List of book-based war films (wars before 1775)

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A list of films that are based on war books.

1 Classical antiquity
2 Dark Ages
3 Middle Ages
4 16th century
5 17th century
6 18th century
7 References
- 7.1 Notes
- 7.2 Bibliography
8 See also

Classical antiquity

Theban civil war (before 1200 BC)

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	Notes
Hercules Unchained Ercole e la regina di Lidia	1959	Pietro Francisci	Italy, France, Spain	Seven against Thebes^[1]	Aeschylus	467 BC	Play	The film freely adapts the play as a Hercules adventure.
Antigone Αντιγόνη	1961	Yorgos Javellas	Greece	Antigone^[2]	Sophocles	442 BC	Play	Antigone (the play) was written as a sequel to Seven against Thebes.

Trojan War

c. 1200 BC

Frequently filmed: The Iliad

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Helen of Troy	1956	Robert Wise	USA, Italy, France	Iliad	Homer	8th century BC	Epic poem
The Trojan Horse	1961	Giorgio Ferroni	Italy & France	Iliad	Homer	8th century BC	Epic poem
Troy ♠	2004	Wolfgang Petersen	USA, Malta, UK	Iliad	Homer	8th century BC	Epic poem

♠ Paris gives the sword of Troy to Aeneas whose story continues in The Aeneid.

Frequently filmed: The Aeneid

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Last Glory of Troy	1962	Giorgio Rivalta	Yugoslavia, Italy, France	Aeneid	Virgil	29–19 BC	Epic poem

Frequently filmed: The Trojan Women

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Las troyanas	1963	Sergio Véjar	Mexico	The Trojan Women	Euripides	415 BC	Play
The Trojan Women	1971	Michael Cacoyannis	UK, USA, Greece	The Trojan Women	Euripides	415 BC	Play

Wars of Israel with Philistia and Ammon

c. 1000 BC

Battle of the Valley of Elah

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
David and Bathsheba	1951	Henry King	USA	1 Samuel	The Bible	?	Scripture
King David	1985	Bruce Beresford	UK & USA	1 Samuel	The Bible	?	Scripture

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
La Battaglia di Maratona	1959	Jacques Tourneur & Mario Bava	Italy	The Histories (uncredited)	Herodotus (uncredited)	440 BC	Non-fiction

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The 300 Spartans ♣	1962	Rudolph Maté	USA	The Histories (uncredited)	Herodotus (uncredited)	440 BC	Non-fiction
300	2007	Zack Snyder	USA	300 ♣	Frank Miller	1998	Graphic Novel

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Les Perses *	1961	Jean Prat	France	The Persians^[3]	Aeschylus	472 BC^[4]	Play
Die Perser *	2003	Martin Wuttke	Germany	The Persians	Aeschylus	472 BC	Play

Chinese Warring States Period

476 BC – 221 BC

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
A Battle of Wits 墨攻	2006	Jacob Cheung	Hong Kong	Bokko 墨攻	Ken'ichi Sakemi	1991	Novel

Peloponnesian War

431 BC – 404 BC

Home front

Protest

Frequently filmed: Lysistrata

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Lysistrata ou La grève des baisers ♠	1910	Louis Feuillade	France	Lysistrata ^[5]	Aristophanes	411 BC	Play
Lysistrata ♦	1976	Ludo Mich	Belgium	Lysistrata	Aristophanes	411 BC	Play
Lysistrate *	1982	Inger Åby & Göran Järvefelt	Sweden	Lysistrata	Aristophanes	411 BC	Play
Komediya o Lisistrate	1989	Valeri Rubinchik	USSR, UK, Greece	Lysistrata	Aristophanes	411 BC	Play
Lisístrata	2002	Francesc Bellmunt	Spain	Lysistrata	Aristophanes	411 BC	Play

♠ The French title means Lysistrata, or The Kiss Strike.
♦ This production was performed by a naked cast in order to emphasize the anarchism of Aristophanes.^[6]
* television film.

Wars of Alexander

336 BC – 323 BC

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Alexander	2004	Oliver Stone	Germany, USA, Netherlands, France, UK, Italy	Alexander the Great^[7]^[8]^[9] (uncredited)	Robin Lane Fox ♠ (uncredited)	1974	Non-fiction

♠ Fox is credited as historical advisor, rather than author.^[10]

Kalinga War

265 BC – 264 BC

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Aŝoka	2001	Santosh Sivan	India	Edicts of Ashoka (uncredited)	Ashoka the Great (uncredited)	before 231 BC	Edicts

Second Punic War

218 BC – 201 BC

Bulletin ... Film currently in development: Hannibal the Conqueror by director unknown

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Cabiria	1914	Giovanni Pastrone	Kingdom of Italy	Salammbô	Gustave Flaubert	1862	Novel
Scipione l'africano^[11]	1937	Carmine Gallone	Kingdom of Italy	The Histories (uncredited)	Polybius (uncredited)	before 120 BC	Non-fiction
Hannibal the Conqueror	201?	?	?	Hannibal	Ross Leckie	200?	Novel

Campaigns of Xiang Yu

Battle of Gaixia

202 BC

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Farewell My Concubine 霸王别姬	1993	Chen Kaige	China	Farewell My Concubine	Lilian Lee	1993	Novel

♠ The traditional opera which is performed by the characters in the film dramatizes this battle.

Third Servile War

73 BC – 71 BC

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Spartaco	1913	Giovanni Enrico Vidali	Italy	Spartaco	Raffaello Giovagnoli	1873	Novel
Spartacus	1960	Stanley Kubrick	USA	Spartacus	Howard Fast^[12]	1951	Novel
Spartacus	2004	Robert Dornhelm	USA	Spartacus	Howard Fast	1951	Novel

Gallic Wars

58 BC – 51 BC

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Giulio Cesare, il conquistatore delle Gallie	1962	Tanio Boccia	Italy	Commentarii de Bello Gallico (uncredited)	Julius Caesar (uncredited)	after 51 BC	Memoir
Vercingétorix Druids	2001	Jacques Dorfmann	France, Canada, Belgium	Commentarii de Bello Gallico (uncredited)	Julius Caesar (uncredited)	after 51 BC	Memoir

Great Roman Civil War

49 BC – 44 BC

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Caesar and Cleopatra	1945	Gabriel Pascal	UK	Caesar and Cleopatra	George Bernard Shaw^[13]	1898	Play
Cleopatra ♠	1963	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	UK, USA, Switzerland	Cleopatra (?)	Carlo Mario Franzero	19??	Novel
Cleopatra *	1999	Franc Roddam	Germany & USA	Memoirs of Cleopatra	Margaret George	1998	Novel

♠ The 1963 film is chiefly notable for its budget and for a performance by Elizabeth Taylor.
* television film.

Frequently filmed: Julius Caesar

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Julius Caesar	1953	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	USA	Julius Caesar	William Shakespeare	1599	Play
Julius Caesar	1970	Stuart Burge	UK	Julius Caesar	William Shakespeare	1599	Play

Final Civil Wars of the Roman Republic

45 BC –

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Antony and Cleopatra	1972	Charlton Heston	UK, Spain, Switzerland	Antony and Cleopatra	William Shakespeare	1606–1607	Play

Battle of Actium

2 September 31 BC

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Cleopatra ♠	1963	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	UK, USA, Switzerland	Cleopatra (?)	Carlo Mario Franzero	19??	Novel

♠ The 1963 film includes an admirable account of the battle.
The series Rome, for budgetary reasons, deals with the aftermath of Actium, not the battle directly.

Frequently filmed: I, Claudius and Claudius the God

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
I, Claudius *	1976	Herbert Wise	UK	I, Claudius^[14]^[15]	Robert Graves	1934	Novel
I, Claudius	2010	Jim Sheridan	UK	I, Claudius	Robert Graves	1934	Novel

* TV miniseries.

Jewish War

66–73

Siege of Masada

72–73

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Masada **	1981	Boris Sagal	USA	The Antagonists	Ernest K. Gann	1971	Novel
God on Trial ♠ *	2008	Andy de Emmony	UK & USA	The Trial of God Le procès de Shamgorod tel qu'il se déroula le 25 février 1649 (uncredited)	Elie Wiesel^[16] (uncredited)	1979	Play

♠ The trial of God conducted by inmates at Auschwitz includes Masada as evidence.
** TV miniseries.
* television film.

End of the Han Dynasty

Frequently filmed: Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon	2008	Daniel Lee	China	Romance of the Three Kingdoms	Luo Guanzhong (attributed)	c. 1400	Novel

Battle of Red Cliffs

(赤壁之戰)
208–209

Bulletin ... film now in release: Red Cliff by John Woo (shortened Western Edition)

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Red Cliff 赤壁	2008	John Woo	China	Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms	Chen Shou	before 297	Chronicle
Red Cliff, Part 2	2009	John Woo	China	Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms	Chen Shou	before 297	Chronicle

Battle of Milvian Bridge

312 ♠

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Fabiola	1949	Alessandro Blasetti	Italy	Fabiola ♦	Cardinal Nicholas Patrick Wiseman	1854	Novel
Constantine and the Cross	1962	Lionello De Felice	Yugoslavia & Italy	De mortibus persecutorum (uncredited)	Lactantius (uncredited)	c. 320	Non-fiction

♠ The battle where Emperor Constantine's vision of☧, the chi rho, led to the adoption of his motto "In hoc signo vinces".
♦ There are other film versions of Fabiola, but the conflict between Constantine and Maxentius appears to be an addition specific to this film.

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Attila *	2001	Josée Dayan	France	Attila	Temistocle Solera & Francesco Maria Piave	1846	Libretto

Piracy

Roman Empire

Frequently filmed: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Ben-Hur^[17]	1925	Fred Niblo	USA	Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ	Gen. Lew Wallace	1880	Novel
Ben-Hur^[18]	1959	William Wyler	USA	Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ	Gen. Lew Wallace	1880	Novel

The pirates in Ben-Hur are Chersonesan and have travelled from the Euxine to the Ægean to face a Roman fleet sent by Sejanus.^[19]

Dark Ages

c. 500 – c. 1000

Battle of Badon Hill

c. 500

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Last Legion	2007	Doug Lefler	UK, Italy, France	L'ultima legione	Valerio Massimo Manfredi	2002	Novel

Gothic War

535–554

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Justinian and Theodora ♠	1910	Otis Turner	USA	Justinian And Theodora: A Drama, Being A Chapter Of History And The One Gleam Of Light During The Dark Ages	Elbert Hubbard & Alice Hubbard	1906	Play
Théodora	1912	Henri Pouctal	France	Théodora	Victorien Sardou	1884	Play
Teodora	1919	Leopoldo Carlucci	Italy	Théodora	Victorien Sardou	1884	Play
Kampf um Rom I	1968	Robert Siodmak & Andrew Marton (uncredited) & Sergiu Nicolaescu (uncredited)	West Germany, Italy, Romania	A Struggle for Rome	Felix Dahn	1876	Novel
Kampf um Rom II - Der Verrat	1969	Robert Siodmak & Andrew Marton (uncredited) & Sergiu Nicolaescu (uncredited)	West Germany, Italy, Romania	A Struggle for Rome	Felix Dahn	1876	Novel

♠ The IMDb lists a story by Bulwer-Lytton as the source for this film. But there appears to be no such work.
The 1906 play seems a more likely source.

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Grendel Grendel Grendel α	1981	Alexander Stitt	Australia	Grendel	John Gardner	1971	Novel
The 13th Warrior	1999	John McTiernan, Michael Crichton (uncredited)	USA	Eaters of the Dead	Michael Crichton	1976	Novel
Beowulf & Grendel	2005	Sturla Gunnarsson	Canada, UK, Iceland	Beowulf	Beowulf poet	c. 700– c. 1000	Epic poem

Frequently filmed: Das Nibelungenlied

Before 600

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried	1924	Fritz Lang	Germany	Das Nibelungenlied (uncredited)	Nibelungenlied poet (uncredited)	c. 1200	Epic poem
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache	1924	Fritz Lang	Germany	Das Nibelungenlied (uncredited)	Nibelungenlied poet (uncredited)	c. 1200	Epic poem

Campaigns of Muhammad

Battle of Badr

17 March 624

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Mohammad, Messenger of God	1977	Moustapha Akkad	Lebanon, Libya, Kuwait	Sirah Rasul Allah	Ibn Ishaq	before 767	Non-fiction

Battle of Uhud

19 March 625

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Mohammad, Messenger of God	1977	Moustapha Akkad	Lebanon, Libya, Kuwait	Sirah Rasul Allah	Ibn Ishaq	before 767	Non-fiction
Muhammad: The Last Prophet	2004	Richard Rich	USA	Sirah Rasul Allah	Ibn Ishaq	before 767	Non-fiction

Battle of Roncesvalles

778

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Song of Roland	1978	Frank Cassenti	France	La Chanson de Roland	Roland poet	1040–1115	Epic poem

War of Wessex with the Danes

868–878

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Alfred the Great	1969	Clive Donner	UK	Vita Ælfredi regis Angul Saxonum (uncredited)	Asser (uncredited)	893	Non-fiction

Viking Raids

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Vikings	1958	Richard Fleischer	USA	The Viking	Edison Marshall	1951^[20]	Novel
The War Lord ♠	1965	Franklin Schaffner	USA	The Lovers: a play in three acts	Leslie Stevens	1956^[20]	Play

♠ Normans fend off Vikings in the Early Middle Ages.

Middle Ages

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
1066 and All That *	1939	?	UK	1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England, comprising all the parts you can remember, including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings and 2 Genuine Dates	W. C. Sellar & R. J. Yeatman	before 1930	Chronicle
Wilhelm Cuceritorul aka William the Conqueror	1982	Sergiu Nicolaescu	Romania & France	Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (uncredited)	Chronicle compilers	before 1154	Chronicle
1066: The Battle for Middle Earth **	May 2009	Justin Hardy	UK	Carmen de Hastingae Proelio^[21]	Guy of Amiens	1067	Epic poem

Reconquista

Bulletin ... upcoming film: King Conqueror by director unknown

Conquest of Valencia

1094–1102

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
El Cid	1961	Anthony Mann	Italy, USA, UK	Cantar de Mio Cid	Cid poet	before 1207	Epic poem

First Crusade

1096–1099

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Rytsarskiy roman * Рыцарский роман	2000	Aleksandr Inshakov	Russia	Count Robert of Paris	Sir Walter Scott	1832	Novel

* television film.

Frequently filmed: Gerusalemme liberata

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Le tyran de Jérusalem	1910	Camille de Morlhon	France	La Jérusalem délivrée	Torquato Tasso	1581	Epic poem
Gerusalemme liberata	1910	Enrico Guazzoni ♠	Italy	Gerusalemme liberata	Torquato Tasso	1581	Epic poem
La Gerusalemme liberata	1958	Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia	Italy & France	Gerusalemme liberata	Torquato Tasso	1581	Epic poem

♠ Guazzoni released a version in 1913, and another in 1918. The 1918 version was reissued with sound in 1935.

11th century Scotland

1000–1099

Frequently filmed: Macbeth

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Macbeth	1908	J. Stuart Blackton	USA	Macbeth	William Shakespeare	1605?	Play
Macbeth	1909	Mario Caserini	Italy	Macbeth	William Shakespeare	1605?	Play
Macbeth	1948	Orson Welles	USA	Macbeth	William Shakespeare	1605?	Play
Throne of Blood ♠	1957	Akira Kurosawa	Japan	Macbeth	William Shakespeare	1605?	Play
The Tragedy of Macbeth	1971	Roman Polanski	UK & USA	Macbeth	William Shakespeare	1605?	Play
Macbeth horror suite di Carmelo Bene da William Shakespeare *	1997	Carmelo Bene	Italy	Macbeth	William Shakespeare	1605?	Play

♠ Feudal Japan is the setting in Kurosawa's version.
* television film.

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Pillars of the Earth *	2010	In Development	Germany & Canada	The Pillars of the Earth	Ken Follett	1989	Novel

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
One Corpse Too Many *	1994	?	UK	One Corpse Too Many	"Ellis Peters"	1979	Novel

Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines

Campaigns of Frederick Barbarossa

1155–1177

Battle of Legnano

29 May 1176

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
La battaglia di Legnano aka Barbarossa	1910	Mario Caserini	Italy	La battaglia di Legnano ♠ (unconfirmed)	Salvatore Cammarano (unconfirmed)	1849	Libretto	-	-	-

♠ It is a reasonable supposition that Italian filmmmakers based their story on Verdi's opera La battaglia di Legnano.

Genpei War

1180–1185

Battle of Dan-no-ura

25 April 1185

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Kwaidan ♠	1964	Masaki Kobayashi	Japan	Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things	Lafcadio Hearn	1904	Folk tales	-	-	-

♠ One segment of this anthology film concerns the battle.

Rus–Cuman War

c. 1185

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Prince Igor Князь Игорь	1970	Roman Tikhomirov	USSR	Prince Igor	Alexander Borodin	before 1887	Libretto	-	-	-

♠ The poem's Old East Slavic title is "Слово о плъку Игоревѣ", using the older pre-Russian Revolution orthography.

Third Crusade

1187–1192

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Al Nasser Salah Ad-Din الناصر صلاح الدين	1963	Youssef Chahine	Egypt	Al Nasser Salah Ad-Din An-Nāṣir Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn	Naguib Mahfouz^[22]	195?	Novel

Frequently filmed: The Talisman

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Il talismano	1911	Cinès	Italy	The Talisman	Sir Walter Scott	1825	Novel
Richard the Lion-Hearted	1923	Chester Withey	USA	The Talisman	Sir Walter Scott	1825	Novel
King Richard and the Crusaders	1954	David Butler	USA	The Talisman	Sir Walter Scott	1825	Novel
Richard lvinoye serdtse Ричард Львиное Сердце	1992	Yevgeni Gerasimov	Russia	The Talisman	Sir Walter Scott	1825	Novel
Rytsar Kennet Рыцарь Кеннет	1993	Yevgeni Gerasimov	Russia	The Talisman	Sir Walter Scott	1825	Novel

Frequently filmed: Nathan the Wise

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type

Battle of Montgisard

25 November 1177

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Arn - Tempelriddaren Arn: The Knight Templar	2007	Peter Flinth	Sweden, Denmark, Norway	Arn: The Knight Templar	Jan Guillou	195?	Novel

Mongol Invasions

1206–c. 1300

Campaigns of Genghis Khan

1206–1227

Bulletin ... film currently in production: The Great Khan by Sergei Bodrov

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea	2007	Shinichirō Sawai	Japan & Mongolia	Chi hate umi tsukiru made: shōsetsu Chingisu Hān	Seiichi Morimura	198?	Novel
Mongol Монгол	2007	Sergei Bodrov	Kazakhstan, Russia, Mongolia, Germany	The Secret History of the Mongols (uncredited)	Mongol chronicler (uncredited)	after 1227	Non-fiction

Children's Crusade

1212

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Crusade in Jeans	2006	Ben Sombogaart	Netherlands	Crusade in Jeans	Thea Beckman	1973	Novel

First Barons' War

1215–1217

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
King John	1899	Walter Pfeffer Dando & William K.L. Dickson	UK	King John	William Shakespeare	c. 1598	Play

Northern Crusades

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Seventh Seal Det sjunde inseglet	1957	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden	Wood Painting Trämålning	Ingmar Bergman	1954	Play
Malev	2005	Kaaren Kaer	Estonia	Chronicle of Henry of Livonia	Henry of Livonia	c. 1224	Chronicle

Battle of the Ice

5 April 1242

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Alexander Nevsky Александр Невский	1938	Sergei Eisenstein & Dmitri Vasilyev^[23]	USSR	?	?	?	Non-fiction

Second Barons' War

1264–1267

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Black Rose	1950	Henry Hathaway	USA	The Black Rose	Thomas B. Costain	1945	Novel

War of the Sicilian Vespers

1282–1302

Sicilian Vespers

30 March 1282
Films based on this rebellion tend to be performances of Verdi's opera I vespri siciliani.

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Vespro siciliano	1949	Giorgio Pàstina	Italy	Cronica di lu rebellamentu di Sichilia contra re Carlu	Atanasiu di Iaci (attributed)	c. 1290	Chronicle

Battle of the Field of Blackbirds

15 June 1389

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Battle of Kosovo Бој на Косову	1989	Zdravko Šotra	Yugoslavia	Boj na Kosovu	Ljubomir Simović	19??	Play

Polish–Teutonic War

1409–1411

Battle of Grunwald

15 July 1410

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Krzyżacy	1960	Aleksander Ford	Poland	The Teutonic Knights	Henryk Sienkiewicz^[24]	1900	Novel

Hundred Years' War

1337–1453

Battle of Poitiers

19 September 1356

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
A Knight's Tale	2001	Brian Helgeland	USA	The Canterbury Tales (uncredited)	Geoffrey Chaucer (uncredited)	before 1400	Poem

Battle of Shrewsbury

21 July 1403

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Chimes at Midnight ♠	1965	Orson Welles	France, Spain, Switzerland	Five Kings	Orson Welles	1939	Play

♠ An Orson Welles film that is very highly regarded by those who have succeeded in seeing it.

Battle of Agincourt

25 October 1415

Bulletin ... film currently in development: Azincourt by director unknown

Frequently filmed: Henry V

Also, Siege of Harfleur
1415

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France	1944	Laurence Olivier	UK	Henry V	William Shakespeare	1599	Play
Henry V	1989	Kenneth Branagh	UK	Henry V	William Shakespeare	1599	Play

What if ...

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The High Crusade Δ High Crusade – Frikassee im Weltraum	1994	Klaus Knoesel & Holger Neuhäuser	Germany	The High Crusade	Poul Anderson	1960	Novel
Timeline	2003	Richard Donner	USA	Timeline	Michael Crichton	1999	Novel

Δ The film preserves the story's date but shifts the context to (a period resembling) the Third Crusade.

Ottoman–Hungarian Wars

1366–15??

Siege of Eger

1552

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Egri csillagok	1923	Paul Fejos Fejős Pál	Hungary	Eclipse of the Crescent Moon Egri csillagok	Géza Gárdonyi	1899	Novel
Egri csillagok	1968	Zoltán Várkonyi	Hungary	Eclipse of the Crescent Moon Egri csillagok	Géza Gárdonyi	1899	Novel

What if ...

Frequently filmed: János Vitéz

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
János vitéz	1924	Alfréd Deésy	Hungary	János Vitéz	Sándor Petöfi	1845	Poem

Ottoman-Albanian War

1443–14??

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Great Warrior Skanderbeg aka Великий воин Албании Скандербег	1953	Sergei Yutkevich	USSR & Albania	Historia de vita et gestis Scanderbegi, Epirotarum Principis	Marin Barleti	c. 1510	Non-fiction

Wars of the Roses

1453–1487

Frequently filmed: The Black Arrow

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Black Arrow	1948	Gordon Douglas	USA	The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses	Robert Louis Stevenson	1888	Novel	The Black Arrow	1958	UK
Chyornaya strela Чёрная стрела	1985	Sergei Tarasov	USSR	The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses	Robert Louis Stevenson	1888	Novel
Black Arrow *	1985	John Hough	USA & Spain	The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses	Robert Louis Stevenson	1888	Novel
La freccia nera ♠ *	2006	Fabrizio Costa	Italy	The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses	Robert Louis Stevenson	1888	Novel	La freccia nera	1968–1969	Italy

♠ Inspired by Stevenson, this Italian version is set in the Tyrol, rather than England.
* television film.

Battle of Bosworth Field

22 August 1485

Frequently filmed: Richard III

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Richard III	1912	André Calmettes & James Keane	France & USA	Richard III	William Shakespeare	1591	Play
Richard III	1955	Laurence Olivier	UK	Richard III	William Shakespeare	1591	Play
Richard III ♠	1995	Richard Loncraine	UK & USA	Richard III	William Shakespeare	1591	Play

♠ This version is set in a Fascist Britain.

Burgundian Wars

1474–1477

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Charles the Bold La fin de Charles le Téméraire	1910	Georges Denola	France	Anne of Geierstein, or The Maiden of the Mist	Sir Walter Scott	1829	Novel

16th century

Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire

1519–1521

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Fall of Montezuma	1912	Harry McRae Webster	USA	Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España (uncredited)	Bernal Díaz del Castillo ♠ (uncredited)	1576	Memoir
Captain from Castile	1947	Henry King	USA	Captain From Castile	Samuel Shellabarger	1945	Novel
La Controverse de Valladolid ♦ *	1992	Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe	France	La Controverse de Valladolid	Jean-Claude Carrière	1992	Novel
Fray Bartolomé de las Casas	1993	Sergio Olhovich	Mexico	Bonfire at Dawn: an historical tableau in four acts based on the life and passion of Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Las Casas, una hoguera en el amanecer	Jaime Salom	1986^[20]	Play

♠ Díaz appears in the film as a character, while Prescott is the eminent historian of his century in English.
♦ The film is about the Valladolid debate between Bartolomé de Las Casas and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda.
* television film.

Battle of Mactan

27 April 1521
(This skirmish resulted in the death of Magellan before he had completed his circumnavigation of the globe.)

German Peasants' War

1524–1525

Frequently filmed: Luther

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Luther	1973	Guy Green	USA	Luther^[26]^[27]	John Osborne	1961	Play

Russo-Kazan Wars

1467–1552

Bulletin ... Film recently released: Ivan the Terrible by Andrei Eshpai

Fall of Kazan

1552

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Boris Godunov ♠	1954	Vera Stroyeva	USSR	Boris Godunov	Modest Mussorgsky	1874	Libretto	-	-	-

♠ A song about Ivan the Terrible and the Fall of Kazan is sung by Varlaam, a drunken vagabond monk, at an inn on the Lithuanian border.

Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire

1526–1572

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Royal Hunt of the Sun	1969	Irving Lerner	UK	The Royal Hunt of the Sun	Peter Shaffer	1964	Play

Spanish conquest of Chile

1541–1598

Bulletin ... film currently in production: Finis Terrae: La voluntad de ser by director unknown

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
La Araucana	1971	Julio Coll	Chile, Italy, Spain, Peru	La Araucana La Araucana	Alonso de Ercilla	1569/ 1578/ 1589	Epic poem

Arauco War

1536–1883

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Cautiverio Feliz Cautiverio Feliz	1998	Cristián Sánchez	Chile	Cautiverio feliz Cautiverio feliz	Francisco Núñez de Pineda y Bascuñán	1673/ 1863	Memoir

Takeda campaigns

Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima

1561

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Samurai Banners Fūrin Kazan	1969	Hiroshi Inagaki	Japan	The Samurai Banner of Furin Kazan ♠ Fūrin Kazan 風林火山	Yasushi Inoue	1955	Novel
Fūrin Kazan *** Fūrin Kazan	2007	Kazuhiko Shimizu	Japan	The Samurai Banner of Furin Kazan ♠ Fūrin Kazan 風林火山	Yasushi Inoue	1955	Novel

♠ In addition, Japanese Wikipedia lists 3 radio adaptations of Inoue's novel between 1969 and 2006.
*** TV series.

French Wars of Religion

1562–1598

St. Bartholomew's Day massacre

1572

Frequently filmed: La Reine Margot

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Queen Margot	1994	Patrice Chéreau	France	La Reine Margot	Alexandre Dumas, père	1845	Novel

Japanese Warring States Period

1467–1600

Battle of Nagashino

1575

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Kagemusha	1980	Akira Kurosawa	Japan	Kōyō Gunkan (uncredited)	Kōsaka Masanobu (attributed)	1616	Non-fiction

Eighty Years' War

1568–1648
(The Dutch Revolt merges into the Thirty Years' War.)

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Alatriste	2006	Agustín Díaz Yanes	Spain	The Adventures of Captain Alatriste	Arturo Pérez-Reverte	1996	Novels	-	-	-

Occupation of the Spanish Netherlands

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Carnival in Flanders^[28] La Kermesse héroïque	1935	Jacques Feyder	France & Nazi Germany	"La Kermesse héroïque" (?)	Charles Spaak	1929	Story

Anglo–Spanish War of 1585

1585–1604

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Sea Hawk ♠	1924	Frank Lloyd	USA	The Sea Hawk	Rafael Sabatini	1915	Novel
Young Bess	1953	George Sidney	USA	Young Bess	Margaret Irwin	1944	Novel

♠ A Cornishman joins Barbary Coast corsairs and fights the Spanish. The better-known 1940 Errol Flynn film does not follow the novel.

Battle of Gravelines

1588

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Fire Over England	1937	William K. Howard	UK	Fire Over England	A. E. W. Mason	1936	Novel

17th century

The Time of Troubles

1598–1613

Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618)

1605–1618

Polish Invasion of 1605

1605

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Boris Godunov	1954	Vera Stroyeva	USSR	Boris Godunov	Modest Mussorgsky	1874	Libretto	-	-	-

Retaking of Moscow

1612

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Minin and Pozharsky Минин и Пожарский	1939	Vsevolod Pudovkin & Mikhail Doller	USSR	Russians at the Beginning of the XVII Century Русские в начале XVII века	Viktor Shklovsky	193?	Novel

Thirty Years' War

1618–1648

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Last Valley	1971	James Clavell	UK & USA	The Fat Valley	J.B. Pick	1959	Novel

Frequently filmed: Wallenstein

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Wallenstein, 1. Teil - Wallensteins Macht	1925	Rolf Randolf	Germany	Wallenstein Part 1	Friedrich Schiller (uncredited)(unconfirmed)	1799	Play
Wallenstein, 2. Teil - Wallensteins Tod	1925	Rolf Randolf	Germany	Wallenstein Part 2	Friedrich Schiller (uncredited)(unconfirmed)	1799	Play

* television film.

Frequently filmed: Simplicius Simplicissimus

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Simplicius Simplicissimus *	1961	Hans Hartleb	West Germany	Simplicius Simplicissimus	Christoffel von Grimmelshausen	1668	Novel
Abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus *	1975	Fritz Umgelter	West Germany & France	Simplicius Simplicissimus	Christoffel von Grimmelshausen	1668	Novel
Simplicius *	1999	Thomas Grimm	Switzerland	Simplicius Simplicissimus	Christoffel von Grimmelshausen	1668	Novel

* television film.

Frequently filmed: I Promessi Sposi

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type

Frequently filmed: Mother Courage and Her Children

Brecht's principal character was inspired by the Landstörtzerin Courasche from Grimmelshausen (see above). ^[29]
^[30]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type

Siege of Arras

1640

Frequently filmed: Cyrano de Bergerac

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Cyrano de Bergerac	1950	Michael Gordon	USA	Cyrano de Bergerac^[31]	Edmond Rostand	1897	Play
Cyrano de Bergerac	1990	Jean-Paul Rappeneau	France	Cyrano de Bergerac	Edmond Rostand	1897	Play

Battle of Rocroi

19 May 1643

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Alatriste	2006	Agustín Díaz Yanes	Spain	The Adventures of Captain Alatriste	Arturo Pérez-Reverte	1996	Novels	-	-	-

Pictorials

#	Artist	Work	Date	Type	Country
Jacques Callot	Les Grandes Misères de la guerre	1633	Etchings	Lorraine

Siege of La Rochelle

1627–1628^[32]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Under the Red Robe	1923	Alan Crosland	USA	Under the Red Robe	Stanley J. Weyman	1894	Novel
Under the Red Robe	1937	Victor Sjöström	UK & USA	Under the Red Robe	Stanley J. Weyman	1894	Novel

Frequently filmed: The Three Musketeers

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Four Musketeers ♠	1974	Richard Lester	Spain & Panama	The Three Musketeers	Alexandre Dumas, père	1844	Novel

♠ These versions of the story mention La Rochelle.

Shimabara Rebellion

1637–1638

Bulletin ... film now in production: Silence by Martin Scorsese

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Silence	2010	Martin Scorsese	USA?	Silence 沈黙^[33]	Shusaku Endo	1966	Novel

Battle of Mbororé

11 March 1641

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Mission ♠	1986	Roland Joffé	UK	"1 Corinthians 13" from 1 Corinthians	St. Paul	c. 55	Scripture/ Epistle

♠ The film, in general, depicts the Guarani War of 1756, but it also incorporates this earlier battle.^[34]

Masaniello's Revolt

1647^[36]

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Dumb Girl of Portici	1916	Lois Weber & Phillips Smalley	USA	La muette de Portici ♠	Germain Delavigne & Eugène Scribe	1828	Libretto	-	-	-

♠ A silent film based on the libretto to Auber's opera.

Khmelnytsky Uprising

1648–1654

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Le procès de Shamgorod *	1982	Yves-André Hubert	France	The Trial of God Le procès de Shamgorod tel qu'il se déroula le 25 février 1649	Elie Wiesel^[16]	1979	Play
With Fire and Sword	1999	Jerzy Hoffman	Poland	With Fire and Sword	Henryk Sienkiewicz^[24]	1884	Novel

* television film.

Frequently filmed: Taras Bulba

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Taras Bulba	1938	Vladimir Strizhevsky & Joseph N. Ermolieff	Nazi Germany	Taras Bulba	Nikolai Gogol	1835	Novel
Tarass Boulba	1936	Alexis Granowsky	France & UK	Taras Bulba	Nikolai Gogol	1835	Novel
The Rebel Son	1938	Adrian Brunel, Albert de Courville, Alexis Granowsky	UK	Taras Bulba	Nikolai Gogol	1835	Novel
Taras Bulba	1962	J. Lee Thompson	Yugoslavia & USA	Taras Bulba	Nikolai Gogol	1835	Novel

The Deluge

1655–1660

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Colonel Wolodyjowski	1969	Jerzy Hoffman	Poland	Fire in the Steppe	Henryk Sienkiewicz^[24]	1888	Novel
The Deluge	1974	Jerzy Hoffman	Poland	The Deluge	Henryk Sienkiewicz^[24]	1886	Novel

Ottoman-Habsburg War of 1663

1663–1664 (Türkenkrieg 1663–1664)

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Der Cornet - Die Weise von Liebe und Tod	1955	Walter Reisch	West Germany	"The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke" "Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke"	Rainer Maria Rilke	1906	Story

Second Dutch War

1665–1667

Capture of New Amsterdam

(now New York City)
27 August 1664

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Peter Stuyvesant ♠	1924	Frank Tuttle	USA	Dutch and English on the Hudson: a chronicle of colonial New York	Maud W. Goodwin	1919	Non-fiction

♠ Under Dutch governor Stuyvesant's harsh rule, Englishman George Baxter revolts. He fails, but appeals to King Charles. The smuggling of goods duty free into New England is an issue. English ships arrive in harbour. Townsfolk petition for surrender. Stuyvesant complies.^[37]

Third Dutch War

1672–1674

Frequently filmed: The Black Tulip

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Das Fest der schwarzen Tulpe	1920	Marie Luise Droop & Muhsin Ertuğrul	Germany	La Tulipe noire	Alexandre Dumas, père	1850	Novel
The Black Tulip De Zwarte Tulp	1921	Maurits Binger & Frank Richardson	Netherlands & UK	La Tulipe noire	Alexandre Dumas, père	1850	Novel

Franco-Dutch War

1672–1678

Scanian War

1675–1679

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Snapphanar aka Scanian Guerrilla	1941	Åke Ohberg	Sweden	Snapphanar	Karl Ragnar Gierow	194?	Novel

Palmares War

(Guerra dos escravos)
1675–1677
1679–1695

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Ganga Zumba	1963	Cacá Diegues	Brazil	Ganga Zumba	João Felício dos Santos	196?	Non-fiction?	-	-	-
Quilombo	1984	Cacá Diegues	Brazil & France	Ganga Zumba	João Felício dos Santos	196?	Non-fiction?

Monmouth Rebellion

1685

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The First Churchills *	1969	David Giles	UK	Marlborough: His Life and Times	Winston Churchill^[35]	1933–1938	Biography

* TV miniseries.

Frequently filmed: Lorna Doone

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Lorna Doone	1922	Maurice Tourneur	USA	Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor	R.D. Blackmore	1869	Novel
Lorna Doone	1934	Basil Dean	UK	Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor	R.D. Blackmore	1869	Novel
Lorna Doone	2001	Mike Barker	UK	Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor	R.D. Blackmore	1869	Novel

Frequently filmed: Captain Blood

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Captain Blood	1935	Michael Curtiz	USA	Captain Blood: His Odyssey	Rafael Sabatini	1922	Novel

Glorious Revolution

1688–1689

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The First Churchills *	1969	David Giles	UK	Marlborough: His Life and Times	Winston Churchill^[35]	1933–1938	Biography	-	-	-

* TV miniseries.

Frequently filmed: The Man Who Laughs

The novel concerns the cruelties of King James II.

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Man Who Laughs	1928	Paul Leni	USA	The Man Who Laughs L'Homme qui rit	Victor Hugo	1869	Novel

Piracy and privateering

17th century

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Frenchman's Creek	1944	Mitchell Leisen	USA	Frenchman's Creek	Daphne du Maurier	1942	Novel
Frenchman's Creek *	1998	Ferdinand Fairfax	UK	Frenchman's Creek	Daphne du Maurier	1942	Novel

* television film.

18th century

Great Northern War

1700–1721

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Peter the First, Part Two	1938	Vladimir Petrov	USSR	Peter the First^[38]	Alexei Tolstoy	1929–1934	Novel
Hrabina Cosel	1968	Jerzy Antczak	Poland	Hrabina Cosel ♠	Józef Ignacy Kraszewski	1873	Novel
Epitaph für einen König *	1969	Fritz Umgelter	West Germany	Carl XII	August Strindberg	1901	Play
Karl XII *	1974	Keve Hjelm	Sweden	Carl XII	August Strindberg	1901	Play
Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria: Gräfin Cosel *	1985	Hans-Joachim Kasprzik	East Germany	Hrabina Cosel ♠	Józef Ignacy Kraszewski	1873	Novel
Peter the Great *	1986	Marvin J. Chomsky & Lawrence Schiller	USA	Peter the Great: His Life and World^[39]	Robert K. Massie	1980	Non-fiction

♠ Part 1 of the Saxon Trilogy, about Countess Cosel, Augustus II the Strong, and Charles XII of Sweden.
* television film.

War of the Austrian Succession

1740–1748

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria: Brühl *	1985	Hans-Joachim Kasprzik	East Germany	Bruehl ♠	Józef Ignacy Kraszewski	1874	Novel

♠ Part 2 of the Saxon Trilogy, about Heinrich von Brühl, Frederick Augustus Rutowsky, and Friedrich August II.
* television film.

(aka The '45)
1745–1746
The rebellion broke out as Great Britain was heavily involved in the War of the Austrian Succession,
just as the Easter Rebellion broke out as Britain was heavily involved in World War I.

Frequently filmed: Redgauntlet

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type

Battle of Culloden

1746

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Culloden^[40] *	1964	Peter Watkins	UK	Culloden	John Prebble	1962	Non-fiction

* television film.

Justice and Retribution

Frequently filmed: Kidnapped

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type

Seven Years' War

1754–1763

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Fridericus	1937	Johannes Meyer	Nazi Germany	Fridericus	Walter von Molo	1918	Novel
Barry Lyndon	1975	Stanley Kubrick	UK	The Luck of Barry Lyndon	William Makepeace Thackeray	1844	Novel
Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria: Brühl *	1985	Hans-Joachim Kasprzik	East Germany	Bruehl ♠	Józef Ignacy Kraszewski	1874	Novel
Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria - Aus dem siebenjährigen Krieg *	1987	Hans-Joachim Kasprzik	East Germany	Z siedmioletniej wojny ♦	Józef Ignacy Kraszewski	1875	Novel

♠ Part 2 of the Saxon Trilogy, about Heinrich von Brühl, Frederick Augustus Rutowsky, and Friedrich August II.
♦ Part 3 of the Saxon Trilogy, about Heinrich von Brühl, Augustus III of Poland, and Frederick II of Prussia.
* television film.

French and Indian War

(Known in the USA as the French and Indian War. Known in Canada as the Seven Years' War.)

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Northwest Passage	1940	King Vidor	USA	Northwest Passage	Kenneth Roberts^[41]	1937	Novel
Northwest Passage	1958–1959	Otto Lang	USA	Northwest Passage	Kenneth Roberts^[41]	1937	Novel

Frequently filmed: The Pathfinder

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Pathfinder	1952	Sidney Salkow	USA	The Pathfinder	James Fenimore Cooper	1840	Novel

Battle of Fort Necessity

3 July 1754

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
George Washington *	1984	Buzz Kulik	USA	George Washington: The Forge of Experience	James Thomas Flexner	1965	Biography

* television film.

Battle of the Monongahela

9 July 1755

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
George Washington *	1984	Buzz Kulik	USA	George Washington: The Forge of Experience	James Thomas Flexner	1965	Biography

* television film.

Siege of Fort William Henry

3–9 August 1757

Frequently filmed: The Last of the Mohicans

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Last of the Mohicans^[42]	1920	Clarence Brown & Maurice Tourneur	USA	The Last of the Mohicans	James Fenimore Cooper	1826	Novel
The Last of the Mohicans	1932	Ford Beebe & B. Reeves Eason	USA	The Last of the Mohicans	James Fenimore Cooper	1826	Novel
The Last of the Mohicans	1936	George B. Seitz	USA	The Last of the Mohicans	James Fenimore Cooper	1826	Novel
Der letzte Mohikaner	1965	Harald Reinl	West Germany, Italy, Spain	The Last of the Mohicans	James Fenimore Cooper	1826	Novel
Uncas, el fin de una raza	1965	Mateo Cano	Spain, Italy	The Last of the Mohicans	James Fenimore Cooper	1826	Novel
Ultimul Mohican	1968	Sergiu Nicolaescu, Jean Dréville, Pierre Gaspard-Huit	Romania & France	The Last of the Mohicans	James Fenimore Cooper	1826	Novel
The Last of the Mohicans	1992	Michael Mann	USA	The Last of the Mohicans	James Fenimore Cooper	1826	Novel
The Last of the Mohicans **	1971	David Maloney	UK	The Last of the Mohicans	James Fenimore Cooper	1826	Novel

** TV miniseries.

Battle of Fort Duquesne

15 September 1758

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Gateway to the West ♠	1924	Webster Campbell	USA	The Conquest of New France	George M. Wrong	1910	Non-fiction

♠ Prime Minister Newcastle asks Dinwiddie of Virginia to oust the French. Dinwiddie settles on Washington (Arthur Vinton). But the defeat of the French at Fort Le Boeuf is followed by Washington's defeat at Fort Duquesne, then his retreat to Broad Meadows and surrender.^[43]

Battle of the Plains of Abraham

13 September 1759

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Wolfe and Montcalm ♠	1924	Kenneth S. Webb	USA	The Conquest of New France	George M. Wrong	1910	Non-fiction

♠ De facto^[44] William Pitt is determined to oust the French. Wolfe (Arthur Hohl) takes the outpost at Beauport, then lands at the "Faloun" (Wolfe's Cove). Outside Quebec, French and Indians face the British. Wolfe and Montcalm perish.^[45]^[46]

Guarani War

1756

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Mission	1986	Roland Joffé	UK	"1 Corinthians 13" from 1 Corinthians	St. Paul	c. 55	Scripture/ Epistle	-	-	-

Pontiac's War

1763–1766

Siege of Fort Pitt

June – August 1763

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Unconquered	1947	Cecil B. DeMille	USA	Unconquered, a Novel of the Pontiac Conspiracy^[47]	Neil H. Swanson	1947^[20]^¤	Novel

Black Boys Uprising

1769

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Allegheny Uprising	1939	William A. Seiter	USA	The First Rebel: Being a lost chapter of our history and a true narrative of America's first uprising against English military authority	Neil H. Swanson	1937	Novel

Mysore Wars

1766–1799^[48]

Third Mysore War

1789–1792

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Sword of Tipu Sultan *	1990	Akbar Khan & Sanjay Khan	India	The Sword of Tipu Sultan	Bhagwan Gidwani	198?	Novel

* television film.

Russo-Turkish War of 1768

1768–1774

What if ...

Frequently filmed: Baron Munchausen

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Münchhausen	1943	Josef von Báky	Nazi Germany	The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen	Rudolf Erich Raspe ♠	1785	Stories
Baron Prášil	1961	Karel Zeman	Czechoslovakia	The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen	Rudolf Erich Raspe ♠	1785	Stories
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen	1988	Terry Gilliam	UK & West Germany	The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen	Rudolf Erich Raspe ♠	1785	Stories

♠ The Munchausen stories were published in English by Raspe, then translated back into German by Bürger. The historical Baron Münchhausen († 1797), a German in Russian service at a somewhat earlier period, had been a notable teller of tall tales.

Pugachev's Rebellion

1774–1775

Frequently filmed: The Captain's Daughter

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
La figlia del capitano La figlia del capitano	1947	Mario Camerini	Italy	The Captain's Daughter Капитанская дочка	Alexander Pushkin	1836	Novel
Kapitanskaya Dochka Капитанская дочка	1959	Vladimir Kaplunovsky	USSR	The Captain's Daughter Капитанская дочка	Alexander Pushkin	1836	Novel
Russkiy Bunt Русский бунт	1999	Aleksandr Proshkin	Russia	The Captain's Daughter Капитанская дочка	Alexander Pushkin	1836	Novel

For later conflicts, see the List of films based on war books — 1775–1898.

References

Unless otherwise stated, the source for film information is the IMDb.

Notes

^ Recipient of the ivy wreath for best tragedy at the Athenian Dionysia in 467 BC.
^ Recipient of the ivy wreath for best tragedy at the Athenian Dionysia in 442 BC.
^ Recipient of the ivy wreath for best tragedy at the Athenian Dionysia in 472 BC.
^ Πέρσαι is the oldest surviving play in the history of theatre.
^ A similar comic theme was used in the Korean War series M*A*S*H, specifically, the Season 1 episode entitled "Edwina".
^ Source: IMDb main section.
^ Recipient of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1973. Note: This date has the book winning an award prior to its publication.
^ Source: Lavington (q.v.), p. 269–270.
^ Source: DVD documentary. Oliver Stone refers to "Fox" and his "book".
^ On the other hand, Fox is credited by the DVD documentary as "historical consultant / author".
^ Recipient of the highly coveted Mussolini Cup for Best Italian Film of 1937 at the Venice Film Festival.
^ Fast was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1953.
^ ^a ^b Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.
^ Joint recipients of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1934. Note: This date has the sequel winning an award prior to its publication.
^ Recipient of the Hawthornden Prize in 1935.
^ ^a ^b Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.
^ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 1997.
^ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 2004.
^ Ben-Hur, Book Third, Chapter 1.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of the US Library of Congress.
Source: Library of Congress Online Catalog.
^ Source: 1066: Behind the Story, researcher Greg Jenner, 17 April 2009.
^ Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988.
^ Dmitri Ivanovich Vasilyev, Дмитрий Иванович Васильев, († 1984) has no page (as of June 2009) at Russian Wikipedia. He appears only on a disambiguation page, described as a советский кинорежиссёр or Soviet film director. Linguists may note that the Russian word for film director is a combination of the German Kino (cinema) and the French régisseur (manager, director).
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Sienkiewicz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905.
^ Nominated for the Tony Award for Best Revival in 1993.
^ Recipient of the Tony Award in 1964.
^ Recipient of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play in 1964.
^ According to French Wikipédia, the film is discussed by Tuesday Weld and Steve McQueen in Le Kid de Cincinnati (The Cincinnati Kid).
^ Nominated for the Tony Award in 1963.
^ Brecht was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1954.
^ Nominated for the Tony Award for Best Revival in 1985.
^ The final Nazi war epic, Kolberg, premiered at the besieged naval base in La Rochelle in 1945.
^ Recipient of the Tanizaki Prize in 1966.
^ Source: Historical basis for The Mission.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953.
^ Does this event have a conventional name in English? (The editor has coined "Masaniello's Revolt".) Italian Wikipedia does not give it a name either, calling it "la rivolta popolare animata da Masaniello e Giulio Genoino contro il regime vicereale spagnolo". Accurate, but not helpful.
^ Source: Hartley (q.v.), p. 78. The information on this film at the IMDb is incomplete.
^ The novel was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1941.
^ Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1981.
^ Recipient of the BAFTA Award for Specialised Programmes in 1965.
^ ^a ^b Roberts was awarded a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation in 1957 for his historical novels.
^ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 1995.
^ Source: Hartley (q.v.), p. 160. The information on this film at the IMDb is incomplete and incorrect.
^ At the time, Newcastle was nominally in charge, but only with the understanding that Pitt would be running the war.
Source: Encyclopædia Britannica, Micropedia, Vol. 9, p. 478. 2007.
^ "The battle [shows] gruesome scenes of agony as Wolfe and Montcalm die. [...] There is a real question [...] as to the appropriateness of the [final] reel to classroom use. There is a definite and gory glorification of war. The long scenes of the death agonies of Wolfe and Montcalm seem unnecessary." (Hartley)
^ Source: Hartley (q.v.), p. 161. The information on this film at the IMDb is incomplete.
^ The IMDb lists The Judas Tree (1933, 360 pp.) as the title of the source novel. Unconquered, the novel (1947, 440 pp.), appeared in the same year as the film. Could that be a retitled reprint? The 1948 edition of Unconquered had only 376 pages.
^ The traditional name Mysore Wars is still in use.

Bibliography

Clarke, James. Virgin Film: War Films, Virgin Books, London, 2006.
Faulks, Sebastian and Jörg Hensgen. The Vintage Book of War Stories, Vintage, London, 1999.
Hartley, William H., Ed.D. Selected Films for American History and Problems, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, 1940.
Lavington, Stephen. Virgin Film: Oliver Stone, Virgin Books, London, 2004.
100 Greatest War Movies, special issue of Military History Magazine, Weider History Group, Leesburg, Virginia, 2007.

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Joan of Arc	1948	Victor Fleming	UK	Joan of Lorraine	Maxwell Anderson	1946	Play
Jeanne oder Die Lerche *	1956	Franz Peter Wirth	West Germany	L'Alouette	Jean Anouilh	1953	Play
Saint Joan	1957	Otto Preminger	USA	Saint Joan^[25]	George Bernard Shaw^[13]	1923	Play

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Der Ochsenkrieg	1920	Franz Osten	Germany	Der Ochsenkrieg	Ludwig Ganghofer	1914	Novel
Der Ochsenkrieg	1943	Hans Deppe	Nazi Germany	Der Ochsenkrieg	Ludwig Ganghofer	1914	Novel
Der Ochsenkrieg **	1987	Sigi Rothemund	West Germany & Czechoslovakia	Der Ochsenkrieg	Ludwig Ganghofer	1914	Novel

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Gustav Vasa *	1965	Henrik Dyfverman	Sweden	Gustav Vasa	August Strindberg	1899	Play
Kustaa Vaasa *	1969	Mirjam Himberg	Finland	Gustav Vasa	August Strindberg	1899	Play

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Erik XIV *	1965	Mirjam Himberg	Finland	Erik XIV	August Strindberg	1899	Play
Viimne reliikvia	1969	Grigori Kromanov	USSR (Estonian SSR)	Furst Gabriel or Last Days of the Pirita Monastery	Eduard Bornhöhe	1893	Novel
Kolme katku vahel *	1970	Virve Aruoja	USSR (Estonian SSR)	Kolme katku vahel	Jaan Kross	1970	Novel
Erik XIV *	1974	Kurt-Olof Sundström	Sweden	Erik XIV	August Strindberg	1899	Play

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Witchfinder General	1968	Michael Reeves	UK	Witchfinder General	Ronald Bassett	1966	Novel
Winstanley	1975	Kevin Brownlow	UK	Comrade Jacob	David Caute	1962	Novel
The Devil's Whore *	2008	Marc Munden	UK	Wicked Women in the 17th Century	Martine Brant	200?	Thesis	-	-	-

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The Royal Oak	1923	Maurice Elvey	UK	The Royal Oak	Henry Hamilton & Augustus Harris	188?	Play
The Moonraker	1958	David MacDonald	UK	The Moonraker	Arthur Watkyn	19??	Play

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Forever Amber	1947	Otto Preminger	USA	Forever Amber	Kathleen Winsor	1944	Novel
The First Churchills **	1969	David Giles	UK	Marlborough: His Life and Times	Winston Churchill^[35]	1933–1938	Biography	-	-	-
Restoration	1995	Michael Hoffman	USA & UK	Restoration	Rose Tremain	1989	Novel
Charles II: The Power and the Passion **	2003	Joe Wright	UK	King Charles II (uncredited)	Lady Antonia Fraser (uncredited)	1979	Biography	-	-	-
Stage Beauty	2004	Sir Richard Eyre	UK & USA	Compleat Female Stage Beauty	Jeffrey Hatcher	200?	Play
The Libertine	2004	Laurence Dunmore	UK	The Libertine	Stephen Jeffreys	1994	Play

List of book-based war films (wars before 1775)

Contents

Theban civil war (before 1200 BC)

Frequently filmed: The Iliad

Frequently filmed: The Aeneid

Frequently filmed: The Trojan Women

Wars of Israel with Philistia and Ammon

Battle of the Valley of Elah

Home front

Protest

Frequently filmed: Lysistrata

Bulletin ... Film currently in development: Hannibal the Conqueror by director unknown

Campaigns of Xiang Yu

Frequently filmed: Julius Caesar

Bulletin ... film currently in production: Centurion by Neil Marshall

Bulletin ... film currently in production: Glastonbury: Isle of Light by David M. Evans

Bulletin ... film currently in development: Boudicca by director unknown

Bulletin ... film currently in development: I, Claudius by Jim Sheridan

Frequently filmed: I, Claudius and Claudius the God

Siege of Masada

Frequently filmed: Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Bulletin ... film now in release: Red Cliff by John Woo (shortened Western Edition)

Campaigns of Attila

Frequently filmed: Attila

Roman Empire

Frequently filmed: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Frequently filmed: Beowulf

Frequently filmed: Das Nibelungenlied

Campaigns of Muhammad

War of Wessex with the Danes

Middle Ages

Bulletin ... upcoming film: King Conqueror by director unknown

Frequently filmed: Gerusalemme liberata

11th century Scotland

Frequently filmed: Macbeth

Bulletin ... film currently in development: The Pillars of the Earth

Campaigns of Frederick Barbarossa

Frequently filmed: The Talisman

Frequently filmed: Nathan the Wise

Campaigns of Genghis Khan

Bulletin ... film currently in production: The Great Khan by Sergei Bodrov

Bulletin ... film currently in development: Azincourt by director unknown

Frequently filmed: Henry V

What if ...

What if ...

Frequently filmed: János Vitéz

Frequently filmed: Der Ochsenkrieg

Frequently filmed: The Black Arrow

Frequently filmed: Richard III

16th century

Frequently filmed: Luther

Bulletin ... Film recently released: Ivan the Terrible by Andrei Eshpai

Bulletin ... film currently in production: Finis Terrae: La voluntad de ser by director unknown

Takeda campaigns

Frequently filmed: La Reine Margot

Occupation of the Spanish Netherlands

17th century