List of films based military books covering peacetime

This is a list of films based on military books in peacetime.

Since it only deals with preparation for conflict, this page is not organized chronologically by war, as the other pages are.
This page is organized by military mission, and by armed service.

Contents 1 1st century B.C. 1.1 Roman Army 2 18th century 2.1 Missions 2.1.1 Transportation of convicts 2.2 British Army 2.3 Royal Navy 2.3.1 Frequently filmed: Mutiny on the Bounty 2.4 Imperial Russian Army 3 19th century 3.1 Missions 3.1.1 African exploration 3.1.2 Railway construction 3.1.2.1 Frequently filmed: The Man-Eaters of Tsavo 3.1.3 Suppression of the working class 3.1.3.1 Peterloo Massacre 3.2 US Army 3.2.1 Cavalry 3.2.1.1 Buffalo soldiers 3.2.2 Cadets  3.3 US Navy 3.4 British Army 3.5 Royal Navy 3.6 French Army 3.6.1 Dreyfus Affair 3.6.1.1 Frequently filmed: "J'accuse" 3.6.1.1.1 Bulletin ... film currently in development: The Dreyfus Affair by director unknown 3.7 Army of a German state 3.7.1 Frequently filmed: Woyzeck 3.8 Prussian Army 3.8.1 Frequently filmed: The Captain of Köpenick 3.9 Imperial Russian Army 3.10 Spanish Army 3.10.1 Frequently filmed: Carmen 4 20th century 4.1 Missions 4.1.1 Arctic exploration 4.1.2 Antarctic exploration 4.1.3 Suppression of the working class 4.1.4 Occupation of Japan 4.1.5 Occupation of Germany 4.1.6 "Occupation of France" 4.1.7 Space exploration 4.1.8 Search and rescue 4.2 US Army 4.2.1 Armour 4.2.2 Cavalry (and mules) 4.2.3 Cadets 4.2.4 WACs 4.2.5 Civilian justice 4.2.6 Psychic soldiers 4.2.6.1 Bulletin ... Film now in release: The Men Who Stare at Goats by Grant Heslov 4.3 US Navy 4.3.1 Midshipmen 4.3.2 USNAF 4.3.3 SEALs 4.3.4 USMC 4.4 USAF 4.4.1 Frequently filmed: No Time for Sergeants 4.5 British Army 4.5.1 Armour 4.6 Royal Navy 4.6.1 Royal Marines 4.7 RAF 4.8 Australian Army 4.9 Canadian Army 4.10 Army of India 4.11 New Zealand Army 4.12 Austro-Hungarian Army 4.12.1 Cadets 4.13 Brazilian Navy 4.14 Czechoslovak Army 4.15 Finnish Army 4.16 French Army 4.17 French Navy 4.18 Iranian Army 4.19 Italian Royal Navy 4.20 Japan Coast Guard 4.21 Korean Army 4.22 Mexican Army 4.22.1 Cadets 4.23 Peruvian Army 4.23.1 Cadets 4.24 Red Army 4.25 Red Fleet 4.26 Red Air Force 5 References 5.1 Notes 5.2 Bibliography 6 See also

1st century B.C.

Roman Army

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ♠	1966	Richard Lester	UK & USA	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum [1][2]	Burt Shevelove & Larry Gelbart [3] (book), Stephen Sondheim (lyrics)	1962	Musical	-	-	-
1					Pseudolus (uncredited)	Plautus	before 184 B.C.	Play	-	-	-
1					Miles Gloriosus (uncredited)	Plautus	before 184 B.C.	Play	-	-	-
1					Mostellaria (uncredited)	Plautus	before 184 B.C.	Play	-	-	-

• ♠ Roman captain Miles Gloriosus, the one who "raped Thrace thrice", tries to secure a virgin bride.

18th century

Missions

Transportation of convicts

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Botany Bay	1953	John Farrow	USA	Botany Bay	Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall	1941	Novel	-	-	-

British Army

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Recruiting Officer ♠ *	1973	David Giles	UK	The Recruiting Officer	George Farquhar	1706	Play	-	-	-

• ♠ There had also been an Australian television production in 1965.
• * TV movie.

Royal Navy

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

Frequently filmed: Mutiny on the Bounty

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	In the Wake of the Bounty	1933	Charles Chauvel	USA	Mutiny on the Bounty (uncredited)	Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall (uncredited)	1932	Novel	-	-	-
2	Mutiny on the Bounty	1935	Frank Lloyd	USA	Mutiny on the Bounty	Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall	1932	Novel	-	-	-

Imperial Russian Army

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Lieutenant Kijé ♠ Поручик Киже	1934	Aleksandr Faintsimmer	USSR	Lieutenant Kijé ♦	Yury Tynyanov	1927	Novella	-	-	-

• ♠ In English, the film is virtually unknown, but its score, by Prokofiev, is famous within classical music.^[4]
• ♦ The story's basic premise, a brilliant but non-existent soldier, was later used in M*A*S*H (the "Tuttle" episode) and in Wag the Dog.

19th century

Missions

African exploration

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Mountains of the Moon	1990	Bob Rafelson	USA	Burton and Speke	William Harrison	1984	Novel	-	-	-

Railway construction

Frequently filmed: The Man-Eaters of Tsavo

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
3	The Ghost and the Darkness	1996	Stephen Hopkins	USA	The Man-eaters of Tsavo and other East African Adventures (uncredited)	Lt. Col. John Henry Patterson (uncredited)	1907	Memoir/ Non-fiction	-	-	-

Suppression of the working class

Peterloo Massacre

16 August 1819

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Sharpe's Justice ♠ *	1997	Tom Clegg	UK	Sharpe's Eagle (characters)	Bernard Cornwell	1981	Novel	-	-	-

• ♠ The film alters the date and certain other details.
• * TV movie.

US Army

Cavalry

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Heaven & Hell: North & South, Book III *	1994	Larry Peerce	USA	Heaven and Hell	John Jakes	1987	Novel	-	-	-

• * TV miniseries.

Buffalo soldiers

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Heaven & Hell: North & South, Book III *	1994	Larry Peerce	USA	Heaven and Hell	John Jakes	1987	Novel	-	-	-

• * TV miniseries.

Cadets 

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	North and South ♠ *	1985	Richard T. Heffron	USA	North and South	John Jakes	1982	Novel	-	-	-
2	Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker ♦ *	1994	Harry Moses	USA	Court Martial: A Black Man in America	John Marszalek	1972	Non-fiction	-	-	-

• ♠ The principal characters graduate from West Point prior to the Mexican War. Secondary characters graduate before the Civil War.
• ♦ The true story of Johnson Chesnut Whittaker, a freedman entering West Point in 1876.
• * TV movie.

US Navy

British Army

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Conduct Unbecoming	1975	Michael Anderson	UK	Conduct Unbecoming	Barry England	1969	Play	-	-	-

Royal Navy

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

French Army

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Judge and the Assassin	1976	Bertrand Tavernier	France	Le juge et l'assassin	Henri Garet & René Tavernier	1976	Non-fiction	-	-	-
1					Vacher l'éventreur et les crimes sadiques	Alexandre Lacassagne	1899	Non-fiction	-	-	-

Dreyfus Affair

In the List of films based on war books, it is very unusual to have so many different books on a single subject made into films.
Comparable subjects would include D-Day and Stalingrad.

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	L'Affaire Dreyfus	1930	Richard Oswald	Germany	Der Fall Dreyfus (?)	Bruno Weil	19??	Novel	-	-	-
2	L'Affaire Dreyfus	1931	F.W. Kraemer & Milton Rosmer	UK	Der Fall Dreyfus (?)	Wilhelm Herzog & Hans Rehfisch	19??	Play	-	-	-
3	The Life of Emile Zola [5]	1937	William Dieterle	USA	Zola and His Time	Matthew Josephson	1928	Non-fiction	-	-	-
4	I Accuse!	1958	José Ferrer	UK	Captain Dreyfus: The Story of a Mass Hysteria	Nicholas Halasz	1955	Non-fiction	-	-	-
5	Affäre Dreyfus *	1959	Hanns Farenburg	West Germany	Der Fall Dreyfus (?)	Wilhelm Herzog & Hans Rehfisch	19??	Play	-	-	-
6	L'affaire Dreyfus *	1995	Yves Boisset	France & Germany	L'Affaire	Jean-Denis Bredin	1983/1993	Novel	-	-	-

• * TV movie.

Frequently filmed: "J'accuse"

Zola (and Lazare) are assumed sources in these instances.

Bulletin ... film currently in development: The Dreyfus Affair by director unknown

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	L'Affaire Dreyfus	1899	Georges Méliès	France	"J'accuse"	Émile Zola	1898	Open letter	-	-	-
1					L’affaire Dreyfus – Une erreur judiciaire	Bernard Lazare	1896	Pamphlet	-	-	-
2	Trial of Captain Dreyfus	1899	American Mutoscope [6]	USA	"J'accuse"	Émile Zola	1898	Open letter	-	-	-
3	Dreyfus Receiving His Sentence	1899	American Mutoscope [6]	USA	"J'accuse"	Émile Zola	1898	Open letter	-	-	-
4	L'Affaire Dreyfus, partie 1	1902	Ferdinand Zecca	France	"J'accuse"	Émile Zola	1898	Open letter	-	-	-
5	L'Affaire Dreyfus, partie 2	1908	Lucien Nonguet & Ferdinand Zecca	France	"J'accuse"	Émile Zola	1898	Open letter	-	-	-
6	Theodor Herzl, der Bannerträger des jüdischen Volkes	1921	Otto Kreisler	Austria	"J'accuse" (uncredited)	Émile Zola (uncredited)	1898	Open letter	-	-	-
7	Wenn ihr wollt, ist es kein Märchen	1973	Imo Moszkowicz	Austria	"J'accuse" (uncredited)	Émile Zola (uncredited)	1898	Open letter	-	-	-
8	Émile Zola ou La conscience humaine *	1978	Stellio Lorenzi	France	"J'accuse" (uncredited)	Émile Zola (uncredited)	1898	Open letter	-	-	-
9	Prisoner of Honor *	1991	Ken Russell	UK	"J'accuse" (uncredited)	Émile Zola (uncredited)	1898	Open letter	-	-	-
10	The Dreyfus Affair	2009	In development	?	"J'accuse" (unconfirmed)	Émile Zola (unconfirmed)	1898	Open letter	-	-	-

• * TV movie.

Army of a German state

Frequently filmed: Woyzeck

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Woyzeck	1979	Werner Herzog	West Germany	Woyzeck	Georg Büchner	1837/1879	Play	-	-	-

Prussian Army

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Der Hauptmann von Köpenick	1926	Siegfried Dessauer	Germany	Wie ich Hauptmann von Köpenick wurde: mein Lebensbild	Wilhelm Voigt ♠	1909	Memoir	-	-	-

• ♠ There were also two immediate films made in 1906 based on Voigt's story, shortly after the incident occurred.

Frequently filmed: The Captain of Köpenick

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Der Hauptmann von Köpenick	1931	Richard Oswald	Germany	The Captain of Köpenick	Carl Zuckmayer	1931	Play	-	-	-
2	I Was a Criminal aka Captain of Koepenick	1945 [7]	Richard Oswald	USA	The Captain of Köpenick	Carl Zuckmayer	1931	Play	-	-	-
3	Der Hauptmann von Köpenick	1956	Helmut Käutner	West Germany	The Captain of Köpenick	Carl Zuckmayer	1931	Play	-	-	-
4	Der Hauptmann von Köpenick *	1997	Frank Beyer	Germany, Austria, Switzerland	The Captain of Köpenick	Carl Zuckmayer	1931	Play	-	-	-

• * TV movie.

Imperial Russian Army

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

Spanish Army

Frequently filmed: Carmen

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Carmen	2003	Vicente Aranda	Spain	Carmen	Prosper Mérimée	1845	Novella	-	-	-

20th century

Missions

Arctic exploration

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Red Tent Красная палатка	1969	Mikhail Kalatozov	USSR & Italy	My Polar Flights	Gen. Umberto Nobile	1961	Memoir	-	-	-

Antarctic exploration

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Scott of the Antarctic	1948	Charles Frend	UK	Scott's Last Expedition: The Personal Journals of Captain R.F. Scott, CVO, RN	Capt. R.F. Scott	1913	Journals	-	-	-
2	The Last Place on Earth **	1985	Ferdinand Fairfax	UK	Scott and Amundsen	Roland Huntford	1979 [8]	Non-fiction	-	-	-

• ** TV miniseries.

Suppression of the working class

Occupation of Japan

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Three Stripes in the Sun	1955	Richard Murphy	USA	"The Gentle Wolfhound"	E.J. Kahn Jr.	195?	Article	-	-	-
2	The Teahouse of the August Moon	1956	Daniel Mann	USA	The Teahouse of the August Moon [9][10][11]	John Patrick	1953	Play	-	-	-
2					The Teahouse of the August Moon	Vern Sneider	1951	Novel	-	-	-
3	Sayonara	1957	Joshua Logan	USA	Sayonara	James Michener	1954	Novel	-	-	-
4	Cry for Happy	1961	George Marshall	USA	Cry for Happy	George Campbell	1958 [8]	Novel	-	-	-

Occupation of Germany

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
1	Town Without Pity Stadt ohne Mitleid	1961	Gottfried Reinhardt	USA & West Germany	Town Without Pity (?) Das Urteil	"Manfred Gregor"	1960	Novel
2	The Last Days of Patton *	1986	Delbert Mann	USA	The Last Days of Patton	Ladislas Farago	1981	Non-fiction

• * TV movie.

"Occupation of France"

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	New World Le Nouveau monde	1995	Alain Corneau	France	? [12]	?	199?	Novel	-	-	-

Space exploration

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Marooned	1969	John Sturges	USA	Marooned	Martin Caidin	1964/1969	Novel	-	-	-
2	The Right Stuff	1983	Philip Kaufman	USA	The Right Stuff [13]	Tom Wolfe	1979	Non-fiction	-	-	-
3	Apollo 13	1995	Ron Howard	USA	Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13	Jim Lovell & Jeffrey Kluger	1994	Memoir/ Non-fiction	-	-	-
4	From the Earth to the Moon	1998	?	USA	A Man on the Moon	Andrew Chaikin	1994	Non-fiction	-	-	-

Search and rescue

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Perfect Storm	2000	Wolfgang Petersen	USA	The Perfect Storm	Sebastian Junger	1997	Non-fiction	-	-	-

US Army

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	At War with the Army	1950	Hal Walker	USA	At War with the Army	James B. Allardice	1949	Play	-	-	-
2	Soldier in the Rain	1963	Ralph Nelson	USA	Soldier in the Rain	William Goldman	1960	Novel	-	-	-
3	Once an Eagle ♦ **	1976	Richard Michaels & E.W. Swackhamer	USA	Once an Eagle	Anton Myrer	1968	Novel	-	-	-
4	Fatal Vision **	1984	David Greene	USA	Fatal Vision	Joe McGinniss	1983	Non-fiction	-	-	-
5	Cadence	1990	Martin Sheen	USA	Count a Lonely Cadence	Gordon Weaver	1968 [8]	Novel	-	-	-
6	Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story *	1995	Jeff Bleckner	USA	Serving in Silence	Margarethe Cammermeyer with Chris Fisher	1994 [8]	Memoir	-	-	-
7	The General's Daughter	1999	Simon West	USA	The General's Daughter	Nelson DeMille	1992	Novel	-	-	-

• ♦ 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.^[14]
• * TV movie.
• ** TV miniseries.

Armour

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Pentagon Wars *	1998	Richard Benjamin	USA	The Pentagon Wars: Reformers Challenge the Old Guard	Col. James G. Burton	1993	Non-fiction	-	-	-

• * TV movie.

Cavalry (and mules)

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Army Girl ♠	1938	George Nichols Jr.	USA	Army Girl (?)	Charles L. Clifford	193?	Story	-	-	-

• ♠ Cavalry finally gives way to tanks.

Cadets

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Francis Goes to West Point	1952	Arthur Lubin	USA	Francis (characters)	David Stern	1946 [8]	Novel	-	-	-
2	The Long Gray Line	1955	John Ford	USA	Bringing Up The Brass: My 55 Years at West Point	Marty Maher with Nardi Reeder Campion	1951	Memoir	-	-	-
3	Taps	1981	Harold Becker	USA	Father Sky	Devery Freeman	1979 [8]	Novel	-	-	-
4	The Lords of Discipline	1983	Franc Roddam	USA	The Lords of Discipline	Pat Conroy	1980	Novel	-	-	-
5	Code Breakers *	2005	Rod Holcomb	USA	A Return to Glory: the Untold Story of Honor, Dishonor, and Triumph at the United States Military Academy, 1950-53	Bill McWilliams	2000 [8]¤	Non-fiction	-	-	-

• * TV movie.

WACs

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Francis Joins the WACS	1954	Arthur Lubin	USA	Francis (characters)	David Stern	1946 [8]	Novel	-	-	-

Civilian justice

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Anatomy of a Murder ♠	1959	Otto Preminger	USA	Anatomy of a Murder	"Robert Traver"	1958	Novel	-	-	-

• ♠ A lieutenant and Korean War veteran is charged with murder.

Psychic soldiers

Bulletin ... Film now in release: The Men Who Stare at Goats by Grant Heslov

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Men Who Stare at Goats	2009	Grant Heslov	USA	The Men Who Stare at Goats	Jon Ronson	2004	Non-fiction	-	-	-

US Navy

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	On the Town	1949	Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen	USA	On the Town	Betty Comden & Adolph Green	1944	Musical	-	-	-
2	Francis in the Navy	1955	Arthur Lubin	USA	Francis (characters)	David Stern	1946 [8]	Novel	-	-	-
3	Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.	1966	Byron Paul	USA	Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe	1719	Novel	-	-	-
4	The Last Detail	1973	Hal Ashby	USA	The Last Detail	Daryl Ponicsan	1970	Novel	-	-	-
5	Cinderella Liberty	1973	Mark Rydell	USA	Cinderella Liberty	Daryl Ponicsan	1973	Novel	-	-	-
6	Grey Lady Down	1978	David Greene	USA	Event 1000	David Lavallee	1971	Novel	-	-	-
7	Men of Honor	2000	George Tillman, Jr.	USA	The Reminiscences of Master Chief Boatswain's Mate Carl Brashear (uncredited)	Paul Stillwell (ed.) (uncredited)	1998	Memoir	-	-	-
8	A Glimpse of Hell *	2001	Mikael Salomon	Canada	A Glimpse of Hell: The Explosion on the USS Iowa and Its Cover-Up	Charles C. Thompson II	1999	Non-fiction	-	-	-

• * TV movie.

Midshipmen

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Navy Blue and Gold	1937	Sam Wood	USA	Navy Blue and Gold, a Story of the Naval Academy	George Bruce	1936 [8]	Novel	-	-	-

USNAF

SEALs

USMC

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Great Santini	1979	Lewis John Carlino	USA	The Great Santini	Pat Conroy	1976	Novel	-	-	-
2	A Few Good Men	1992	Rob Reiner	USA	A Few Good Men	Aaron Sorkin	1989	Play	-	-	-

USAF

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Game of Their Lives ♠	2005	David Anspaugh	USA	The Game of Their Lives	Geoffrey Douglas	1996 [8]	Non-fiction	-	-	-

• ♠ The World Cup soccer story involves a USAF airbase in Brazil in 1950.

Frequently filmed: No Time for Sergeants

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	No Time for Sergeants	1958	Mervyn LeRoy	USA	No Time for Sergeants	Ira Levin	1955	Play	No Time for Sergeants	1964	USA
1					No Time for Sergeants	Mac Hyman	1954	Novel	-	-	-

British Army

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Another Dawn	1937	William Dieterle	USA	"The Ambassador's Wife" (uncredited)	W. Somerset Maugham (uncredited)	193?	Story	-	-	-
2	Reluctant Heroes	1951	Jack Raymond	UK	Reluctant Heroes	Colin Morris	195?	Play	-	-	-
3	Tunes of Glory	1960	Ronald Neame	UK	Tunes of Glory	James Kennaway	1956	Novel	-	-	-

Armour

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

Royal Navy

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Morning Departure	1950	Roy Ward Baker	UK	Morning Departure	Kenneth Woollard	195?	Play	-	-	-
2	The Baby and the Battleship	1956	Jay Lewis	UK	The Baby and the Battleship	Anthony Thorne	195?	Novel	-	-	-

Royal Marines

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

RAF

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

Australian Army

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

Canadian Army

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

Army of India

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Kiss Me Sergeant	1932	"Monty Banks"	UK	The Idol of Moolah	Syd Courtenay & Lola Harvey	193?	Play	-	-	-

New Zealand Army

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

Austro-Hungarian Army

Cadets

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Young Törless Der junge Törless	1966	Volker Schlöndorff	West Germany & France	The Confusions of Young Törless Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß	Robert Musil	1906	Novel/ Memoir	-	-	-

Brazilian Navy

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	My Sister Eileen ♠	1942	Alexander Hall	USA	My Sister Eileen	Joseph Fields & Jerome Chodorov	1940	Play	-	-	-
1					My Sister Eileen	Ruth McKenney	1938	Stories/Memoir	-	-	-
2	My Sister Eileen ♠	1955	Richard Quine	USA	My Sister Eileen	Joseph Fields & Jerome Chodorov	1940	Play	-	-	-
2					My Sister Eileen	Ruth McKenney	1938	Stories/Memoir	-	-	-

• ♠ Brazilians appear in the 1955 film.
  It is not established for certain that they appear in 1942. The 1942 film is in fact part of World War II, Home front. Brazil in 1942 is developing a belligerent stance toward Germany prior to a declaration of war in August by Pres. Vargas.

Czechoslovak Army

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Tank Battalion Tankový prapor	1991	Vít Olmer	Czechoslovakia	The Republic of Whores: a Fragment from the Time of the Cults Tankový prapor	Josef Škvorecký	1992 [15]¤ (in English)	Novel	-	-	-

Finnish Army

French Army

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Port of Shadows	1938	Marcel Carné	France	Le Quai des brumes	Pierre Mac Orlan	1927	Novel	-	-	-

French Navy

Iranian Army

Italian Royal Navy

Japan Coast Guard

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Umizaru aka Sea Monkeys	2004	Eiichiro Hasumi	Japan	Umizaru	Shūhō Satō	1998	Manga	-	-	-
2	Umizaru Evolution	2005	?	Japan	Umizaru	Shūhō Satō	1998	Manga	-	-	-

Korean Army

Mexican Army

Cadets

Peruvian Army

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Captain Pantoja and the Special Services Pantaleón y las visitadoras ♠	1975	José María Gutiérrez Santos & Mario Vargas Llosa [16]	Dominican Republic	Captain Pantoja and the Special Services	Mario Vargas Llosa [16]	1973	Novel	-	-	-
2	Captain Pantoja and the Special Services Pantaleón y las visitadoras ♠	1999	Francisco J. Lombardi	Peru & Spain	Captain Pantoja and the Special Services	Mario Vargas Llosa [16]	1973	Novel	-	-	-

• ♠ A Peruvian captain must provide for the needs of lonesome soldiers in the remote jungle.

Cadets

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Time of the Hero La ciudad y los perros	1985	Francisco José Lombardi	Peru	The Time of the Hero La ciudad y los perros	Mario Vargas Llosa	1962	Novel	-	-	-

Red Army

(Красная Армия)

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

Red Fleet

(and Russian Fleet)

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Baltiytsy ♠ aka Men of the Sea	1938	Aleksandr Faintsimmer	USSR	Mr Midshipman Easy	Captain Marryat	1836	Novel	-	-	-
2	72 Metres 72 метра	2004	Vladimir Khotinenko	Russia	?	Aleksandr Pokrovsky	199?	Novels	-	-	-

• ♠ This film may be a war film, rather than a peace-time military film.
  It has a listing at the IMDb, but no references in Russian Wikipedia (Википедия).

Red Air Force

References

Notes

Bibliography

• Clarke, James. Virgin Film: War Films, Virgin Books, London, 2006.
• 100 Greatest War Movies, special issue of Military History Magazine, Weider History Group, Leesburg, Virginia, 2007.

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 — 1927–1945
• List of films based on war books — post-1945

• List of films based on war books — future
• List of films based on war books — fantasy

• War film
• War novel
• List of war films
• List of newer films
• List of United States military books
• Assassinations in fiction

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