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[edit] Fiction books
- Vladimir Rybakov, The Afghans, Infinity Publishing, 2004. ISBN 0-7414-2296-4
- Hosseini Khaled, The Kite Runner, Riverhead Books, 2003. ISBN 1-57322-245-3
- Tom Clancy, The Cardinal of the Kremlin, G. P. Putman's Sons, 1988
- Ken Follett, Lie Down with Lions, Pan Publishers, 1998
- Stephen Collishaw, Amber, Sceptre, 2004
- Frederick Forsyth, The Afghan, Corgi Books, 2006
[edit] Media and popular culture
- Rambo III was an action movie with Sylvester Stallone set within the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
- The Beast is a movie released in 1988 about the crew of a Soviet T-62 tank and their attempts to escape a hostile region, set during the invasion of Afghanistan in 1981.
- Afghan Breakdown (Afganskiy Izlom), the first in-depth movie about the war, produced jointly by Italy and the Soviet Union, in full cooperation with the Red Army, in 1991.
- The 1987 James Bond movie The Living Daylights, with Timothy Dalton as Bond, was fictionally set in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan.
- The 9th Company, the biggest Russian box office success to date. Based upon true events (but largely fictionalized too), it details the 9th Company being left behind as the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan and was slaughtered before the withdrawing Soviets came to the rescue. Some versions available with subtitles.
- The Road to Kabul ("الطريق الى كابول") Arabic television series explored Arab youth participation in the Afghan war.
- Afgan is a documentary by Jeff B. Harmon about the war in Afghanistan shot from the Soviet side.
- Jihad is a documentary by Jeff B. Harmon about the Mujahideen fighting in Kandaghar province.
- Afghantsi is a documentary by Peter Kosminsky about Soviet soldiers serving in Afghanistan.
- Charlie Wilson's War is an upcoming movie about the real-life Congressman Charlie Wilson and his relentless efforts to increase CIA support for the Afghan fighters. Tom Hanks is slated to play the role of Congressman Wilson.
- In the anime Black Lagoon, mafia boss Balalaika was formerly a Russia Airborne Troops paratrooper and Red Army officer who served during the Afghan war.
- In the comedy Spies Like Us, Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd play two CIA agents who enter the Tajik SSR through Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation.
- In the film Threads, the Soviet occupation lasts longer and the US becomes involved militarily, later leading to all out nuclear war.
- Alan Moore's graphic novel Watchmen was set against the backdrop of the Soviet Union invading Afghanistan in an alternate version of 1985 in which Richard Nixon was still president of the United States after winning the the Vietnam War with the aid of superheroes. In the story, the Soviet invasion is a tense political event that puts the world on the edge of World War III.
- In Destroy All Humans! 2, a cosmonaut mocks the US for going to war with Vietnam, saying that the USSR wouldn't do something like that. Then he thinks what Afghanistan is like, which the war occurs 10 years later. Ironically, the Soviet Union sent troops in Vietnam for a short time.
- In the book Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy, a mujahideen fighter is said to have remarked: "We are not afraid of the Russians, but we are afraid of their helicopters.".
