1960Vittorio De SicaItalyLa CiociaraAlberto Moravia1958Novel---
3The Camp Followers
Le soldatesse
1965Valerio ZurliniYugoslavia, Italy, France,
West Germany
Le soldatesseUgo Pirro1956Novel---
4The Adventures of Werner Holt
Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt
1965Joachim KunertEast GermanyDie Abenteuer des Werner Holt.
Roman einer Jugend.
(Part 1)
Dieter Noll1960Novel/
Memoir
---
5Massacre in Rome ♦♦1973George P. CosmatosItalyDeath in RomeRobert Katz1967Non-fiction---
6Strange Gardens ♦♦♦2003Jean BeckerFranceEffroyables jardinsMichel Quint2000Novel---
  • ♠ About IRA terrorists who planted bombs in the London Underground during the Blitz.
  • ♠♠ About the Marocchinate, Italian women liberated only to be raped by Moroccan Goumiers.
  • ♦ About Greek prostitutes who are pressganged into service in an Italian Army brothel in Albania.
  • ♦♦ About the Ardeatine Caves massacre.
  • ♦♦♦ About a fictional reprisal against French hostages.

Refugees and Displaced persons

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Arch of Triumph1948Lewis MilestoneUSArch of TriumphErich Maria Remarque1945Novel---
2The Juggler1953Edward DmytrykUSThe JugglerMichael Blankfort195?Novel---
3Me and the Colonel1958Peter GlenvilleUSJacobowsky and the Colonel[100]
Jacobowsky und der Oberst.
Komödie einer Tragödie in drei Akten
Franz Werfel1944Play---
4Jacobowsky und der Oberst1967Rainer WolffhardtWest GermanyJacobowsky und der Oberst.
Komödie einer Tragödie in drei Akten
Franz Werfel1944Play---
5Dita Saxová1968Antonín MoskalykCzechoslovakiaDita Saxova
Dita Saxová
Arnošt Lustig1962Novel---
6Voyage of the Damned1976Stuart RosenbergUSVoyage of the DamnedGordon Thomas & Max Morgan-Witts1974Non-fiction---
7The Boat Is Full
Das Boot ist voll
1981Markus ImhoofSwitzerland, West Germany, AustriaDas Boot ist voll. Die Flüchtlingspolitik der Schweiz 1933–1945Alfred A. Häsler1967Non-fiction---
8The Truce1997Francesco RosiItaly, France, GermanyThe TrucePrimo Levi1962Memoir---
  • ♠ Most of the story takes place in Israel in 1949.
Central Europe
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Shop on Main Street1965Ján Kadár & Elmar KlosCzechoslovakia"Past"Ladislav Grosman1962Story---
2Closely Watched Trains1966Jiří MenzelCzechoslovakiaOstře sledované vlakyBohumil Hrabal1964Novella---
3Der Bockerer1981Franz AntelAustria & West GermanyDer BockererUlrich Becher & Peter Preses1946Play---
4Europa Europa1990Agnieszka HollandGermany, France, PolandIch war Hitlerjunge SalomonSolomon Perel1989Memoir---
5Der Bockerer *2009Hannes RossacherAustriaDer BockererUlrich Becher & Peter Preses1946Play---
6The Nazi Officer's Wife2011Mike FiggisUS (?)The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the HolocaustEdith Hahn Beer with Susan Dworkin1999Memoir---
  • ♠ Vienna during the Nazi occupation of Austria. This film is followed by three sequels, each covering a different episode of Austrian history.
  • * TV movie.
Poland
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Unvanquished City
Robinson warszawski
1950Jerzy ZarzyckiPolandThe Pianist
Śmerć miasta (uncredited)
Władysław Szpilman ♠ (uncredited)1946Memoir---
2The Pianist2002Roman PolanskiFrance, Poland, Germany, United KingdomThe Pianist
Śmerć miasta
Władysław Szpilman1946Memoir---
3Katyń2007Andrzej WajdaPolandPost Mortem: The Story of Katyń[82]Andrzej Mularczyk2007Novel---
4Wartime Lies2011?USWartime Lies
[101] [102] [6]
Louis Begley1991Novel/Memoir---
  • ♠ The IMDb credits a novel by Czesław Miłosz,[103] but no such novel exists. Another tale of the film's origin has Miłosz basing his screenplay on Szpilman's memoir.
Denmark and Norway
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Hamsun1996Jan TroellGermany, Norway, Sweden, DenmarkProcessen mod HamsunThorkild Hansen1978Non-fiction---
1RegnbuenMarie Hamsun1953Autobiography---
France
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Killing of Father Christmas
L'Assassinat du Père Noël
1941Christian-JaqueOccupied FranceL'Assassinat du Père NoëlPierre Véry1934Novel---
2A Soldier's Tale1988Larry ParrNew ZealandA Soldier's TaleM.K. Joseph198?Novel---
3Laissez-passer2002Bertrand TavernierFranceAction !Jean-Devaivre2002Memoir---
nEyes of Love
Les Yeux de l'amour
1959Denys de La PatellièreFrance & ItalyUne histoire vraieJacques Antoine195?Novel---
  • ♠ The "novel" (collection of short stories?) is also the basis for the better-known comedy La vache et le prisonnier (q.v.).
Battle of Marseille

22–24 January 1943

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Seven Thundersaka
The Beasts of Marseilles
Les Sept Tonnerres
1989Hugo FregoneseUKSeven ThundersRupert Croft-Cooke1955[105]Novel---
Oradour-sur-glane Massacre

10 June 1944

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Souvenir1989Geoffrey ReeveUKSouvenirPaul Wheeler198?Novel---
Balkans
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Last Mission
Τελευταία αποστολή
1949[107]Nikos Tsiforos
Νίκος Τσιφόρος
GreeceTeleftaia apostoliNikos Tsiforos194?Novel---
2The Travelling Players
Ο Θίασος
1975Theodoros AngelopoulosGreeceOresteia (uncredited)Aeschylus (uncredited)458 BCTrilogy---
Baltic states

The Baltics were occupied by the USSR in 1940, then by Germany in 1941.

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Hannibal Rising2007Peter WebberUSHannibal RisingThomas Harris2006Novel---
  • ♠ The story of fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter begins in Lithuania in 1944.
USSR
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
The Blitz

7 September 1940 – 10 May 1941

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Mrs. Miniver[19]1942William WylerUSMrs. MiniverJan Struther1939Novel (originally newspaper columns)---
2Journey for Margaret1942W. S. Van DykeUSJourney for MargaretWilliam Lindsay White1941Novel---
3Danger UXB ***1979Ferdinand Fairfax, Douglas Camfield, et al.UKUnexploded Bomb, a History of Bomb DisposalMajor A. B. Hartley, MBE1958Memoir---
nMrs. Miniver *1960Marc DanielsUSMrs. MiniverJan Struther1939Novel---
  • * TV movie.
  • *** TV series.
Commonwealth
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Medal for the General1944Maurice ElveyUKMedal for the GeneralJames Ronald194?Novel---
2The Heart of the Matter1953George More O'FerrallUKThe Heart of the Matter[108]Graham Greene1948Novel---
3The Tin Flute
Bonheur d'occasion
1983Claude FournierCanadaThe Tin Flute[109][110]
Bonheur d'occasion
Gabrielle Roy[111]1945Novel---
4The Dresser1983Peter YatesUKThe Dresser[112]Ronald Harwood1980Play---
5The Land Girls1998David LelandUKLand GirlsAngela Huth19??Novel---
6Nowhere in Africa2001Caroline LinkGermanyNirgendwo in AfrikaStefanie Zweig1998Novel/Memoir---
United States
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
USSR
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Fate of a Man
Судьба человека
1959Sergei BondarchukUSSR"Sudba cheloveka"Mikhail Sholokhov[36]1957Story---
2Zosya
Зося
1967Mikhail BoginUSSR & Poland"Zosya" "Зося"Vladimir Bogomolov1963Story---
3Dzhamilya
Джамиля
1969Irina PoplavskayaUSSRJamilyaChingiz Aytmatov1958Novel---
4Twenty Days Without War
Двадцать дней без войны
1976Aleksei GermanUSSR"Dvadtsat dney bez voyny" (?)Konstantin Simonov[29]196?Story---
5Jamila1994Monica TeuberGermany & KyrgyzstanJamilyaChingiz Aytmatov1958Novel---
6La dernière lettre2002Frederick WisemanFrance & USLettre au filsAlexis Berelowitch (translator)199?Play---
6Life and Fate[6] (excerpt)Vasily Grossman1959Novel---
7Waltz with Bashir ♦ † α2008Ari FolmanIsraelWaltz with Bashir: A Lebanon War StoryAri Folman &
David Polonsky
2009Memoir/
Graphic novel
---
  • ♠ The film concerns a war correspondent, based on Simonov, in Tashkent to oversee a film production based on his work.[113]
  • ♦ The film includes a brief World War II scene.
  • † Dramatized documentary.
  • α Animated film.
Morale
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1This is the Army1943Michael CurtizUSThis is the ArmyIrving Berlin1942Musical---
1Yip Yip YaphankIrving Berlin1918Musical---
Axis
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1La Storia ♠ *1986Luigi ComenciniItaly, France,
West Germany, Spain
History: A Novel
La Storia[6]
Elsa Morante1974Novel---
  • ♠ A shortened version of the film was released to cinemas.
  • * TV movie.
Legacy
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Mariana, Mariana1987Alberto IsaacMexicoLas batallas en el desiertoJosé Emilio Pacheco1981Novel---
  • ♠ Mexican schoolboys growing up with a Japanese classmate in Colonia Roma, Mexico City in 1948 play at the battles of the desert campaign.[114]

Demobilization

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Best Years of Our Lives[63]1946William WylerUSGlory for MeMacKinlay Kantor1945Novella
(in blank verse)
---
2Crossfire1947Edward DmytrykUSThe Brick FoxholeRichard Brooks1945Novel---
3Ride the Pink Horse1947Robert MontgomeryUSRide the Pink HorseDorothy B. Hughes1946Novel---
4I Was a Male War Bride1949Howard HawksUS"I was an Alien Spouse of Female Military Personnel..."Henri Rochard1946?Story/Memoir---
5Path of Hope
Il cammino della speranza
1950Pietro GermiItalyCuori negli abissi[115]Nino de Maria194?Novel---
6The Miniver Story1950H.C. PotterUSMrs. Miniver (characters)Jan Struther1939Novel (originally newspaper columns)---
7Hell Is Sold Out1951Michael AndersonUKHell Is Sold Out
?
"Maurice Dekobra"1948[116] (in English)Novel---
8Back at the Front1952George ShermanUSUp Front (characters)Bill Mauldin1945?Memoir/Cartoons---
9Tit-Coq1953René Delacroix & Gratien GélinasCanadaTit-CoqGratien Gélinas1948Play---
10Wedding in White1972William FruetCanadaWedding in WhiteWilliam Fruet1977[26] (collected edition)Play---
11Katyń2007Andrzej WajdaPolandPost Mortem: The Story of Katyń[82]Andrzej Mularczyk2007Novel---
  • ♠ The victim in the film story is a Jew, changed from the homosexual victim of the novel.
  • ♥ Poverty-stricken Sicilians struggle to reach France and a new life.
  • ♣ Sequel to Up Front (1951). Now reservists, Willie and Joe are recalled for occupation duty in Japan.
  • ♦ The title Tit-Coq may appear rude to English speakers from outside Canada, but it simply employs the standard form for a man's nickname in Quebec French.[117]

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.

Nazis
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Condemned of Altona1962Vittorio De SicaItaly & FranceLes Séquestrés d'AltonaJean-Paul Sartre[118]1959Play---
2The Quiller Memorandum1966Sidney J. FurieUKThe Berlin Memorandum[119]"Adam Hall"1965Novel---
3The ODESSA File1974Ronald NeameUK & West GermanyThe Odessa FileFrederick Forsyth1972Novel---
4The Man in the Glass Booth1975Arthur HillerUSThe Man in the Glass Booth & The Man in the Glass Booth[120] (uncredited)Robert Shaw (uncredited)1967Novel & Play---
5Marathon Man1976John SchlesingerUSMarathon ManWilliam Goldman1974Novel---
6The House on Garibaldi Street *1979Peter CollinsonUSThe House on Garibaldi StreetIsser Harel1975Memoir---
7In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944 ♠ † *1992Brian McKennaCanadaThe Valour and the HorrorMerilyn Simonds1991Non-fiction---
7The Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign: A Study of Failure in High Command (uncredited)Lt. Col. John A. English (uncredited)1991Non-fiction---
8The Man Who Captured Eichmann1996William A. GrahamUSEichmann in My HandsPeter Z. Malkin & Harry Stein1990Memoir---
9Mother Night1996Keith GordonUSMother NightKurt Vonnegut1961Novel---
10Nuremberg *2000Yves SimoneauCanada & USNuremberg: Infamy on TrialJoseph E. Persico199?Non-fiction---
11Taking Sides
Der Fall Furtwängler
2001István SzabóFrance, UK, Germany, AustriaTaking SidesRonald Harwood1995Play---
11? (uncredited)Wilhelm Furtwängler (uncredited)194?Diary---
12The Reader2008Stephen DaldryUS, Germany, UKThe Reader
Der Vorleser
Bernhard Schlink1995Novel---
nThe Zoo Gang **1974Sidney Hayers & John HoughUKThe Zoo GangPaul Gallico1971Novel---
nMurderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story *1989Brian GibsonHungary, UK, US, West GermanyThe Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Memoirs (uncredited)Simon Wiesenthal & Joseph Wechsberg1967Memoir---
  • ♠ The film includes the trial of SS General Kurt Meyer for the murder of POWs.
  • † Dramatized documentary.
  • * TV movie.
  • ** TV miniseries or limited series.
Fascists
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Captain Carey, U.S.A.1950Mitchell LeisenUSNo SurrenderMartha Albrand194?Novel---
Pétainistes, Rexists, quislings
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Uranus1990Claude BerriFranceUranusMarcel Aymé1948Novel---
2The Statement2003Norman JewisonCanada, France, UKThe StatementBrian Moore1995Novel---
3Hannibal Rising2007Peter WebberUSHannibal RisingThomas Harris2006Novel---
  • ♠ The story concerns a former member of the Milice française.
Allied traitors

(See also Cocos Islands Mutiny)

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Pierrepoint1995Adrian ShergoldUKExecutioner: PierrepointAlbert Pierrepoint1974Memoir---
Stalinist jurisprudence
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich1970Caspar WredeUK & NorwayOne Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichAleksandr Solzhenitsyn[121]1962Novel---
  • ♠ A returning Soviet soldier is sentenced to the Gulag for having been captured earlier by the Germans.

Memorial

Well-known scenes of this kind appear in Saving Private Ryan. There is a lesser-known scene in Days of Glory.

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium1969Mel StuartUS"If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium"The New Yorker1965Cartoon---
2The General of the Dead Army1983Luciano TovoliItalyThe General of the Dead Army[4][6]
Gjenerali i ushtrisë së vdekur
Ismail Kadare1963Novel---
3War Requiem1988Derek JarmanUK"Anthem for Doomed Youth" et al.Wilfred Owen1917Poems---
4The Return of the Dead Army
Kthimi i ushtrisë së vdekur
1989Dhimitër AnagnostiAlbaniaThe General of the Dead Army (characters)Ismail Kadare1963Novel---
5Souvenir1989Geoffrey ReeveUKSouvenirPaul Wheeler198?Novel---
6Decoration Day *1990Robert MarkowitzUSDecoration DayJohn William Corrington198?Novella---
7Everything Is Illuminated2005Liev SchreiberUSEverything Is IlluminatedJonathan Safran Foer2002Novel---

Pearl Harbor, Hong Kong, Thailand

7–8 December 1941

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1From Here to Eternity[122]1953Fred ZinnemannUSFrom Here to Eternity[123] [6]James Jones1951Novel---
2Tora! Tora! Tora!1970Richard FleischerUS & JapanAt Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor[124]¤Gordon W. Prange1981Non-fiction
(in manuscript)
---
2The Broken SealLadislas Farago1967Non-fiction---
3A Savage Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong † *1992Brian McKennaCanadaThe Valour and the HorrorMerilyn Simonds1991Non-fiction---
  • † Dramatized documentary.
  • * TV movie.
Frequently filmed: Sunset at Chaophraya

คู่กรรม

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry

Land operations – Pacific Campaigns

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Fighting Seabees1944Edward LudwigUS"Donovan's Army"Borden Chase194?Story---
2Beachhead1954Stuart HeislerUSI've Got MineRichard G. Hubler1946Novel---
3Between Heaven and Hell1956Richard FleischerUSThe Day the Century EndedFrancis Gwaltney1955Novel---
4The Naked and the Dead1958Raoul WalshUSThe Naked and the Dead[6][124]Norman Mailer1948Novel---
5In Love and War1958Philip DunneUSThe Big WarAnton Myrer1957Novel---
6Once an Eagle ♦ **1976Richard Michaels & E.W. SwackhamerUSOnce an EagleAnton Myrer1968Novel---
7The Great Raid2005John DahlUS & AustraliaGreat Raid on Cabanatuan: Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and CorregidorWilliam Breuer1994Non-fiction---
7Ghost Soldiers (uncredited)(unconfirmed)Hampton Sides (uncredited)(unconfirmed)2001Non-fiction---
  • ♦ The wide-ranging film covers World War I, the interwar years, the Sino-Japanese War, and World War II (Pacific theatre).
    The novel also includes a fictionalized Vietnam War.[125]
  • ** TV miniseries.
Makin Island raid

August 1942

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1"Gung Ho!": The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders1943Ray EnrightUS"We Mopped Up Makin Island"Lt. W.S. LeFrançois1942Article---
Battle of Guadalcanal

August 1942 – February 1943

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Guadalcanal Diary1943Lewis SeilerUSGuadalcanal DiaryRichard Tregaskis1943Memoir---
2Pride of the Marines1945Delmer DavesUSAl Schmid, MarineRoger Butterfield194?Non-fiction---
3The Thin Red Line1964Andrew MartonUSThe Thin Red Line
[6][41]
James Jones1962Novel---
4The Thin Red Line1998Terrence MalickUSThe Thin Red Line
[6][41]
James Jones1962Novel---
Battle of Saipan

June – July 1944

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Battle Cry1955Raoul WalshUSBattle CryLeon Uris1953Novel---
Battle of Peleliu

September – November 1944

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Pacific **2010Tim Van Patten, Jeremy Podeswa, Graham Yost, et al.US & AustraliaWith the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa[41]E.B. Sledge1981Memoir---
1Helmet for My PillowRobert Leckie1957Memoir---
1China MarineEugene B. Sledge2002 (posthumous)Memoir---
1Red Blood, Black SandChuck Tatum195?Memoir---
  • ** TV miniseries.
Battle of Iwo Jima

February – March 1945

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Flags of Our Fathers2006Clint EastwoodUSFlags of Our FathersJames Bradley2000Non-fiction---
2Letters from Iwo Jima2006Clint EastwoodUSPicture Letters from Commander in ChiefTadamichi Kuribayashi & Tsuyoko Yoshido1992Letters---

Land operations – Burma and Malaya Campaigns

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Burmese Harp1956Kon IchikawaJapanThe Burmese HarpTakeyama Michio1946Novel---
2The Burmese Harp1985Kon IchikawaJapanThe Burmese HarpTakeyama Michio1946Novel---
3Never So Few1959John SturgesUSNever So FewTom T. Chamales1957Novel---
4The Long and the Short and the Tall1961Leslie NormanUKThe Long and the Short and the Tall[126]Willis Hall1958Play---

Air operations

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo1944Mervyn LeRoyUSThirty Seconds Over TokyoTed W. Lawson & Robert Considine1943Memoir---
2Baa Baa Black Sheep *1976Russ MayberryUSBaa Baa Black SheepGregory "Pappy" Boyington1958Memoir---
3Baa Baa Black Sheep ***1976–1978Russ Mayberry, Dana Elcar, et al.USBaa Baa Black SheepGregory "Pappy" Boyington1958Memoir---
4The Eternal Zero2013Takashi YamazakiJapanThe Eternal ZeroNaoki Hyakuta2006Novel--
  • * TV movie.
  • *** TV series.
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1They Were Expendable1945John FordUSThey Were ExpendableWilliam L. White1942Non-fiction/Novel---
2Single-Handed1953Roy BoultingUKBrown on Resolution"C. S. Forester"1929Novel---
3The Caine Mutiny1954Edward DmytrykUSThe Caine Mutiny Court-Martial[127]Herman Wouk1953Play---
3The Caine Mutiny[128]Herman Wouk1951Novel---
4Away All Boats1956Joseph PevneyUSAway All BoatsKenneth M. Dodson1953Novel---
5PT 1091963Leslie H. MartinsonUSPT 109: John F. Kennedy in World War IIRobert J. Donovan1961Non-fiction---
6In Harm's Way1965Otto PremingerUSHarm's WayJames Bassett1962Novel---
  • ♠ Forester's novel was also filmed in 1935, set in the original World War I period.
Battle of the Coral Sea

4–8 May 1942

Battle of Midway

4–7 June 1942

• • •
Goa harbour raid

9 March 1943

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Sea Wolves: The Last Charge of the Calcutta Light Horse1980Andrew V. McLaglenUK, Switzerland, USBoarding PartyJames Leasor1978Non-fiction---
  • ♠ This attack took place against ships in harbour in neutral Portuguese Goa.
Battle of Leyte Gulf

23–26 October 1944

↓↓
Sinking of the Yamato

7 April 1945

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Yamato
男たちの大和
2005Junya SatoJapan?Jun Henmi199?Novel---
Frequently filmed: Mister Roberts
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Mister Roberts1955John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy,
Joshua Logan (uncredited)
USMister Roberts[129]Thomas Heggen &
Joshua Logan[130]
1948Play---
1Mister RobertsThomas Heggen1946Novel---
Submarines
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Run Silent, Run Deep1958Robert WiseUSRun Silent, Run DeepEdward L. Beach1955Novel---
2Escape from the Deep201?Zowie Bowie (Duncan Jones)USEscape from the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous CrewAlex Kershaw2008Non-fiction---
Coast guard
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Roots: The Next Generations **1979John Erman
et al.
USRoots: The Saga of an American Family[131]Alex Haley1976Autobiography---
  • ** TV miniseries.

Atomic weapons programme

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Day One *1989Joseph SargentUSDay One: Before Hiroshima and AfterPeter Wyden198?Non-fiction---
  • * TV movie.

Commando operations and Secret missions

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison1957John HustonUSHeaven Knows, Mr. AllisonCharles Shaw1952Novel---
2Up Periscope1959Gordon DouglasUSUp PeriscopeRobb White1956Novel---
Philippines
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1American Guerrilla in the Philippines1950Fritz LangUSAn American Guerrilla in the PhilippinesIliff David Richardson with Ira Wolfert1945Memoir---
2Cry of Battle1963Irving LernerUSFortress in the RiceBenjamin Appel196?Novel---
3Once Before I Die1966John DerekUSQuit for the NextLt. Anthony March1945Novel---
Guam, Marianas
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1No Man Is an Island1962Richard Goldstone & John Monks Jr.USRobinson Crusoe, USN. (uncredited)? (uncredited)1945Non-fiction (?)---
Dutch East Indies, Sarawak, North Borneo
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Farewell to the King1989John MiliusUSL'Adieu au Roi[132]Pierre Schoendoerffer1969Novel---
Frequently filmed: Sunset at Chaophraya
(See above)

Military intelligence and Espionage

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Francis the Talking Mule1950Arthur LubinUSFrancisDavid Stern1946[8]¤Novel---
  • ♠ For another film about talking animals risking hoof and wing, see Valiant.[133]

Military bases

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Battle Cry1955Raoul WalshUSBattle CryLeon Uris1953Novel---
2The Proud and Profane1956George SeatonUSThe Magnificent BastardsLucy Herndon Crockett1954Novel---
3Don't Go Near the Water1957Charles WaltersUSDon't Go Near the WaterWilliam Brinkley1956Novel---

Military hospitals

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1So Proudly We Hail!1943Mark SandrichUSI Served on BataanLt. Juanita Redmond1943[8]Memoir---
2Cry 'Havoc'1943Richard ThorpeUSCry HavocAllan Kenward1942Play---
3The Story of Dr. Wassell1944Cecil B. DeMilleUS"?"Commander Corydon M. Wassell194?Story---
3The Story of Dr. WassellJames Hilton1944Novel---
4Pride of the Marines1945Delmer DavesUSAl Schmid, MarineRoger Butterfield194?Non-fiction---
5South Pacific1958Joshua LoganUSSouth Pacific
[134][135][136][137]
Oscar Hammerstein II &
Joshua Logan[138]
(book, lyrics)
1949Musical---
5Tales of the South Pacific[139]James A. Michener1947Stories---
6Captain Newman, M.D.1963David MillerUSCaptain Newman, M.D.Leo Rosten1961[8]Novel---

Military justice and Courts-martial

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Man in the Middle1963Guy HamiltonUKThe Winston AffairHoward Fast1959Novel---
2Rebel1985Michael JenkinsAustraliaNo Names No Pack DrillBob Herbert198?Play---
  • ♠ A US Marine is AWOL in Australia.
Allied POWs
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Bridge on the River Kwai[140]1957David LeanUK & USThe Bridge over the River KwaiPierre Boulle1952Novel---
2The Catch
Shiiku
1961Nagisa ŌshimaJapanThe CatchKenzaburō Ōe[141]196?Novella---
3King Rat1965Bryan ForbesUSKing RatJames Clavell1962Novel---
4Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence1983Nagisa OshimaUK & JapanThe Seed and the SowerLaurens van der Post1963Novel---
4The Night of the New MoonLaurens van der Post1970Memoir---
5Return from the River Kwai1989Andrew V. McLaglenUSReturn from the River Kwai (?)Joan Blair & Clay Blair Jr.198?Non-fiction ?---
6To End All Wars2001David L. CunninghamUS, Thailand, UKMiracle on the River Kwai aka Through the Valley of the Kwai aka
To End All Wars
Ernest Gordon19??Memoir---
7Escape from the Deep201?Zowie Bowie (Duncan Jones)USEscape from the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous CrewAlex Kershaw2008Non-fiction---
  • ♠ The film concerns a captured black serviceman and a Japanese village.
Convicts
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Man in the Middle1963Guy HamiltonUKThe Winston AffairHoward Fast[142]1959Novel---
Civilians
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Three Came Home1950Jean NegulescoUSThree Came HomeAgnes Newton Keith1947Memoir---
2A Town Like Alice aka Rape of Malaya1950Jack LeeUKA Town Like Alice[6]Nevil Shute1950Novel---
3Empire of the Sun1987Steven SpielbergUSEmpire of the Sun[143] [6]J. G. Ballard1984Novel---
4Paradise Road1997Bruce BeresfordAustralia & USWhite CooliesBetty Jeffrey1969[144]¤Diary---
5Seven Years in Tibet1997Jean-Jacques AnnaudUSSeven Years in TibetHeinrich Harrer1952Memoir---
6American Pastime2007Desmond NakanoUSThrough a Diamond:
100 Years of Japanese American Baseball
(uncredited)
Kerry Yo Nakagawa[145] (uncredited)2002Non-fiction---
nA Town Like Alice **1981David StevensAustraliaA Town Like Alice[6]Nevil Shute1950Novel---
  • ♠ Austrians are interned in a British camp in India.
  • ♦ Japanese-Americans are interned in a camp in Utah. The director's father, Lane Nakano, had a leading role in Go for Broke!.
  • ** TV miniseries.

Other atrocities

For atrocities not classified elsewhere.

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Umi to dokuyaku1986Kei KumaiJapanThe Sea and Poison[6]¤Shusaku Endo1958Novel---
  • ♠ The true story of Japanese surgeons performing lethal medical experiments on US POWs.

Refugees

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Longest Hundred Miles ♠ *1967Don WeisUS"?"Hennie Leon196?Story---
  • ♠ A priest, orphans, and US soldier flee the Japanese in an old bus.
  • * TV movie.
Commonwealth
FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
The Jewel in the Crown ♠ **1984Jim O'Brien &
Christopher Morahan
UKRaj QuartetPaul Scott1966–1975Tetralogy---
Until They Sail1957Robert WiseUS"Until They Sail" from Return to ParadiseJames A. Michener1951Story---
Bengal famine of 1943
FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
Distant Thunder1973Satyajit RayIndiaAshani SanketBibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay1966 ?Novel---
United States
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Anchors Aweigh1945George SidneyUS"Anchors Aweigh" (?)Natalie Marcin193?Story---
Zoot Suit Riots

June 1943

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Zoot Suit1981Luis ValdezUSZoot SuitLuis Valdez1979Play---
Pacific islands
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Return to Paradise1953Mark RobsonUS"Mr. Morgan" from Return to ParadiseJames A. Michener1951Story---
Japan
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Sandakan No. 8aka Brothel 81974Kei KumaiJapanSandakan Brothel No. 8: An Episode in the History of the Lower ClassTomoko Yamazaki1972Non-fiction---
1The Graves of SandakanTomoko Yamazaki197?Non-fiction---
2Black Rain
黒い雨
1989Shohei ImamuraJapanBlack Rain[146]Masuji Ibuse1965Novel---
  • ♠ An involuntary Japanese prostitute overseas in Borneo returns at outbreak of war to face ostracism at home.
Frequently filmed: Grave of the Fireflies
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Grave of the Fireflies
火垂るの墓 α
1988Isao TakahataJapanGrave of the FirefliesAkiyuki Nosaka1967Novel/Memoir---
2Grave of the Fireflies * α2005Toya Sato
(Tōya Satō)
JapanGrave of the FirefliesAkiyuki Nosaka1967Novel/Memoir---
3Grave of the Fireflies α2008Taro HyugajiJapanGrave of the FirefliesAkiyuki Nosaka1967Novel/Memoir---
  • * TV movie.
  • α Animated film.

Demobilization

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Outsider1961Delbert MannUS"The Outsider" from
Wolf Whistle and Other Stories
William Bradford Huie1959Non-fiction---
2Snow Falling on Cedars1999Scott HicksUSSnow Falling on Cedars[147]David Guterson1994Novel---

Occupation of Japan

See the List of films based on war books — peace.

Justice and retribution

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Thick-Walled Room1953Masaki KobayashiJapan??194?Diaries---
  • ♠ The film is based on the diaries of Japanese war criminals.[148]

Memorial

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes1991George LevensonUSSadako and the Thousand Paper CranesEleanor Coerr1977Children's book---

Land operations – China and Manchukuo Campaigns

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Human Condition II:
Road to Eternity
1959Masaki KobayashiJapanNingen no jōkenJunpei Gomikawa[149]1956–1958?Novel---
2The Mountain Road1960Daniel MannUSThe Mountain RoadTheodore H. White1956Novel---
3Assembly 2: The Cold Flame
集结号2-烽火
2008Feng Xiaogang (?)ChinaGuan Si (?)Liu Heng (?)199?Novel---

Air operations

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1God Is My Co-Pilot1945Robert FloreyUSGod Is My Co-PilotCol. Robert Lee Scott, Jr.194?Memoir---

Resistance movement

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Lust, Caution2007Ang LeeChina & Taiwan"Lust, Caution"Eileen Chang1979Novella---

Military hospitals

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Red Angel
赤い天使 Akai tenshi
1966Yasuzo MasumuraJapanAkai tenshiYoriyoshi Arima196?Novel---
POWs
#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Human Condition I:
No Greater Love
1959Masaki KobayashiJapanNingen no jōkenJunpei Gomikawa[149]1956–1958?Novel---
2The Human Condition III:
A Soldier's Prayer
1961Masaki KobayashiJapanNingen no jōkenJunpei Gomikawa[149]1956–1958?Novel---
3Devils on the Doorstep2000Jiang WenChinaSurvival
Shengcun
You Fengwei199?Novella---

Other atrocities

(See also Unit 731)

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry

Refugees

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1The Mountain Road1960Daniel MannUSThe Mountain RoadTheodore H. White1956Novel---

Occupation

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Farewell My Concubine
霸王别姬
1993Chen KaigeChinaFarewell My ConcubineLilian Lee1993Novel---
2Devils on the Doorstep2000Jiang WenChinaSurvival
Shengcun
You Fengwei199?Novella---

Justice and Retribution

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
1Devils on the Doorstep2000Jiang WenChinaSurvival
Shengcun
You Fengwei199?Novella---

Histories never filmed

#Source
work
AuthorDateTypeCountryCategory
1August Storm:
The Soviet 1945 Strategic Offensive in Manchuria
[41]
David M. Glantz1983/
2003
Non-fictionUSManchukuo

Unclassified

Of uncertain subject matter

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeNotes
And All Will Be Quiet
Potem nastąpi cisza
1965Janusz MorgensternPolandPotem nastąpi cisza
Zanim przemówią
Zbigniew Safjan196?Novel
Men and War
Senso to ningen: Unmei no jokyoku
1970Satsuo YamamotoJapanSenso to ningen: Unmei no jokyoku (?)Junpei Gomikawa[149]195?Novel
A Dance to the Music of Time1997Christopher Morahan & Alvin RakoffUKA Dance to the Music of TimeAnthony Powell1951–1975 Television miniseries

What if ...

#FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeTVDateCountry
2The Boys from Brazil1978Franklin J. SchaffnerUSThe Boys from BrazilIra Levin1976Novel---
3The Keep1983Michael MannUSThe KeepF. Paul Wilson1981Novel---
4The Philadelphia Experiment1984Stewart RaffillUSThe Philadelphia Experiment: Project InvisibilityCharles Berlitz & William L. Moore1979Non-fiction---
5River of Death1989Steve CarterUSRiver of DeathAlistair MacLean1981Novel---
7Fatherland *1994Christopher MenaulUSFatherlandRobert Harris1992Novel---
8Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean2005Shinji Higuchi & Cellin GluckJapanFormal translation or transliteration required
終戦のローレライ
Harutoshi Fukui2002Novel---
9Ghostboat *2006Stuart OrmeUKGhostboat (?)George E. Simpson &
Neal R. Burger
199?Novel---
  • * TV movie.

Franco-Thai War

1940–1941

Ecuadorian–Peruvian War

1941–1942


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

See also

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 Archived 2011-05-20 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. Recipient of the Prix Goncourt in 1933.
  4. Listed in the 100 livres du siècle, from a poll organized by FNAC and Le Monde in 1999.
  5. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

  6. Recommended by Sebastian Faulks. Source: Faulks and Hensgen (q.v.).
  7. Source: Clarke (q.v.), p. 239.
  8. Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of the US Library of Congress.
    Source: Library of Congress Online Catalog.
  9. No publication details for this title are available at the US Library of Congress.
    Source: Library of Congress Online Catalog.
  10. Buck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938.
  11. 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. Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 2003.
  19. 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. 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. 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: (in Russian) and (in 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. Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965.
  37. Brecht was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1954.
  38. 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. 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. 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. O'Neill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936.
  50. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. (in 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. 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 Archived 2009-08-12 at the Wayback Machine 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. Recipient of the Noma Prize in 1966.
  147. Recipient of the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1995.
  148. Source: Manvell (q.v.), pp. 333–334. The film's script is by Kōbō Abe, Nobel-nominated author.
  149. 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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