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

A list of films that are based on war books.

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

Contents 1 Chinese Civil War — First stage 2 Second Italo-Abyssinian War (1935-1936) 3 Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) 4 Second Sino-Japanese War (1931-1945) 4.1 Rape of Nanking 4.2 Resistance movement 4.3 Military hospitals 4.4 Occupation 5 World War II 5.1 European, North African, and Atlantic Theatres 5.1.1 Politics and diplomacy 5.1.1.1 Axis Powers 5.1.1.2 Allied Powers 5.1.1.3 Neutral Powers 5.1.2 Anschluss, Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, Albania 5.1.3 Land operations – Western Europe 5.1.3.1 Battle of the Bulge 5.1.4 Amphibious operations – Western Europe 5.1.4.1 Miracle of Dunkirk 5.1.4.2 Dieppe Raid 5.1.4.3 D-Day 5.1.5 Land operations – Eastern Front 5.1.5.1 Battle of Stalingrad 5.1.5.2 Frequently filmed: Schweik in the Second World War 5.1.5.3 Winter War 5.1.5.4 Continuation War 5.1.5.4.1 Frequently filmed: The Dawns Here Are Quiet 5.1.6 Land operations – Balkan Campaign 5.1.7 Land operations – North African and East African Campaigns 5.1.7.1 Battle of Kasserine Pass 5.1.8 Land operations – Italian Campaign 5.1.9 Air operations 5.1.9.1 Fighters 5.1.9.2 Bombers 5.1.9.3 Transports 5.1.9.4 Missiles 5.1.10 Naval operations 5.1.10.1 Battle of the River Plate 5.1.10.2 Battle of Drøbak Sound 5.1.10.3 Battle of the Denmark Strait and Sinking of the Bismarck 5.1.10.4 Cruisers and destroyers 5.1.10.5 Submarines 5.1.10.6 Frogmen 5.1.10.7 Merchant marine 5.1.11 Atomic weapons programme 5.1.12 Commando operations and Secret missions 5.1.12.1 Central Europe 5.1.12.2 Western Europe 5.1.12.3 Eastern Europe 5.1.13 Partisans and resistance movements 5.1.13.1 Central Europe 5.1.13.2 Poland 5.1.13.3 Western Europe 5.1.13.4 France 5.1.13.4.1 Frequently filmed: Le Silence de la mer 5.1.13.5 Balkans 5.1.13.6 USSR 5.1.13.7 Italy 5.1.13.8 Caribbean 5.1.13.9 German anti-Nazi opposition 5.1.14 Military intelligence and Espionage 5.1.14.1 Neutral powers 5.1.15 Home Guard 5.1.16 Military bases 5.1.16.1 Enlistment 5.1.17 Military hospitals 5.1.18 Military justice and Courts-martial 5.1.19 Involuntary confinement 5.1.19.1 Allied POWs 5.1.19.1.1 Frequently filmed: Colditz: The Colditz Story 5.1.19.1.2 Frequently filmed: The Last Duel 5.1.19.2 Axis POWs 5.1.19.2.1 Frequently filmed: No Picnic on Mount Kenya 5.1.19.3 Convicts 5.1.19.4 Civilians 5.1.19.4.1 Frequently filmed: The Diary of a Young Girl 5.1.19.4.2 Twice filmed: Jakob, der Lügner 5.1.19.5 Saviours 5.1.20 Other atrocities 5.1.21 Refugees and Displaced persons 5.1.22 Occupation and Collaboration 5.1.22.1 Central Europe 5.1.22.2 Poland 5.1.22.3 Denmark and Norway 5.1.22.4 Low Countries 5.1.22.5 France 5.1.22.5.1 Battle of Marseille 5.1.22.5.2 Oradour Massacre 5.1.22.6 Balkans 5.1.22.7 Baltic states 5.1.22.8 USSR 5.1.23 Home front 5.1.23.1 The Blitz 5.1.23.2 Commonwealth 5.1.23.3 United States 5.1.23.4 USSR 5.1.23.5 Morale 5.1.23.6 Axis 5.1.23.7 Legacy 5.1.24 Demobilization 5.1.25 Occupation of Greater Germany 5.1.26 Justice and Retribution 5.1.26.1 Nazis 5.1.26.2 Fascists 5.1.26.3 Pétainistes, Rexists, quislings 5.1.26.4 Allied traitors 5.1.26.5 Stalinist jurisprudence 5.1.27 Memorial 5.2 Pacific and Burma Theatres 5.2.1 Pearl Harbor, Hong Kong, Thailand 5.2.1.1 Frequently filmed: Sunset at Chaophraya 5.2.2 Land operations – Pacific Campaigns 5.2.2.1 Makin Island raid 5.2.2.2 Battle of Guadalcanal 5.2.2.3 Battle of Saipan 5.2.2.4 Battle of Peleliu 5.2.2.5 Battle of Iwo Jima 5.2.3 Land operations – Burma and Malaya Campaigns 5.2.4 Air operations  5.2.5 Naval operations  5.2.5.1 Battle of the Coral Sea 5.2.5.2 Battle of Midway 5.2.5.3 Goa harbour raid 5.2.5.4 Battle of Leyte Gulf 5.2.5.5 Sinking of the Yamato 5.2.5.6 Frequently filmed: Mister Roberts 5.2.5.7 Submarines  5.2.5.8 Coast guard 5.2.6 Atomic weapons programme  5.2.7 Commando operations and Secret missions  5.2.8 Resistance movements  5.2.8.1 Philippines 5.2.8.2 Guam, Marianas 5.2.8.3 Dutch East Indies, Sarawak, North Borneo 5.2.8.4 Malaya 5.2.8.5 Thailand 5.2.8.5.1 Frequently filmed: Sunset at Chaophraya 5.2.9 Military intelligence and Espionage  5.2.10 Military bases  5.2.11 Military hospitals  5.2.12 Military justice and Courts-martial  5.2.13 Involuntary confinement  5.2.13.1 Allied POWs  5.2.13.2 Convicts  5.2.13.3 Civilians  5.2.14 Other atrocities  5.2.15 Refugees  5.2.16 Home front  5.2.16.1 Commonwealth  5.2.16.1.1 Bengal famine of 1943 5.2.16.2 United States  5.2.16.2.1 Zoot Suit Riots 5.2.16.3 Pacific islands 5.2.16.4 Japan 5.2.16.4.1 Frequently filmed: Grave of the Fireflies 5.2.17 Demobilization  5.2.18 Occupation of Japan 5.2.19 Justice and Retribution  5.2.20 Memorial  5.3 China Theatre 5.3.1 Land operations – China and Manchukuo Campaigns 5.3.2 Air operations 5.3.3 Resistance movement 5.3.4 Military bases 5.3.5 Military hospitals 5.3.6 Involuntary confinement 5.3.6.1 POWs 5.3.7 Other atrocities 5.3.8 Refugees 5.3.9 Occupation 5.3.10 Home front 5.3.11 Justice and Retribution 5.3.12 Histories never filmed 5.4 Unclassified 5.5 What if ... 6 Franco-Thai War 7 Ecuadorian–Peruvian War 8 See also 9 Notes 10 Bibliography

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)

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Flüchtlinge ♠	1933	Gustav Ucicky	Nazi Germany	Flüchtlinge : Erlebnis d. Heimat in fernen Ländern ; Roman [1]	Gerhard Menzel ♦	1933 [2]	Novel
The Bitter Tea of General Yen	1933	Frank Capra	US	The Bitter Tea of General Yen	Grace Zaring Stone	1932	Novel
Oil for the Lamps of China	1935	Mervyn LeRoy	US	Oil for the Lamps of China	Alice Tisdale Hobart	1933	Novel
The Keys of the Kingdom	1944	John M. Stahl	US	The Keys of the Kingdom	A. J. Cronin	1941	Novel
The Sand Pebbles	1966	Robert Wise	US	The Sand Pebbles	Richard McKenna	1962	Novel
High Road to China	1983	Brian G. Hutton	US & Yugoslavia	High Road to China	Jon Cleary	1977	Novel
Man's Fate	201?	Michael Cimino	US	Man's Fate [3][4]	André Malraux	1933	Novel

Second Italo-Abyssinian War (1935-1936)

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
Scoop	1987	Gavin Millar	UK	Scoop	Evelyn Waugh	1938

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
For Whom the Bell Tolls	1943	Sam Wood	US	For Whom the Bell Tolls	Ernest Hemingway [5]	1940	Novel
Man's Hope	1945	André Malraux & Boris Peskine	Spain & France	L'Espoir [6]	André Malraux	1937	Novel
Land and Freedom	1995	Ken Loach	UK & Spain	Homage to Catalonia[7] (unofficial)	"George Orwell" (unofficial)	1938	Memoir
Bethune	1977	Eric Till	Canada	The Scalpel, the Sword: The Story of Dr. Norman Bethune	Ted Allan	1952	Non-fiction
Bethune: The Making of a Hero	1990	Phillip Borsos	Canada & China	The Scalpel, the Sword: The Story of Dr. Norman Bethune	Ted Allan	1952	Non-fiction
Talk of Angels	1998	Nick Hamm	US	Mary Lavelle	Kate O'Brien	1936	Novel
Behold a Pale Horse	1964	Fred Zinnemann	US	Killing a Mouse on Sunday	Emeric Pressburger	1961	Novel
Soldados de Salamina Soldados de Salamina	2003	David Trueba	Spain	Soldiers of Salamina Soldados de Salamina	Javier Cercas	2001	Novel
13 Roses Las trece rosas	2007	Emilio Martínez Lázaro	Spain	Trece rosas rojas (uncredited)	Carlos Fonseca (uncredited)	200?	Non-fiction
Frente de Madrid Frente de Madrid	1939	Edgar Neville	Spain & Italy	Frente de Madrid	Edgar Neville	193?	Novel
Carmen fra i rossi Carmen fra i rossi	1939	Edgar Neville	Spain & Italy	Frente de Madrid	Edgar Neville	193?	Novel
Butterfly La lengua de las mariposas	1999	José Luis Cuerda	Spain	"La lengua de las mariposas" (Spanish) "A lingua das bolboretas" from ¿Que me queres, amor?	Manuel Rivas	1995	Story
The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca Muerte en Granada	1997	Marcos Zurinaga	US	The Death of Lorca La represión nacionalista de Granada en 1936 y la muerte de Federico García Lorca	Ian Gibson	1972/ 1971	Non-fiction

Second Sino-Japanese War (1931-1945)

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Disputed Passage	1939	Frank Borzage	US	Disputed Passage	Lloyd C. Douglas	1939 [8]	Novel
Behind the Rising Sun	1943	Edward Dmytryk	US	Behind the Rising Sun	James R. Young	1941	Novel?
China	1943	John Farrow	US	Fourth Brother	Archibald Forbes	18?? [9]¤	Play
Dragon Seed	1944	Harold S. Bucquet & Jack Conway	US	Dragon Seed	Pearl S. Buck [10]	1942	Novel
Red Sorghum	1987	Zhang Yimou	China	Red Sorghum & Sorghum Wine	Mo Yan	1987	Novels
Farewell My Concubine 霸王别姬	1993	Chen Kaige	China	Farewell My Concubine	Lilian Lee	1993	Novel
The Last Emperor	1987	Bernardo Bertolucci	China & Italy	From Emperor to Citizen	Puyi	1964	Memoir

Rape of Nanking

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Children of Huang Shi 黄石的孩子	2008	Roger Spottiswoode	Australia, China, Germany	Ocean Devil: The Life and Legend of George Hogg [11] (uncredited)	James MacManus	2008	Non-fiction
Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre	1994	Mou Tun Fei	Hong Kong	The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe (uncredited)	John Rabe (uncredited)	1996	Diary
Nanking †	2007	Bill Guttentag & Dan Sturman	US	The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe	John Rabe	1996	Diary
City of Life and Death 南京! 南京!	2009	Lu Chuan	China	The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe (uncredited)	John Rabe (uncredited)	1996	Diary
John Rabe	2009	Florian Gallenberger	China, France, Germany	The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe	John Rabe	1996	Diary

Resistance movement

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Once an Eagle	1976	Richard Michaels & E.W. Swackhamer	US	Once an Eagle	Anton Myrer	1968	Novel
Lust, Caution	2007	Ang Lee	China & Taiwan	"Lust, Caution"	Eileen Chang	1979	Novella
The Children of Huang Shi 黄石的孩子	2008	Roger Spottiswoode	Australia, China, Germany	Ocean Devil: The Life and Legend of George Hogg [11] (uncredited)	James MacManus	2008	Non-fiction

Military hospitals

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Dr. Bethune	1964	Gao Zheng & Li Shutian	China	Baiqiuen dai fu	Zhou Erfu	196?	Non-fiction
Bethune	1977	Eric Till	Canada	The Scalpel, the Sword: The Story of Dr. Norman Bethune	Ted Allan	1952	Non-fiction
Bethune: The Making of a Hero	1990	Phillip Borsos	Canada & China	The Scalpel, the Sword: The Story of Dr. Norman Bethune	Ted Allan	1952	Non-fiction

Occupation

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness	1958	Mark Robson	US	The Small Woman	Alan Burgess	1957	Non-fiction?
Pavilion of Women	2001	Ho Yim	China & US	Pavilion of Women	Pearl S. Buck [10]	1946	Novel

World War II

1939–1945

European, North African, and Atlantic Theatres

Politics and diplomacy

Axis Powers

! Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Hitlerjunge Quex: Ein Film vom Opfergeist der deutschen Jugend	1933	Hans Steinhoff	Nazi Germany	Der Hitlerjunge Quex	Karl Aloys Schenzinger	1932	Novel
The Mortal Storm	1940	Frank Borzage	US	The Mortal Storm	Phyllis Bottome	1938	Novel
Education for Death	1943	Clyde Geronimi	US	Education for Death, the Making of the Nazi	Gregor Ziemer	1941 [8]	Non-fiction
Hitler's Children	1943	Edward Dmytryk	US	Education for Death, the Making of the Nazi	Gregor Ziemer	1941 [8]	Non-fiction
Hitler: The Last Ten Days	1973	Ennio De Concini	Italy, UK	The Last Days of the Chancellery	Gerhardt Boldt	197?	Non-fiction
The Bunker	1981	George Schaefer	US	The Bunker	James P. O'Donnell	1978	Non-fiction
The Nightmare Years	1990	Anthony Page	US	The Nightmare Years	William L. Shirer	1984	Memoir
Selling Hitler	1991	Alastair Reid	UK	Selling Hitler	Robert Harris	1986	Non-fiction
Blood on the Sun	1945	Frank Lloyd	US	Tanaka Memorial	Baron Tanaka Giichi (ascribed)	1927	Non-fiction
Japan's Longest Day	1967	Kihachi Okamoto	Japan	Nihon no ichiban nagai hi	Soichi Oya	196?	Novel

Allied Powers

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Mission to Moscow	1943	Michael Curtiz	US	Mission to Moscow	Joseph E. Davies	194?	Memoir
The Gathering Storm	1974	Herbert Wise	UK & US	The Second World War, Volume 1, The Gathering Storm	Winston Churchill [12]	1948	Memoir/ Non-fiction
Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking	1976	Daniel Petrie	US	Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman [13]	Merle Miller	1974	Memoir/ Non-fiction
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years	1977	Daniel Petrie	US	Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers [14][15]	Joseph P. Lash	197?	Non-fiction
Truman	1995	Frank Pierson	US	Truman [16]	David McCullough	1992	Non-fiction

Neutral Powers

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Background to Danger	1943	Raoul Walsh	US	Uncommon Danger	Eric Ambler	1937	Novel	-	-	-

Anschluss, Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, Albania

1938–1939

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Night Train to Munich	1940	Carol Reed	UK	Report on a Fugitive (uncredited)	Gordon Wellesley (uncredited)	193?	Novel	-	-	-
1	Die Trapp-Familie	1956	Wolfgang Liebeneiner	West Germany	The Story of the Trapp Family Singers	Maria Augusta von Trapp	1949	Memoir	-	-	-
2	The Sound of Music [17]	1965	Robert Wise	US	The Sound of Music[nb 1] itself based uponThe Story of the Trapp Family Singers	Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse (book), Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics)	1959	Musical	-	-	-

Land operations – Western Europe

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Went the Day Well?	1942	Alberto Cavalcanti	UK	"The Lieutenant Died Last"	Graham Greene	194?	Story	-	-	-
2	To Hell and Back	1955	Jesse Hibbs	US	To Hell and Back	Audie Murphy with David McClure (ghostwriter)	1949	Memoir	-	-	-
3	The Young Lions	1958	Edward Dmytryk	US	The Young Lions	Irwin Shaw	1949	Novel	-	-	-
4	Kings Go Forth	1958	Delmer Daves	US	Kings Go Forth	Joe David Brown	1956	Novel	-	-	-
5	Die Brücke	1959	Bernhard Wicki	West Germany	The Bridge Die Brücke	"Manfred Gregor"	1958	Novel	-	-	-
6	Is Paris Burning?	1966	René Clément	France & US	'Is Paris Burning?' —Adolf Hitler, August 25, 1944	Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre	1965	Non-fiction	-	-	-
7	The Bridge at Remagen	1969	John Guillermin	US	The Bridge at Remagen	Ken Hechler	1957	Non-fiction	-	-	-
8	A Bridge Too Far	1977	Richard Attenborough	UK & US	A Bridge Too Far	Cornelius Ryan	1974	Non-fiction	-	-	-
9	Band of Brothers **	2001	Mikael Salomon, David Frankel, et al.	US & UK	Band of Brothers, E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest	Stephen Ambrose	1992	Non-fiction	-	-	-

• ** TV miniseries.

Battle of the Bulge

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Attack!	1956	Robert Aldrich	US	Fragile Fox	Norman Brooks	195? [9]	Play	-	-	-
2	Castle Keep	1969	Sydney Pollack	US	Castle Keep	William Eastlake	1965 [8]	Novel	-	-	-
3	Patton [18]	1970	Franklin J. Schaffner	US	Patton: Ordeal and Triumph	Ladislas Farago	1963	Non-fiction	-	-	-
3					A Soldier's Story	Omar N. Bradley	1951	Non-fiction	-	-	-
4	A Midnight Clear	1992	Keith Gordon	US	A Midnight Clear	William Wharton	1982	Novel	-	-	-
5	Band of Brothers **	2001	Mikael Salomon, David Frankel, et al.	US & UK	Band of Brothers, E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest	Stephen Ambrose	1992	Non-fiction	-	-	-

• ** TV miniseries.

Amphibious operations – Western Europe

Miracle of Dunkirk

May–June 1940

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Mrs. Miniver ♠ [19]	1942	William Wyler	US	Mrs. Miniver	Jan Struther	1939	Novel (originally newspaper columns)	-	-	-
2	Dunkirk	1958	Leslie Norman	UK	The Story of Dunkirk	Lt. Col. Ewan Butler & Major J.S. Bradford	1955	Non-fiction	-	-	-
2					The Big Pickup	Trevor Dudley Smith	1955	Novel	-	-	-
3	Weekend at Dunkirk [20] Week-end à Zuydcoote	1964	Henri Verneuil	France & Italy	Week-end at Zuydcoote Week-end à Zuydcoote	Robert Merle [21]	1949	Novel/ Memoir	-	-	-
4	The Snow Goose *	1971	Patrick Garland	UK	The Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk [22] [6]	Paul Gallico	1940 & 1941	Story & Novella	-	-	-
5	Bright Young Things ♦	2003	Stephen Fry	UK	Vile Bodies	Evelyn Waugh	1930	Novel	-	-	-
6	Atonement	2007	Joe Wright	UK & France	Atonement [23][24]	Ian McEwan	2001	Novel	-	-	-

• ♠ The film includes the Dunkirk evacuation.
• ♦ The operation depicted in the film resembles the Dunkirk evacuation.^[25]
• * TV movie.

Dieppe Raid

19 August 1942

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Dieppe *	1993	John N. Smith	Canada	Unauthorized Action: Mountbatten and the Dieppe Raid	Brian Loring Villa	1989 [26]¤	Non-fiction	-	-	-

• * TV movie.

D-Day

6 June 1944 at H-hour

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	D-Day the Sixth of June	1956	Henry Koster	US	The Sixth of June [27]	Lionel Shapiro	1955	Novel	-	-	-
2	The Longest Day	1962	Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki	US	The Longest Day	Cornelius Ryan	1959	Non-fiction	-	-	-
3	The Americanization of Emily	1964	Arthur Hiller	US	The Americanization of Emily	William Bradford Huie	1959	Novel	-	-	-
4	Ike **	1979	Boris Sagal & Melville Shavelson	US	Past Forgetting: My Love Affair with Dwight D. Eisenhower	Kay Summersby with Barbara Wyden (ghostwriter)	1975	Autobiography	-	-	-
5	Band of Brothers **	2001	Mikael Salomon, David Frankel, et al.	US & UK	Band of Brothers, E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest	Stephen Ambrose	1992	Non-fiction	-	-	-

• ** TV miniseries.

Land operations – Eastern Front

There appears to be no film about the Spanish Blue Division other than the 1942 documentary La división Azul española.
(There is one: Attack and Retreat.)

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Rainbow Радуга	1944	Mark Donskoy	USSR	Tęcza Raduga [28]	Wanda Wasilewska	1942	Novel	-	-	-
2	Days and Nights Дни и ночи	1945	Aleksandr Stolper	USSR	Dni i nochi [6]	Konstantin Simonov [29]	194?	Novel	-	-	-
3	Nashestviye Нашествие	1945	Abram Room & Oleg Zhakov	USSR	Nashestviye	Leonid Leonov	1942	Play	-	-	-
4	Counter-Attack aka One Against Seven	1945	Zoltan Korda	US	Counterattack	Janet Stevenson & Philip Stevenson	194?	Play	-	-	-
4					Pobyeda [30] Победа	Mikhail Ruderman & Ilya Vershinin	194?	Play	-	-	-
5	Ivan's Childhood Иваново детство	1962	Andrei Tarkovsky	USSR	"Ivan" "Иван"	Vladimir Bogomolov	1957	Story	-	-	-
6	The Alive and the Dead Живые и мёртвые	1964	Aleksandr Stolper	USSR	Zhivye i myortvye	Konstantin Simonov [29]	1959	Novel	-	-	-
7	Retribution Возмездие	1967	Aleksandr Stolper	USSR	Vozmezdiye	Konstantin Simonov [29]	1963–1964	Novel	-	-	-
8	Cross of Iron	1977	Sam Peckinpah	UK & West Germany	The Willing Flesh	Willi Heinrich	1956	Novel	-	-	-
9	The Tin Drum	1979	Volker Schlöndorff	West Germany	The Tin Drum [31] [6]	Günter Grass [32]	1959	Novel	-	-	-
10	Come and See Иди и смотри	1985	Elem Klimov	USSR	?	Ales Adamovich	19??	Stories	-	-	-
11	The Misfit Brigade	1987	Gordon Hessler	US, UK, Yugoslavia	Wheels of Terror	Sven Hassel	1958	Novel	-	-	-
12	August of '44 В августе 44-го…	2001	Mikhail Ptashuk	USSR	In August of '44 [33]	Vladimir Bogomolov	1973	Novel	-	-	-
13	Tertium non datur ♠	2005	Lucian Pintilie	France & Romania	"Capul de zimbru"	Vasile Voiculescu	1966 (posthumous)	Story	-	-	-
14	Karol: A Man Who Became Pope **	2005	Giacomo Battiato	Poland, Italy, France, Germany, Canada	Stories of Karol: The Unknown Life of Pope John Paul II	Gian Franco Svidercoschi	2001	Non-fiction	-	-	-
15	Pope John Paul II **	2005	John Kent Harrison	Italy, US, Poland	"Gods and Man" ♦ "Bogowie i człowiek" from Vade-mecum	Cyprian Norwid	1866	Poem	-	-	-
15					The Communist Manifesto ♦	Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels	1848	Manifesto	-	-	-
15					Hamlet ♦	William Shakespeare	c. 1600	Play	-	-	-
16	The Forgotten Soldier	201?	Paul Verhoeven	?	The Forgotten Soldier [34] Le Soldat oublié	"Guy Sajer"	1967	Memoir	-	-	-

• ♠ About Romania switching sides, from Axis to Allies.
• ♦ Writings quoted and discussed by the young Karol Wojtyła.
• ** TV miniseries.

Battle of Stalingrad

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Four Soldiers from Stalingrad Солдаты	1956	Aleksandr Ivanov	USSR	Front-line Stalingrad [35] В окопах Сталинграда	Viktor Nekrasov	1946	Novel	-	-	-
2	The Hot Snow Горячий снег	1972	Gavril Yegiazarov	USSR	Goryachiy sneg	Yuri Bondarev	1969	Novel	-	-	-
3	They Fought for Their Country Они сражались за Родину	1975	Sergei Bondarchuk	USSR	Oni srazhalis za Rodinu	Mikhail Sholokhov [36]	1943/1969	Novel	-	-	-
4	Enemy at the Gates	2001	Jean-Jacques Annaud	US, UK, Germany, & Ireland	War 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

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Schweyk im Zweiten Weltkrieg *	1961	Rainer Wolffhardt	West Germany	Schweyk im Zweiten Weltkrieg	Bertolt Brecht [37]	1943/1957	Play	-	-	-
2	Svejk i anden verdenskrig *	1970	Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt	Denmark	Schweyk im Zweiten Weltkrieg	Bertolt Brecht	1943/1957	Play	-	-	-
3	Schweik na Segunda Guerra Mundial (TV movie)	1975	Victor Manuel & Artur Ramos	Portugal	Schweyk im Zweiten Weltkrieg	Bertolt Brecht	1943/1957	Play	-	-	-
3					?	Alexandre O'Neill	19??	Poems	-	-	-

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

Winter War

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Talvisota	1989	Pekka Parikka	Finland	The Winter War	Antti Tuuri	198?	Novel	-	-	-
2	Man of War Max Manus	2008	Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg	Norway	Det vil helst gå godt [38] (uncredited)	Max Manus (uncredited)	1945	Memoir	-	-	-
2					Det blir alvor [38] (uncredited)	Max Manus (uncredited)	1946	Memoir	-	-	-

Continuation War

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Tuntematon sotilas	1955	Edvin Laine	Finland	The Unknown Soldier	Väinö Linna	1954	Novel	-	-	-
2	Tuntematon sotilas	1985	Rauni Mollberg	Finland	The Unknown Soldier	Väinö Linna	1954	Novel	-	-	-
3	Rukajärven tie	1999	Olli Saarela	Finland	Elämä isänmaalle	Antti Tuuri	1998	Novel	-	-	-
3					Rukajärven linja	Antti Tuuri	1992	Novel	-	-	-
3					Rukajärven aika	Antti Tuuri	1991	Novel	-	-	-
3					Rukajärven tiellä	Antti Tuuri	1990	Novel	-	-	-

Frequently filmed: The Dawns Here Are Quiet

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Dawns Here Are Quiet А зори здесь тихие *	1970	Ivan Rassomakhin	USSR	"A zori zdes tikhie"	Boris Vasilyev	1969	Story	-	-	-
2	The Dawns Here Are Quiet А зори здесь тихие	1972	Stanislav Rostotsky	USSR	"A zori zdes tikhie"	Boris Vasilyev	1969	Story	-	-	-
3	The Dawns Here Are Quiet А зори здесь тихие	2005	Mao Vei-nin (Мао Вэйнин)	Russia & China	"A zori zdes tikhie"	Boris Vasilyev	1969	Story	-	-	-

• * TV movie.

Land operations – Balkan Campaign

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Travelling Players Ο Θίασος	1975	Theodoros Angelopoulos	Greece	Oresteia (uncredited)	Aeschylus (uncredited)	458 BC	Trilogy	-	-	-
2	Fortunes of War **	1987	James Cellan Jones	UK	The Balkan Trilogy [6]	Olivia Manning	1960–1965	Novels	-	-	-
2					The Levant Trilogy [6]	Olivia Manning	1977–1980	Novels	-	-	-
3	Captain Corelli's Mandolin	2001	John Madden	US	Corelli's Mandolin [39]	Louis de Bernières	1994	Novel	-	-	-
4	Sword of Honour **	2001	Bill Anderson	UK	Sword of Honour [40] [6] [41]	Evelyn Waugh	1952–1961	Trilogy	-	-	-

• ** TV miniseries.

Land operations – North African and East African Campaigns

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Immortal Sergeant	1943	John M. Stahl	US	Immortal Sergeant	John Brophy	194?	Novel	-	-	-
2	The Desert Fox	1951	Henry Hathaway	US	Rommel [41]	Desmond Young	1950	Non-fiction	-	-	-
3	Ice-Cold in Alex	1958	J. Lee Thompson	UK	Ice Cold in Alex	Christopher Landon	1957	Novel	-	-	-
4	How I Won the War	1967	Richard Lester	UK	How I Won the War	Patrick Ryan	1963	Novel	-	-	-
5	Seven Against the Sun	1967	David Millin	South Africa	Seven Against the Sun	James Ambrose Brown	196?	Play	-	-	-
6	Fortunes of War **	1987	James Cellan Jones	UK	The Balkan Trilogy [6]	Olivia Manning	1960–1965	Trilogy	-	-	-
6					The Levant Trilogy [6]	Olivia Manning	1977–1980	Trilogy	-	-	-
7	Tobruk Tobruk	2008	Václav Marhoul	Czechia & Slovakia	The Red Badge of Courage	Stephen Crane	1895	Novel	-	-	-

• ** TV miniseries.

Battle of Kasserine Pass

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Story of G.I. Joe [19]	1945	William Wellman	US	Brave Men & Here Is Your War (uncredited)	Ernie Pyle [42]	1944 & 1943 [8]	Non-fiction	-	-	-
2	Patton [18]	1970	Franklin J. Schaffner	US	Patton: Ordeal and Triumph	Ladislas Farago	1963	Non-fiction	-	-	-
2					A Soldier's Story	Omar N. Bradley	1951	Non-fiction	-	-	-

Land operations – Italian Campaign

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	A Walk in the Sun	1945	Lewis Milestone	US	A Walk in the Sun	Harry Brown	1944	Novel	-	-	-
2	A Bell for Adano	1945	Henry King	US	A Bell for Adano [43]	John Hersey	1944	Novel	-	-	-
3	The Story of G.I. Joe [19]	1945	William Wellman	US	Brave Men & Here Is Your War (uncredited)	Ernie Pyle [42]	1944 & 1943 [8]	Non-fiction	-	-	-
4	Up Front	1951	Alexander Hall	US	Up Front	Bill Mauldin [44]	1945?	Memoir/Cartoons	-	-	-
5	Anzio	1968	Duilio Coletti & Edward Dmytryk	Italy	Anzio	Wynford Vaughan-Thomas	1961	Non-fiction	-	-	-
6	The Devil's Brigade	1968	Andrew V. McLaglen	US	The Devil's Brigade	Robert H. Adleman & George Walton	1966	Non-fiction	-	-	-
7	Patton ♠ [18]	1970	Franklin J. Schaffner	US	Patton: Ordeal and Triumph ♦	Ladislas Farago	1963	Non-fiction	-	-	-
7					A Soldier's Story	Omar N. Bradley	1951	Non-fiction	-	-	-
8	The Skin	1981	Liliana Cavani	Italy	La pelle	Curzio Malaparte	1949	Novel	-	-	-
9	In Love and War *	2001	John Kent Harrison	US	Love and War in the Apennines	Eric Newby	1971	Novel/ Memoir	-	-	-
10	Miracle at St. Anna	2008	Spike Lee	US	Miracle at St. Anna	James McBride	2003	Novel	-	-	-

• ♠ Patton, in fact, spans three campaigns, from North Africa (Battle of Kasserine Pass) to Western Europe (Battle of the Bulge).
• ♦ The sequel to Farago's book is entitled The Last Days Of Patton.
• * TV movie.

Air operations

Fighters

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
Story of a Real Man ♣ Повесть о настоящем человеке	1948	Aleksandr Stolper	USSR	Povest o nastoyashchem cheloveke	Boris Polevoy	1946	Novel	-	-	-
Reach for the Sky ♣	1956	Lewis Gilbert	UK	Reach for the Sky: The Story of Douglas Bader DSO, DFC.	Paul Brickhill	1954	Non-fiction	-	-	-
Battle of Britain	1969	Guy Hamilton	UK	The Narrow Margin	Derek Wood & Derek Dempster	1961	Novel	-	-	-
Angels One Five	1952	George More O'Ferrall	UK	What Are Your Angels Now?	Pelham Groom

• ♣ The story of Alexey Maresyev, double amputee Soviet pilot, compares to that of Britain's Douglas Bader.

Bombers

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
Victory Through Air Power α δ	1943	Perce Pearce, Clyde Geronimi, et al.	US	Victory Through Air Power	Alexander P. de Seversky	1942	Non-fiction	-	-	-
Ladies Courageous ♠	1943	John Rawlins	US	Looking For Trouble	Virginia Spencer Cowles	194?	Novel	-	-	-
The Way to the Stars	1945	Anthony Asquith	UK	"For Johnny" et al. Flare Path (uncredited)	John Pudney Terence Rattigan (uncredited)	1941 1942	Poems Play
Twelve O'Clock High [45]	1949	David Lean	UK & US	Twelve O'Clock High	Sy Bartlett & Beirne Lay, Jr.		Novel
The Dam Busters	1954	Michael Anderson	UK	The Dam Busters Enemy Coast Ahead (uncredited)	Paul Brickhill Guy Gibson	1951 1946[46]	Non-fiction Autobiographical	-	-	-
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell	1955	Otto Preminger	US	Winged Defense (uncredited)	Billy Mitchell (uncredited)	1925	Non-fiction	-	-	-
The War Lover	1962	Philip Leacock	UK	The War Lover	John Hersey	1959	Novel	-	-	-
633 Squadron	1964	Walter Grauman	UK & US	633 Squadron	Frederick E Smith	1958	Novel	-	-	-
Nebeští jezdci Nebeští jezdci	1968	Jindřich Polák	Czechoslovakia	Nebeští jezdci	Filip Jánský	1964	Novel	-	-	-
Catch-22	1970	Mike Nichols	US	Catch-22 [6]	Joseph Heller	1961	Novel	-	-	-
Murphy's War	1971	Peter Yates	UK	Murphy's War	Max Catto	1969	Novel	-	-	-
Twelve O'Clock High ***	1964–1967	Robert Douglas, Don Medford et al.	US	Twelve O'Clock High	Sy Bartlett & Beirne Lay, Jr. ♦	1948	Novel	-	-	-

• ♠ 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

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Island in the Sky	1953	William A. Wellman	US	Island in the Sky	Ernest K. Gann	1944	Novel	-	-	-

Missiles

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Prüfstand VII	2002	Robert Bramkamp	Germany	Gravity's Rainbow [47] [6] (excerpts)	Thomas Pynchon	1973	Novel	-	-	-

Naval operations

Capital ships

Battle of the River Plate

13 December 1939

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Battle of the River Plate	1956	Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger	UK	I Was A Prisoner on the Graf Spee (uncredited)	Patrick Dove (uncredited)	195?	Non-fiction	-	-	-

Battle of Drøbak Sound

9 April 1940

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Hamsun ♠	1996	Jan Troell	Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark	Processen mod Hamsun	Thorkild Hansen	1978	Non-fiction	-	-	-
1					Regnbuen	Marie Hamsun	1953	Autobiography	-	-	-

• ♠ 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	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
Sink the Bismarck!	1960	Lewis Gilbert	UK	The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck	"C.S. Forester"	1959	Novel

Cruisers and destroyers

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	In Which We Serve ♠	1942	Noël Coward	UK	Bless our Ship: Mountbatten and the Kelly (uncredited)	Richard Hough (uncredited)	198?	Non-fiction	-	-	-
2	The Cruel Sea	1953	Charles Frend	UK	The Cruel Sea [6]	Nicholas Monsarrat	1951	Novel	-	-	-
3	The Enemy Below ♣	1957	Dick Powell	US	The Enemy Below	D.A. Rayner	1956	Novel	-	-	-
4	Under Ten Flags	1960	Duilio Coletti	Italy & US	Schiff 16. Tatsachenbericht. Die Kaperfahrten des schweren Hilfskreuzers „Atlantis“ auf den 7 Weltmeeren [48]	Bernhard Rogge & Wolfgang Frank	1955	Memoir	-	-	-
4					Atlantis, The story of a German Surface Raider (uncredited)	Ulrich Möhr & A.V. Sellwood (uncredited)	195?	Non-fiction	-	-	-
5	The Valiant ♣	1962	Roy Ward Baker	UK & Italy	L'Équipage au complet	Robert Mallet	1958	Play	-	-	-

• ♠ Noël Coward based this story on his friend Louis Mountbatten and the sinking of his destroyer, the 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

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Above Us the Waves	1955	Ralph Thomas	UK	Above Us the Waves	Charles Esme Thornton Warren & James D. Benson	1953	Novel	-	-	-
2	The Enemy Below ♣	1957	Dick Powell	US	The Enemy Below	D.A. Rayner	1956	Novel	-	-	-
3	The Valiant ♣	1962	Roy Ward Baker	UK & Italy	L'Équipage au complet	Robert Mallet	1958	Play	-	-	-
4	Mystery Submarine	1963	C.M. Pennington-Richards	UK	Mystery Submarine (?)	Jon Manchip White	195? [9]	Play	-	-	-
5	Das Boot	1981	Wolfgang Petersen	West Germany	Das Boot [6]	Lothar-Günther Buchheim	1973	Novel	-	-	-

• ♣ The stories involve the crews of an Allied warship and an Axis submarine.

Frogmen

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Silent Enemy	1958	William Fairchild	UK	Commander Crabb	Marshall Pugh	195?	Non-fiction	-	-	-

Merchant marine

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Long Voyage Home	1940	John Ford	US	The Moon of the Caribees	Eugene O'Neill [49]	1918	Play	-	-	-
1					In The Zone	Eugene O'Neill [49]	1917	Play	-	-	-
1					Bound East for Cardiff	Eugene O'Neill [49]	1914	Play	-	-	-
1					The Long Voyage Home	Eugene O'Neill [49]	1917	Play	-	-	-
2	The Navy Comes Through ♠	1942	A. Edward Sutherland	US	"Pay To Learn"	Borden Chase	194?	Story	-	-	-
3	Action in the North Atlantic	1943	Lloyd Bacon	US	Action in the North Atlantic	Guy Gilpatric	1943 [8]	Novel	-	-	-
4	Passage to Marseille ♦	1944	Michael Curtiz	US	Sans Patrie aka Men Without Country	Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall	1942	Novel	-	-	-
5	Lifeboat	1944	Alfred Hitchcock	US	Lifeboat	John Steinbeck [50]	1942	Novella (unpublished)	-	-	-
6	The Viking Watch of the Danish Seaman	1948	Bodil Ipsen & Lau Lauritzen Jr.	Denmark	?	Kaj Frische	194?	Diary	-	-	-
7	Sealed Cargo	1951	Alfred L. Werker	US	The Gaunt Woman	Edmund Gilligan	1943 [8]	Novel	-	-	-
8	Murphy's War	1971	Peter Yates	UK	Murphy's War	Max Catto	1969	Novel	-	-	-

• ♠ 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

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Copenhagen *	2002	Howard Davies	UK	Copenhagen [51][52][53][54][55]	Michael Frayn	1998	Play	-	-	-

• * TV movie.

Commando operations and Secret missions

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
The Guns of Navarone	1961	J. Lee Thompson	US & Yugoslavia	The Guns of Navarone	Alistair MacLean	1957	Novel	-	-	-
The Dirty Dozen	1967	Robert Aldrich	UK & US	The Dirty Dozen	E.M. Nathanson	1965	Novel	-	-	-
Where Eagles Dare	1968	Brian G. Hutton	UK & US	Where Eagles Dare	Alistair MacLean	1967	Novel	-	-	-
Force 10 from Navarone	1978	Guy Hamilton	UK	Force 10 From Navarone	Alistair MacLean	1967	Novel	-	-	-
Charlotte Gray	2001	Gillian Armstrong	UK	Charlotte Gray [56]	Sebastian Faulks	1999	Novel	-	-	-
Jenny's War *	1985	Steve Gethers	US & UK	Jenny's War	Jack Stoneley	195?	Novel	-	-	-
A Man Called Intrepid **	1979	Peter Carter	Canada & UK	A Man Called Intrepid	William Stevenson	1976	Non-fiction	-	-	-
Brothers in Arms	2011	Marcel Langenegger	US	Brothers in Arms	Richard Baron, Abe Baum, Richard Goldhurst	200?	Non-fiction	-	-	-

• * TV movie.

Central Europe

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Hitler's Madman	1943	Douglas Sirk	US	Hangman's Village	Bart Lytton	1943?	Novel	-	-	-
1					"Lidice"	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1943?	Poem	-	-	-
2	Operation Daybreak	1975	Lewis Gilbert	UK & Czechoslovakia	Seven Men at Daybreak	Alan Burgess	19??	Non-fiction	-	-	-

Western Europe

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Decision Before Dawn	1951	Anatole Litvak	US	Call It Treason	George Howe	195?	Novel	-	-	-
2	Appointment with Venus	1951	Ralph Thomas	UK	Appointment with Venus	Jerrard Tickell	1951	Novel	-	-	-
3	The Red Beret	1953	Terence Young	UK	The Red Beret	Hilary St. George Saunders	195?	Non-fiction	-	-	-
4	The Cockleshell Heroes	1955	José Ferrer	UK	The Cockleshell Heroes	George Kent	195?	Non-fiction	-	-	-
5	Carve Her Name with Pride	1958	Lewis Gilbert	UK	Carve Her Name with Pride	R.J. Minney	195?	Non-fiction	-	-	-
6	Ill Met by Moonlight	1957	Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger	UK	Ill Met by Moonlight: The Abduction of General Kreipe	W. Stanley Moss	1952	Non-fiction
-	-	-	7	Inglourious Basterds	2009	Quentin Tarantino	US	Winnetou ♠ (uncredited)	Karl May (uncredited)	1893	Trilogy	-	-	-

• ♠ Well-known in German but not in English, May's characters are mentioned during the tavern conversation.

Eastern Europe

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Star Звезда	1949	Aleksandr Ivanov	USSR	"Zvezda" "Звезда"	Emmanuil Kazakevich	1947	Story	-	-	-
2	The Star Звезда	2002	Nikolai Lebedev	Russia	"Zvezda" "Звезда"	Emmanuil Kazakevich	1947	Story	-	-	-

Partisans and resistance movements

Central Europe

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Death Is Called Engelchen Smrt si říká Engelchen	1963	Ján Kadár & Elmar Klos	Czechoslovakia	Smrť sa volá Engelchen	Ladislav Mňačko	1959	Novel/Memoir	-	-	-
2	Želary	2003	Ondřej Trojan	Czechia & Slovakia	Jozova Hanule [57]	Květa Legátová	2002	Novella	-	-	-
2					Želary [57]	Květa Legátová	2001	Stories	-	-	-

Poland

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
2	A Generation ♠	1955	Andrzej Wajda	Poland	Pokolenie	Bohdan Czeszko	1951	Novel	-	-	-
3	Bołdyn Bołdyn	1981	Ewa Petelska & Czesław Petelski	Poland	Bołdyn	Jerzy Putrament	1969	Novel	-	-	-
4	Sophie's Choice	1982	Alan J. Pakula	US	Sophie's Choice [58] [4] [6]	William Styron	1979	Novel	-	-	-
5	The Wall *	1982	Robert Markowitz	Poland & US	The Wall	Millard Lampell	1960 [59]	Play	-	-	-
5					The Wall [60][61]	John Hersey	1950	Novel	-	-	-
6	Au nom de tous les miens	1983	Robert Enrico	France, Canada, Hungary	For Those I Loved	Martin Gray with Max Gallo	1971	Memoir	-	-	-
7	Warszawa. Année 5703 Warszawa. Rok 5703	1992	Janusz Kijowski	Germany, France, Poland	?	Jerzy Janicki	199?	Novella	-	-	-
8	Uprising *	2001	Jon Avnet	US	A Surplus of Memory: Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising	Yitzhak Zuckerman ‡	1976/1991	Memoir	-	-	-
8					Memoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto Fighter: The Past within Me	Simha Rotem "Kazik" ♦ ‡	1994	Memoir	-	-	-
8					Between Tumbling Walls	Tuvia Borzykowski	1972	Memoir	-	-	-
8					The Jews of Warsaw, 1939–1943: Ghetto, Underground, Revolt Yehude Varshah, 1939–1943: geto, mahteret, mered	Israel Gutman ♦ ישראל גוטמן	1977 [8]	Non-fiction	-	-	-
8					Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising	Israel Gutman ♦	1994 [8]	Non-fiction	-	-	-
8					The Revolt of the Besieged: The Biography of Mordechai Anielewicz Mered ha-netsurim	Israel Gutman ♦	1963 [8]	Non-fiction	-	-	-
8					In the Days of Destruction and Revolt	Zivia Lubetkin ‡	1981	Memoir	-	-	-
8					Shielding the Flame: An Intimate Conversation With Dr. Marek Edelman, the Last Surviving Leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (uncredited)	Marek Edelman ♦ ‡ with Hanna Krall	1986	Memoir	-	-	-
8					Es gibt keinen jüdischen Wohnbezirk in Warschau mehr ! [62] (uncredited)	SS Gen. Jürgen Stroop ‡	1943/1979	Report/Diary	-	-	-
8					Conversations with an Executioner [62] Rozmowy z katem (uncredited)	Kazimierz Moczarski	1972–1974/1975	Non-fiction	-	-	-
8					Emanuel Ringelblum Archives (uncredited)	Emanuel Ringelblum ‡ (archivist)	1943	Archive	-	-	-
9	Karol: A Man Who Became Pope **	2005	Giacomo Battiato	Poland, Italy, France, Germany, Canada	Stories of Karol: The Unknown Life of Pope John Paul II	Gian Franco Svidercoschi	2001	Non-fiction	-	-	-
10	Pope John Paul II **	2005	John Kent Harrison	Italy, US, Poland	"Gods and Man" "Bogowie i człowiek" from Vade-mecum	Cyprian Norwid	1866	Poem	-	-	-
11	Defiance ♠♠	2008	Edward Zwick	US	Defiance: The Bielski Partisans	Nechama Tec	1993	Non-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

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Casablanca [63]	1942	Michael Curtiz	US	Everybody Comes to Rick's	Murray Burnett & Joan Alison	1940	Play (unproduced)	-	-	-
2	Edge of Darkness	1943	Lewis Milestone	US	Edge of Darkness	William Woods	1942	Novel	-	-	-
3	The Moon Is Down	1943	Irving Pichel	US	The Moon Is Down [6]	John Steinbeck [50]	1942	Novel	-	-	-
4	Suicide Mission Shetlandsgjengen	1954	Michael Forlong	UK & Norway	The Shetland Bus: A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival, and Adventure	David Howarth	1951	Non-fiction	-	-	-
4					None But the Brave Shetlands-Larsen	Frithjof Sælen	1947	Non-fiction	-	-	-
5	Man of War Max Manus	2008	Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg	Norway	Det vil helst gå godt (uncredited)	Max Manus (uncredited)	1945	Memoir	-	-	-
5					Det blir alvor (uncredited)	Max Manus (uncredited)	1946	Memoir	-	-	-

France

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Cloak and Dagger	1946	Fritz Lang	US	Cloak and Dagger	Corey Ford & Alastair MacBain	1946	Non-fiction?	-	-	-
2	The Train	1964	John Frankenheimer	US, France, Italy	Le Front de l'art	Rose Valland	1961	Non-fiction	-	-	-
3	Army of Shadows	1969	Jean-Pierre Melville	France	L'Armée des ombres	Joseph Kessel	1943	Novel/Memoir	-	-	-
4	The Train	1973	Pierre Granier-Deferre	France & Italy	The Train	Georges Simenon	1961	Novel	-	-	-
5	L'Affiche Rouge	1976	Frank Cassenti	France	"Red Poster" "Affiche rouge"	Vichy Ministry of Information	1944	Propaganda poster	-	-	-
6	Boulevard des hirondelles	1993	Josée Yanne	France	Ils partiront dans l'ivresse	Lucie Aubrac	1984	Memoir	-	-	-
7	Lucie Aubrac	1997	Claude Berri	France	Ils partiront dans l'ivresse	Lucie Aubrac	1984	Memoir	-	-	-
8	The Army of Crime L'Armée du crime	2009	Robert Guédiguian	France	"Red Poster" "Affiche rouge"	Vichy Ministry of Information	1944	Propaganda poster	-	-	-

Frequently filmed: Le Silence de la mer

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Le Silence de la mer	1949	Jean-Pierre Melville	France	Put Out the Light [4] Le Silence de la mer	"Vercors"	1942	Novel	-	-	-

Balkans

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Silent Gunpowder Глуви барут	1990	Bato Čengić Бахрудин Ченгић	Yugoslavia	Silent Gunpowder Глуви барут	Branko Ćopić	1957	Novel	-	-	-

USSR

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Young Guard	1948	Sergei Gerasimov	USSR	The Young Guard	Alexander Fadeyev	1945	Novel	-	-	-
2	Heavy Sand *** Тяжёлый песок	2008	Anton Barshchevsky Антон Барщевский	Russia	Heavy Sand	Anatoly Rybakov	1979	Novel	-	-	-

• *** TV series.

Italy

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	General della Rovere	1959	Roberto Rossellini	Italy	Il generale Della Rovere	Indro Montanelli	1959	Novel	-	-	-
2	The Long Night of '43	1960	Florestano Vancini	Italy, France	"Una notte del '43" [64]	Giorgio Bassani	1956	Story	-	-	-
3	The Scarlet and the Black	1983	Jerry London	US, UK, Italy	The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican	J. P. Gallagher	1967	Non-fiction	-	-	-
4	Il partigiano Johnny	2000	Guido Chiesa	Italy	Il partigiano Johnny	Beppe Fenoglio	1968	Novel	-	-	-
n	Little Teachers I piccoli maestri	1998	Daniele Luchetti	Italy	The Outlaws [65] I piccoli maestri	Luigi Meneghello	1964	Novel/Memoir	-	-	-

Caribbean

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	To Have and Have Not	1944	Howard Hawks	US	To Have and Have Not	Ernest Hemingway [5]	1937	Novel	-	-	-

German anti-Nazi opposition

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

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Hitler, Beast of Berlin	1939	"Sherman Scott"	US	Goose Step	Shepard Traube [67]	193? [9]	Novel	-	-	-
2	Pimpernel Smith ♠	1941	Leslie Howard	UK	The Scarlet Pimpernel	Baroness Orczy	1905	Novel	-	-	-
3	Watch on the Rhine	1943	Herman Shumlin	US	Watch on the Rhine [68]	Lillian Hellman	1941	Play	-	-	-
4	The Night of the Generals	1967	Anatole Litvak	UK & France	Die Nacht der Generale [69]	Hans Hellmut Kirst	1962	Novel	-	-	-
5	Lili Marleen	1981	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	West Germany	Der Himmel hat viele Farben	Lale Andersen	1972	Memoir	-	-	-
6	Christabel **	1988	Adrian Shergold	UK	The Past is Myself [41]	Christabel Bielenberg	1968	Memoir	-	-	-
6					The Road Ahead (unconfirmed)	Christabel Bielenberg	196?	Memoir	-	-	-
7	Karol: A Man Who Became Pope ♦ **	2005	Giacomo Battiato	Poland, Italy, France, Germany, Canada	Stories of Karol: The Unknown Life of Pope John Paul II	Gian Franco Svidercoschi	2001	Non-fiction	-	-	-
8	Sophie Scholl – The Final Days Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage	2005	Marc Rothemund	Germany	?	?	1943	Transcripts (unpublished) [70]	-	-	-

• ♠ The film that inspired Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg.
• ♦ A Catholic German officer is executed in Poland.
• ** TV miniseries.

Military intelligence and Espionage

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Confessions of a Nazi Spy ♠	1939	Anatole Litvak	US	?	Leon G. Turrou	193?	Articles	-	-	-
2	Night Train to Munich	1940	Carol Reed	UK	Report on a Fugitive (uncredited)	Gordon Wellesley (uncredited)	193?	Novel	-	-	-
3	Ministry of Fear	1944	Fritz Lang	US	The Ministry of Fear [6]	Graham Greene	1943	Novel	-	-	-
4	5 Fingers	1952	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	US	Operation Cicero	L.C. Moyzisch	1950	Non-fiction	-	-	-
5	The Man Who Never Was	1956	Ronald Neame	UK	The Man Who Never Was	Ewen Montagu	1954	Non-fiction	-	-	-
6	I Was Monty's Double	1958	John Guillermin	UK	I Was Monty's Double	M. E. Clifton James	1954	Non-fiction	-	-	-
7	The Pigeon That Took Rome	1962	Melville Shavelson	US	The Easter Dinner	Donald Downes	195?	Novel	-	-	-
8	36 Hours	1965	George Seaton	US	"Beware of the Dog" from Over to You	Roald Dahl	1944/ 1946	Story	-	-	-
9	Triple Cross	1966	Terence Young	UK & France	The Eddie Chapman Story	Frank Owen	196?	Non-fiction	-	-	-
10	Seventeen Moments of Spring ** Семнадцать мгновений весны	1973	Tatyana Lioznova	USSR	The Himmler Ploy	"Yulian Semyonov"	1968	Novel	-	-	-
11	Salon Kitty	1976	Tinto Brass	Italy, West Germany, France	Salon Kitty. Report einer geheimen Reichssache	Peter Norden	1970	Novel?	-	-	-
12	Eye of the Needle	1981	Richard Marquand	UK	Eye of the Needle [71]	Ken Follett	1978	Novel	-	-	-
13	Enigma	2001	Michael Apted	UK, US	Enigma [6]	Robert Harris	1995	Novel	-	-	-

• ♠ A libel suit against this film was threatened by Fritz Kuhn of the German American Bund.^[72]
• ** TV miniseries.

Neutral powers

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Mask of Dimitrios	1944	Jean Negulesco	US	The Mask of Dimitrios	Eric Ambler	1939	Novel	-	-	-

Home Guard

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp	1943	Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger	UK	?	David Low	193?	Cartoons	-	-	-

Military bases

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Major and the Minor	1942	Billy Wilder	US	Connie Goes Home	Edward Childs Carpenter	194?	Play	-	-	-
1					"Sunny Goes Home"	Fannie Kilbourne	194?	Story	-	-	-
2	On the Fiddle	1961	Cyril Frankel	UK	Stop at a Winner	R.F. Delderfield	195?	Novel	-	-	-
3	Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall	1972	Norman Cohen	UK	Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall	Spike Milligan	1971	Memoir	-	-	-
4	A Soldier's Story	1984	Norman Jewison	US	A Soldier's Play [73][74]	Charles Fuller	1981	Play	-	-	-
5	Biloxi Blues	1988	Mike Nichols	US	Biloxi Blues [75]	Neil Simon	1985	Play	-	-	-

Enlistment

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Lost Boundaries	1949	Alfred L. Werker	US	Lost Boundaries	William L. White	1948	Novel	-	-	-

Military hospitals

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The English Patient	1996	Anthony Minghella	US	The English Patient [76] [77] [78] [6]	Michael Ondaatje	1992	Novel	-	-	-
2	Something The Lord Made ♠ *	2004	Joseph Sargent	US	"Like Something the Lord Made"	Katie McCabe	1989	Article	-	-	-
3	The Haunted Airman *	2006	Chris Durlacher	UK	The Haunting of Toby Jugg	Dennis Wheatley	1948	Novel	-	-	-

• ♠ A film about pioneering civilian open-heart surgery which led to a World War II military application.
• * TV movie.

Military justice and Courts-martial

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell	1955	Otto Preminger	US	Winged Defense (uncredited)	Billy Mitchell (uncredited)	1925	Non-fiction	-	-	-
2	The Execution of Private Slovik *	1974	Lamont Johnson	US	The Execution of Private Slovik ♦	William Bradford Huie	1954	Non-fiction	-	-	-
3	Firing Squad *	1991	Michel Andrieu	Canada & France	Execution [79]	Colin McDougall	1958	Novel	-	-	-

• ♦ Huie's book is referenced in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five.
• * TV movie.

Involuntary confinement

Allied POWs

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Wooden Horse	1950	Jack Lee	UK	The Wooden Horse	Eric Williams	1949	Novel/Memoir	-	-	-
2	Stalag 17	1953	Billy Wilder	US	Stalag 17	Donald Bevan & Edmund Trzcinski	195?	Play	-	-	-
3	The Password is Courage	1962	Andrew L. Stone	UK	Charles Coward: My Life is Yours	John Castle	196?	Non-fiction	-	-	-
4	The Elusive Corporal	1962	Jean Renoir	France	Le Caporal épinglé	Jacques Perret	1947	Novel	-	-	-
5	The Great Escape	1963	John Sturges	US	The Great Escape	Paul Brickhill	1950	Non-fiction	-	-	-
6	Von Ryan's Express	1965	Mark Robson	US	Von Ryan's Express	David Westheimer	1964	Novel	-	-	-
7	Slaughterhouse-Five	1972	George Roy Hill	US	Slaughterhouse-Five [6]	Kurt Vonnegut	1969	Novel	-	-	-
8	The Ogre	1996	Volker Schlöndorff	France, Germany, UK	The Erl King Le Roi des aulnes [80]	Michel Tournier	1970	Novel	-	-	-
9	In Love and War *	2001	John Kent Harrison	US	Love and War in the Apennines	Eric Newby	1971	Novel/ Memoir	-	-	-
10	Hart's War	2002	Gregory Hoblit	US	Hart's War	John Katzenbach	1999	Novel	-	-	-
11	Colditz *	2005	Stuart Orme	UK	Colditz: The Definitive History [81] (uncredited)	Henry Chancellor (uncredited)	200?	Non-fiction	-	-	-
12	Katyń	2007	Andrzej Wajda	Poland	Post Mortem: The Story of Katyń [82]	Andrzej Mularczyk	2007	Novel	-	-	-
13	The Way Back	2010	Peter Weir	US	The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom	Slavomir Rawicz with Ronald Downing (ghostwriter)	1956?	Memoir (purported)	-	-	-
n	The Cow and I La Vache et le prisonnier	1959	Henri Verneuil	France & Italy	Une histoire vraie	Jacques Antoine	195?	Novel	-	-	-

• * TV movie.

Frequently filmed: Colditz: The Colditz Story

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Colditz Story	1955	Guy Hamilton	UK	Colditz: The Colditz Story	P.R. Reid	1952	Memoir	-	-	-
2	The Birdmen *	1971	Philip Leacock	US	Colditz: The Colditz Story (uncredited)	P.R. Reid (uncredited)	1952	Memoirs	-	-	-
2					Latter Days at Colditz (uncredited)	P.R. Reid (uncredited)	1953	Memoirs	-	-	-
3	Colditz ***	1972–1974	Peter Cregeen, Viktors Ritelis, Michael Ferguson et al.	UK	Colditz: The Colditz Story (uncredited)	P.R. Reid ♠	1952	Memoir	-	-	-

• ♠ Reid is credited as technical consultant, rather than author.
• * TV movie.
• *** TV series.

Frequently filmed: The Last Duel

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
3	Escape to Victory aka Victory	1981	John Huston	US	The Last Duel (uncredited)	? (uncredited)	196?	Play	-	-	-

Axis POWs

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Embajadores en el infierno ♠ Embajadores en el infierno	1956	José María Forqué	Spain	Embajador en el infierno [83] Embajador en el infierno. Memorias del Capitán Palacios (once años de cautiverio en Rusia)	Torcuato Luca de Tena & Teodoro Palacios Cueto	1956?	Novel/ Memoir	-	-	-
2	The One That Got Away	1957	Roy Ward Baker	UK	The One That Got Away	Kendal Burt & James Leasor	1956	Non-fiction	-	-	-
3	As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me ♣ ** So weit die Füße tragen	1959	Fritz Umgelter	West Germany	As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me So weit die Füße tragen	Josef M. Bauer	1955	Novel	-	-	-
4	Summer of My German Soldier *	1978	Michael Tuchner	US	Summer of My German Soldier	Bette Greene	1973	Novel	-	-	-
5	As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me ♣ So weit die Füße tragen	2001	Hardy Martins	Germany	As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me So weit die Füße tragen	Josef M. Bauer	1955	Novel	-	-	-

• ♠ 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

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Ascent	1994	Donald Shebib	Canada & US	No Picnic on Mount Kenya: The Story of Three P.O.W.s' Escape to Adventure	Felice Benuzzi	1948	Memoir	-	-	-
2	Fuga sul Kenya Fuga sul Kenya	2009	Gabriele Iacovone	Italy	No Picnic on Mount Kenya: The Story of Three P.O.W.s' Escape to Adventure	Felice Benuzzi	1948	Memoir	-	-	-

Convicts

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Hill	1965	Sidney Lumet	UK	The Hill	Ray Rigby & R.S. Allen	196?	Play	-	-	-
2	Borstal Boy	2000	Peter Sheridan	UK & Ireland	Borstal Boy	Brendan Behan	1958	Novel/ Memoir	-	-	-
3	The Final Battle of Major Pugachov Последний бой майора Пугачёва	2005	Vladimir Fatyanov	Russia	"The Final Battle" "Последний бой" [84] from The Kolyma Tales	Varlam Shalamov	1959/ 1954–1973	Story	-	-	-
n	Punishment Battalion Strafbataillon 999	1960	Harald Philipp	West Germany	Strafbataillon 999	Heinz G. Konsalik	1959	Novel	-	-	-

Civilians

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Ich klage an ♠	1941	Wolfgang Liebeneiner	Nazi Germany	Sendung und Gewissen	Hellmuth Unger	194?	Novel	-	-	-
2	Naked Among Wolves	1959	Frank Beyer	East Germany	Nackt unter Wölfen	Bruno Apitz	1958	Novel	-	-	-
3	Reportáž psaná na oprátce	1961	Jaroslav Balík	Czechoslovakia	Notes from the Gallows Reportáž psaná na oprátce	Julius Fučík [85]	1947/ 1995	Memoir (posthumous)	-	-	-
4	Transport from Paradise Transport z ráje	1962	Zbyněk Brynych	Czechoslovakia	Night and Hope Noc a naděje	Arnošt Lustig	1957	Novel	-	-	-
5	Playing for Time *	1980	Daniel Mann	US	Sursis pour l'orchestre	Fania Fénelon	1976?	Memoir	-	-	-
6	The Assault	1986	Fons Rademakers	Netherlands	The Assault [6]	Harry Mulisch	1982	Novel	-	-	-
7	Escape from Sobibor *	1987	Jack Gold	US	Escape from Sobibor	Richard Rashke	19??	Non-fiction	-	-	-
8	Korczak	1990	Andrzej Wajda	Poland	King Matthew the First Król Maciuś Pierwszy (uncredited)	Janusz Korczak (uncredited)	1923	Children's book	-	-	-
9	Bent	1997	Sean Mathias	UK	Bent [86]	Martin Sherman	1979	Play	-	-	-
10	Aimée & Jaguar	1999	Max Färberböck	Germany	Aimée & Jaguar. Eine Liebesgeschichte, Berlin 1943	Erica Fischer ♦	1994	Non-fiction	-	-	-
11	Tea with Mussolini	1999	Franco Zeffirelli	Italy & UK	Autobiografia	Franco Zeffirelli	199?	Autobiography	-	-	-
12	The Grey Zone	2001	Tim Blake Nelson	US	Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account	Miklós Nyiszli	19??	Memoir	-	-	-
13	The Ninth Day	2004	Volker Schlöndorff	Germany, Luxembourg, Czech Republic	Pfarrerblock 25487	Father Jean Bernard	19??	Memoir	-	-	-
14	Fateless	2005	Lajos Koltai	Hungary & Germany	Fateless	Imre Kertész [87]	1975	Novel	-	-	-
15	The Counterfeiters	2007	Stefan Ruzowitzky	Austria & Germany	Des Teufels Werkstatt: Im Fälscherkommando des KZ Sachsenhausen	Adolf Burger	1983	Memoir	-	-	-
16	The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas	2008	Mark Herman	UK & US	The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas [88]	John Boyne	2006	Novel	-	-	-
17	God on Trial *	2008	Andy de Emmony	UK & US	The Trial of God ♦♦ Le procès de Shamgorod tel qu'il se déroula le 25 février 1649 (uncredited)	Elie Wiesel [89] (uncredited)	1979	Play	-	-	-
n	The Garden of the Finzi-Continis	1970	Vittorio de Sica	Italy	The Garden of the Finzi-Continis [90]	Giorgio Bassani	1962	Novel	-	-	-
n	The Nazi	2002	Rod Lurie	US	The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness	Simon Wiesenthal	1976	Memoir	-	-	-
n	Pastor Hall	1940	Ray Boulting	UK	Pastor Hall	Ernst Toller	1939	Play	-	-	-

• ♠ 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

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Diary of Anne Frank	1959	George Stevens	US	The Diary of Anne Frank [92][93][94][95]	Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett	1955	Play	-	-	-
1					The Diary of a Young Girl [4]	Anne Frank	1947	Diary	-	-	-
2	The Diary of Anne Frank *	1980	Boris Sagal	US	The Diary of Anne Frank	Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett	1955	Play	-	-	-
3	Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank *	1982	?	East Germany	The Diary of Anne Frank	Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett	1955	Play	-	-	-
4	The Diary of Anne Frank *	2009	Jon Jones	UK	The Diary of a Young Girl	Anne Frank	1947	Diary	-	-	-

• * TV movie.

Twice filmed: Jakob, der Lügner

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Jacob, the Liar	1975	Frank Beyer	East Germany & Czechoslovakia	Jakob, der Lügner	Jurek Becker	1969	Novel	-	-	-
2	Jakob the Liar	1999	Peter Kassovitz	France, US, Hungary	Jakob, der Lügner	Jurek Becker	1969	Novel	-	-	-

Saviours

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

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	Saviour
1	Wallenberg: A Hero's Story *	1985	Lamont Johnson	US & Yugoslavia	Wallenberg: A Hero's Story	Thurston B. Clarke	198?	Non-fiction	Raoul Wallenberg
2	The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank *	1988	John Erman	US & UK	Anne Frank Remembered (?)	Miep Gies	198?	Memoir	Miep Gies
3	Schindler's List [96]	1993	Steven Spielberg	US	Schindler's Ark [97][98]	Thomas Keneally	1982	Novel	Oskar Schindler
4	Varian's War	2001	Lionel Chetwynd	UK, US, Canada	Surrender on Demand	Varian Fry	1945	Memoir	Varian Fry
5	Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man	2002	Alberto Negrin	Italy	La banalità del bene ♠	Enrico Deaglio	1993	Novel	Giorgio Perlasca
6	The Pianist	2002	Roman Polanski	France, Poland, Germany, United Kingdom	The Pianist Śmerć miasta	Władysław Szpilman	1946	Memoir	Wilm Hosenfeld
7	The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler *	2009	John Kent Harrison	US	The Mother of the Holocaust Children Matka dzieci Holocaustu. Historia Ireny Sendlerowej	Anna Mieszkowska	2004 [99]	Non-fiction	Irena Sendler

• ♠ The Italian novel is entitled The Banality of Good, in contrast to Hannah Arendt's phrase, "the banality of evil", describing Adolf Eichmann.
• * TV movie.

Other atrocities

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Gentle Gunman ♠	1952	Basil Dearden	UK	The Gentle Gunman	Roger MacDougall	195?	Play	-	-	-
2	Two Women ♠♠	1960	Vittorio De Sica	Italy	La Ciociara	Alberto Moravia	1958	Novel	-	-	-
3	The Camp Followers Le soldatesse ♦	1965	Valerio Zurlini	Yugoslavia, Italy, France, West Germany	Le soldatesse	Ugo Pirro	1956	Novel	-	-	-
4	The Adventures of Werner Holt Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt	1965	Joachim Kunert	East Germany	Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt. Roman einer Jugend. (Part 1)	Dieter Noll	1960	Novel/ Memoir	-	-	-
5	Massacre in Rome ♦♦	1973	George P. Cosmatos	Italy	Death in Rome	Robert Katz	1967	Non-fiction	-	-	-
6	Strange Gardens ♦♦♦	2003	Jean Becker	France	Effroyables jardins	Michel Quint	2000	Novel	-	-	-

• ♠ 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

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Arch of Triumph	1948	Lewis Milestone	US	Arch of Triumph	Erich Maria Remarque	1945	Novel	-	-	-
2	The Juggler ♠	1953	Edward Dmytryk	US	The Juggler	Michael Blankfort	195?	Novel	-	-	-
3	Me and the Colonel	1958	Peter Glenville	US	Jacobowsky and the Colonel [100] Jacobowsky und der Oberst. Komödie einer Tragödie in drei Akten	Franz Werfel	1944	Play	-	-	-
4	Jacobowsky und der Oberst	1967	Rainer Wolffhardt	West Germany	Jacobowsky und der Oberst. Komödie einer Tragödie in drei Akten	Franz Werfel	1944	Play	-	-	-
5	Dita Saxová	1968	Antonín Moskalyk	Czechoslovakia	Dita Saxova Dita Saxová	Arnošt Lustig	1962	Novel	-	-	-
6	Voyage of the Damned	1976	Stuart Rosenberg	US	Voyage of the Damned	Gordon Thomas & Max Morgan-Witts	1974	Non-fiction	-	-	-
7	The Boat Is Full Das Boot ist voll	1981	Markus Imhoof	Switzerland, West Germany, Austria	Das Boot ist voll. Die Flüchtlingspolitik der Schweiz 1933–1945	Alfred A. Häsler	1967	Non-fiction	-	-	-
8	The Truce	1997	Francesco Rosi	Italy, France, Germany	The Truce	Primo Levi	1962	Memoir	-	-	-

• ♠ Most of the story takes place in Israel in 1949.

Occupation and Collaboration

Central Europe

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Shop on Main Street	1965	Ján Kadár & Elmar Klos	Czechoslovakia	"Past"	Ladislav Grosman	1962	Story	-	-	-
2	Closely Watched Trains	1966	Jiří Menzel	Czechoslovakia	Ostře sledované vlaky	Bohumil Hrabal	1964	Novella	-	-	-
3	Der Bockerer ♠	1981	Franz Antel	Austria & West Germany	Der Bockerer	Ulrich Becher & Peter Preses	1946	Play	-	-	-
4	Europa Europa	1990	Agnieszka Holland	Germany, France, Poland	Ich war Hitlerjunge Salomon	Solomon Perel	1989	Memoir	-	-	-
5	Der Bockerer *	2009	Hannes Rossacher	Austria	Der Bockerer	Ulrich Becher & Peter Preses	1946	Play	-	-	-
6	The Nazi Officer's Wife	2011	Mike Figgis	US (?)	The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust	Edith Hahn Beer with Susan Dworkin	1999	Memoir	-	-	-

• ♠ 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

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Unvanquished City Robinson warszawski	1950	Jerzy Zarzycki	Poland	The Pianist Śmerć miasta (uncredited)	Władysław Szpilman ♠ (uncredited)	1946	Memoir	-	-	-
2	The Pianist	2002	Roman Polanski	France, Poland, Germany, United Kingdom	The Pianist Śmerć miasta	Władysław Szpilman	1946	Memoir	-	-	-
3	Katyń	2007	Andrzej Wajda	Poland	Post Mortem: The Story of Katyń [82]	Andrzej Mularczyk	2007	Novel	-	-	-
4	Wartime Lies	2011	?	US	Wartime Lies [101] [102] [6]	Louis Begley	1991	Novel/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

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Hamsun ♣	1996	Jan Troell	Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark	Processen mod Hamsun	Thorkild Hansen	1978	Non-fiction	-	-	-
1					Regnbuen	Marie Hamsun	1953	Autobiography	-	-	-

• ♣ The film concerns author Knut Hamsun.^[104]

Low Countries

France

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Killing of Father Christmas L'Assassinat du Père Noël	1941	Christian-Jaque	Occupied France	L'Assassinat du Père Noël	Pierre Véry	1934	Novel	-	-	-
2	A Soldier's Tale	1988	Larry Parr	New Zealand	A Soldier's Tale	M.K. Joseph	198?	Novel	-	-	-
3	Laissez-passer	2002	Bertrand Tavernier	France	Action !	Jean-Devaivre	2002	Memoir	-	-	-
n	Eyes of Love Les Yeux de l'amour	1959	Denys de La Patellière	France & Italy	Une histoire vraie ♠	Jacques Antoine	195?	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

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Seven Thunders ♠ aka The Beasts of Marseilles Les Sept Tonnerres	1989	Hugo Fregonese	UK	Seven Thunders	Rupert Croft-Cooke	1955 [105]	Novel	-	-	-

• ♠ The story adds a character based on Dr. Marcel Petiot, the Parisian serial killer.^[106]

Oradour Massacre

10 June 1944

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Souvenir	1989	Geoffrey Reeve	UK	Souvenir	Paul Wheeler	198?	Novel	-	-	-

Balkans

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Last Mission Τελευταία αποστολή	1949 [107]	Nikos Tsiforos Νίκος Τσιφόρος	Greece	Teleftaia apostoli	Nikos Tsiforos	194?	Novel	-	-	-
2	The Travelling Players Ο Θίασος	1975	Theodoros Angelopoulos	Greece	Oresteia (uncredited)	Aeschylus (uncredited)	458 BC	Trilogy	-	-	-

Baltic states

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

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Hannibal Rising ♠	2007	Peter Webber	US	Hannibal Rising	Thomas Harris	2006	Novel	-	-	-

• ♠ The story of fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter begins in Lithuania in 1944.

USSR

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country

Home front

The Blitz

7 September 1940 – 10 May 1941

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Mrs. Miniver [19]	1942	William Wyler	US	Mrs. Miniver	Jan Struther	1939	Novel (originally newspaper columns)	-	-	-
2	Journey for Margaret	1942	W. S. Van Dyke	US	Journey for Margaret	William Lindsay White	1941	Novel	-	-	-
3	Danger UXB ***	1979	Ferdinand Fairfax, Douglas Camfield, et al.	UK	Unexploded Bomb, a History of Bomb Disposal	Major A. B. Hartley, MBE	1958	Memoir	-	-	-
n	Mrs. Miniver *	1960	Marc Daniels	US	Mrs. Miniver	Jan Struther	1939	Novel	-	-	-

• * TV movie.
• *** TV series.

Commonwealth

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Medal for the General	1944	Maurice Elvey	UK	Medal for the General	James Ronald	194?	Novel	-	-	-
2	The Heart of the Matter	1953	George More O'Ferrall	UK	The Heart of the Matter [108]	Graham Greene	1948	Novel	-	-	-
3	The Tin Flute Bonheur d'occasion	1983	Claude Fournier	Canada	The Tin Flute [109][110] Bonheur d'occasion	Gabrielle Roy [111]	1945	Novel	-	-	-
4	The Dresser	1983	Peter Yates	UK	The Dresser [112]	Ronald Harwood	1980	Play	-	-	-
5	The Land Girls	1998	David Leland	UK	Land Girls	Angela Huth	19??	Novel	-	-	-
6	Nowhere in Africa	2001	Caroline Link	Germany	Nirgendwo in Afrika	Stefanie Zweig	1998	Novel/Memoir	-	-	-

United States

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country

USSR

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Fate of a Man Судьба человека	1959	Sergei Bondarchuk	USSR	"Sudba cheloveka"	Mikhail Sholokhov [36]	1957	Story	-	-	-
2	Zosya Зося	1967	Mikhail Bogin	USSR & Poland	"Zosya" "Зося"	Vladimir Bogomolov	1963	Story	-	-	-
3	Dzhamilya Джамиля	1969	Irina Poplavskaya	USSR	Jamilya	Chingiz Aytmatov	1958	Novel	-	-	-
4	Twenty Days Without War ♠ Двадцать дней без войны	1976	Aleksei German	USSR	"Dvadtsat dney bez voyny" (?)	Konstantin Simonov [29]	196?	Story	-	-	-
5	Jamila	1994	Monica Teuber	Germany & Kyrgyzstan	Jamilya	Chingiz Aytmatov	1958	Novel	-	-	-
6	La dernière lettre	2002	Frederick Wiseman	France & US	Lettre au fils	Alexis Berelowitch (translator)	199?	Play	-	-	-
6					Life and Fate [6] (excerpt)	Vasily Grossman	1959	Novel	-	-	-
7	Waltz with Bashir ♦ † α	2008	Ari Folman	Israel	Waltz with Bashir: A Lebanon War Story	Ari Folman & David Polonsky	2009	Memoir/ 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

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	This is the Army	1943	Michael Curtiz	US	This is the Army	Irving Berlin	1942	Musical	-	-	-
1					Yip Yip Yaphank	Irving Berlin	1918	Musical	-	-	-

Axis

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	La Storia ♠ *	1986	Luigi Comencini	Italy, France, West Germany, Spain	History: A Novel La Storia [6]	Elsa Morante	1974	Novel	-	-	-

• ♠ A shortened version of the film was released to cinemas.
• * TV movie.

Legacy

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Mariana, Mariana	1987	Alberto Isaac	Mexico	Las batallas en el desierto ♠	José Emilio Pacheco	1981	Novel	-	-	-

• ♠ 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

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Best Years of Our Lives [63]	1946	William Wyler	US	Glory for Me	MacKinlay Kantor	1945	Novella (in blank verse)	-	-	-
2	Crossfire ♠	1947	Edward Dmytryk	US	The Brick Foxhole	Richard Brooks	1945	Novel	-	-	-
3	Ride the Pink Horse	1947	Robert Montgomery	US	Ride the Pink Horse	Dorothy B. Hughes	1946	Novel	-	-	-
4	I Was a Male War Bride	1949	Howard Hawks	US	"I was an Alien Spouse of Female Military Personnel..."	Henri Rochard	1946?	Story/Memoir	-	-	-
5	Path of Hope ♥ Il cammino della speranza	1950	Pietro Germi	Italy	Cuori negli abissi [115]	Nino de Maria	194?	Novel	-	-	-
6	The Miniver Story	1950	H.C. Potter	US	Mrs. Miniver (characters)	Jan Struther	1939	Novel (originally newspaper columns)	-	-	-
7	Hell Is Sold Out	1951	Michael Anderson	UK	Hell Is Sold Out ?	"Maurice Dekobra"	1948 [116] (in English)	Novel	-	-	-
8	Back at the Front ♣	1952	George Sherman	US	Up Front (characters)	Bill Mauldin	1945?	Memoir/Cartoons	-	-	-
9	Tit-Coq ♦	1953	René Delacroix & Gratien Gélinas	Canada	Tit-Coq	Gratien Gélinas	1948	Play	-	-	-
10	Wedding in White	1972	William Fruet	Canada	Wedding in White	William Fruet	1977 [26] (collected edition)	Play	-	-	-
11	Katyń	2007	Andrzej Wajda	Poland	Post Mortem: The Story of Katyń [82]	Andrzej Mularczyk	2007	Novel	-	-	-

• ♠ 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.

Justice and Retribution

Nazis

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Condemned of Altona	1962	Vittorio De Sica	Italy & France	Les Séquestrés d'Altona	Jean-Paul Sartre [118]	1959	Play	-	-	-
2	The Quiller Memorandum	1966	Sidney J. Furie	UK	The Berlin Memorandum [119]	"Adam Hall"	1965	Novel	-	-	-
3	The ODESSA File	1974	Ronald Neame	UK & West Germany	The Odessa File	Frederick Forsyth	1972	Novel	-	-	-
4	The Man in the Glass Booth	1975	Arthur Hiller	US	The Man in the Glass Booth & The Man in the Glass Booth [120] (uncredited)	Robert Shaw (uncredited)	1967	Novel & Play	-	-	-
5	Marathon Man	1976	John Schlesinger	US	Marathon Man	William Goldman	1974	Novel	-	-	-
6	The House on Garibaldi Street *	1979	Peter Collinson	US	The House on Garibaldi Street	Isser Harel	1975	Memoir	-	-	-
7	In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944 ♠ † *	1992	Brian McKenna	Canada	The Valour and the Horror	Merilyn Simonds	1991	Non-fiction	-	-	-
7					The Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign: A Study of Failure in High Command (uncredited)	Lt. Col. John A. English (uncredited)	1991	Non-fiction	-	-	-
8	The Man Who Captured Eichmann	1996	William A. Graham	US	Eichmann in My Hands	Peter Z. Malkin & Harry Stein	1990	Memoir	-	-	-
9	Mother Night	1996	Keith Gordon	US	Mother Night	Kurt Vonnegut	1961	Novel	-	-	-
10	Nuremberg *	2000	Yves Simoneau	Canada & US	Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial	Joseph E. Persico	199?	Non-fiction	-	-	-
11	Taking Sides Der Fall Furtwängler	2001	István Szabó	France, UK, Germany, Austria	Taking Sides	Ronald Harwood	1995	Play	-	-	-
11					? (uncredited)	Wilhelm Furtwängler (uncredited)	194?	Diary	-	-	-
12	The Reader	2008	Stephen Daldry	US, Germany, UK	The Reader Der Vorleser	Bernhard Schlink	1995	Novel	-	-	-
n	The Zoo Gang **	1974	Sidney Hayers & John Hough	UK	The Zoo Gang	Paul Gallico	1971	Novel	-	-	-
n	Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story *	1989	Brian Gibson	Hungary, UK, US, West Germany	The Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Memoirs (uncredited)	Simon Wiesenthal & Joseph Wechsberg	1967	Memoir	-	-	-

• ♠ 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

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Captain Carey, U.S.A.	1950	Mitchell Leisen	US	No Surrender	Martha Albrand	194?	Novel	-	-	-

Pétainistes, Rexists, quislings

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Uranus	1990	Claude Berri	France	Uranus	Marcel Aymé	1948	Novel	-	-	-
2	The Statement ♠	2003	Norman Jewison	Canada, France, UK	The Statement	Brian Moore	1995	Novel	-	-	-
3	Hannibal Rising	2007	Peter Webber	US	Hannibal Rising	Thomas Harris	2006	Novel	-	-	-

• ♠ The story concerns a former member of the Milice française.

Allied traitors

(See also Cocos Islands Mutiny)

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Pierrepoint	1995	Adrian Shergold	UK	Executioner: Pierrepoint	Albert Pierrepoint	1974	Memoir	-	-	-

Stalinist jurisprudence

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ♠	1970	Caspar Wrede	UK & Norway	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn [121]	1962	Novel	-	-	-

• ♠ 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.

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium ♠	1969	Mel Stuart	US	"If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium"	The New Yorker	1965	Cartoon	-	-	-
2	The General of the Dead Army	1983	Luciano Tovoli	Italy	The General of the Dead Army [4][6] Gjenerali i ushtrisë së vdekur	Ismail Kadare	1963	Novel	-	-	-
3	War Requiem	1988	Derek Jarman	UK	"Anthem for Doomed Youth" et al.	Wilfred Owen	1917	Poems	-	-	-
4	The Return of the Dead Army Kthimi i ushtrisë së vdekur	1989	Dhimitër Anagnosti	Albania	The General of the Dead Army (characters)	Ismail Kadare	1963	Novel	-	-	-
5	Souvenir	1989	Geoffrey Reeve	UK	Souvenir	Paul Wheeler	198?	Novel	-	-	-
6	Decoration Day *	1990	Robert Markowitz	US	Decoration Day	John William Corrington	198?	Novella	-	-	-
7	Everything Is Illuminated	2005	Liev Schreiber	US	Everything Is Illuminated	Jonathan Safran Foer	2002	Novel	-	-	-

• ♠ American and German veterans and spouses visit the monument in Bastogne,  Belgium.
• * TV movie.

Pacific and Burma Theatres

Pearl Harbor, Hong Kong, Thailand

7–8 December 1941

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	From Here to Eternity [122]	1953	Fred Zinnemann	US	From Here to Eternity [123] [6]	James Jones	1951	Novel	-	-	-
2	Tora! Tora! Tora!	1970	Richard Fleischer	US & Japan	At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor [124]¤	Gordon W. Prange	1981	Non-fiction (in manuscript)	-	-	-
2					The Broken Seal	Ladislas Farago	1967	Non-fiction	-	-	-
3	A Savage Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong † *	1992	Brian McKenna	Canada	The Valour and the Horror	Merilyn Simonds	1991	Non-fiction	-	-	-

• † Dramatized documentary.
• * TV movie.

Frequently filmed: Sunset at Chaophraya

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#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country

Land operations – Pacific Campaigns

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Fighting Seabees	1944	Edward Ludwig	US	"Donovan's Army"	Borden Chase	194?	Story	-	-	-
2	Beachhead	1954	Stuart Heisler	US	I've Got Mine	Richard G. Hubler	1946	Novel	-	-	-
3	Between Heaven and Hell	1956	Richard Fleischer	US	The Day the Century Ended	Francis Gwaltney	1955	Novel	-	-	-
4	The Naked and the Dead	1958	Raoul Walsh	US	The Naked and the Dead [6][124]	Norman Mailer	1948	Novel	-	-	-
5	In Love and War	1958	Philip Dunne	US	The Big War	Anton Myrer	1957	Novel	-	-	-
6	Once an Eagle ♦ **	1976	Richard Michaels & E.W. Swackhamer	US	Once an Eagle	Anton Myrer	1968	Novel	-	-	-
7	The Great Raid	2005	John Dahl	US & Australia	Great Raid on Cabanatuan: Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor	William Breuer	1994	Non-fiction	-	-	-
7					Ghost Soldiers (uncredited)(unconfirmed)	Hampton Sides (uncredited)(unconfirmed)	2001	Non-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

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	"Gung Ho!": The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders	1943	Ray Enright	US	"We Mopped Up Makin Island"	Lt. W.S. LeFrançois	1942	Article	-	-	-

Battle of Guadalcanal

August 1942 – February 1943

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Guadalcanal Diary	1943	Lewis Seiler	US	Guadalcanal Diary	Richard Tregaskis	1943	Memoir	-	-	-
2	Pride of the Marines	1945	Delmer Daves	US	Al Schmid, Marine	Roger Butterfield	194?	Non-fiction	-	-	-
3	The Thin Red Line	1964	Andrew Marton	US	The Thin Red Line [6][41]	James Jones	1962	Novel	-	-	-
4	The Thin Red Line	1998	Terrence Malick	US	The Thin Red Line [6][41]	James Jones	1962	Novel	-	-	-

Battle of Saipan

June – July 1944

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Battle Cry	1955	Raoul Walsh	US	Battle Cry	Leon Uris	1953	Novel	-	-	-

Battle of Peleliu

September – November 1944

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Pacific **	2010	Tim Van Patten, Jeremy Podeswa, Graham Yost, et al.	US & Australia	With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa [41]	E.B. Sledge	1981	Memoir	-	-	-
1					Helmet for My Pillow	Robert Leckie	1957	Memoir	-	-	-
1					China Marine	Eugene B. Sledge	2002 (posthumous)	Memoir	-	-	-
1					Red Blood, Black Sand	Chuck Tatum	195?	Memoir	-	-	-

• ** TV miniseries.

Battle of Iwo Jima

February – March 1945

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Flags of Our Fathers	2006	Clint Eastwood	US	Flags of Our Fathers	James Bradley	2000	Non-fiction	-	-	-
2	Letters from Iwo Jima	2006	Clint Eastwood	US	Picture Letters from Commander in Chief	Tadamichi Kuribayashi & Tsuyoko Yoshido	1992	Letters	-	-	-

Land operations – Burma and Malaya Campaigns

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Burmese Harp	1956	Kon Ichikawa	Japan	The Burmese Harp	Takeyama Michio	195?	Novel	-	-	-
2	Never So Few	1959	John Sturges	US	Never So Few	Tom T. Chamales	1957	Novel	-	-	-
3	The Long and the Short and the Tall	1961	Leslie Norman	UK	The Long and the Short and the Tall [126]	Willis Hall	1958	Play	-	-	-

Air operations 

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo	1944	Mervyn LeRoy	US	Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo	Ted W. Lawson & Robert Considine	1943	Memoir	-	-	-
2	Baa Baa Black Sheep *	1976	Russ Mayberry	US	Baa Baa Black Sheep	Gregory "Pappy" Boyington	197?	Memoir	-	-	-
3	Baa Baa Black Sheep ***	1976–1978	Russ Mayberry, Dana Elcar, et al.	US	Baa Baa Black Sheep	Gregory "Pappy" Boyington	197?	Memoir	-	-	-

• * TV movie.
• *** TV series.

Naval operations 

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	They Were Expendable	1945	John Ford	US	They Were Expendable	William L. White	1942	Non-fiction/Novel	-	-	-
2	Single-Handed	1953	Roy Boulting	UK	Brown on Resolution ♠	"C. S. Forester"	1929	Novel	-	-	-
3	The Caine Mutiny	1954	Edward Dmytryk	US	The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial [127]	Herman Wouk	1953	Play	-	-	-
3					The Caine Mutiny [128]	Herman Wouk	1951	Novel	-	-	-
4	Away All Boats	1956	Joseph Pevney	US	Away All Boats	Kenneth M. Dodson	1953	Novel	-	-	-
5	PT 109	1963	Leslie H. Martinson	US	PT 109: John F. Kennedy in World War II	Robert J. Donovan	1961	Non-fiction	-	-	-
6	In Harm's Way	1965	Otto Preminger	US	Harm's Way	James Bassett	1962	Novel	-	-	-

• ♠ 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

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Sea Wolves: The Last Charge of the Calcutta Light Horse	1980	Andrew V. McLaglen	UK, Switzerland, US	Boarding Party ♠	James Leasor	1978	Non-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

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Yamato 男たちの大和	2005	Junya Sato	Japan	?	Jun Henmi	199?	Novel	-	-	-

Frequently filmed: Mister Roberts

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Mister Roberts	1955	John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy, Joshua Logan (uncredited)	US	Mister Roberts [129]	Thomas Heggen & Joshua Logan [130]	1948	Play	-	-	-
1					Mister Roberts	Thomas Heggen	1946	Novel	-	-	-

Submarines 

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Run Silent, Run Deep	1958	Robert Wise	US	Run Silent, Run Deep	Edward L. Beach	1955	Novel	-	-	-
2	Escape from the Deep	201?	Zowie Bowie (Duncan Jones)	US	Escape from the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew	Alex Kershaw	2008	Non-fiction	-	-	-

Coast guard

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Roots: The Next Generations **	1979	John Erman et al.	US	Roots: The Saga of an American Family [131]	Alex Haley	1976	Autobiography	-	-	-

• ** TV miniseries.

Atomic weapons programme 

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Day One *	1989	Joseph Sargent	US	Day One: Before Hiroshima and After	Peter Wyden	198?	Non-fiction	-	-	-

• * TV movie.

Commando operations and Secret missions 

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison	1957	John Huston	US	Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison	Charles Shaw	1952	Novel	-	-	-
2	Up Periscope	1959	Gordon Douglas	US	Up Periscope	Robb White	1956	Novel	-	-	-

Resistance movements 

Philippines

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	American Guerrilla in the Philippines	1950	Fritz Lang	US	An American Guerrilla in the Philippines	Iliff David Richardson with Ira Wolfert	1945	Memoir	-	-	-
2	Cry of Battle ♠	1963	Irving Lerner	US	Fortress in the Rice	Benjamin Appel	196?	Novel	-	-	-
3	Once Before I Die	1966	John Derek	US	Quit for the Next	Lt. Anthony March	1945	Novel	-	-	-

• ♠ One half of the double bill that Lee Harvey Oswald was watching when he was arrested in the assassination of President Kennedy.

Guam, Marianas

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	No Man Is an Island	1962	Richard Goldstone & John Monks Jr.	US	Robinson Crusoe, USN. (uncredited)	? (uncredited)	1945	Non-fiction (?)	-	-	-

Dutch East Indies, Sarawak, North Borneo

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Farewell to the King	1989	John Milius	US	L'Adieu au Roi [132]	Pierre Schoendoerffer	1969	Novel	-	-	-

Malaya

Thailand

Frequently filmed: Sunset at Chaophraya

(See above)

Military intelligence and Espionage 

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Francis the Talking Mule ♠	1950	Arthur Lubin	US	Francis	David Stern	1946 [8]¤	Novel	-	-	-

• ♠ For another film about talking animals risking hoof and wing, see Valiant.^[133]

Military bases 

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Battle Cry	1955	Raoul Walsh	US	Battle Cry	Leon Uris	1953	Novel	-	-	-
2	The Proud and Profane	1956	William Seaton	US	The Magnificent Bastards	Lucy Herndon Crockett	1954	Novel	-	-	-
3	Don't Go Near the Water	1957	Charles Walters	US	Don't Go Near the Water	William Brinkley	1956	Novel	-	-	-

Military hospitals 

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	So Proudly We Hail!	1943	Mark Sandrich	US	I Served on Bataan	Lt. Juanita Redmond	1943 [8]	Memoir	-	-	-
2	Cry 'Havoc'	1943	Richard Thorpe	US	Cry Havoc	Allan Kenward	1942	Play	-	-	-
3	The Story of Dr. Wassell	1944	Cecil B. DeMille	US	"?"	Commander Corydon M. Wassell	194?	Story	-	-	-
3					The Story of Dr. Wassell	James Hilton	1944	Novel	-	-	-
4	Pride of the Marines	1945	Delmer Daves	US	Al Schmid, Marine	Roger Butterfield	194?	Non-fiction	-	-	-
5	South Pacific	1958	Joshua Logan	US	South Pacific [134][135][136][137]	Oscar Hammerstein II & Joshua Logan [138] (book, lyrics)	1949	Musical	-	-	-
5					Tales of the South Pacific [139]	James A. Michener	1947	Stories	-	-	-
6	Captain Newman, M.D.	1963	David Miller	US	Captain Newman, M.D.	Leo Rosten	1961 [8]	Novel	-	-	-

Military justice and Courts-martial 

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Man in the Middle	1963	Guy Hamilton	UK	The Winston Affair	Howard Fast	1959	Novel	-	-	-
2	Rebel ♠	1985	Michael Jenkins	Australia	No Names No Pack Drill	Bob Herbert	198?	Play	-	-	-

• ♠ A US Marine is AWOL in Australia.

Involuntary confinement 

Allied POWs 

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Bridge on the River Kwai [140]	1957	David Lean	UK & US	The Bridge over the River Kwai	Pierre Boulle	1952	Novel	-	-	-
2	The Catch ♠ Shiiku	1961	Nagisa Ōshima	Japan	The Catch	Kenzaburō Ōe [141]	196?	Novella	-	-	-
3	King Rat	1965	Bryan Forbes	US	King Rat	James Clavell	1962	Novel	-	-	-
4	Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence	1983	Nagisa Oshima	UK & Japan	The Seed and the Sower	Laurens van der Post	1963	Novel	-	-	-
4					The Night of the New Moon	Laurens van der Post	1970	Memoir	-	-	-
5	Return from the River Kwai	1989	Andrew V. McLaglen	US	Return from the River Kwai (?)	Joan Blair & Clay Blair Jr.	198?	Non-fiction ?	-	-	-
6	To End All Wars	2001	David L. Cunningham	US, Thailand, UK	Miracle on the River Kwai aka Through the Valley of the Kwai aka To End All Wars	Ernest Gordon	19??	Memoir	-	-	-
7	Escape from the Deep	201?	Zowie Bowie (Duncan Jones)	US	Escape from the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew	Alex Kershaw	2008	Non-fiction	-	-	-

• ♠ The film concerns a captured black serviceman and a Japanese village.

Convicts 

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Man in the Middle	1963	Guy Hamilton	UK	The Winston Affair	Howard Fast [142]	1959	Novel	-	-	-

Civilians 

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Three Came Home	1950	Jean Negulesco	US	Three Came Home	Agnes Newton Keith	1947	Memoir	-	-	-
2	A Town Like Alice aka Rape of Malaya	1950	Jack Lee	UK	A Town Like Alice [6]	Nevil Shute	1950	Novel	-	-	-
3	Empire of the Sun	1987	Steven Spielberg	US	Empire of the Sun [143] [6]	J. G. Ballard	1984	Novel	-	-	-
4	Paradise Road	1997	Bruce Beresford	Australia & US	White Coolies	Betty Jeffrey	1969 [144]¤	Diary	-	-	-
5	Seven Years in Tibet ♠	1997	Jean-Jacques Annaud	US	Seven Years in Tibet	Heinrich Harrer	1952	Memoir	-	-	-
6	American Pastime ♦	2007	Desmond Nakano	US	Through a Diamond: 100 Years of Japanese American Baseball (uncredited)	Kerry Yo Nakagawa [145] (uncredited)	2002	Non-fiction	-	-	-
n	A Town Like Alice **	1981	David Stevens	Australia	A Town Like Alice [6]	Nevil Shute	1950	Novel	-	-	-

• ♠ 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.

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Umi to dokuyaku ♠	1986	Kei Kumai	Japan	The Sea and Poison [6]¤	Shusaku Endo	1958	Novel	-	-	-

• ♠ The true story of Japanese surgeons performing lethal medical experiments on US POWs.

Refugees 

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Longest Hundred Miles ♠ *	1967	Don Weis	US	"?"	Hennie Leon	196?	Story	-	-	-

• ♠ A priest, orphans, and US soldier flee the Japanese in an old bus.
• * TV movie.

Home front 

Commonwealth 

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Jewel in the Crown ♠ **	1984	Jim O'Brien & Christopher Morahan	UK	Raj Quartet	Paul Scott	1966–1975	Tetralogy	-	-	-
2	Australia ♦	2008	Baz Luhrmann	Australia & US	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [146] (uncredited)	Edward Gibbon (uncredited)	1776–1789	Non-fiction	-	-	-
n	Until They Sail	1957	Robert Wise	US	"Until They Sail" from Return to Paradise	James A. Michener	1951	Story	-	-	-

• ♠ The story of Britons in India includes the pro-Japanese Indian National Army and the pro-Nazi Free India Legion.
• ♦ The bombing of Darwin was long overdue for screen treatment.^[147]
• ** TV miniseries.

Bengal famine of 1943

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Distant Thunder অশনি সংকেত	1973	Satyajit Ray	India	Ashani Sanket	Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay	1966 ?	Novel	-	-	-

United States 

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Anchors Aweigh	1945	George Sidney	US	"Anchors Aweigh" (?)	Natalie Marcin	193?	Story	-	-	-

Zoot Suit Riots

June 1943

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Zoot Suit	1981	Luis Valdez	US	Zoot Suit	Luis Valdez	1979	Play	-	-	-

Pacific islands

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Return to Paradise	1953	Mark Robson	US	"Mr. Morgan" from Return to Paradise	James A. Michener	1951	Story	-	-	-

Japan

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Sandakan No. 8 ♠ aka Brothel 8	1974	Kei Kumai	Japan	Sandakan Brothel No. 8: An Episode in the History of the Lower Class	Tomoko Yamazaki	1972	Non-fiction	-	-	-
1					The Graves of Sandakan	Tomoko Yamazaki	197?	Non-fiction	-	-	-
2	Black Rain 黒い雨	1989	Shohei Imamura	Japan	Black Rain [148]	Masuji Ibuse	1965	Novel	-	-	-

• ♠ An involuntary Japanese prostitute overseas in Borneo returns at outbreak of war to face ostracism at home.

Frequently filmed: Grave of the Fireflies

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Grave of the Fireflies 火垂るの墓 α	1988	Isao Takahata	Japan	Grave of the Fireflies	Akiyuki Nosaka	1967	Novel/Memoir	-	-	-
2	Grave of the Fireflies * α	2005	Toya Sato (Tōya Satō)	Japan	Grave of the Fireflies	Akiyuki Nosaka	1967	Novel/Memoir	-	-	-
3	Grave of the Fireflies α	2008	Taro Hyugaji	Japan	Grave of the Fireflies	Akiyuki Nosaka	1967	Novel/Memoir	-	-	-

• * TV movie.
• α Animated film.

Demobilization 

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Outsider ♠	1961	Delbert Mann	US	"The Outsider" from Wolf Whistle and Other Stories	William Bradford Huie	1959	Non-fiction	-	-	-
2	Snow Falling on Cedars	1999	Scott Hicks	US	Snow Falling on Cedars [149]	David Guterson	1994	Novel	-	-	-

• ♠ The tragic story of Ira Hayes, also told in Flags of Our Fathers.

Occupation of Japan

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

Justice and Retribution 

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Thick-Walled Room	1953	Masaki Kobayashi	Japan	?	?	194?	Diaries ♠	-	-	-

• ♠ The film is based on the diaries of Japanese war criminals.^[150]

Memorial 

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes	1991	George Levenson	US	Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes	Eleanor Coerr	1977	Children's book	-	-	-

China Theatre

Land operations – China and Manchukuo Campaigns

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity	1959	Masaki Kobayashi	Japan	Ningen no jōken	Junpei Gomikawa [151]	1956–1958?	Novel	-	-	-
2	The Mountain Road	1960	Daniel Mann	US	The Mountain Road	Theodore H. White	1956	Novel	-	-	-
3	Assembly 2: The Cold Flame 集结号2-烽火	2008	Feng Xiaogang (?)	China	Guan Si (?)	Liu Heng (?)	199?	Novel	-	-	-

Air operations

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	God Is My Co-Pilot	1945	Robert Florey	US	God Is My Co-Pilot	Col. Robert Lee Scott, Jr.	194?	Memoir	-	-	-

Resistance movement

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Lust, Caution	2007	Ang Lee	China & Taiwan	"Lust, Caution"	Eileen Chang	1979	Novella	-	-	-

Military bases

Military hospitals

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Red Angel Akai tenshi	1966	Yasuzo Masumura	Japan	Akai tenshi	Yoriyoshi Arima	196?	Novel	-	-	-

Involuntary confinement

POWs

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Human Condition I: No Greater Love	1959	Masaki Kobayashi	Japan	Ningen no jōken	Junpei Gomikawa [151]	1956–1958?	Novel	-	-	-
2	The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer	1961	Masaki Kobayashi	Japan	Ningen no jōken	Junpei Gomikawa [151]	1956–1958?	Novel	-	-	-
3	Devils on the Doorstep	2000	Jiang Wen	China	Survival Shengcun	You Fengwei	199?	Novella	-	-	-

Other atrocities

(See also Unit 731)

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country

Refugees

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Mountain Road	1960	Daniel Mann	US	The Mountain Road	Theodore H. White	1956	Novel	-	-	-

Occupation

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Farewell My Concubine 霸王别姬	1993	Chen Kaige	China	Farewell My Concubine	Lilian Lee	1993	Novel	-	-	-
2	Devils on the Doorstep	2000	Jiang Wen	China	Survival Shengcun	You Fengwei	199?	Novella	-	-	-

Home front

Justice and Retribution

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Devils on the Doorstep	2000	Jiang Wen	China	Survival Shengcun	You Fengwei	199?	Novella	-	-	-

Histories never filmed

#	Source work	Author	Date	Type	Country	Category
1	August Storm: The Soviet 1945 Strategic Offensive in Manchuria [41]	David M. Glantz	1983/ 2003	Non-fiction	US	Manchukuo

Unclassified

Of uncertain subject matter

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	Notes
And All Will Be Quiet Potem nastąpi cisza	1965	Janusz Morgenstern	Poland	Potem nastąpi cisza Zanim przemówią	Zbigniew Safjan	196?	Novel
Men and War Senso to ningen: Unmei no jokyoku	1970	Satsuo Yamamoto	Japan	Senso to ningen: Unmei no jokyoku (?)	Junpei Gomikawa [151]	195?	Novel
A Dance to the Music of Time	1997	Christopher Morahan & Alvin Rakoff	UK	A Dance to the Music of Time	Anthony Powell	1951–1975	Novels/ Dodecalogue |	TV miniseries

• ** .

What if ...

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
2	The Boys from Brazil	1978	Franklin J. Schaffner	US	The Boys from Brazil	Ira Levin	1976	Novel	-	-	-
3	The Keep	1983	Michael Mann	US	The Keep	F. Paul Wilson	1981	Novel	-	-	-
4	The Philadelphia Experiment	1984	Stewart Raffill	US	The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility	Charles Berlitz & William L. Moore	1979	Non-fiction	-	-	-
5	River of Death	1989	Steve Carter	US	River of Death	Alistair MacLean	1981	Novel	-	-	-
7	Fatherland *	1994	Christopher Menaul	US	Fatherland	Robert Harris	1992	Novel	-	-	-
8	Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean	2005	Shinji Higuchi & Cellin Gluck	Japan	Formal translation or transliteration required 終戦のローレライ	Harutoshi Fukui	2002	Novel	-	-	-
9	Ghostboat *	2006	Stuart Orme	UK	Ghostboat (?)	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

• List of films based on war books
• List of films based on war books — pre-1775
• List of films based on war books — 1775–1898
• List of films based on war books — 1898–1926
• List of films based on war books — post-1945
• List of films based on war books — peace
• List of Holocaust films
• List of United States military books
• List of war films
• List of World War II films
• War film
• War novel

• Assassinations in fiction
• Fiction based on World War II
• List of films based on military books (fantasy)
• List of films based on war books — future

Notes

Notes

Citations

Bibliography

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• Deveny, Thomas G. Cain on Screen: Contemporary Spanish Cinema, The Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Md., 1999.
• Faulks, Sebastian and Jörg Hensgen. The Vintage Book of War Stories, Vintage, London, 1999.
• Keegan, John. The Battle for History: Re-fighting World War Two (Barbara Frum lecture series), Vintage Canada, Toronto, 1995.
  Republished by Vintage Books, New York, 1996.
• Manvell, Roger. Films and the Second World War, A.S. Barnes, Cranbury, N.J., 1974; Dell, New York, N.Y., 1976.
• Murphy, Sean. Letting the Side Down: British Traitors of the Second World War, Sutton Publishing, Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 2005.
• 100 Greatest War Movies, special issue of Military History Magazine, Weider History Group, Leesburg, Va., 2007.

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