List of films based on civics books

A list of films that are based on books about common topics and issues in social science and political science.

Addiction

India

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
Devdas
देवदास
1936P.C. BaruaIndiaDevdasSharat Chandra Chattopadhyay
শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
1917Novella-

Mexico

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
Under the Volcano1984John HustonUSAUnder the VolcanoMalcolm Lowry1947Novel-
  • ♠ The subject is the British consul in a Mexican town (based on Cuernavaca).

United States

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
The Lost Weekend1945Billy WilderUSAThe Lost WeekendCharles Jackson1944Novel-
Leaving Las Vegas1995Mike FiggisUSALeaving Las VegasJohn O'Brien1990Novel/
Memoir
John O'Brien (simulacrum)
The Doors1991Oliver StoneUSAnotes [1] (unpublished) for No One Here Gets Out Alive (uncredited)Jerry Hopkins & Danny Sugerman (both uncredited)1980Non-fictionJim Morrison

Germany

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
Christiane F.1981Uli EdelWest GermanyChristiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof ZooChristiane F. with Kai Herrmann & Horst Rieck (ghostwriters)197?Non-fictionChristiane F.
  • ♠ The German book title translates literally as Christiane F. – We Children from the Zoo Station.

United Kingdom

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
Trainspotting1996Danny BoyleUKTrainspottingIrvine Welsh1993Novel-
The Seven Percent Solution1976Herbert RossUK & USAThe Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D.Nicholas Meyer1974NovelSherlock Holmes

United States

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
The Boost1988Harold BeckerUSALudesBen Stein1982Novel-
The Basketball Diaries1995Scott KalvertUSAThe Basketball DiariesJim Carroll1978DiaryJim Carroll
Permanent Midnight1998David VelozUSAPermanent MidnightJerry Stahl1995MemoirJerry Stahl

United States

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
Auto Focus2002Paul SchraderUSAThe Murder of Bob Crane: Who Killed the Star of Hogan's Heroes?Robert Graysmith199?BiographyBob Crane

Civil rights

South Africa

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
Cry Freedom1987Richard AttenboroughUKBikoDonald Woods1978MemoirSteve Biko, Donald Woods
In My Country2004John BoormanUK ?Country of My SkullAntjie Krog1998Memoir-
Goodbye Bafana aka The Color of Freedom2007Bille AugustUK, South Africa, GermanyGoodbye Bafana: Nelson Mandela, My Prisoner, My FriendJames Gregory & Bob Graham199?MemoirNelson Mandela

United States

For slave revolts, see List of films based on war books — 1775–1898.

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
Boycott *2001Clark JohnsonUSADaybreak of Freedom:
the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Stewart Burns (editor)1997 [2]¤Non-fictionMartin Luther King, Ralph Abernathy, Rosa Parks
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan *1975Marvin J. ChomskyUSAAttack on Terror: The F.B.I. Against the Ku Klux Klan in MississippiDon Whitehead1970Non-fictionMichael Schwerner, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman
  • * TV movie.
  • ** TV miniseries.

Journalism

(Print and television)

Reporters

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
Culloden [3] ♠ *1964Peter WatkinsUKCullodenJohn Prebble1962Non-fiction-
All the President's Men1976Alan J. PakulaUSAAll the President's MenCarl Bernstein & Bob Woodward1974MemoirBob Woodward,
Carl Bernstein

Editors

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
All the President's Men1976Alan J. PakulaUSAAll the President's MenCarl Bernstein & Bob Woodward1974MemoirBen Bradlee

Publishers

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
All the President's Men1976Alan J. PakulaUSAAll the President's MenCarl Bernstein & Bob Woodward1974MemoirKatharine Graham
  • ♠ Mrs. Graham is often mentioned but not dramatized.

Labour

Belgium

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
Daens1992Stijn ConinxBelgium, France, NetherlandsPieter DaensLouis Paul Boon1971NovelAdolf Daens

Agriculture

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
The Grapes of Wrath [4]1940John FordUSAThe Grapes of Wrath [5]John Steinbeck [6]1939NovelOkies
Mr. Majestyk1974Richard FleischerUSAMr. MajestykElmore Leonard1974 [2]Novel-

Manufacturing

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal *1979Mel StuartUSAThe Triangle Fire (unofficial)Leon Stein (unofficial)1962Non-fictionTriangle Shirtwaist
  • * TV movie.

Mining

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
North Country2005Niki CaroUSAClass Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment LawClara Bingham & Laura Leedy Gansler196?Non-fictionLois Jenson
One of the Hollywood Ten2000Karl FrancisSpain & UKSalt of the Earth: The Story of a FilmHerbert Biberman1965Non-fictionSalt of the Earth [7]

Sports

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
Eight Men Out1988John SaylesUSA8 Men OutEliot Asinof1963Non-fictionBlack Sox
Net Worth ♠ *1995Jerry CiccorittiCanadaNet Worth:
Exploding the Myth of Pro Hockey
David Cruise
& Alison Griffiths
1991 [8]Non-fiction
  • ♠ The hockey players in the wage dispute are Canadian; the club owners are American.
  • * TV movie.

Mental disorder

Canada

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
Beautiful Dreamers1990John Kent HarrisonCanadaWalt WhitmanDr. Maurice Bucke1883Biographyinsane asylum
20th century

United States

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
Frances1982Graeme CliffordUSAShadowlandWilliam Arnold198?Fictional biographyFrances Farmer,
lobotomy
Mister Buddwing1966Delbert MannUSABuddwingEvan Hunter1964Novelamnesia

Native issues

Australia

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
Rabbit-Proof Fence2002Phillip NoyceAustraliaFollow the Rabbit-Proof FenceDoris Pilkington Garimara1996Non-fictionMolly Craig

United States

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
The Outsider1961Delbert MannUSA"The Outsider" from
Wolf Whistle and Other Stories
William Bradford Huie1959Non-fictionIra Hayes

Penology

Roman Empire

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
Barabbas1961Richard FleischerItalyBarabbasPär Lagerkvist [9]1950NovelBarabbas

Brazil

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
Carandiru
Carandiru
2003Hector BabencoBrazil & ArgentinaCarandiru Station [10]
Estação Carandiru
Dr. Dráuzio Varella1999Non-fiction/
Memoir
Carandiru massacre

France

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
Papillon1973Franklin J. SchaffnerUSAPapillonHenri Charrière1969Memoir/
Novel
Henri Charrière

South Africa

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
Goodbye Bafana aka The Color of Freedom2007Bille AugustUK, South Africa, GermanyGoodbye Bafana: Nelson Mandela, My Prisoner, My FriendJames Gregory & Bob Graham199?MemoirNelson Mandela

United Kingdom

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
Boy A2007John CrowleyUKBoy AJonathan Trigell2004Novel-
A Clockwork Orange1971Stanley KubrickUKA Clockwork OrangeAnthony Burgess1962Novel-
  • ♠ The earliest editions of the novel did not contain a glossary, or any indication that the slang was based on Russian.

Capital punishment

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
Pierrepoint1995Adrian ShergoldUKExecutioner: PierrepointAlbert Pierrepoint1974MemoirAlbert Pierrepoint

United States

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
Birdman of Alcatraz1962John FrankenheimerUSABirdman of AlcatrazThomas E. Gaddis1955Non-fictionRobert Stroud
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang [11]1932Mervyn LeRoyUSAI Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain GangRobert Elliott Burns1932AutobiographyRobert Elliott Burns

Capital punishment

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
The Executioner's Song *1982Lawrence SchillerUSAThe Executioner's Song [12]Norman Mailer1980NovelGary Gilmore
Shot in the Heart *2001Agnieszka HollandUSAShot in the HeartMikal Gilmore1995Non-fictionGary Gilmore
  • * TV movie.

USSR

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich1970Caspar WredeUK & NorwayOne Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichAleksandr Solzhenitsyn [13]1962Novel-

Political prisoners

Greece

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
Cell No. 5
To kelli miden ×
1975Yannis SmaragdisGreeceThe Method: A Personal Account of the Tortures in Greece
Ανθρωποφύλακες (Anthropofylakes)
Periklis Korovesis
Περικλής Κοροβέσης
1969MemoirPeriklis Korovesis

South Africa

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
Goodbye Bafana aka The Color of Freedom2007Bille AugustUK, South Africa, GermanyGoodbye Bafana: Nelson Mandela, My Prisoner, My FriendJames Gregory & Bob Graham199?MemoirNelson Mandela

Poverty

Brazil

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
Barren Lives
Vidas Secas
1963Nelson Pereira dos SantosBrazilVidas SecasGraciliano Ramos1938Novelsertão

United Kingdom

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
Broken Blossoms [15]1919D. W. GriffithUSA"The Chink and the Child"
from Limehouse Nights
Thomas Burke1916StoryLimehouse
Love on the Dole1941John BaxterUKLove on the Dole: a Tale of Two CitiesWalter Greenwood1933NovelSalford

Urban

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn1945Elia KazanUSAA Tree Grows In BrooklynBetty Smith1943NovelBrooklyn
Last Exit to Brooklyn1989Uli EdelUSA, UK,
West Germany
Last Exit to BrooklynHubert Selby Jr.1964NovelBrooklyn

Rural

FilmDateDirectorCountrySource
work
AuthorDateTypeBasis
Beggars of Life1928William A. WellmanUSABeggars of LifeJim Tully1924Novelhobos
The Grapes of Wrath [4]1940John FordUSAThe Grapes of Wrath [5]John Steinbeck [6]1939NovelOkies
Sounder1972Martin RittUSASounder [16]William H. Armstrong1969Novelsharecroppers
Conrack1974Martin RittUSAThe Water Is WidePat Conroy1972MemoirSea Islands

References

Notes

  1. The families of Jim Morrison and Pamela Courson both objected to the book by Hopkins and Sugerman. The producers bought the rights to the notes, rather than the book itself.
    Source: Lavington (q.v.), p. 138.
  2. Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of the US Library of Congress.
    Source: Library of Congress Online Catalog.
  3. Recipient of the BAFTA Award for Specialised Programmes in 1965.
  4. Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 1989.
  5. Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1940.
  6. Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.
  7. Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 1992.
  8. Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of Library and Archives Canada.
    Source: Library Search.
  9. Lagerkvist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951.
  10. Recipient of the Prêmio Jabuti in 2000.
  11. Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 1991.
  12. Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1980.
  13. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970.
  14. "Der erste Buch von Periklis Korovesis, der selbst ein Opfer der Folter der Junta ist, mit dem Titel «Anthropofylakes», auf griechisch «Ανθρωποφύλακες» (1969), beschreibt ausführlich die Foltermethoden der Militärpolizei ESA. Der buch ist auf viele Sprachen übersetzt worden: La filière, Seuil, 1969, Frankreich; The Method-A Personal Account of the Tortures in Greece, Allison & Busby, 1970 und The Method, Panther, 1970, England [...]" Source: Folter während der griechischen Militärdiktatur (1967-1974), Krimpedia (in German).
  15. Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 1996.
  16. Recipient of the Newbery Medal in 1970.

Bibliography

Lavington, Stephen. Virgin Film: Oliver Stone, Virgin Books, London, 2004.

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