List of book-based war films (1927–45 wars)
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A '''list of films that are based on war books'''.
''For earlier conflicts, see the [[List of films based on war books — 1898–1926]].''
==[[Chinese Civil War]] — First stage==
1927–1950 (First stage, Sino-Japanese War, World War II — China Theatre, [[List of films based on war books — post-1945#Chinese Civil War — Final stage|Final stage]])<br />
(See also [[Sino-German cooperation (1911–1941)]] for Chinese diplomacy before the Sino-Japanese War)
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! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type
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| ''[[Flüchtlinge]]'' ♠ || 1933 || [[Gustav Ucicky]]|| [[[...] Germany]] ||''[[Flüchtlinge|Flüchtlinge : Erlebnis d. Heimat in fernen Ländern ; Roman]]''<ref>The novel was published in Breslau, [[Province of Lower Silesia|Lower Silesia]]; now [[Wrocław]], Poland.</ref> || [[Gerhard Menzel]] ♦ || 1933<ref name=DNB>Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of the [[German National Library]].<br />Source: [https://portal.d-nb.de/opac.htm?method=showOptions#top Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek].</ref> || '''Novel'''
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| ''[[The Bitter Tea of General Yen]]'' || 1933 || [[Frank Capra]]|| US ||''[[The Bitter Tea of General Yen (novel)|The Bitter Tea of General Yen]]'' || [[Grace Zaring Stone]] || 1932 || '''Novel'''
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| ''[[Oil for the Lamps of China (film)|Oil for the Lamps of China]]'' || 1935 || [[Mervyn LeRoy]]|| US ||''[[Oil for the Lamps of China]]'' || [[Alice Tisdale Hobart]] || 1933 || '''Novel'''
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| ''[[The Keys of the Kingdom (film)|The Keys of the Kingdom]]'' || 1944 || [[John M. Stahl]]|| US ||''[[The Keys of the Kingdom]]'' || [[A. J. Cronin]] || 1941 || '''Novel'''
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| ''[[The Sand Pebbles (film)|The Sand Pebbles]]'' || 1966 || [[Robert Wise]]|| US ||''[[The Sand Pebbles]]'' || [[Richard McKenna]] || 1962 || '''Novel'''
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| ''[[High Road to China]]'' || 1983 || [[Brian G. Hutton]]|| US & [[Yugoslavia]] ||''[[High Road to China (novel)|High Road to China]]'' || [[Jon Cleary]] || 1977 || '''Novel'''
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| ''[[Man's Fate (film)|Man's Fate]]'' || 201? || [[Michael Cimino]]|| US ||''[[Man's Fate]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[Prix Goncourt]] in 1933.</ref><ref name="100L">Listed in the [[:fr:Les 100 livres du siècle|100 livres du siècle]], from a poll organized by [[Fnac|FNAC]] and ''[[Le Monde]]'' in 1999.<br />'''This useful book list should be translated for the benefit of English-speaking readers.'''</ref> || [[André Malraux]] || 1933 || '''Novel'''
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==Second Italo-Abyssinian War (1935–1936)==
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! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
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| ''[[Scoop (1987 film)|Scoop]]'' || 1987 || [[Gavin Millar]]|| UK ||''[[Scoop (novel)|Scoop]]'' || [[Evelyn Waugh]] || 1938 || '''Novel'''|| - || - || -
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==Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)==
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! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type
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| ''[[For Whom the Bell Tolls (film)|For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'' || 1943 || [[Sam Wood]]|| US ||''[[For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'' || [[Ernest Hemingway]]<ref name="NobelHeming">Hemingway was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1954.</ref> || 1940 || Novel
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| ''[[Man's Hope]]'' || 1945 || [[André Malraux]] & [[Boris Peskine]]|| [[Spain]] & [[France]] ||''[[L'Espoir]]''<ref name="Vintage"/> || [[André Malraux]] || 1937 || Novel
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| ''[[Mich dürstet]]'' || 1956 || [[Karl Paryla]] || Germany || "Mich dürstet" || Walter Gorrisch || 1946 || Short story
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| ''[[Land and Freedom]]'' || 1995 || [[Ken Loach]]|| UK & Spain ||''[[Homage to Catalonia]]''<ref name="ClarkeLoach">Source: ''Clarke'' (q.v.), p. 239.</ref> (unofficial) || "[[George Orwell]]"<br />(unofficial) || 1938 || Memoir
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| ''[[Bethune (1977 film)|Bethune]]'' || 1977 || [[Eric Till]]|| Canada ||''[[The Scalpel, the Sword: The Story of Dr. Norman Bethune]]'' || [[Ted Allan]] || 1952 || Non-fiction
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| ''[[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
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| ''[[Talk of Angels]]'' || 1998 || [[Nick Hamm]]|| US ||''[[Mary Lavelle]]'' || [[Kate O'Brien]] || 1936 || '''Novel'''
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| ''[[Behold a Pale Horse (film)|Behold a Pale Horse]]'' || 1964 || [[Fred Zinnemann]]|| US ||''[[[...] a Mouse on Sunday]]'' || [[Emeric Pressburger]] || 1961 || Novel
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| ''[[Soldados de Salamina (film)|Soldados de Salamina]]''<br />''[[:es:Soldados de Salamina (película)|Soldados de Salamina]]'' || 2003 || [[David Trueba]]|| [[Spain]] ||''[[Soldiers of Salamina]]''<br />''[[:es:Soldados de Salamina|Soldados de Salamina]]''<br />|| [[Javier Cercas]] || 2001 || Novel
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| ''[[Las 13 rosas|13 Roses]]''<br />''[[:es:Las trece rosas (película)|Las trece rosas]]'' || 2007 || [[Emilio Martínez Lázaro]]|| Spain || ''[[Trece rosas rojas]]'' (uncredited) || [[Carlos Fonseca (writer)|Carlos Fonseca]] (uncredited) || 200? || Non-fiction
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| ''[[Frente de Madrid]]'' <br />''[[:es:Frente de Madrid|Frente de Madrid]]'' || 1939 || [[Edgar Neville]]|| Spain & Italy || ''Frente de Madrid'' || [[Edgar Neville]] || 193? || Novel
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| ''[[Carmen fra i rossi]]'' <br />''[[:es:Frente de Madrid|Carmen fra i rossi]]'' || 1939 || Edgar Neville || Spain & Italy || ''Frente de Madrid'' || Edgar Neville || 193? || Novel
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| ''[[Butterfly (1999 film)|Butterfly]]''<br />''[[:es:La lengua de las mariposas (película)|La lengua de las mariposas]]'' || 1999 || [[José Luis Cuerda]]|| Spain || "[[La lengua de las mariposas (story)|La lengua de las mariposas]]" <small>{{Es icon}}</small><br />"[[A lingua das bolboretas]]"<br />from ''[[:gl:¿Que me queres, amor?|¿Que me queres, amor?]]'' || [[Manuel Rivas]] || 1995 || Story
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|''[[Marcos Zurinaga#The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca|The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca]]''<br />''[[:es:Muerte en Granada|Muerte en Granada]]'' || 1997 || [[Marcos Zurinaga]]|| US || ''[[The Death of Lorca]]''<br />''[[La represión nacionalista de Granada en 1936 y la muerte de Federico García Lorca]]'' || [[Ian Gibson (author)|Ian Gibson]] || 1972/<br />1971 || Non-fiction
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==Second Sino-Japanese War (1931–1945)==
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! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type
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| ''[[Disputed Passage]]'' || 1939 || [[Frank Borzage]]|| US ||''[[Disputed Passage (novel)|Disputed Passage]]'' || [[Lloyd C. Douglas]] || 1939<ref name="LC"/> || Novel
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| ''[[Behind the Rising Sun (film)|Behind the Rising Sun]]'' || 1943 || [[Edward Dmytryk]]|| US ||''[[Behind the Rising Sun]]'' || [[James R. Young (author)|James R. Young]] || 1941 || Novel?
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| ''[[China (film)|China]]'' || 1943 || [[John Farrow]]|| US ||''[[Fourth Brother]]'' || [[Archibald Forbes]] || 18??<ref name="nLC">No publication details for this title are available at the US [[Library of Congress]].<br />Source: [http://catalog.loc.gov/ Library of Congress Online Catalog].</ref><sup>¤<!--Main ref--></sup> || Play <!--leaving this entry for now because of the reference-->
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| ''[[Dragon Seed (film)|Dragon Seed]]'' || 1944 || [[Harold S. Bucquet]] & [[Jack Conway (filmmaker)|Jack Conway]]|| US ||''[[Dragon Seed (book)|Dragon Seed]]'' || [[Pearl S. Buck]]<ref name="NobelBuck">Buck was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1938.</ref> || 1942 || Novel
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| ''[[Red Sorghum (film)|Red Sorghum]]'' || 1987 || [[Zhang Yimou]]|| China ||''[[Red Sorghum (novel)|Red Sorghum]]'' & ''[[Sorghum Wine]]'' || [[Mo Yan]] || 1987 || Novels
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| ''[[Farewell My Concubine (film)|Farewell My Concubine]]''<br />''[[:zh:霸王別姬 (電影)|霸王别姬]]'' || 1993 || [[Chen Kaige]]|| China ||''[[Farewell My Concubine (novel)|Farewell My Concubine]]'' || [[Lilian Lee]] || 1993 || Novel
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| ''[[The Last Emperor]]'' || 1987 || [[Bernardo Bertolucci]]|| China & [[Italy]] ||''[[From Emperor to Citizen]]'' || [[Puyi]] || 1964 || Memoir
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===[...] of Nanking===
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! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type
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| ''[[The Children of Huang Shi]]''<br />''[[:zh:黄石的孩子|黄石的孩子]]'' || 2008 || [[Roger Spottiswoode]]|| Australia, China, [[Germany]] ||''[[Ocean Devil: The Life and Legend of George Hogg]]''<ref name=MacManus>Journalist MacManus first learned the story of George Hogg on assignment in Beijing in 1984. He wrote a "lengthy newspaper article on [his] adventures" before becoming the film's screenwriter. His book-length account was published in 2008.<br />Source: [http://www.childrenofhuangshi.com/content/view/36/104/lang,en/ Official site] article on James MacManus (writer).</ref> (uncredited) || [[James MacManus]] || 2008 || Non-fiction
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| ''[[Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre]]'' || 1994 || [[Mou Tun Fei]]|| [[Hong Kong]] ||''[[The Good Man of Nanking|The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe]]'' (uncredited) || [[John Rabe]] (uncredited) || 1996 || Diary
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| ''[[Nanking (2007 film)|Nanking]]'' † || 2007 || [[Bill Guttentag]] & [[Dan Sturman]]|| US ||''[[The Good Man of Nanking|The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe]]'' || [[John Rabe]] || 1996 || Diary
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| ''[[City of Life and Death]]''<br />''[[:zh:南京! 南京!|南京! 南京!]]'' || 2009 || [[Lu Chuan]]|| China ||''[[The Good Man of Nanking|The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe]]'' (uncredited) || [[John Rabe]] (uncredited) || 1996 || Diary
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| ''[[John Rabe (film)|John Rabe]]'' || 2009 || [[Florian Gallenberger]]|| China, [[France]], [[Germany]] ||''[[The Good Man of Nanking|The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe]]'' || [[John Rabe]] || 1996 || Diary
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===Resistance movement===
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! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type
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| ''[[Once an Eagle]]'' || 1976 || [[Richard Michaels]] & [[E.W. Swackhamer]]|| US || ''[[Once an Eagle (novel)|Once an Eagle]]''|| [[Anton Myrer]] || 1968 || Novel
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| ''[[Lust, Caution (film)|Lust, Caution]]'' || 2007 || [[Ang Lee]]|| China & [[Taiwan]] ||"[[Lust, Caution]]" || [[Eileen Chang]] || 1979 || Novella
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| ''[[The Children of Huang Shi]]''<br />''[[:zh:黄石的孩子|黄石的孩子]]'' || 2008 || [[Roger Spottiswoode]]|| Australia, China, [[Germany]] ||''[[Ocean Devil: The Life and Legend of George Hogg]]''<ref name=MacManus/> (uncredited) || [[James MacManus]] || 2008 || Non-fiction
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===Military hospitals===
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! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type
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| ''[[Norman Bethune#Bethune in film and literature|Dr. Bethune]]'' || 1964 || [[Gao Zheng]] & [[Li Shutian]] || China ||''[[Baiqiuen dai fu]]'' || [[Zhou Erfu]] || 196? || Non-fiction
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| ''[[Bethune (1977 film)|Bethune]]'' || 1977 || [[Eric Till]]|| Canada ||''[[The Scalpel, the Sword: The Story of Dr. Norman Bethune]]'' || [[Ted Allan]] || 1952 || Non-fiction
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| ''[[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
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===Occupation===
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! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type
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| ''[[The Inn of the Sixth Happiness]]'' || 1958 || [[Mark Robson]]|| US ||''[[The Small Woman]]'' || [[Alan Burgess]] || 1957 || Non-fiction?
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| ''[[Pavilion of Women (film)|Pavilion of Women]]'' || 2001 || [[Ho Yim]]|| China & US ||''[[Pavilion of Women]]'' || [[Pearl S. Buck]]<ref name="NobelBuck"/> || 1946 || Novel
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==[[World War II]]==
1939–1945
===European, North African, and Atlantic Theatres===
====Politics and diplomacy====
=====Axis Powers=====
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| ''[[[...] Youth Quex|Hitlerjunge Quex: Ein Film vom Opfergeist der deutschen Jugend]]''|| 1933 || [[Hans Steinhoff]]|| [[[...] Germany]] || ''[[Der Hitlerjunge Quex]]'' || [[Karl Aloys Schenzinger]] || 1932 || '''Novel'''
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| ''[[The Mortal Storm]]'' || 1940 || [[Frank Borzage]]|| US || ''[[The Mortal Storm (novel)|The Mortal Storm]]'' || [[Phyllis Bottome]] || 1938 || '''Novel'''
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| ''[[Education for Death]]'' || 1943 || [[Clyde Geronimi]]|| US || ''[[Education for Death (book)|Education for Death, the Making of the [...]]]'' || [[Gregor Ziemer]] || 1941<ref name="LC"/> || '''Non-fiction'''
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| ''[[[...]'s Children (film)|[...]'s Children]]'' || 1943 || [[Edward Dmytryk]]|| US || ''[[Education for Death (book)|Education for Death, the Making of the [...]]]'' || [[Gregor Ziemer]] || 1941<ref name="LC"/> || '''Non-fiction'''
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| ''[[[...]: The Last Ten Days]]'' || 1973 || [[Ennio De Concini]]|| Italy, UK || ''[[The Last Days of the Chancellery]]'' || [[Gerhardt Boldt]] || 197? || '''Non-fiction'''
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| ''[[The Bunker (1981 film)|The Bunker]]'' || 1981 || [[George Schaefer (director)|George Schaefer]]|| US || ''[[The Bunker (book)|The Bunker]]'' || [[James P. O'Donnell]] || 1978 || '''Non-fiction'''
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| ''[[The Nightmare Years]]'' || 1990 || [[Anthony Page]]|| US || ''[[The Nightmare Years]]'' || [[William L. Shirer]] || 1984 || '''Memoir'''
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| ''[[Selling [...] (film)|Selling [...]]]'' || 1991 || [[Alastair Reid]]|| UK || ''[[Selling [...] (book)|Selling [...]]]'' || [[Robert Harris (novelist)|Robert Harris]] || 1986 || '''Non-fiction'''
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| ''[[Blood on the Sun]]'' || 1945 || [[Frank Lloyd]]|| US ||''[[Tanaka Memorial]]'' || Baron [[Tanaka Giichi]] (ascribed) || 1927 || '''Non-fiction'''
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| ''[[Japan's Longest Day]]'' || 1967 || [[Kihachi Okamoto]]|| [[Japan]] ||''[[Nihon no ichiban nagai hi]]'' || [[Soichi Oya]] || 196? || '''Novel'''
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=====Allied Powers=====
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! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type
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| ''[[Mission to Moscow]]'' || 1943 || [[Michael Curtiz]]|| US || ''[[Mission to Moscow]]'' || [[Joseph E. Davies]] || 194? || '''Memoir'''
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| ''[[The Gathering Storm (1974 film)|The Gathering Storm]]'' || 1974 || [[Herbert Wise]]|| UK & US || ''[[The Second World War (Churchill)|The Second World War, Volume 1, The Gathering Storm]]'' || [[Winston Churchill]]<ref name="NobelChurch">Churchill was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1953.</ref> || 1948 || '''Memoir'''/<br />'''Non-fiction'''
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| ''[[Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking]]'' || 1976 || [[Daniel Petrie]]|| US || ''[[Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman]]''<ref name="Miller">Miller's biography is now controversial due to [[Merle Miller#Controversy over Plain Speaking|allegations of falsification]].</ref> || [[Merle Miller]] || 1974 || '''Memoir'''/<br />'''Non-fiction'''
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| ''[[Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years]]'' || 1977 || [[Daniel Petrie]]|| US || ''[[Eleanor and Franklin (book)|Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers]]''<ref name="PulitLash">Recipient of the [[Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography|Pulitzer Prize]] in 1972.</ref><ref name="NBALash">Recipient of the [[List of winners of the National Book Award|National Book Award]] in 1972.</ref>|| [[Joseph P. Lash]] || 197? || '''Non-fiction'''
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| ''[[Truman (film)|Truman]]'' || 1995 || [[Frank Pierson]]|| US|| ''[[Truman (book)|Truman]]''<ref name="PulitMcC">Recipient of the [[Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography|Pulitzer Prize]] in 1993.</ref>|| [[David McCullough]] || 1992 || '''Non-fiction'''
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=====Neutral Powers=====
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! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
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| 1 || ''[[Background to Danger]]'' || 1943 || [[Raoul Walsh]]|| US || ''[[Uncommon Danger (novel)|Uncommon Danger]]'' || [[Eric Ambler]] || 1937 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
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====[[Anschluss]], [[Sudetenland#Sudeten Crisis|Sudetenland]], [[German occupation of Czechoslovakia|Czechoslovakia]], [[Italian invasion of Albania|Albania]]====
1938–1939
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! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
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| 1 || ''[[Night Train to Munich]]''|| 1940 || [[Carol Reed]]|| UK ||''[[Report on a Fugitive]]'' (uncredited) || [[Gordon Wellesley]] (uncredited) || 193? || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
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| 1 || ''[[The Trapp Family|Die Trapp-Familie]]''|| 1956 || [[Wolfgang Liebeneiner]]|| [[West Germany]] ||''[[The Story of the Trapp Family Singers]]'' || [[Maria von Trapp|Maria Augusta von Trapp]] || 1949 || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
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| 2 || ''[[The Sound of Music (film)|The Sound of Music]]''<ref name="NFR01">Inducted into the US [[National Film Registry]] in 2001.</ref>|| 1965 || [[Robert Wise]]|| US ||''[[The Sound of Music]]''<ref group="nb">Recipient of the [[Tony Award for Best Musical|Tony Award]] in 1960 and nominated for the [[Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical|Tony Award for Best Revival]] in 1998.</ref> itself based upon''[[The Story of the Trapp Family Singers]]'' || [[Howard Lindsay]] &<br />[[Russel Crouse]] (book),<br />[[Oscar Hammerstein II]] (lyrics) || 1959 || Musical ||-||-||-
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====Land operations – Western Europe====
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| 1 || ''[[Went the Day Well?]]'' || 1942 || [[Alberto Cavalcanti]]|| UK ||"[[The Lieutenant Died Last]]" || [[Graham Greene]] || 194? || '''Story''' ||-||-||-
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| 2 || ''[[To Hell and Back (film)|To Hell and Back]]'' || 1955 || [[Jesse Hibbs]]|| US ||''[[To Hell and Back (book)|To Hell and Back]]''|| [[Audie Murphy]] with David McClure (ghostwriter) || 1949|| '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
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| 3 || ''[[The Young Lions (film)|The Young Lions]]'' || 1958 || [[Edward Dmytryk]]|| US ||''[[The Young Lions]]''|| [[Irwin Shaw]]|| 1949|| '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
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| 4 || ''[[Kings Go Forth]]'' || 1958 || [[Delmer Daves]]|| US ||''[[Kings Go Forth]]''|| [[Joe David Brown]]|| 1956|| '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
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| 5 || ''[[Die Brücke (film)|Die Brücke]]'' || 1959 || [[Bernhard Wicki]]|| [[West Germany]] || ''The Bridge''<br />''[[Die Brücke (novel)|Die Brücke]]'' || "[[:de:Manfred Gregor|Manfred Gregor]]" || 1958 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
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| 6 || ''[[Is Paris Burning?]]'' || 1966 || [[René Clément]]|| [[France]] & US ||''[['Is Paris Burning?' —Adolf [...], August 25, 1944]]'' || [[Larry Collins (writer)|Larry Collins]] & [[Dominique Lapierre]] || 1965 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
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| 7 || ''[[The Bridge at Remagen]]'' || 1969 || [[John Guillermin]]|| US ||''[[The Bridge at Remagen (book)|The Bridge at Remagen]]'' || [[Ken Hechler]] || 1957 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
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| 8 || ''[[A Bridge Too Far (1977 film)|A Bridge Too Far]]'' || 1977 || [[Richard Attenborough]]|| UK & US ||''[[A Bridge Too Far (book)|A Bridge Too Far]]'' || [[Cornelius Ryan]] || 1974 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
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| 9 || ''[[Band of Brothers (TV miniseries)|Band of Brothers]]'' ** || 2001 || [[Mikael Salomon]], [[David Frankel]],<br />''[[et al.]]''|| US & UK ||''[[Band of Brothers (book)|Band of Brothers, E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to [...]'s Eagle's Nest]]'' || [[Stephen Ambrose]] || 1992 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
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* ** TV miniseries.
=====[[Battle of the Bulge]]=====
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| 1 || ''[[Attack (1956 film)|Attack!]]'' || 1956 || [[Robert Aldrich]]|| US ||''[[Fragile Fox]]'' || [[Norman Brooks (playwright)|Norman Brooks]] || 195?<ref name="nLC"/> || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
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| 2 || ''[[Castle Keep]]'' || 1969 || [[Sydney Pollack]]|| US ||''[[Castle Keep (novel)|Castle Keep]]'' || [[William Eastlake]] || 1965<ref name="LC"/> || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
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| 3 || ''[[Patton (film)|Patton]]''<ref name="NFR03"/>|| 1970 || [[Franklin J. Schaffner]]|| US ||''[[Patton: Ordeal and Triumph]]'' || [[Ladislas Farago]] || 1963 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
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| 3 || || || || ||''[[A Soldier's Story (book)|A Soldier's Story]]'' || [[Omar N. Bradley]] || 1951 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
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| 4 || ''[[A Midnight Clear]]'' || 1992 || [[Keith Gordon]]|| US ||''[[A Midnight Clear (novel)|A Midnight Clear]]'' || [[William Wharton (author)|William Wharton]] || 1982 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
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| 5 || ''[[Band of Brothers (TV miniseries)|Band of Brothers]]'' ** || 2001 || [[Mikael Salomon]], [[David Frankel]],<br />''[[et al.]]''|| US & UK ||''[[Band of Brothers (book)|Band of Brothers, E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to [...]'s Eagle's Nest]]'' || [[Stephen Ambrose]] || 1992 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
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* ** TV miniseries.
====Amphibious operations – Western Europe====
=====[[Dunkirk evacuation|Miracle of Dunkirk]]=====
May–June 1940
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| 1 || ''[[Mrs. Miniver (film)|Mrs. Miniver]]'' ♠<ref name="NFR09"/> || 1942 || [[William Wyler]]|| US ||''[[Mrs. Miniver]]'' || [[Jan Struther]] || 1939 || '''Novel''' (originally newspaper columns) ||-||-||-
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| 2 || ''[[Dunkirk (film)|Dunkirk]]'' || 1958 || [[Leslie Norman (director)|Leslie Norman]]|| UK || ''[[The Story of Dunkirk]]'' || Lt. Col. [[Ewan Butler]] & Major [[J.S. Bradford]] || 1955|| '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
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| 2 || || || || || ''[[The Big Pickup]]''|| [[Elleston Trevor|Trevor Dudley Smith]]|| 1955|| '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
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| 3 || ''[[Weekend at Dunkirk]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[Prix Goncourt]] in 1949.</ref><br />''Week-end à Zuydcoote'' || 1964 || [[Henri Verneuil]]|| [[France]] & [[Italy]] ||''[[Week-end at Zuydcoote]]''<br />''Week-end à Zuydcoote'' || [[Robert Merle]]<ref>Merle was awarded the [[:fr:Grand Prix Jean-Giono|Grand Prix Jean-Giono]] in 2003.</ref> || 1949 || Novel/<br />Memoir ||-||-||-
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| 4 || ''[[The Snow Goose]]'' * || 1971 || [[Patrick Garland]]|| UK ||''[[The Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk]]''<br /><ref>Designated an O. Henry Prize Story in 1941, but failed to receive an [[O. Henry Award]].</ref> <ref name="Vintage"/> || [[Paul Gallico]] || 1940 & 1941 || '''Story''' & '''Novella'''||-||-||-
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| 5 || ''[[Bright Young Things]]'' ♦ || 2003 || [[Stephen Fry]]|| UK ||''[[Vile Bodies]]'' || [[Evelyn Waugh]] || 1930 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
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| 6 || ''[[Atonement (film)|Atonement]]'' || 2007 || [[Joe Wright]]|| UK & [[France]] ||''[[Atonement (novel)|Atonement]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[WH Smith Literary Award]] in 2002.</ref><ref>Recipient of the [[List of Los Angeles Times Book Prize winners#Fiction|''Los Angeles Times'' Book Prize]] in 2002.</ref> || [[Ian McEwan]] || 2001 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
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|}
* ♠ The film includes the Dunkirk evacuation.
* ♦ The operation depicted in the film resembles the Dunkirk evacuation.<ref>Source: DVD commentary by [[Stephen Fry]].</ref>
* * TV movie.
=====[[Dieppe Raid]]=====
19 August 1942
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! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
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| 1 || ''[[Dieppe (film)|Dieppe]]'' * || 1993 || [[John N. Smith]]|| Canada ||''[[Unauthorized Action: Mountbatten and the Dieppe Raid]]'' || [[Brian Loring Villa]] || 1989<ref name="LAC">Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of [[Library and Archives Canada]].<br />Source: [http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/lac-bac/search/lib Library Search].</ref><sup>¤<!--Main ref--></sup> || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* * TV movie.
=====[[Normandy Landings|D-Day]]=====
6 June 1944 at [[H-hour (D-day)|H-hour]]
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[D-Day the Sixth of June]]'' || 1956 || [[Henry Koster]]|| US ||''[[1955 Governor General's Awards|The Sixth of June]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[Governor General's Award for English language fiction|Governor General's Award]] in 1955.</ref> || [[Lionel Shapiro]] || 1955 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[The Longest Day (film)|The Longest Day]]'' || 1962 || [[Ken Annakin]], [[Andrew Marton]], [[Bernhard Wicki]]|| US || ''[[The Longest Day (book)|The Longest Day]]''|| [[Cornelius Ryan]] || 1959 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[The Americanization of Emily]]'' || 1964 || [[Arthur Hiller]]|| US ||''[[The Americanization of Emily (novel)|The Americanization of Emily]]'' || [[William Bradford Huie]] || 1959 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 4 || ''[[Ike (miniseries)|Ike]]'' ** || 1979 || [[Boris Sagal]] & [[Melville Shavelson]]|| US ||''[[Past Forgetting|Past Forgetting:<br />My Love Affair with Dwight D. Eisenhower]]'' || [[Kay Summersby]] with [[Kay Summersby#Relationship with Eisenhower|Barbara Wyden]] (ghostwriter) || 1975 || '''Autobiography''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 5 || ''[[Band of Brothers (TV miniseries)|Band of Brothers]]'' ** || 2001 || [[Mikael Salomon]], [[David Frankel]],<br />''[[et al.]]''|| US & UK ||''[[Band of Brothers (book)|Band of Brothers, E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to [...]'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''.<br />(There is one: ''[[Attack and Retreat]]''.)
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Rainbow (1944 film)|Rainbow]]'' ''[[:ru:Радуга (фильм, 1944)|Радуга]]'' || 1944 || [[Mark Donskoy]]|| [[USSR]] ||''[[Tęcza (novel)|Tęcza]]''<br />''Raduga''<ref>Polish title, then Russian title. Both words mean "rainbow". The novel received the [[Stalin Prize]] in 1943.</ref> || [[Wanda Wasilewska]] || 1942 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[Days and Nights]]''<br />''Дни и ночи'' || 1945 || [[Aleksandr Stolper]]|| [[USSR]] ||''[[Dni i nochi]]''<ref name="Vintage"/> || [[Konstantin Simonov]]<ref name="LeninSimon">Simonov was awarded the [[Lenin Prize]] in 1974, specifically for his [[Wait for Me (poem)|poetry]].</ref> || 194? || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[Nashestviye]]''<br />''[[<!--DEAD:ru:Нашествие (фильм)|-->Нашествие]]''|| 1945 || [[Abram Room]] & [[Oleg Zhakov]]|| [[USSR]] || ''[[Nashestviye]]'' || [[Leonid Leonov]] || 1942 || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 4 || ''[[Counter-Attack]]'' '''aka''' ''One Against Seven'' || 1945 || [[Zoltan Korda]]|| US || ''[[Counterattack (play)|Counterattack]]'' || [[Janet Stevenson]] & [[Philip Stevenson]] || 194? || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 4 || || || || || ''[[Pobyeda]]''<ref>A cursory web search in Russian discloses no associations between a dramatist named Mikhail Ruderman (Михаил Рудерман) and a play entitled ''Pobyeda'' (Победа), meaning ''Victory''.<br />Possibly this Ruderman is the same as Mikhail Isaakovich Ruderman,<br />Михаил Исаакович Рудерман (1905, Харьков – 1984), поэт и прозаик,<br />a poet and writer, born in [[Kharkiv|Kharkov]] in 1905.<br />Source: [http://www.tonnel.ru/?l=posik&year=2010&month=5&day=5] {{Ru icon}} and [http://feb-web.ru/feb/litenc/encyclop/lea/lea-0622.htm] {{Ru icon}}</ref><br />''Победа'' || [[Михаил Рудерман|Mikhail Ruderman]] & [[Ilya Vershinin]] || 194? || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 5 || ''[[Ivan's Childhood]]''<br />''[[:ru:Иваново детство|Иваново детство]]''|| 1962 || [[Andrei Tarkovsky]]|| [[USSR]] || "[[Ivan (story)|Ivan]]" "Иван" || [[Vladimir Bogomolov (writer)|Vladimir Bogomolov]] || 1957 || '''Story''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 6 || ''[[The Alive and the Dead]]''<br />''[[:ru:Живые и мёртвые (фильм)|Живые и мёртвые]]''|| 1964 || [[Aleksandr Stolper]]|| [[USSR]] ||''[[Zhivye i myortvye]]'' || [[Konstantin Simonov]]<ref name="LeninSimon"/> || 1959 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 7 || ''[[Retribution (1967 film)|Retribution]]''<br />''[[:ru:Возмездие (фильм)|Возмездие]]''|| 1967 || [[Aleksandr Stolper]]|| [[USSR]] ||''[[Vozmezdiye]]'' || [[Konstantin Simonov]]<ref name="LeninSimon"/> || 1963–1964 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 8 || ''[[Cross of Iron]]'' || 1977 || [[Sam Peckinpah]]|| UK & [[West Germany]] ||''[[The Willing Flesh]]'' || [[Willi Heinrich]] || 1956 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 9 || ''[[The Tin Drum (film)|The Tin Drum]]'' || 1979 || [[Volker Schlöndorff]]|| [[West Germany]] ||''[[The Tin Drum]]''<br /><ref>Recipient of the [[Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger|Prix du Meilleur livre étranger]] in 1962.</ref> <ref name="Vintage"/> || [[Günter Grass]]<ref name="NobelGrass">Grass was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1999.</ref> || 1959 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 10 || ''[[Come and See]]'' ''[[:ru:Иди и смотри|Иди и смотри]]'' || 1985 || [[Elem Klimov]]|| [[USSR]] ||''[[?]]'' || [[Ales Adamovich]] || 19?? || '''Stories''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 11 || ''[[The Misfit Brigade]]'' || 1987 || [[Gordon Hessler]]|| US, UK, Yugoslavia ||''[[Wheels of Terror (novel)|Wheels of Terror]]'' || [[Sven Hassel]] || 1958 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 12 || ''[[August of '44]]''<br />''[[:ru:В августе 44-го… (фильм)|В августе 44-го…]]'' || 2001 || [[:ru:Пташук, Михаил Николаевич|Mikhail Ptashuk]]|| [[USSR]] ||''[[In August of '44]]''<ref>Bogomolov's novel in Russian is called either ''Момент истины (В августе 44-го)'' or ''[[:ru:В августе сорок четвёртого (роман)|В августе сорок четвёртого]]''. English translations include ''In August of '44'' and ''The Moment of Truth''.</ref> || [[Vladimir Bogomolov (writer)|Vladimir Bogomolov]] || 1973 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 13 || ''[[Tertium non datur (film)|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]]'' || [[:it:Gian Franco Svidercoschi|Gian Franco Svidercoschi]] || 2001 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 15 || ''[[Pope John Paul II (TV miniseries)|Pope John Paul II]]'' ** || 2005 || [[John Kent Harrison]]|| [[Italy]], US, [[Poland]] ||"[[Gods and Man]]" ♦<br />"[[s:pl:Bogowie i człowiek|Bogowie i człowiek]]" '''from''' ''[[:pl:Vade-mecum|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 (film)|The Forgotten Soldier]]'' || 201? || [[Paul Verhoeven]]|| [[?]] ||''[[The Forgotten Soldier]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[Prix des Deux Magots]] in 1968.</ref><br />''[[:fr:Le Soldat oublié|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]]=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Four Soldiers from Stalingrad]]''<br />''[[:ru:Солдаты (фильм)|Солдаты]]'' || 1956 || [[Aleksandr Ivanov (director)|Aleksandr Ivanov]]|| [[USSR]] || ''[[Front-line Stalingrad]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[Stalin Prize]] in 1947.</ref><br />''[[:ru:В окопах Сталинграда<!--DEAD-->|В окопах Сталинграда]]'' || [[Viktor Nekrasov]] || 1946 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[The Hot Snow]]''<br />''[[:ru:Горячий снег (фильм)|Горячий снег]]'' || 1972 || [[Gavril Yegiazarov]]|| [[USSR]] || ''[[Goryachiy sneg]]'' || [[:ru:Бондарев, Юрий Васильевич|Yuri Bondarev]] || 1969 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[They Fought for Their Country]]''<br />''[[:ru:Они сражались за Родину (фильм)|Они сражались за Родину]]'' || 1975 || [[Sergei Bondarchuk]]|| [[USSR]] || ''[[Oni srazhalis za Rodinu]]'' || [[Mikhail Sholokhov]]<ref name="NobelSholo">Sholokhov was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1965.</ref> || 1943/1969 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 4 || ''[[Enemy at the Gates]]'' || 2001 || [[Jean-Jacques Annaud]]|| US, UK, [[Germany]], & [[Ireland]] || ''[[War of the Rats]]'' <br>''[[Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad]]'' || [[David L. Robbins (of Virginia)|David L. Robbins]]<br />[[William Craig (author)|William Craig]] || 1999<br>2001 || Novel<br>Non-fiction ||-||-||-
|-
|}
=====Frequently filmed: ''[[Schweik in the Second World War]]''=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Schweyk im Zweiten Weltkrieg]]'' * || 1961 || [[:de:Rainer Wolffhardt|Rainer Wolffhardt]]|| [[West Germany]] ||''[[Schweik in the Second World War|Schweyk im Zweiten Weltkrieg]]'' || [[Bertolt Brecht]]<ref name="LeninBrecht">Brecht was awarded the [[Lenin Peace Prize]] in 1954.</ref> || 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]]'' <br>(TV movie) || 1975 || [[Victor Manuel]] & [[:pt:Artur Ramos|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]]=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Talvisota (film)|Talvisota]]'' || 1989 || [[:fi:Pekka Parikka|Pekka Parikka]]|| [[Finland]] ||''[[The Winter War (novel)|The Winter War]]'' || [[Antti Tuuri]] || 198? || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[Max Manus: Man of War]]'' || 2008 || [[Joachim Roenning|Joachim Rønning]] & [[:no:Espen Sandberg|Espen Sandberg]]|| [[Norway]]||''[[:no:Det vil helst gå godt|Det vil helst gå godt]]''<ref name=Max>I 2008 kom filmen ''Max Manus'' ut, som vart basert på Max sine bøker ''Det vil helst gå godt'' og ''Det blir alvor''.<br />Source: Norwegian Wikipedia (Nynorsk).</ref> (uncredited) || [[Max Manus]] (uncredited) || 1945 || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || || || || ||''[[Det blir alvor]]''<ref name=Max/> (uncredited) || [[Max Manus]] (uncredited) || 1946 || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
=====[[Continuation War]]=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Unknown Soldier (1955 film)|The Unknown Soldier]]'' || 1955 || [[Edvin Laine]]|| [[Finland]] ||''[[The Unknown Soldier (novel)|The Unknown Soldier]]'' || [[Väinö Linna]] || 1954 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[The Unknown Soldier (1985 film)|Tuntematon sotilas]]'' || 1985 || [[Rauni Mollberg]]|| [[Finland]] ||''[[The Unknown Soldier (novel)|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]]''======
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Dawns Here Are Quiet (1970 film)|The Dawns Here Are Quiet]]''<br />''[[<!--DEAD:ru:А зори здесь тихие (фильм, 1970)|-->А зори здесь тихие]]'' * || 1970 || [[Ivan Rassomakhin]]|| [[USSR]] ||"[[A zori zdes tikhie]]" || [[:ru:Васильев, Борис Львович|Boris Vasilyev]] || 1969 || '''Story''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[The Dawns Here Are Quiet]]''<br />''[[:ru:А зори здесь тихие (фильм, 1972)|А зори здесь тихие]]'' || 1972 || [[Stanislav Rostotsky]]|| [[USSR]] ||"[[A zori zdes tikhie]]" || [[:ru:Васильев, Борис Львович|Boris Vasilyev]] || 1969 || '''Story''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[The Dawns Here Are Quiet (2005 film)|The Dawns Here Are Quiet]]''<br />''[[:ru:А зори здесь тихие (фильм, 2005)|А зори здесь тихие]]'' || 2005 || [[Mao Vei-nin]]<br />(Мао Вэйнин)|| [[Russia]] & [[China]] ||"[[A zori zdes tikhie]]" || [[:ru:Васильев, Борис Львович|Boris Vasilyev]] || 1969 || '''Story''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* * TV movie.
====Land operations – Balkan Campaign====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Travelling Players]]''<br />''[[:el:Ο Θίασος|Ο Θίασος]]'' || 1975 || [[Theodoros Angelopoulos]] || [[Greece]] ||''[[Oresteia]]'' (uncredited) || [[Aeschylus]] (uncredited) || 458 BC || '''Trilogy''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[Fortunes of War (TV series)|Fortunes of War]]'' ** || 1987 || [[James Cellan Jones]]|| UK ||''[[Fortunes of War (novel series)|The Balkan Trilogy]]''<ref name="Vintage"/> || [[Olivia Manning]] || 1960–1965 || '''Novels''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || || || || ||''[[Fortunes of War (novel series)|The Levant Trilogy]]''<ref name="Vintage"/> || [[Olivia Manning]] || 1977–1980 || '''Novels''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[Captain Corelli's Mandolin (film)|Captain Corelli's Mandolin]]'' || 2001 || [[John Madden (director)|John Madden]]|| US ||''[[Captain Corelli's Mandolin|Corelli's Mandolin]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[Commonwealth Writers' Prize]] in 1995.</ref> || [[Louis de Bernières]] || 1994 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 4 || ''[[Sword of Honour (2001 film)|Sword of Honour]]'' ** || 2001 || [[Bill Anderson (director)|Bill Anderson]]|| UK ||''[[Sword of Honour]]''<br /><ref>Recipient of the [[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] in 1952 (''Men at Arms'').</ref> <ref name="Vintage"/> <ref name="Keegan"><br />Recommended by [[John Keegan]] who, in a series of lectures, succinctly summarized the [[historiography]] of the Second World War.<br />Source: ''Keegan'' (q.v.), Ch. 2, 3, 4.</ref> || [[Evelyn Waugh]] || 1952–1961 || '''Trilogy''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* ** TV miniseries.
====Land operations – North African and East African Campaigns====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Immortal Sergeant]]'' || 1943 || [[John M. Stahl]]|| US ||''[[Immortal Sergeant (novel)|Immortal Sergeant]]'' || [[John Brophy (writer)|John Brophy]] || 194? || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel|The Desert Fox]]'' || 1951 || [[Henry Hathaway]]|| US ||''[[Rommel (book)|Rommel]]''<ref name="Keegan"/> || [[Desmond Young]] || 1950 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[Ice-Cold in Alex]]'' || 1958 || [[J. Lee Thompson]]|| UK ||''[[Ice Cold in Alex (novel)|Ice Cold in Alex]]'' || [[Christopher Landon]] || 1957 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 4 || ''[[How I Won the War]]'' || 1967 || [[Richard Lester]]|| UK ||''[[How I Won the War (novel)|How I Won the War]]'' || [[Patrick Ryan (author and journalist)|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 (TV series)|Fortunes of War]]'' ** || 1987 || [[James Cellan Jones]]|| UK ||''[[Fortunes of War (novel series)|The Balkan Trilogy]]''<ref name="Vintage"/> || [[Olivia Manning]] || 1960–1965 || '''Trilogy''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 6 || || || || ||''[[Fortunes of War (novel series)|The Levant Trilogy]]''<ref name="Vintage"/> || [[Olivia Manning]] || 1977–1980 || '''Trilogy''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 7 || ''[[Tobruk (2008 film)|Tobruk]]''<br />''[[:cs:Tobruk (film, 2008)|Tobruk]]'' || 2008 || [[:cs:Václav Marhoul|Václav Marhoul]]|| [[Czechia]] & [[Slovakia]] ||''[[The Red Badge of Courage]]'' || [[Stephen Crane]] || 1895 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* ** TV miniseries.
=====[[Battle of the Kasserine Pass|Battle of Kasserine Pass]]=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Story of G.I. Joe]]''<ref name="NFR09"/> || 1945 || [[William Wellman]]|| US ||''[[Brave Men]]'' & ''[[Here Is Your War]]'' (uncredited) || [[Ernie Pyle]]<ref name="Pyle"/> || 1944 & 1943<ref name="LC"/> || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[Patton (film)|Patton]]''<ref name="NFR03"/>|| 1970 || [[Franklin J. Schaffner]]|| US ||''[[Patton: Ordeal and Triumph]]'' || [[Ladislas Farago]] || 1963 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || || || || ||''[[A Soldier's Story (book)|A Soldier's Story]]'' || [[Omar N. Bradley]] || 1951 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
====Land operations – Italian Campaign====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[A Walk in the Sun (1945 film)|A Walk in the Sun]]'' || 1945 || [[Lewis Milestone]]|| US ||''[[A Walk in the Sun (novel)|A Walk in the Sun]]'' || [[Harry Brown (writer)|Harry Brown]] || 1944 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[A Bell for Adano]]'' || 1945 || [[Henry King (director)|Henry King]]|| US ||''[[A Bell for Adano (novel)|A Bell for Adano]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[Pulitzer Prize for the Novel|Pulitzer Prize]] in 1945.</ref> || [[John Hersey]] || 1944 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[The Story of G.I. Joe]]''<ref name="NFR09">Inducted into the US [[National Film Registry]] in 2009.</ref> || 1945 || [[William Wellman]]|| US ||''[[Brave Men]]'' & ''[[Here Is Your War]]'' (uncredited) || [[Ernie Pyle]]<ref name="Pyle">Pyle was awarded the [[Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence|Pulitzer Prize]] in 1944.</ref> || 1944 & 1943<ref name="LC"/> || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 4 || ''[[Up Front (film)|Up Front]]'' || 1951 || [[Alexander Hall]]|| US ||''[[Up Front (Mauldin)|Up Front]]'' || [[Bill Mauldin]]<ref>Sgt. Mauldin was awarded the [[Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning]] in 1945 for ''Up Front With Mauldin''.<br />The specific cartoon noted in the citation is entitled, 'Fresh, spirited American troops, flushed with victory, are bringing in thousands of hungry, ragged, battle-weary prisoners'.<br />The cartoon's title is taken from a newspaper headline. The image shows US soldiers with German prisoners, both looking equally exhausted.</ref> || 1945? || '''Memoir'''/'''Cartoons''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 5 || ''[[Anzio (film)|Anzio]]'' || 1968 || [[Duilio Coletti]] & [[Edward Dmytryk]]|| [[Italy]] ||''[[Anzio (book)|Anzio]]'' || [[Wynford Vaughan-Thomas]] || 1961 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 6 || ''[[The Devil's Brigade (film)|The Devil's Brigade]]'' || 1968 || [[Andrew V. McLaglen]]|| US ||''[[The Devil's Brigade (book)|The Devil's Brigade]]'' || [[Robert H. Adleman]] & [[Col. George Walton|George Walton]] || 1966 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 7 || ''[[Patton (film)|Patton]]'' ♠<ref name="NFR03">Inducted into the US [[National Film Registry]] in 2003.</ref>|| 1970 || [[Franklin J. Schaffner]]|| US ||''[[Patton: Ordeal and Triumph]]'' ♦ || [[Ladislas Farago]] || 1963 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 7 || || || || ||''[[A Soldier's Story (book)|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 film)|In Love and War]]'' * || 2001 || [[John Kent Harrison]]|| US ||''[[Love and War in the Apennines]]'' || [[Eric Newby]] || 1971 || '''Novel'''/<br />'''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 10 || ''[[Miracle at St. Anna]]'' || 2008 || [[Spike Lee]]|| US ||''[[Miracle at St. Anna (novel)|Miracle at St. Anna]]'' || [[James McBride (writer)|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 [[Ladislas Farago|Farago]]'s book is entitled ''[[The Last Days of Patton]]''.
* * TV movie.
====Air operations====
=====Fighters=====
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| ''[[Story of a Real Man]]'' ♣<br />''[[:ru:Повесть о настоящем человеке (фильм)|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 (film)|Battle of Britain]]'' || 1969 || [[Guy Hamilton]]|| UK ||''[[The Narrow Margin (book)|The Narrow Margin]]'' || [[Derek Wood (author)|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=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />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 (book)|Victory Through Air Power]]''|| [[Alexander Procofieff de Seversky|Alexander P. de Seversky]] || 1942 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| ''[[Ladies Courageous]]'' ♠ || 1943 || [[John Rawlins (director)|John Rawlins]]|| US || ''[[Looking For Trouble]]''|| [[Virginia Spencer Cowles]] || 194? || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| ''[[The Way to the Stars]]'' || 1945 || [[Anthony Asquith]]|| UK ||"[[For Johnny]]" ''et al.''<br>''[[Flare Path (play)|Flare Path]]'' (uncredited) || [[John Pudney]]<br>[[Terence Rattigan]] (uncredited) || 1941<br>1942 || Poems<br>Play
|
|
|
|-
| ''[[Twelve O'Clock High]]''<ref name="NFR98">Inducted into the US [[National Film Registry]] in 1998.</ref> || 1949 || [[David Lean]]|| UK & US ||''[[Twelve O'Clock High]]'' || [[Sy Bartlett]] & [[Beirne Lay, Jr.]] || 1948 |
| '''Novel'''
|
|
|-
| ''[[The Dam Busters (film)|The Dam Busters]]'' || 1954 || [[Michael Anderson (director)|Michael Anderson]]|| UK ||''[[The Dam Busters (book)|The Dam Busters]]''<br>''[[Enemy Coast Ahead]]'' (uncredited) || [[Paul Brickhill]]<br>[[Guy Gibson]]<br> || 1951<br>1946<ref>Posthumous publication</ref> || Non-fiction<br>Autobiographical ||-||-||-
|-
| ''[[The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (film)|The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell]]'' || 1955 || [[Otto Preminger]]|| US ||''[[Winged Defense]]'' (uncredited) || [[Billy Mitchell (general)|Billy Mitchell]] (uncredited) || 1925 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| ''[[The War Lover]]'' || 1962 || [[Philip Leacock]]|| UK ||''[[The War Lover (novel)|The War Lover]]'' || [[John Hersey]] || 1959 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| ''[[633 Squadron]]'' || 1964 || [[Walter Grauman]]|| UK & US || ''[[633 Squadron (novel)|633 Squadron]]''|| [[Frederick E. Smith (author)|Frederick E Smith]] || 1958 || Novel ||-||-||-
|-
| ''[[Nebeští jezdci]]''<br />''[[:cs:Nebeští jezdci|Nebeští jezdci]]'' || 1968 || [[:cs:Jindřich Polák|Jindřich Polák]]|| [[Czechoslovakia]] || ''[[:cs:Nebeští jezdci|Nebeští jezdci]]''|| [[:cs:Filip Jánský|Filip Jánský]] || 1964 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| ''[[Catch-22 (film)|Catch-22]]'' || 1970 || [[Mike Nichols]]|| US ||''[[Catch-22]]''<ref name="Vintage"/> || [[Joseph Heller]] || 1961 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| ''[[Murphy's War]]'' || 1971 || [[Peter Yates]]|| UK ||''[[Murphy's War (Catto novel)|Murphy's War]]'' || [[Max Catto]] || 1969 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| ''[[Twelve O'Clock High (TV series)|Twelve O'Clock High]]'' *** || 1964–1967 || [[Robert Douglas (director)|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=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Island in the Sky (1953 film)|Island in the Sky]]'' || 1953 || [[William A. Wellman]]|| US ||''[[Island in the Sky (novel)|Island in the Sky]]'' || [[Ernest K. Gann]] || 1944 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
=====Missiles=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Prüfstand VII]]'' || 2002 || [[Robert Bramkamp]]|| [[Germany]] || ''[[Gravity's Rainbow]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[List of winners of the National Book Award#Fiction|National Book Award]] in 1974.</ref> <ref name="Vintage"/> (excerpts) || [[Thomas Pynchon]] || 1973 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
====Naval operations====
;[[Capital ship]]s
=====[[Battle of the River Plate]]=====
13 December 1939
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Battle of the River Plate (film)|The Battle of the River Plate]]'' || 1956 || [[Michael Powell (director)|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
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Hamsun (film)|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 [[Last battle of the battleship Bismarck|Sinking of the ''Bismarck'']]=====
24–27 May 1941
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Film
! Date
! Director
! Country
! Source<br />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=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />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 film)|The Cruel Sea]]'' || 1953 || [[Charles Frend]]|| UK ||''[[The Cruel Sea (book)|The Cruel Sea]]''<ref name="Vintage"/> || [[Nicholas Monsarrat]] || 1951 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[The Enemy Below]]'' ♣ || 1957 || [[[...] Powell]]|| US ||''[[The Enemy Below (novel)|The Enemy Below]]'' || [[Denys Rayner|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]]''<ref>The table includes the variant of the title which appears in the article on [[:de:Bernhard Rogge|Bernhard Rogge]]. The title from the article on [[:de:Wolfgang Frank (Schriftsteller)|Wolfgang Frank]] is the similar, but not identical, variant ''Schiff 16. Die Kaperfahrt des Schweren Hilfskreuzers „Atlantis“ in den 7 Weltmeeren''.</ref> || [[Bernhard Rogge]] & [[:de:Wolfgang Frank (Schriftsteller)|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 film)|The Valiant]]'' ♣ || 1962 || [[Roy Ward Baker]]|| UK & [[Italy]] || ''[[L'Équipage au complet]]''|| [[:fr:Robert Mallet (écrivain)|Robert Mallet]] || 1958 || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* ♠ [[Noël Coward]] based this story on his friend [[Louis Mountbatten]] and the sinking of his destroyer, the [[HMS Kelly (F01)|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=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Above Us the Waves (film)|Above Us the Waves]]'' || 1955 || [[Ralph Thomas]]|| UK ||''[[Above Us the Waves (book)|Above Us the Waves]]'' || [[C.E.T. Warren|Charles Esme Thornton Warren]] & [[James D. Benson]] || 1953 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[The Enemy Below]]'' ♣ || 1957 || [[[...] Powell]]|| US ||''[[The Enemy Below (novel)|The Enemy Below]]'' || [[Denys Rayner|D.A. Rayner]] || 1956 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[The Valiant (1962 film)|The Valiant]]'' ♣ || 1962 || [[Roy Ward Baker]]|| UK & [[Italy]] || ''[[L'Équipage au complet]]''|| [[:fr:Robert Mallet (écrivain)|Robert Mallet]] || 1958 || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 4 || ''[[Mystery Submarine (1963 film)|Mystery Submarine]]'' || 1963 || [[C.M. Pennington-Richards]]|| UK || ''[[Mystery Submarine (play)|Mystery Submarine]]'' (?)|| [[Jon Manchip White]] || 195?<ref name="nLC"/> || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 5 || ''[[Das Boot]]'' || 1981 || [[Wolfgang Petersen]]|| [[West Germany]] || ''[[Das Boot (novel)|Das Boot]]''<ref name="Vintage"/> || [[Lothar-Günther Buchheim]] || 1973 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* ♣ The stories involve the crews of an Allied warship and an Axis submarine.
=====Frogmen=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Silent Enemy]]'' || 1958 || [[William Fairchild]]|| UK || ''[[Commander Crabb]]''|| [[Marshall Pugh]] || 195? || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
=====Merchant marine=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Long Voyage Home]]'' || 1940 || [[John Ford]]|| US || ''[[The Moon of the Caribees]]''|| [[Eugene O'Neill]]<ref name="NobelEugene">O'Neill was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1936.</ref> || 1918 || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 1 || || || || || ''[[In The Zone (play)|In The Zone]]''|| [[Eugene O'Neill]]<ref name="NobelEugene"/> || 1917 || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 1 || || || || || ''[[Bound East for Cardiff]]''|| [[Eugene O'Neill]]<ref name="NobelEugene"/> || 1914 || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 1 || || || || || ''[[The Long Voyage Home (play)|The Long Voyage Home]]''|| [[Eugene O'Neill]]<ref name="NobelEugene"/> || 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<ref name="LC"/> || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 4 || ''[[Passage to Marseille]]'' ♦ || 1944 || [[Michael Curtiz]]|| US ||''Sans Patrie'' '''aka'''<br />''[[Men Without Country]]'' || [[Charles Nordhoff]] & [[James Norman Hall]] || 1942 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 5 || ''[[Lifeboat (film)|Lifeboat]]'' || 1944 || [[Alfred Hitchcock]]|| US ||''[[Lifeboat (novella)|Lifeboat]]'' || [[John Steinbeck]]<ref name="NobelStein"/> || 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<ref name="LC"/> || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 8 || ''[[Murphy's War]]'' || 1971 || [[Peter Yates]]|| UK ||''[[Murphy's War (Catto novel)|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====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Copenhagen (play)#Production history|Copenhagen]]'' * || 2002 || [[Howard Davies (director)|Howard Davies]]|| UK || ''[[Copenhagen (play)|Copenhagen]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[Evening Standard Awards#Best Play|''Evening Standard'' Award]] for Best Play in 1998.</ref><ref>Recipient of the [[:fr:Molière de la meilleure pièce de création|Palmarès du Molière]] for ''meilleure pièce de création'' (Best New Play) in 1999 (''Copenhague'').</ref><ref>Recipient of the [[Tony Award for Best Play|Tony Award]] in 2000.</ref><ref>Recipient of the [[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play|Drama Desk Award]] in 2000.</ref><ref>Recipient of the [[New York Drama Critics' Circle#Best Foreign Play|New York Drama Critics' Circle Award]] for Best Foreign Play in 2000.</ref> || [[Michael Frayn]] || 1998 || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* * TV movie.
====Commando operations and Secret missions====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| ''[[The Guns of Navarone (film)|The Guns of Navarone]]'' || 1961 || [[J. Lee Thompson]]|| US & Yugoslavia || ''[[The Guns of Navarone (novel)|The Guns of Navarone]]''|| [[Alistair MacLean]] || 1957 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| ''[[The Dirty Dozen]]'' || 1967 || [[Robert Aldrich]]|| UK & US || ''[[The Dirty Dozen (novel)|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 (film)|Force 10 from Navarone]]'' || 1978 || [[Guy Hamilton]]|| UK || ''[[Force 10 From Navarone (novel)|Force 10 From Navarone]]''|| [[Alistair MacLean]] || 1967 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| ''[[Charlotte Gray (film)|Charlotte Gray]]'' || 2001 || [[Gillian Armstrong]]|| UK || ''[[Charlotte Gray (novel)|Charlotte Gray]]''<ref>Shortlisted for the [[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] in 1998.</ref>|| [[Sebastian Faulks]] || 1999 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| ''[[Jenny's War]]'' * || 1985 || [[Steve Gethers]]|| US & UK ||''[[Jenny's War (novel)|Jenny's War]]'' || [[Jack Stoneley]] || 195? || Novel ||-||-||-
|-
| ''[[A Man Called Intrepid]]'' ** || 1979 || [[Peter Carter (director)|Peter Carter]]|| Canada & UK ||''[[A Man Called Intrepid]]'' || [[William Stevenson (Canadian writer)|William Stevenson]] || 1976 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| ''[[Brothers in Arms (film)|Brothers in Arms]]'' || 2011 || [[Marcel Langenegger]]|| US || ''[[Brothers in Arms (book)|Brothers in Arms]]'' || [[Richard Baron (author)|Richard Baron]], [[Abe Baum]], [[Richard Goldhurst]] || 200? || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* * TV movie.
=====Central Europe=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[[...]'s Madman]]'' || 1943 || [[Douglas Sirk]]|| US || ''[[Hangman's Village]]'' || [[Bart Lytton]] || 1943? || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 1 || || || || || "[[Lidice (poem)|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=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Decision Before Dawn]]'' || 1951 || [[Anatole Litvak]]|| US ||''[[Call It Treason]]'' || [[George Howe (novelist)|George Howe]] || 195? || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[Appointment with Venus (film)|Appointment with Venus]]'' || 1951 || [[Ralph Thomas]]|| UK ||''[[Appointment with Venus]]'' || [[Jerrard Tickell]] || 1951 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[The Red Beret]]'' || 1953 || [[Terence Young (director)|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|Carve<br />Her Name<br />with Pride]]'' || 1958 || [[Lewis Gilbert]]|| UK ||''[[Carve Her Name with Pride (book)|Carve Her Name with Pride]]'' || [[R.J. Minney]] || 195? || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 6 || ''[[Ill Met by Moonlight (film)|Ill Met by Moonlight]]'' || 1957 || [[Michael Powell (director)|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 ||''-
|-
|}
* ♠ Well-known in German but not in English, May's characters are mentioned during the tavern conversation.
=====Eastern Europe=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Star (1949 film)|The Star]]''<br />''[[:ru:Звезда (фильм, 1949)|Звезда]]'' || 1949 || [[Aleksandr Ivanov (director)|Aleksandr Ivanov]]|| [[USSR]] || "[[Zvezda (story)|Zvezda]]"<br />"[[:ru:Звезда (повесть)|Звезда]]" || [[Emmanuil Kazakevich]] || 1947 || '''Story''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[The Star (2002 film)|The Star]]''<br />''[[:ru:Звезда (фильм, 2002)|Звезда]]'' || 2002 || [[Nikolai Lebedev (film director)|Nikolai Lebedev]]|| [[Russia]] || "[[Zvezda (story)|Zvezda]]"<br />"[[:ru:Звезда (повесть)|Звезда]]" || [[Emmanuil Kazakevich]] || 1947 || '''Story''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
====Partisans and resistance movements====
=====Central Europe=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Death Is Called Engelchen]]''<br />''[[:cs:Smrt si říká 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]]''<ref name="Legatova">Source: [http://www.transcript-review.org/en/issue/transcript-6--czech-/literary-events-in-the-czech-republic/the-legatova-phenomenon The Legátová Phenomenon], ''Transcript'', the "European internet review of books and writing". Retrieved 2009-5-19.</ref> || [[:cs:Květa Legátová|Květa Legátová]] || 2002 || '''Novella''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2|| || || || ||''[[Želary]]''<ref name="Legatova"/> || [[:cs:Květa Legátová|Květa Legátová]] || 2001 || '''Stories''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
=====Poland=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 2 || ''[[A Generation]]'' ♠ || 1955 || [[Andrzej Wajda]]|| [[Poland]]||''[[Pokolenie]]'' || [[:pl:Bohdan Czeszko|Bohdan Czeszko]] || 1951 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[Bołdyn (film)|Bołdyn]]''<br />''[[:pl:Bołdyn|Bołdyn]]'' || 1981 || [[:pl:Ewa Petelska|Ewa Petelska]] & [[:pl:Czesław Petelski|Czesław Petelski]] || [[Poland]]||''[[Bołdyn]]'' || [[Jerzy Putrament]] || 1969 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 4 || ''[[Sophie's Choice (film)|Sophie's Choice]]'' || 1982 || [[Alan J. Pakula]]|| US||''[[Sophie's Choice (novel)|Sophie's Choice]]'' {{Nowrap|<ref>Recipient of the [[List of winners of the National Book Award|National Book Award]] in 1980.</ref> <ref name="100L"/> <ref name="Vintage"/>}} || [[William Styron]] || 1979 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 5 || ''[[The Wall (TV movie)|The Wall]]'' * || 1982 || [[Robert Markowitz]]|| [[Poland]] & US||''[[The Wall (play)|The Wall]]'' || [[Millard Lampell]] || 1960<ref>Source: [[IBDB]]. "Setting: A street in Warsaw. Spring of 1940 to the spring of 1943."</ref> || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 5 || || || || ||''[[The Wall (novel)|The Wall]]''<ref>Recipient of a [[Jewish Book Council#National Jewish Book Awards|National Jewish Book Award]] in 1950. Source: {{cite web|url=http://www.jewcy.com/tags/john_hersey|title=John Hersey}}</ref><ref>Recipient of the [[Hillman Prize]] in 1950. Source: {{cite web|url=http://www.hillmanfoundation.org/honorees?page=5&order=field_prize_honoree_value|title=Past Honorees}}</ref> || [[John Hersey]] || 1950 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 6 || ''[[Au nom de tous les miens]]'' || 1983 || [[Robert Enrico]]|| [[France]], Canada, [[Hungary]]||''[[:fr:Au nom de tous les miens|For Those I Loved]]'' || [[Martin Gray (Holocaust survivor)|Martin Gray]] with [[Max Gallo]] || 1971 || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 7 || ''[[Warszawa. Année 5703]]''<br />''[[Warszawa. Rok 5703]]'' || 1992 || [[:pl:Janusz Kijowski|Janusz Kijowski]]|| [[Germany]], [[France]], [[Poland]] ||''[[?]]'' || [[Jerzy Janicki]] || 199? || '''Novella''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 8 || ''[[Uprising (2001 film)|Uprising]]'' * || 2001 || [[Jon Avnet]]|| US||''[[A Surplus of Memory|A Surplus of Memory: Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising]]'' || [[Icchak Cukierman|Yitzhak Zuckerman]] ‡ || 1976/1991 || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 8 || || || || ||''[[Memoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto Fighter: The Past within Me]]'' || [[Simcha Rotem|Simha Rotem "Kazik"]] ♦ ‡ || 1994 || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 8 || || || || ||''[[Between Tumbling Walls]]'' || [[Tuvia Borzykowski]] || 1972 || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 8 || || || || ||''[[The Jews of Warsaw, 1939–1943: Ghetto, Underground, Revolt]]''<br />''Yehude Varshah, 1939–1943: geto, mahteret, mered'' || [[Israel Gutman]] ♦<br />[[:he:ישראל גוטמן|ישראל גוטמן]] || 1977<ref name="LC"/> || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
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| 8 || || || || ||''[[Resistance (Gutman)|Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising]]'' || [[Israel Gutman]] ♦ || 1994<ref name="LC"/> || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 8 || || || || ||''[[The Revolt of the Besieged: The Biography of Mordechai Anielewicz]]''<br />''Mered ha-netsurim'' || [[Israel Gutman]] ♦ || 1963<ref name="LC"/> || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 8 || || || || ||''[[In the Days of Destruction and Revolt]]'' || [[Zivia Lubetkin]] ‡ || 1981 || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 8 || || || || ||''[[Shielding the Flame|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 || || || || ||''[[The Stroop Report|Es gibt keinen jüdischen Wohnbezirk in Warschau mehr !]]''<ref name="Avnet">Source: DVD commentary and documentary. Actors refer to their sources. [[Jon Voight]] mentions ''Stroop'' (calling it the ''Diary'') and ''Moczarski''. It is reasonable, and understandable, that books by, and about, a war criminal are not listed in the end credits along with books about survivors of the Uprising.</ref> (uncredited) || [[Ranks and insignia of the Schutzstaffel|SS Gen.]] [[Jürgen Stroop]] ‡ || 1943/1979 || '''Report'''/'''Diary''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 8 || || || || ||''[[Conversations with an Executioner]]''<ref name="Avnet"/><br />''[[:pl:Rozmowy z katem|Rozmowy z katem]]'' (uncredited) || [[Kazimierz Moczarski]] || 1972–1974/1975 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 8 || || || || ||''[[Oyneg Shabbos (group)|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]]'' || [[:it:Gian Franco Svidercoschi|Gian Franco Svidercoschi]] || 2001 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 10 || ''[[Pope John Paul II (TV miniseries)|Pope John Paul II]]'' ** || 2005 || [[John Kent Harrison]]|| [[Italy]], US, [[Poland]] ||"[[Gods and Man]]"<br />"[[s:pl:Bogowie i człowiek|Bogowie i człowiek]]"<br />'''from''' ''[[:pl:Vade-mecum|Vade-mecum]]'' || [[Cyprian Norwid]] || 1866 || '''Poem''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 11 || ''[[Defiance (2008 film)|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 (1983 film)|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 [[Byelorussian SSR|Byelorussia]].
* * TV movie.
* ** TV miniseries.
=====Western Europe=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]''<ref name="NFR89">Inducted into the US [[National Film Registry]] in 1989.</ref> || 1942 || [[Michael Curtiz]]|| US ||''[[Everybody Comes to Rick's]]'' || [[Murray Burnett]] & [[Joan Alison]] || 1940 || '''Play''' (unproduced) ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[Edge of Darkness (1943 film)|Edge of Darkness]]'' || 1943 || [[Lewis Milestone]]|| US ||''[[Edge of Darkness (novel)|Edge of Darkness]]'' || [[William Woods (novelist)|William Woods]] || 1942 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[The Moon Is Down (film)|The Moon Is Down]]'' || 1943 || [[Irving Pichel]]|| US ||''[[The Moon Is Down]]''<ref name="Vintage"/> || [[John Steinbeck]]<ref name="NobelStein">Steinbeck was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1962.</ref> || 1942 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 4 || ''[[[...] Mission]]''<br />''[[:no:Shetlandsgjengen (film)|Shetlandsgjengen]]'' || 1954 || [[Michael Forlong]]|| UK & [[Norway]] ||''[[The Shetland Bus|The Shetland Bus: A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival, and Adventure]]'' || [[David Armine Howarth|David Howarth]] || 1951 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 4 || || || || ||''[[None But the Brave (Sælen)|None But the Brave]]''<br />''[[Shetlands-Larsen]]'' || [[:no:Frithjof Sælen|Frithjof Sælen]] || 1947 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 5 || ''[[Max Manus: Man of War]] || 2008 || [[Joachim Roenning|Joachim Rønning]] & [[:no:Espen Sandberg|Espen Sandberg]]|| [[Norway]]||''[[:no:Det vil helst gå godt|Det vil helst gå godt]]'' (uncredited) || [[Max Manus]] (uncredited) || 1945 || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 5 || || || || ||''[[Det blir alvor]]'' (uncredited) || [[Max Manus]] (uncredited) || 1946 || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
=====France=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Cloak and Dagger (1946 film)|Cloak and Dagger]]'' || 1946 || [[Fritz Lang]]|| US ||''[[Cloak and Dagger (book)|Cloak and Dagger]]'' || [[Corey Ford]] & [[Alastair MacBain]] || 1946 || '''Non-fiction'''? ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[The Train (1964 film)|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 film)|The Train]]'' || 1973 || [[Pierre Granier-Deferre]]|| [[France]] & [[Italy]]||''[[The Train (Simenon novel)|The Train]]'' || [[Georges Simenon]] || 1961 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 5 || ''[[:fr:L'Affiche rouge (film)|L'Affiche Rouge]]'' || 1976 || [[:fr:Frank Cassenti|Frank Cassenti]]|| [[France]]|| "[[Affiche rouge|Red Poster]]"<br />"[[:fr:Affiche rouge|Affiche rouge]]" || Vichy Ministry<br />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 (film)|Lucie Aubrac]]'' || 1997 || [[Claude Berri]]|| [[France]]||''[[Ils partiront dans l'ivresse]]'' || [[Lucie Aubrac]] || 1984 || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 8 || ''[[The Army of Crime]]''<br />''[[:fr:L'Armée du crime|L'Armée du crime]]'' || 2009 || [[Robert Guédiguian]]|| [[France]]|| "[[Affiche rouge|Red Poster]]"<br />"[[:fr:Affiche rouge|Affiche rouge]]" || Vichy Ministry<br />of Information || 1944 || '''Propaganda poster''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
======Frequently filmed: ''[[Le Silence de la mer]]''======
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Le Silence de la mer (film)|Le Silence de la mer]]'' || 1949 || [[Jean-Pierre Melville]]|| [[France]] ||''[[Le Silence de la mer|Put Out the Light]]''<ref name="100L"/><br />''[[:fr:Le Silence de la mer|Le Silence de la mer]]'' || "[[Jean Bruller|Vercors]]" || 1942 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
=====Balkans=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Silent Gunpowder]]''<br />''[[:sr:Глуви барут (филм)|Глуви барут]]'' || 1990 || [[Bato Čengić]]<br />[[Бахрудин Ченгић]] || Yugoslavia ||''[[Silent Gunpowder (novel)|Silent Gunpowder]]''<br />''[[Глуви барут]]'' || [[Branko Ćopić]] || 1957 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
=====USSR=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Young Guard (film)|The Young Guard]]'' || 1948 || [[Sergei Gerasimov (film director)|Sergei Gerasimov]]|| [[USSR]] ||''[[The Young Guard (novel)|The Young Guard]]'' || [[Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev|Alexander Fadeyev]] || 1945 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[Heavy Sand]]'' ***<br />''[[:ru:Тяжёлый песок (телесериал)|Тяжёлый песок]]'' || 2008 || [[Anton Barshchevsky]]<br />[[Антон Барщевский]]|| [[Russia]] ||''[[Heavy Sand (novel)|Heavy Sand]]'' || [[Anatoly Rybakov]] || 1979 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* *** TV series.
=====Italy=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[General della Rovere]]'' || 1959 || [[Roberto Rossellini]]|| [[Italy]]||''[[Il Generale della Rovere]]'' || [[Indro Montanelli]] || 1959 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[La lunga notte del '43|The Long Night of '43]]'' || 1960 || [[Florestano Vancini]]|| [[Italy]], [[France]]||"Una notte del '43"<ref>From [[Giorgio Bassani|Bassani]]'s collection ''[[Cinque storie ferraresi]]'', ''Five Ferrara Stories''.</ref> || [[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 || ''[[:it:Il partigiano Johnny (film)|Il partigiano Johnny]]'' || 2000 || [[:it:Guido Chiesa|Guido Chiesa]]|| [[Italy]]||''[[:it:Il partigiano Johnny (romanzo)|Il partigiano Johnny]]'' || [[Beppe Fenoglio]] || 1968 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| n || ''[[Little Teachers]]''<br />''[[:it:I piccoli maestri (film)|I piccoli maestri]]'' || 1998 || [[Daniele Luchetti]]|| [[Italy]]|| ''[[The Outlaws (novel)|The Outlaws]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[Premio Florio]] in 1968 ''per la miglior versione inglese di un testo italiano''.</ref><br />''[[:it:I piccoli maestri|I piccoli maestri]]'' || [[Luigi Meneghello]] || 1964 || '''Novel'''/'''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
=====Caribbean=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[To Have and Have Not (film)|To Have and Have Not]]'' || 1944 || [[Howard Hawks]]|| US||''[[To Have and Have Not]]'' || [[Ernest Hemingway]]<ref name="NobelHeming"/> || 1937 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
=====German anti-[...] opposition=====
[[John Keegan]] prefers the term "opposition" to the term "resistance" in reference to internal German disagreement.<ref>Source: ''Keegan'' (q.v.), pp. 112–113.</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[[...], Beast of Berlin]]'' || 1939 || "[[Sam Newfield|Sherman Scott]]"|| US||''[[Goose Step (novel)|Goose Step]]'' || [[Shepard Traube]]<ref>Traube is the author of a theatrical guide entitled ''So you want to to [sic] into the theatre? A "manual"'', published in 1936, as well as other works. Source: US [[Library of Congress]].</ref> || 193?<ref name="nLC"/> || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[["Pimpernel" Smith|Pimpernel Smith]]'' ♠ || 1941 || [[Leslie Howard (actor)|Leslie Howard]]|| UK ||''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel]]'' || [[Baroness Emmuska Orczy|Baroness Orczy]] || 1905 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[Watch on the Rhine]]'' || 1943 || [[Herman Shumlin]]|| US||''[[Watch on the Rhine (play)|Watch on the Rhine]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[New York Drama Critics' Circle#Best Play|New York Drama Critics' Circle Award]] for Best Play in 1941.</ref> || [[Lillian Hellman]] || 1941 || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 4 || ''[[The Night of the Generals]]'' || 1967 || [[Anatole Litvak]]|| UK & [[France]]||''[[Die Nacht der Generale]]''<ref>Nominated for the [[Edgar Award]] in 1965.</ref> || [[Hans Hellmut Kirst]] || 1962 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 5 || ''[[Lili Marleen (film)|Lili Marleen]]'' || 1981 || [[Rainer Werner Fassbinder]]|| [[West Germany]]||''[[Der Himmel hat viele Farben]]'' || [[Lale Andersen]] || 1972 || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 6 || ''[[Christabel (1988 film)|Christabel]]'' ** || 1988 || [[Adrian Shergold]]|| UK ||''[[The Past is Myself]]''<ref name="Keegan"/> || [[Christabel Bielenberg]] || 1968 || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 6 || || || || ||''[[The Road Ahead (Bielenberg book)|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]]'' || [[:it:Gian Franco Svidercoschi|Gian Franco Svidercoschi]] || 2001 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 8 || ''[[Sophie Scholl – The Final Days]]''<br />''[[:de:Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage|Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage]]'' || 2005 || [[Marc Rothemund]]|| [[Germany]]||''[[?]]'' || [[?]] || 1943 || '''Transcripts''' (unpublished)<ref>The film's introduction describes the transcripts as "as yet unpublished".<br />German Wikipedia provides more detail: ''Der Film orientiert sich an den Verhörprotokollen von [[Hans Scholl|Hans]] und [[Sophie Scholl]] sowie [[Christoph Probst]], die in der DDR bis zur Wende in den Archiven der [[Stasi]] lagerten und erst seit 1990 von Historikern eingesehen werden konnten.''</ref> ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* ♠ The film that inspired Swedish diplomat [[Raoul Wallenberg]].
* ♦ A Catholic German officer is executed in Poland.
* ** TV miniseries.
====Military intelligence and Espionage====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Confessions of a [...] 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]]''<ref name="Vintage"/> || [[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 (film)|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 (short story)|Beware of the Dog]]"<br />'''from''' ''[[Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying|Over to You]]'' || [[Roald Dahl]] || 1944/<br />1946 || '''Story''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 9 || ''[[Triple Cross (1966)|Triple Cross]]'' || 1966 || [[Terence Young (director)|Terence Young]]|| UK & [[France]] ||''[[The Eddie Chapman Story]]'' || [[Frank Owen (writer)|Frank Owen]] || 196? || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 10 || ''[[Seventeen Moments of Spring]]'' **<br />''[[:ru:Семнадцать мгновений весны (телесериал)|Семнадцать мгновений весны]]'' || 1973 || [[Tatyana Lioznova]]|| [[USSR]] ||''[[The Himmler Ploy]]'' || "[[Yulian Semyonov]]" || 1968 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 11 || ''[[Salon Kitty#Film|Salon Kitty]]'' || 1976 || [[Tinto Brass]]|| [[Italy]], [[West Germany]], [[France]] ||''[[Salon Kitty. Report einer geheimen Reichssache]]'' || [[Peter Norden]] || 1970 || '''Novel'''? ||-||-||-
|-
| 12 || ''[[Eye of the Needle (film)|Eye of the Needle]]'' || 1981 || [[Richard Marquand]]|| UK ||''[[Eye of the Needle]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[Edgar Award]] in 1979.</ref> || [[Ken Follett]] || 1978 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 13 || ''[[Enigma (2001 film)|Enigma]]'' || 2001 || [[Michael Apted]]|| UK, US ||''[[Enigma (novel)|Enigma]]''<ref name="Vintage"/> || [[Robert Harris (novelist)|Robert Harris]] || 1995 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* ♠ A libel suit against this film was threatened by [[Fritz Julius Kuhn|Fritz Kuhn]] of the [[German American Bund]].<ref>Source: ''Manvell'' (q.v.), pp. 31–32.</ref>
* ** TV miniseries.
=====Neutral powers=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Mask of Dimitrios]]'' || 1944 || [[Jean Negulesco]]|| US ||''[[The Mask of Dimitrios (novel)|The Mask of Dimitrios]]'' || [[Eric Ambler]] || 1939 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
====Home Guard====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp]]'' || 1943 || [[Michael Powell (director)|Michael Powell]] &<br />[[Emeric Pressburger]]|| UK ||''[[?]]'' || [[David Low (cartoonist)|David Low]] || 193? || '''Cartoons''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
====Military bases====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />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]]" || [[Fanny Kilbourne|Fannie Kilbourne]] || 194? || '''Story''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[On the Fiddle]]'' || 1961 || [[Cyril Frankel]]|| UK ||''[[Stop at a Winner]]'' || [[R.F. Delderfield]] || 195? || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[Adolf [...]: My Part in His Downfall (film)|Adolf [...]: My Part in His Downfall]]'' || 1972 || [[Norman Cohen]]|| UK ||''[[Adolf [...]: My Part in His Downfall]]'' || [[Spike Milligan]] || 1971 || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 4 || ''[[A Soldier's Story]]'' || 1984 || [[Norman Jewison]]|| US ||''[[A Soldier's Play]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama|Pulitzer Prize]] in 1982.</ref><ref>Recipient of the [[New York Drama Critics' Circle#Best American Play|New York Drama Critics' Circle Award]] for Best American Play in 1982.</ref> || [[Charles Fuller]] || 1981 || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 5 || ''[[Biloxi Blues (film)|Biloxi Blues]]'' || 1988 || [[Mike Nichols]]|| US ||''[[Biloxi Blues]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[Tony Award for Best Play|Tony Award]] in 1985.</ref> || [[Neil Simon]] || 1985 || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
=====Enlistment=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Lost Boundaries]]'' || 1949 || [[Alfred L. Werker]]|| US ||''[[Lost Boundaries]]'' || [[William Lindsay White|William L. White]] || 1948 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
====Military hospitals====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The English Patient (film)|The English Patient]]'' || 1996 || [[Anthony Minghella]]|| US ||''[[The English Patient]]''<br /><ref>Recipient of the [[Booker Prize]] in 1992.</ref> <ref>Recipient of the [[Governor General's Award for English language fiction|Governor General's Award]] in 1992.</ref> <ref>Recipient of the [[Trillium Book Award|Trillium Award]] in 1992.</ref> <ref name="Vintage"/> || [[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====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (film)|The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell]]'' || 1955 || [[Otto Preminger]]|| US ||''[[Winged Defense]]'' (uncredited) || [[Billy Mitchell (general)|Billy Mitchell]] (uncredited) || 1925 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[The Execution of Private Slovik (TV movie)|The Execution of Private Slovik]]'' * || 1974 || [[Lamont Johnson]]|| US ||''[[The Execution of Private Slovik]]'' ♦ || [[William Bradford Huie]] || 1954 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[Firing Squad (TV movie)|Firing Squad]]'' * || 1991 || [[Michel Andrieu]]|| Canada & [[France]] ||''[[Execution (novel)|Execution]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[Governor General's Award for English language fiction|Governor General's Award]] in 1958.</ref> || [[Colin McDougall]] || 1958 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* ♦ Huie's book is referenced in [[Kurt Vonnegut]]'s ''[[Slaughterhouse Five]]''.
* * TV movie.
====Involuntary confinement====
=====Allied POWs=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Wooden Horse]]'' || 1950 || [[Jack Lee (film director)|Jack Lee]]|| UK ||''[[The Wooden Horse (book)|The Wooden Horse]]'' || [[Eric Williams (writer)|Eric Williams]] || 1949 || '''Novel'''/'''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[Stalag 17]]'' || 1953 || [[Billy Wilder]]|| US ||''[[Stalag 17 (play)|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 (author)|John Castle]] || 196? || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 4 || ''[[The Elusive Corporal]]'' || 1962 || [[Jean Renoir]]|| [[France]] ||''[[Le Caporal épinglé]]'' || [[Jacques Perret (writer)|Jacques Perret]] || 1947 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 5 || ''[[The Great Escape (film)|The Great Escape]]'' || 1963 || [[John Sturges]]|| US || ''[[The Great Escape (book)|The Great Escape]]''|| [[Paul Brickhill]] || 1950 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 6 || ''[[Von Ryan's Express]]'' || 1965 || [[Mark Robson]]|| US || ''[[Von Ryan's Express (novel)|Von Ryan's Express]]''|| [[David Westheimer]] || 1964 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 7 || ''[[Slaughterhouse-Five (film)|Slaughterhouse-Five]]'' || 1972 || [[George Roy Hill]]|| US ||''[[Slaughterhouse-Five]]''<ref name="Vintage"/> || [[Kurt Vonnegut]] || 1969 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 8 || ''[[The Ogre (1996 film)|The Ogre]]'' || 1996 || [[Volker Schlöndorff]]|| [[France]], [[Germany]], UK ||''[[The Erl King (novel)|The Erl King]]''<br />''[[:fr:Le Roi des aulnes (roman)|Le Roi des aulnes]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[Prix Goncourt]] in 1970.</ref> || [[Michel Tournier]] || 1970 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 9 || ''[[In Love and War (2001 film)|In Love and War]]'' * || 2001 || [[John Kent Harrison]]|| US ||''[[Love and War in the Apennines]]'' || [[Eric Newby]] || 1971 || '''Novel'''/<br />'''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 10 || ''[[Hart's War]]'' || 2002 || [[Gregory Hoblit]]|| US ||''[[Hart's War (book)|Hart's War]]'' || [[John Katzenbach]] || 1999 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 11 || ''[[Colditz (2005 film)|Colditz]]'' * || 2005 || [[Stuart Orme]]|| UK ||''[[Colditz: The Definitive History]]''<ref>Source: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2904071.stm Colditz drama planned for ITV], BBC News, 31 March 2003. Retrieved 2009-9-23.</ref> (uncredited) || [[Henry Chancellor (author)|Henry Chancellor]] (uncredited) || 200? || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 12 || ''[[Katyń (film)|Katyń]]'' || 2007 || [[Andrzej Wajda]]|| [[Poland]] ||''[[Post Mortem: The Story of Katyń]]''<ref name="Mular"/> || [[:pl:Andrzej Mularczyk|Andrzej Mularczyk]] || 2007 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 13 || ''[[The Way Back]]'' || 2010 || [[Peter Weir]]|| US ||''[[The Long Walk (Rawicz book)|The Long Walk:<br />The True Story of a Trek to Freedom]]'' || [[Sławomir Rawicz|Slavomir Rawicz]] with [[Ronald Downing]] (ghostwriter) || 1956? || '''Memoir''' (purported) ||-||-||-
|-
| n || ''[[The Cow and I]]''<br />''[[:fr:La Vache et le Prisonnier|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]]''======
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Colditz Story]]'' || 1955 || [[Guy Hamilton]]|| UK ||''[[Colditz: The Colditz Story]]'' || [[Pat Reid|P.R. Reid]] || 1952 || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[The Birdmen]]'' * || 1971 || [[Philip Leacock]]|| US ||''[[Colditz: The Colditz Story]]'' (uncredited) || [[Pat Reid|P.R. Reid]] (uncredited) || 1952 || '''Memoirs''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || || || || ||''[[Latter Days at Colditz]]'' (uncredited) || [[Pat Reid|P.R. Reid]] (uncredited) || 1953 || '''Memoirs''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[Colditz (TV series)|Colditz]]'' *** || 1972–1974 || [[Peter Cregeen]], [[Viktors Ritelis]], [[Michael Ferguson (director)|Michael Ferguson]] ''[[et al.]]'' || UK ||''[[Colditz: The Colditz Story]]'' (uncredited) || [[Pat Reid|P.R. Reid]] ♠ || 1952 || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* ♠ Reid is credited as technical consultant, rather than author.
* * TV movie.
* *** TV series.
======Frequently filmed: ''The Last Duel''======
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />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=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Embajadores en el infierno]]'' ♠<br />''[[:es:Embajadores en el infierno|Embajadores en el infierno]]'' || 1956 || [[José María Forqué]]|| [[Spanish State|Spain]] ||''[[Embajador en el infierno]]''<ref>Recipient of the Spanish [[:es:Premio Nacional de Narrativa|Premio Nacional de Literatura]] in 1962.</ref><br />''[[:es:Embajador en el infierno|Embajador en el infierno. Memorias del Capitán Palacios (once años de cautiverio en Rusia)]]'' || [[:es:Torcuato Luca de Tena|Torcuato Luca de Tena]] & [[Teodoro Palacios Cueto]] || 1956? || '''Novel'''/<br />'''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[The One That Got Away (1957 film)|The One That Got Away]]'' || 1957 || [[Roy Ward Baker]]|| UK ||''[[The One That Got Away (book)|The One That Got Away]]''|| [[Kendal Burt]] & [[James Leasor]]|| 1956|| '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me]]'' ♣ **<br />''[[:de:So weit die Füße tragen (1959)|So weit die Füße tragen]]'' || 1959 || [[Fritz Umgelter]]|| [[West Germany]] ||''[[As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me]]''<br />''[[:de:So weit die Füße tragen|So weit die Füße tragen]]'' || [[Josef M. Bauer]] || 1955 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 4 || ''[[Summer of My German Soldier (TV film)|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]]'' ♣<br />''[[:de:So weit die Füße tragen (Film)|So weit die Füße tragen]]'' || 2001 || [[Hardy Martins]]|| [[Germany]] ||''[[As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me]]''<br />''[[:de:So weit die Füße tragen|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]]''======
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Ascent (1994 film)|The Ascent]]'' || 1994 || [[Donald Shebib]]|| Canada & US ||''[[No Picnic on Mount Kenya|No Picnic on Mount Kenya: The Story of Three P.O.W.s' Escape to Adventure]]'' || [[Felice Benuzzi]] || 1948 || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[Fuga sul Kenya]]''<br />''[[Fuga sul Kenya]]'' || 2009 || [[Gabriele Iacovone]]|| [[Italy]] ||''[[No Picnic on Mount Kenya|No Picnic on Mount Kenya: The Story of Three P.O.W.s' Escape to Adventure]]'' || [[Felice Benuzzi]] || 1948 || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
=====Convicts=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Hill (film)|The Hill]]'' || 1965 || [[Sidney Lumet]]|| UK ||''[[The Hill (play)|The Hill]]'' || [[Ray Rigby]] & [[R.S. Allen]] || 196? || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[Borstal Boy (film)|Borstal Boy]]'' || 2000 || [[Peter Sheridan]]|| UK & [[Ireland]] ||''[[Borstal Boy]]'' || [[Brendan Behan]] || 1958 || '''Novel'''/<br />'''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[The Final Battle of Major Pugachov]]'' ''[[:ru:Последний бой майора Пугачёва (фильм)|Последний бой майора Пугачёва]]'' || 2005 || [[Vladimir Fatyanov]]|| [[Russia]] ||"[[The Final Battle]]"<br />"Последний бой"<ref>Source: article [http://scepsis.ru/library/id_1702.html Кто он, майор Пугачёв?] by Валерий Есипов (Valeri Yesipov), from ''Scepsis'', the "magazine of science and social criticism". Retrieved 2009-9-6.</ref><br />'''from''' ''[[The Kolyma Tales]]'' || [[Varlam Shalamov]] || 1959/<br />1954–1973 || '''Story''' ||-||-||-
|-
| n || ''[[Punishment Battalion]]''<br />''[[Strafbataillon 999]]'' || 1960 || [[:de:Harald Philipp|Harald Philipp]]|| [[West Germany]] ||''[[Strafbataillon 999]]'' || [[Heinz Konsalik|Heinz G. Konsalik]] || 1959 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
=====Civilians=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Ich klage an]]'' ♠ || 1941 || [[Wolfgang Liebeneiner]]|| [[[...] Germany]] ||''[[Sendung und Gewissen]]'' || [[Hellmuth Unger]] || 194? || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[[...] Among Wolves (film)|[...] Among Wolves]]'' || 1959 || [[Frank Beyer]]|| [[East Germany]] ||''[[[...] among Wolves (novel)|Nackt unter Wölfen]]'' || [[Bruno Apitz]] || 1958 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[Reportáž psaná na oprátce]]'' || 1961 || [[:cs:Jaroslav Balík|Jaroslav Balík]]|| [[Czechoslovakia]] ||''[[Julius Fučík (journalist)#Notes from the Gallows|Notes from the Gallows]]''<br />''[[:cs:Reportáž psaná na oprátce|Reportáž psaná na oprátce]]'' || [[Julius Fučík (journalist)|Julius Fučík]]<ref>This Julius Fučík, the Czech journalist executed by the [[Gestapo]], should not be confused with [[Julius Fučík (composer)|Julius Fučík]], his uncle and the composer of "[[Entrance of the Gladiators|Entry of the Gladiators]]", the famous piece of circus music.</ref> || 1947/<br />1995 || '''Memoir''' (posthumous) ||-||-||-
|-
| 4 || ''[[Transport from Paradise]]''<br />''[[:cs:Transport z ráje|Transport z ráje]]'' || 1962 || [[Zbyněk Brynych]]|| [[Czechoslovakia]] ||''[[Night and Hope]]''<br />''[[Noc a naděje]]'' || [[Arnošt Lustig]] || 1957 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 5 || ''[[Playing for Time (film)|Playing for Time]]'' * || 1980 || [[Daniel Mann]]|| US ||''[[Sursis pour l'orchestre]]'' || [[Fania Fénelon]] || 1976? || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 6 || ''[[The Assault (film)|The Assault]]'' || 1986 || [[Fons Rademakers]]|| [[Netherlands]] ||''[[The Assault]]''<ref name="Vintage"/> || [[Harry Mulisch]] || 1982 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 7 || ''[[Escape from Sobibor]]'' * || 1987 || [[Jack Gold]]|| US ||''[[Escape from Sobibor (book)|Escape from Sobibor]]'' || [[Richard Rashke]] || 19?? || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 8 || ''[[Korczak (film)|Korczak]]'' || 1990 || [[Andrzej Wajda]]|| [[Poland]] ||''[[King Matthew the First]]''<br />''[[:pl:Król Maciuś Pierwszy|Król Maciuś Pierwszy]]'' (uncredited) || [[Janusz Korczak]] (uncredited) || 1923 || '''Children's book''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 9 || ''[[Bent (film)|Bent]]'' || 1997 || [[Sean Mathias]]|| UK || ''[[Bent (play)|Bent]]''<ref>Nominated for the [[Tony Award for Best Play|Tony Award]] in 1980.</ref> || [[Martin Sherman]] || 1979 || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 10 || ''[[Aimée & Jaguar]]'' || 1999 || [[Max Färberböck]]|| [[Germany]] ||''[[Aimée & Jaguar. Eine Liebesgeschichte, Berlin 1943]]'' || [[:de:Erica Fischer|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 (film)|Fateless]]'' || 2005 || [[Lajos Koltai]]|| [[Hungary]] & [[Germany]] ||''[[Fateless]]'' || [[Imre Kertész]]<ref name="NobelKert">Kertész was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 2002.</ref> || 1975 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 15 || ''[[The Counterfeiters (2007 film)|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 (film)|The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas]]'' || 2008 || [[Mark Herman]]|| UK & US ||''[[The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas]]''<ref>Nominated for the [[Carnegie Medal in Literature|Carnegie Medal]] in 2007.</ref> || [[John Boyne]] || 2006 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 17 || ''[[God on Trial]]'' * || 2008 || [[Andy de Emmony]]|| UK & US || ''[[The Trial of God]]'' ♦♦<br />''[[Le procès de Shamgorod tel qu'il se déroula le 25 février 1649]]'' (uncredited) || [[Elie Wiesel]]<ref name="NobelWies">Wiesel was awarded the [[List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates|Nobel Peace Prize]] in 1986.</ref> (uncredited) || 1979 || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
| n || ''[[The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (film)|The Garden of the Finzi-Continis]]'' || 1970 || [[Vittorio de Sica]]|| [[Italy]] ||''[[The Garden of the Finzi-Continis]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[Viareggio Prize]] in 1962.</ref> || [[Giorgio Bassani]] || 1962 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| n || ''[[The [...] (film)|The [...]]]'' || 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 (play)|Pastor Hall]]'' || [[Ernst Toller]] || 1939 || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* ♠ The infamous [...] film which calmly advocates euthanasia for physically ill patients.<ref>This surprisingly unhysterical hospital film plays like a 1970s medical TV movie.</ref>
* ♦ 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.
<!--Dishonourable mention:
Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1975)
-->
======Frequently filmed: ''[[The Diary of a Young Girl]]''======
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 film)|The Diary of Anne Frank]]'' || 1959 || [[George Stevens]]|| US ||''[[The Diary of Anne Frank (play)|The Diary of Anne Frank]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama|Pulitzer Prize]] in 1956.</ref><ref>Recipient of the [[Tony Award for Best Play|Tony Award]] in 1956.</ref><ref>Recipient of the [[New York Drama Critics' Circle#Best Play|New York Drama Critics' Circle Award]] for Best Play in 1956.</ref><ref>Nominated for the [[Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play|Tony Award for Best Revival]] in 1998.</ref> || [[Frances Goodrich]] &<br />[[Albert Hackett]] || 1955 || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 1 || || || || ||''[[The Diary of a Young Girl]]''<ref name="100L"/> || [[Anne Frank]] || 1947 || '''Diary''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[The Diary of Anne Frank (1980 film)|The Diary of Anne Frank]]'' * || 1980 || [[Boris Sagal]]|| US ||''[[The Diary of Anne Frank (play)|The Diary of Anne Frank]]'' || [[Frances Goodrich]] &<br />[[Albert Hackett]] || 1955 || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank]]'' * || 1982 || [[?]]|| [[East Germany]] ||''[[The Diary of Anne Frank (play)|The Diary of Anne Frank]]'' || [[Frances Goodrich]] &<br />[[Albert Hackett]] || 1955 || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 4 || ''[[The Diary of Anne Frank (2009 miniseries)|The Diary of Anne Frank]]'' * || 2009 || [[Jon Jones (director)|Jon Jones]] || UK ||''[[The Diary of a Young Girl]]'' || [[Anne Frank]] || 1947 || '''Diary''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* * TV movie.
======Twice filmed: ''[[Jacob the Liar|Jakob, der Lügner]]''======
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Jacob the Liar (1975 film)|Jacob the Liar]]'' || 1975 || [[Frank Beyer]]|| [[East Germany]] & [[Czechoslovakia]] || ''[[Jacob the Liar|Jakob der Lügner]]''|| [[Jurek Becker]] || 1969 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[Jakob the Liar]]'' || 1999 || [[Peter Kassovitz]]|| [[France]], US, [[Hungary]] || ''[[Jacob the Liar|Jakob, der Lügner]]''|| [[Jurek Becker]] || 1969 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
=====Saviours=====
Original screenplay films only: [[Salvo D'Acquisto]], [[Charlie Grant (Canadian)|Charlie Grant]], [[Maximilian Kolbe]], [[Nicholas Winton]]
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />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]]''<ref name="NFR04">Inducted into the US [[National Film Registry]] in 2004.</ref> || 1993 || [[Steven Spielberg]]|| US ||''[[Schindler's Ark]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[Booker Prize]] in 1982.</ref><ref>Recipient of the [[List of Los Angeles Times Book Prize winners#Fiction|''Los Angeles Times'' Book Prize]] in 1983.</ref> || [[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|Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man]]'' || 2002 || [[:it:Alberto Negrin|Alberto Negrin]]|| [[Italy]] ||''[[La banalità del bene]]'' ♠ || [[:it:Enrico Deaglio|Enrico Deaglio]] || 1993 || '''Novel''' || [[Giorgio Perlasca]]
|-
| 6 || ''[[The Pianist (2002 film)|The Pianist]]'' || 2002 || [[Roman Polanski]]|| [[France]], [[Poland]], [[Germany]], [[United Kingdom]] ||''[[The Pianist (memoir)|The Pianist]]''<br />''[[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]]''<br />''Matka dzieci Holocaustu. Historia Ireny Sendlerowej'' || [[Anna Mieszkowska]] || 2004<ref>Source: [http://www.amazon.com/Matka-Dzieci-Holocaustu-Historia-Sendlerowej/dp/8373192549 ''Matka Dzieci Holocaustu: Historia Ireny Sendlerowej'' (Polish Edition)], Amazon.com.</ref> || '''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====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />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]] ||''[[Two Women (novel)|La Ciociara]]'' || [[Alberto Moravia]] || 1958 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[The Camp Followers]]''<br />''[[:it:Le soldatesse|Le soldatesse]]'' ♦ || 1965 || [[Valerio Zurlini]]|| Yugoslavia, [[Italy]], [[France]],<br />[[West Germany]] ||''[[:it:Le soldatesse|Le soldatesse]]'' || [[Ugo Pirro]] || 1956 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 4 || ''[[The Adventures of Werner Holt]]''<br />''[[:de:Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt (Film)|Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt]]'' || 1965 || [[:de:Joachim Kunert|Joachim Kunert]]|| [[East Germany]] ||''[[:de:Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt|Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt.<br />Roman einer Jugend.]]'' (Part 1) || [[Dieter Noll]] || 1960 || '''Novel'''/<br />'''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 5 || ''[[Massacre in Rome]]'' ♦♦ || 1973 || [[George Pan Cosmatos|George P. Cosmatos]]|| [[Italy]] ||''[[Death in Rome]]''|| [[Robert Katz]]|| 1967|| '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 6 || ''[[:fr:Effroyables jardins|Strange Gardens]]'' ♦♦♦ || 2003 || [[Jean Becker (director, actor)|Jean Becker]]|| [[France]] ||''[[Effroyables jardins]]''|| [[Michel Quint]]|| 2000|| '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* ♠ About [[Irish Republican Army|IRA]] terrorists who planted bombs in the London Underground during the Blitz.
* ♠♠ About the ''[[Marocchinate]]'', Italian women liberated only to be raped by Moroccan [[Goumier]]s.
* ♦ About Greek prostitutes who are pressganged into service in an Italian Army brothel in Albania.
* ♦♦ About the [[Ardeatine massacre|Ardeatine Caves massacre]].
* ♦♦♦ About a fictional reprisal against French hostages.
====Refugees and Displaced persons====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Arch of Triumph (1948 film)|Arch of Triumph]]'' || 1948 || [[Lewis Milestone]]|| US ||''[[Arch of Triumph (novel)|Arch of Triumph]]''|| [[Erich Maria Remarque]]|| 1945|| '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[The Juggler (film)|The Juggler]]'' ♠ || 1953 || [[Edward Dmytryk]]|| US ||''[[The Juggler (book)|The Juggler]]'' || [[Michael Blankfort]] || 195? || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[Me and the Colonel]]'' || 1958 || [[Peter Glenville]]|| US ||''[[Jacobowsky and the Colonel]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[New York Drama Critics' Circle#Best Foreign Play|New York Drama Critics' Circle Award]] for Best Foreign Play in 1944.</ref><br />''[[Jacobowsky und der Oberst|Jacobowsky und der Oberst.<br />Komödie einer Tragödie in drei Akten]]'' || [[Franz Werfel]] || 1944 || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 4 || ''[[Jacobowsky und der Oberst]]'' || 1967 || [[:de:Rainer Wolffhardt|Rainer Wolffhardt]]|| [[West Germany]] ||''[[Jacobowsky und der Oberst|Jacobowsky und der Oberst.<br />Komödie einer Tragödie in drei Akten]]'' || [[Franz Werfel]] || 1944 || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 5 || ''[[Dita Saxová]]'' || 1968 || [[:cs:Antonín Moskalyk|Antonín Moskalyk]]|| [[Czechoslovakia]] ||''[[Dita Saxova]]''<br />''[[Dita Saxová]]'' || [[Arnošt Lustig]] || 1962 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 6 || ''[[Voyage of the [...]]]'' || 1976 || [[Stuart Rosenberg]]|| US ||''[[Voyage of the [...] (book)|Voyage of the [...]]]'' || [[Gordon Thomas (author)|Gordon Thomas]] & [[Max Morgan-Witts]]|| 1974 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 7 || ''[[The Boat Is Full]]''<br />''[[:de:Das Boot ist voll|Das Boot ist voll]]'' || 1981 || [[Markus Imhoof]]|| [[Switzerland]], [[West Germany]], [[Austria]] ||''[[Das Boot ist voll. Die Flüchtlingspolitik der Schweiz 1933–1945]]'' || [[:de:Alfred A. Häsler|Alfred A. Häsler]] || 1967 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 8 || ''[[The Truce (1997 film)|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=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Shop on Main Street]]'' || 1965 || [[Ján Kadár]] & [[Elmar Klos]]|| [[Czechoslovakia]] ||"[[Past (Czech story)|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 [...] Officer's Wife (2011 film)|The [...] Officer's Wife]]'' || 2011 || [[Mike Figgis]]|| US (?) ||''[[The [...] Officer's Wife|The [...] Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust]]'' || [[Edith Hahn Beer]] with [[Susan Dworkin]] || 1999 || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* ♠ Vienna during the [...] occupation of Austria. This film is followed by three sequels, each covering a different episode of Austrian history.
* * TV movie.
=====Poland=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Unvanquished City]]''<br />''[[Robinson warszawski]]'' || 1950 || [[Jerzy Zarzycki]]|| [[Poland]] ||''[[The Pianist (memoir)|The Pianist]]''<br />''[[Śmerć miasta]]'' (uncredited) || [[Władysław Szpilman]] ♠ (uncredited) || 1946 || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[The Pianist (2002 film)|The Pianist]]'' || 2002 || [[Roman Polanski]]|| [[France]], [[Poland]], [[Germany]], [[United Kingdom]] ||''[[The Pianist (memoir)|The Pianist]]''<br />''[[Śmerć miasta]]'' || [[Władysław Szpilman]] || 1946 || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[Katyń (film)|Katyń]]'' || 2007 || [[Andrzej Wajda]]|| [[Poland]] ||''[[Post Mortem: The Story of Katyń]]''<ref name="Mular">The openings credits of the film read, ''no motywach powieści „Post Mortem” ANDRZEJA MULARCZYKA''. This is translated as 'Based on Andrzej Mularczyk's novel "Post Mortem"'.<br />But, in the DVD interview and documentary, director Wajda discusses having spent a dozen years working on the script, which is inspired by the story of his own family, his father having been a victim of the [[Katyń Massacre]]. Wajda mentions collaborating with '''screenwriter''' Mularczyk and does not make reference to any novel.</ref> || [[:pl:Andrzej Mularczyk|Andrzej Mularczyk]] || 2007 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 4 || ''[[Wartime Lies (film)|Wartime Lies]]'' || 2011 || [[?]]|| US ||''[[Wartime Lies]]''<br /><ref>Recipient of the [[Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award]] in 1992.</ref> <ref>Recipient of the [[Prix Médicis#Laureates Prix Médicis étranger|Prix Médicis étranger]] in 1992.</ref> <ref name="Vintage"/> || [[Louis Begley]] || 1991 || '''Novel'''/'''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* ♠ The [[IMDb]] credits a novel by [[Czesław Miłosz]],<ref>Miłosz was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1980.</ref> but no such novel exists. Another tale of the film's origin has Miłosz basing his screenplay on Szpilman's memoir.
=====Denmark and Norway=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Hamsun (film)|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]].<ref>Hamsun was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1920.</ref>
=====Low Countries=====
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=====France=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The [...] of Father Christmas]]''<br />''[[:fr:L'Assassinat du Père Noël|L'Assassinat du Père Noël]]'' || 1941 || [[Christian-Jaque]]|| [[German occupation of France during World War II|Occupied France]] ||''[[L'Assassinat du Père Noël]]'' || [[:fr:Pierre Véry|Pierre Véry]] || 1934 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[A Soldier's Tale]]'' || 1988 || [[Larry Parr (director)|Larry Parr]]|| [[New Zealand]] ||''[[A Soldier's Tale]]'' || [[M.K. Joseph]] || 198? || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[:fr:Laissez-passer|Laissez-passer]]'' || 2002 || [[Bertrand Tavernier]]|| [[France]] ||''[[Action !]]'' || [[:fr:Jean-Devaivre|Jean-Devaivre]] || 2002 || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| n || ''[[Eyes of Love]]''<br />''[[:fr:Les Yeux de l'amour|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
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Seven Thunders (film)|Seven Thunders]]'' ♠ '''aka'''<br />''The Beasts of Marseilles''<br />''[[:fr:Les Sept Tonnerres|Les Sept Tonnerres]]'' || 1989 || [[Hugo Fregonese]]|| UK ||''[[Seven Thunders (novel)|Seven Thunders]]'' || [[Leo Bruce|Rupert Croft-Cooke]] || 1955<ref name=OL>Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of the [[Open Library]].<br />Source: [http://openlibrary.org/ Open Library].</ref> || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* ♠ The story adds a character based on [[Marcel Petiot|Dr. Marcel Petiot]], the Parisian [[serial killer]].<ref>Petiot is the subject of the film ''[[:fr:Docteur Petiot (film)|Docteur Petiot]]'' with [[Michel Serrault]].</ref>
======[[Oradour-sur-Glane#World War II|Oradour Massacre]]======
10 June 1944
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Souvenir (1989 film)|Souvenir]]'' || 1989 || [[Geoffrey Reeve]]|| UK ||''[[Souvenir (novel)|Souvenir]]'' || [[Paul Wheeler (novelist)|Paul Wheeler]] || 198? || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
=====Balkans=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Last Mission]]''<br />''[[Τελευταία αποστολή]]'' || 1949<ref>Source: [http://www.cine.gr/film.asp?id=701691 cine.gr]. Retrieved 2009-9-4.<br />Greek language sources list a release date of 1949. The [[IMDb]] has 1950.</ref> || [[Nikos Tsiforos]]<br />[[:el:Νίκος Τσιφόρος|Νίκος Τσιφόρος]] || [[Greece]] ||''[[Teleftaia apostoli]]'' || [[Nikos Tsiforos]] || 194? || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[The Travelling Players]]''<br />''[[:el:Ο Θίασος|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.
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Hannibal Rising (film)|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=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
|}
====Home front====
=====[[The Blitz]]=====
7 September 1940 – 10 May 1941
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Mrs. Miniver (film)|Mrs. Miniver]]''<ref name="NFR09"/> || 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 (TV film)|Mrs. Miniver]]'' * || 1960 || [[Marc Daniels]]|| US ||''[[Mrs. Miniver]]'' || [[Jan Struther]] || 1939 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* * TV movie.
* *** TV series.
=====Commonwealth=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />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 (film)|The Heart of the Matter]]'' || 1953 || [[George More O'Ferrall]]|| UK ||''[[The Heart of the Matter]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] in 1948.</ref> || [[Graham Greene]] || 1948 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[The Tin Flute (film)|The Tin Flute]]''<br />''[[:fr:Bonheur d'occasion (film)|Bonheur d'occasion]]'' || 1983 || [[Claude Fournier (filmmaker)|Claude Fournier]]|| Canada ||''[[The Tin Flute]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[Governor General's Award for English language fiction|Governor General's Award]] in 1947.</ref><ref>Recipient of the [[Prix Femina]] in 1947.</ref><br />''[[:fr:Bonheur d'occasion (roman)|Bonheur d'occasion]]'' || [[Gabrielle Roy]]<ref>Roy was awarded the [[Lorne Pierce Medal]] in 1948.</ref> || 1945 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 4 || ''[[The Dresser]]'' || 1983 || [[Peter Yates]]|| UK ||''[[The Dresser]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[Evening Standard Awards|''Evening Standard'' Award]] for Best Play in 1980.</ref> || [[Ronald Harwood]] || 1980 || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 5 || ''[[The Land Girls (film)|The Land Girls]]'' || 1998 || [[David Leland]]|| UK ||''[[Land Girls (novel)|Land Girls]]'' || [[Angela Huth]] || 19?? || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 6 || ''[[Nirgendwo in Afrika|Nowhere in Africa]]'' || 2001 || [[Caroline Link]]|| [[Germany]] ||''[[Nirgendwo in Afrika (novel)|Nirgendwo in Afrika]]'' || [[Stefanie Zweig]] || 1998 || '''Novel'''/'''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
=====United States=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
|}
=====USSR=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Fate of a Man]]''<br />''[[:ru:Судьба человека (фильм)|Судьба человека]]'' || 1959 || [[Sergei Bondarchuk]]|| [[USSR]] || "[[:ru:Судьба человека (повесть)|Sudba cheloveka]]" || [[Mikhail Sholokhov]]<ref name="NobelSholo"/> || 1957 || '''Story''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[Zosya]]''<br />''[[:ru:Зося (фильм)|Зося]]''|| 1967 || [[:ru:Богин, Михаил Синаевич|Mikhail Bogin]]|| [[USSR]] & [[Poland]] || "[[Zosya (story)|Zosya]]" "Зося" || [[Vladimir Bogomolov (writer)|Vladimir Bogomolov]] || 1963 || '''Story''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[Dzhamilya]]''<br />''[[<!--DEAD:ru:Джамиля (фильм)|-->Джамиля]]''|| 1969 || [[Irina Poplavskaya]]|| [[USSR]] || ''[[Jamilya]]'' || [[Chingiz Aytmatov]] || 1958 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 4 || ''[[Twenty Days Without War]]'' ♠<br />''[[:ru:Двадцать дней без войны|Двадцать дней без войны]]''|| 1976 || [[Aleksei Yuryevich German|Aleksei German]]|| [[USSR]] || "[[Dvadtsat dney bez voyny]]" (?) || [[Konstantin Simonov]]<ref name="LeninSimon"/> || 196? || '''Story''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 5 || ''[[Jamila (film)|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]]''<ref name="Vintage"/> (excerpt) || [[Vasily Grossman]] || 1959 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 7 || ''[[Waltz with Bashir]]'' ♦ † α || 2008 || [[Ari Folman]]|| [[Israel]] ||''[[Waltz with Bashir (book)|Waltz with Bashir: A Lebanon War Story]]'' || [[Ari Folman]] &<br />[[David Polonsky]] || 2009 || '''Memoir'''/<br />'''Graphic novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* ♠ The film concerns a war correspondent, based on [[Konstantin Simonov|Simonov]], in [[Tashkent]] to oversee a film production based on his work.<ref>Source: [[IMDb]] review by "Vlad B.", 2007.</ref>
* ♦ The film includes a brief World War II scene.
* † Dramatized documentary.
* α Animated film.
=====Morale=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />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=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[:it:La Storia (film)|La Storia]]'' ♠ * || 1986 || [[Luigi Comencini]]|| [[Italy]], [[France]],<br />[[West Germany]], [[Spain]] ||''[[History (novel)|History: A Novel]]''<br />''[[:it:La Storia (romanzo)|La Storia]]''<ref name="Vintage"/> || [[Elsa Morante]] || 1974 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* ♠ A shortened version of the film was released to cinemas.
* * TV movie.
=====Legacy=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Mariana, Mariana]]'' || 1987 || [[:es:Alberto Isaac|Alberto Isaac]]|| [[Mexico]] || ''[[:es:Las batallas en el desierto|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.<ref>Source: [http://html.rincondelvago.com/las-batallas-en-el-desierto_jose-emilio-pacheco_3.html ''Las batallas en el desierto''; José Emilio Pacheco], section ''Otro resumen'', from El Rincón del Vago, ''en [[Salamanca]] desde 1998''. {{Es icon}}</ref>
====Demobilization====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Best Years of Our Lives]]''<ref name="NFR89"/> || 1946 || [[William Wyler]]|| US ||''[[Glory for Me]]'' || [[MacKinlay Kantor]] || 1945 || '''Novella'''<br />(in [[blank verse]]) ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[Crossfire (film)|Crossfire]]'' ♠ || 1947 || [[Edward Dmytryk]]|| US ||''[[The Brick Foxhole]]'' || [[Richard Brooks]] || 1945 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[Ride the Pink Horse]]'' || 1947 || [[Robert Montgomery (actor)|Robert Montgomery]]|| US ||''[[Ride the Pink Horse (novel)|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]]'' ♥<br />''[[:it:Il cammino della speranza|Il cammino della speranza]]''|| 1950 || [[Pietro Germi]]|| [[Italy]] ||''[[Cuori negli abissi]]''<ref>The novel's title ''Cuori negli abissi'' translates as ''Hearts in the Depths''.</ref> || [[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 (director)|Michael Anderson]]|| UK ||''[[Hell Is Sold Out]]''<br />''[[?]]'' || "[[Maurice Dekobra]]" || 1948<ref name="BL">Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of the [[British Library]].<br />Source: [http://catalogue.bl.uk/ British Library Integrated Catalogue].</ref> (in English) || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 8 || ''[[Back at the Front]]'' ♣ || 1952 || [[George Sherman]]|| US ||''[[Up Front (Mauldin)|Up Front]]'' (characters) || [[Bill Mauldin]] || 1945? || '''Memoir'''/'''Cartoons''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 9 || ''[[:fr:Tit-Coq|Tit-Coq]]'' ♦ || 1953 || [[:fr:René Delacroix|René Delacroix]] & [[Gratien Gélinas]]|| Canada ||''[[:fr:Tit-Coq#Création de l'œuvre et réception du public|Tit-Coq]]'' || [[Gratien Gélinas]] || 1948 || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 10 || ''[[Wedding in White]]'' || 1972 || [[William Fruet]]|| Canada ||''[[Wedding in White]]'' || [[William Fruet]] || 1977<ref name="LAC"/> (collected edition) || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 11 || ''[[Katyń (film)|Katyń]]'' || 2007 || [[Andrzej Wajda]]|| [[Poland]] ||''[[Post Mortem: The Story of Katyń]]''<ref name="Mular"/> || [[:pl:Andrzej Mularczyk|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.<ref>The title means "Little Rooster", in the same way that ''Tit-Jean'' would mean "Johnny".</ref>
====Occupation of Greater Germany====
''For Berlin and Vienna, see the [[List of films based on war books — post-1945#Confrontation|List of films based on war books — post-1945]].''<br />
''For Germany and Austria, see the [[List of films based on war books — peace#Occupation of Germany|List of films based on war books — peace]].''
====Justice and retribution====
=====Nazis=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />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]]<ref name="NobelSart">Sartre was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1964, but declined to accept.</ref> || 1959 || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[The Quiller Memorandum]]'' || 1966 || [[Sidney J. Furie]]|| UK || ''[[The Berlin Memorandum]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[Edgar Award]] in 1966.</ref> || "[[Elleston Trevor|Adam Hall]]" || 1965 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[The Odessa File (film)|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 (novel)|The Man in the Glass Booth]]'' & ''[[The Man in the Glass Booth (play)|The Man in the Glass Booth]]''<ref>Nominated for the [[Tony Award for Best Play|Tony Award]] in 1969.</ref> (uncredited) || [[Robert Shaw (British actor)|Robert Shaw]] (uncredited) || 1967 || '''Novel''' & '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 5 || ''[[Marathon Man (film)|Marathon Man]]'' || 1976 || [[John Schlesinger]]|| US ||''[[Marathon Man (novel)|Marathon Man]]'' || [[William Goldman]] || 1974 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 6 || ''[[The House on Garibaldi Street (film)|The House on Garibaldi Street]]'' * || 1979 || [[Peter Collinson (film director)|Peter Collinson]]|| US ||''[[The House on Garibaldi Street]]'' || [[Isser Harel]] || 1975 || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 7 || ''[[The Valour and the Horror|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 (director)|William A. Graham]]|| US ||''[[Eichmann in My Hands]]'' || [[Peter Malkin|Peter Z. Malkin]] & [[Harry Stein (writer)|Harry Stein]] || 1990 || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 9 || ''[[Mother Night (film)|Mother Night]]'' || 1996 || [[Keith Gordon]]|| US ||''[[Mother Night]]'' || [[Kurt Vonnegut]] || 1961 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 10 || ''[[Nuremberg (2000 film)|Nuremberg]]'' * || 2000 || [[Yves Simoneau]]|| Canada & US ||''[[Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial]]'' || [[Joseph E. Persico]] || 199? || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 11 || ''[[Taking Sides (film)|Taking Sides]]''<br />''[[:de:Taking Sides – Der Fall Furtwängler|Der Fall Furtwängler]]'' || 2001 || [[István Szabó]]|| [[France]], UK, [[Germany]], [[Austria]] ||''[[Taking Sides (play)|Taking Sides]]'' || [[Ronald Harwood]] || 1995 || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 11 || || || || ||''[[?]]'' (uncredited) || [[Wilhelm Furtwängler]] (uncredited) || 194? || '''Diary''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 12 || ''[[The Reader (2008 film)|The Reader]]'' || 2008 || [[Stephen Daldry]]|| US, [[Germany]], UK ||''[[The Reader]]''<br />''[[:de:Der Vorleser|Der Vorleser]]'' || [[Bernhard Schlink]] || 1995 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| n || ''[[The Zoo Gang]]'' ** || 1974 || [[Sidney Hayers]] & [[John Hough (director)|John Hough]]|| UK ||''[[The Zoo Gang (novel)|The Zoo Gang]]'' || [[Paul Gallico]] || 1971 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| n || ''[[Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story]]'' * || 1989 || [[Brian Gibson (director)|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 (Panzermeyer)|Kurt Meyer]] for the [...] of POWs.
* † Dramatized documentary.
* * TV movie.
* ** TV miniseries or limited series.
=====Fascists=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Captain Carey, U.S.A.]]'' || 1950 || [[Mitchell Leisen]]|| US ||''[[No Surrender (novel)|No Surrender]]'' || [[Martha Albrand]] || 194? || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
=====[[Philippe Pétain|Pétainistes]], [[Rexist]]s, [[quisling]]s=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Uranus (film)|Uranus]]'' || 1990 || [[Claude Berri]]|| [[France]] ||''[[Uranus (novel)|Uranus]]'' || [[Marcel Aymé]] || 1948 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[The Statement (film)|The Statement]]'' ♠ || 2003 || [[Norman Jewison]]|| Canada, [[France]], UK ||''[[The Statement (novel)|The Statement]]'' || [[Brian Moore (novelist)|Brian Moore]] || 1995 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[Hannibal Rising (film)|Hannibal Rising]]'' || 2007 || [[Peter Webber]]|| US ||''[[Hannibal Rising]]'' || [[Thomas Harris]] || 2006 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* ♠ The story concerns a former member of the [[Milice|Milice française]].
=====Allied traitors=====
(See also [[Cocos Islands Mutiny]])
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Pierrepoint (film)|Pierrepoint]]'' || 1995 || [[Adrian Shergold]]|| UK ||''[[Executioner: Pierrepoint]]'' || [[Albert Pierrepoint]] || 1974 || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
=====Stalinist [[jurisprudence]]=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1970 film)|One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]]'' ♠ || 1970 || [[Caspar Wrede]]|| UK & [[Norway]] ||''[[One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (novel)|One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]]'' || [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]]<ref name="NobelСолж">Solzhenitsyn was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1970.</ref> || 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 (2006 film)|Days of Glory]]''.
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />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 (film)|The General of the Dead Army]]''|| 1983 || [[Luciano Tovoli]]|| [[Italy]] ||''[[The General of the Dead Army (novel)|The General of the Dead Army]]''<ref name="100L"/><ref name="Vintage"/><br />''[[:sq:Gjenerali i ushtrisë së vdekur|Gjenerali i ushtrisë së vdekur]]'' || [[Ismail Kadare]] || 1963 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[War Requiem#Film adaptation|War Requiem]]''|| 1988 || [[Derek Jarman]]|| UK ||"[[Anthem for Doomed Youth]]" ''[[et al.]]'' || [[Wilfred Owen]] || 1917 || '''Poems''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 4 || ''[[The Return of the Dead Army]]''<br />''[[:sq:Kthimi i ushtrisë së vdekur|Kthimi i ushtrisë së vdekur]]''|| 1989 || [[:sq:Dhimitër Anagnosti|Dhimitër Anagnosti]]|| [[Albania]] ||''[[The General of the Dead Army (novel)|The General of the Dead Army]]'' (characters) || [[Ismail Kadare]] || 1963 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 5 || ''[[Souvenir (1989 film)|Souvenir]]'' || 1989 || [[Geoffrey Reeve]]|| UK ||''[[Souvenir (novel)|Souvenir]]'' || [[Paul Wheeler (novelist)|Paul Wheeler]] || 198? || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 6 || ''[[Decoration Day (film)|Decoration Day]]'' * || 1990 || [[Robert Markowitz]]|| US ||''[[Decoration Day (novel)|Decoration Day]]'' || [[John William Corrington]] || 198? || '''Novella''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 7 || ''[[Everything Is Illuminated (film)|Everything Is Illuminated]]''|| 2005 || [[Liev Schreiber]]|| US ||''[[Everything Is Illuminated]]'' || [[Jonathan Safran Foer]] || 2002 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* ♠ American and German veterans and spouses visit the [[Bastogne#Sights|monument]] in [[Bastogne]], {{BEL}}.
* * TV movie.
===Pacific and Burma Theatres===
====[[Attack on Pearl Harbor|Pearl Harbor]], [[Battle of Hong Kong|Hong Kong]], [[Japanese invasion of Thailand|Thailand]]====
7–8 December 1941
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[From Here to Eternity]]''<ref name="NFR02">Inducted into the US [[National Film Registry]] in 2002.</ref> || 1953 || [[Fred Zinnemann]]|| US ||''[[From Here to Eternity (novel)|From Here to Eternity]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[List of winners of the National Book Award|National Book Award]] in 1952.</ref> <ref name="Vintage"/> || [[James Jones (author)|James Jones]] || 1951 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[Tora! Tora! Tora!]]'' || 1970 || [[Richard Fleischer]]|| US & [[Japan]]||''[[At Dawn We Slept|At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor]]''<ref name="KeeganDamn">[[Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot|[...] with faint praise]] by [[John Keegan]] who, in a series of lectures, succinctly summarized the [[historiography]] of the Second World War. Source: ''Keegan'' (q.v.), Ch. 3 (p. 65), Ch. 4 (p. 80).</ref><sup>¤<!--Main ref--></sup> || [[Gordon W. Prange]] || 1981 || '''Non-fiction'''<br />(in manuscript) ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || || || || ||''[[The Broken Seal]]'' || [[Ladislas Farago]] || 1967 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[The Valour and the Horror|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: ''[[Khu Kam|Sunset at Chaophraya]]''=====
[[:th:คู่กรรม|คู่กรรม]]
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
|}
====Land operations – Pacific Campaigns====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Fighting Seabees]]'' || 1944 || [[Edward Ludwig]]|| US ||"[[Donovan's Army]]" || [[Borden Chase]] || 194? || '''Story''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[Beachhead (film)|Beachhead]]'' || 1954 || [[Stuart Heisler]]|| US ||''[[I've Got Mine]]'' || [[Richard G. Hubler]] || 1946 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[Between Heaven and Hell (film)|Between Heaven and Hell]]'' || 1956 || [[Richard Fleischer]]|| US ||''[[The Day the Century Ended]]'' || [[Francis Gwaltney]] || 1955 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 4 || ''[[The [...] and the Dead (film)|The [...] and the Dead]]'' || 1958 || [[Raoul Walsh]]|| US ||''[[The [...] and the Dead]]''<ref name="Vintage"/><ref name="KeeganDamn"/> || [[Norman Mailer]] || 1948 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 5 || ''[[In Love and War (1958 film)|In Love and War]]'' || 1958 || [[Philip Dunne (writer)|Philip Dunne]]|| US ||''[[The Big War]]'' || [[Anton Myrer]] || 1957 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 6 || ''[[Once an Eagle]]'' ♦ ** || 1976 || [[Richard Michaels]] & [[E.W. Swackhamer]]|| US || ''[[Once an Eagle (novel)|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 period|interwar years]], the Sino-Japanese War, and World War II (Pacific theatre).<br />The novel also includes a fictionalized Vietnam War.<ref name="Once">Source: [http://www.once-an-eagle.com/scenebyscene.php Once-An-Eagle.com] Retrieved 2009-08-22.</ref>
* ** TV miniseries.
=====[[Makin Island raid]]=====
August 1942
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Gung Ho! (1943 film)|"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''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
=====[[Guadalcanal Campaign|Battle of Guadalcanal]]=====
August 1942 – February 1943
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Guadalcanal Diary (film)|Guadalcanal Diary]]'' || 1943 || [[Lewis Seiler]]|| US ||''[[Guadalcanal Diary (book)|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 film)|The Thin Red Line]]'' || 1964 || [[Andrew Marton]]|| US||''[[The Thin Red Line (1962 novel)|The Thin Red Line]]''<br /><ref name="Vintage"/><ref name="Keegan"/> || [[James Jones (author)|James Jones]] || 1962 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 4 || ''[[The Thin Red Line (1998 film)|The Thin Red Line]]'' || 1998 || [[Terrence Malick]]|| US ||''[[The Thin Red Line (1962 novel)|The Thin Red Line]]''<br /><ref name="Vintage"/><ref name="Keegan"/> || [[James Jones (author)|James Jones]] || 1962 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
=====[[Battle of Saipan]]=====
June – July 1944
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Battle Cry (film)|Battle Cry]]'' || 1955 || [[Raoul Walsh]]|| US ||''[[Battle Cry (Leon Uris novel)|Battle Cry]]'' || [[Leon Uris]] || 1953 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
=====[[Battle of Peleliu]]=====
September – November 1944
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Pacific (miniseries)|The Pacific]]'' ** || 2010 || [[Tim Van Patten]], [[Jeremy Podeswa]], [[Graham Yost]], ''[[et al.]]''|| US & Australia ||''[[With the Old Breed|With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa]]''<ref name="Keegan"/> || [[Eugene Sledge|E.B. Sledge]] || 1981 || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 1 || || || || ||''[[Helmet for My Pillow]]'' || [[Robert Leckie (author)|Robert Leckie]] || 1957 || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 1 || || || || ||''[[China Marine (memoir)|China Marine]]'' || [[Eugene Sledge|Eugene B. Sledge]] || 2002 (posthumous) || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 1 || || || || ||''[[Red Blood, Black Sand]]'' || [[Charles "Chuck" Tatum|Chuck Tatum]] || 195? || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* ** TV miniseries.
=====[[Battle of Iwo Jima]]=====
February – March 1945
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Flags of Our Fathers (film)|Flags of Our Fathers]]'' || 2006 || [[Clint Eastwood]]|| US ||''[[Flags of Our Fathers]]'' || [[James Bradley (author)|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====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Burmese Harp (film)|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 (film)|The Long and the Short and the Tall]]'' || 1961 || [[Leslie Norman (director)|Leslie Norman]]|| UK || ''[[The Long and the Short and the Tall (play)|The Long and the Short and the Tall]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[Evening Standard Awards|''Evening Standard'' Award]] for Best Play in 1959.</ref> || [[Willis Hall]] || 1958 || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
====Air operations ====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo]]'' || 1944 || [[Mervyn LeRoy]]|| US||''[[Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (book)|Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo]]'' || [[Ted W. Lawson]] & [[Bob Considine|Robert Considine]]|| 1943 || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[Baa Baa Black Sheep (TV movie)|Baa Baa Black Sheep]]'' * || 1976 || [[Russ Mayberry]]|| US||''[[Baa Baa Black Sheep (book)|Baa Baa Black Sheep]]'' || [[Pappy Boyington|Gregory "Pappy" Boyington]]|| 197? || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[Baa Baa Black Sheep (TV series)|Baa Baa Black Sheep]]'' *** || 1976–1978 || [[Russ Mayberry]], [[Dana Elcar]], ''[[et al.]]'' || US||''[[Baa Baa Black Sheep (book)|Baa Baa Black Sheep]]'' || [[Pappy Boyington|Gregory "Pappy" Boyington]]|| 197? || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* * TV movie.
* *** TV series.
====Naval operations ====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[They Were Expendable]]'' || 1945 || [[John Ford]]|| US ||''[[They Were Expendable]]'' || [[William Lindsay White|William L. White]] || 1942 || '''Non-fiction'''/'''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[Sailor of the King|Single-Handed]]'' || 1953 || [[Roy Boulting]]|| UK || ''[[Brown on Resolution]]'' ♠|| "[[C. S. Forester]]" || 1929 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[The Caine Mutiny (film)|The Caine Mutiny]]'' || 1954 || [[Edward Dmytryk]]|| US ||''[[The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial]]''<ref>Nominated for the [[Tony Award for Best Revival]] in 1983.</ref> || [[Herman Wouk]] || 1953 || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || || || || ||''[[The Caine Mutiny]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction|Pulitzer Prize]] in 1952.</ref> || [[Herman Wouk]] || 1951 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 4 || ''[[Away All Boats]]'' || 1956 || [[Joseph Pevney]]|| US ||''[[Away All Boats]]'' || [[Kenneth M. Dodson]] || 1953 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 5 || ''[[PT 109 (film)|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 (novel)|Harm's Way]]'' || [[James Bassett (author)|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
{|style="background:silver;"
|'''• • •'''
|-
|}
=====[[Calcutta Light Horse#Operation Boarding Party|Goa harbour raid]]=====
9 March 1943
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Sea Wolves|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
{|style="background:silver;"
|'''↓↓'''
|-
|}
=====[[Operation Ten-Go|Sinking of the ''Yamato'']]=====
7 April 1945
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Yamato (film)|Yamato]]''<br />''[[:ja:男たちの大和/YAMATO|男たちの大和]]'' || 2005 || [[Junya Sato]]|| [[Japan]] ||''[[?]]'' || [[Jun Henmi]] || 199? || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
=====Frequently filmed: ''[[Mister Roberts (novel)|Mister Roberts]]''=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Mister Roberts (1955 film)|Mister Roberts]]'' || 1955 || [[John Ford]], [[Mervyn LeRoy]],<br />[[Joshua Logan]] (uncredited)|| US ||''[[Mister Roberts (play)|Mister Roberts]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[Tony Award for Best Play|Tony Award]] in 1948.</ref> || [[Thomas Heggen]] &<br />[[Joshua Logan]]<ref>Heggen and Logan were awarded the [[Tony Award for Best Author|Tony Award]] in 1948.</ref> || 1948 || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 1 || || || || ||''[[Mister Roberts (novel)|Mister Roberts]]'' || [[Thomas Heggen]] || 1946 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
=====Submarines =====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Run Silent, Run Deep]]'' || 1958 || [[Robert Wise]]|| US ||''[[Run Silent, Run Deep]]'' || [[Edward L. Beach, Jr.|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=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Roots: The Next Generations]]'' ** || 1979 || [[John Erman]]<br />''[[et al.]]'' || US ||''[[Roots: The Saga of an American Family]]''<ref>Haley covers his World War II career in Ch. 118 of ''Roots'', p. 569 (upper half).</ref> || [[Alex Haley]] || 1976 || '''Autobiography''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* ** TV miniseries.
====Atomic weapons programme ====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Day One (1989 film)|Day One]]'' * || 1989 || [[Joseph Sargent]]|| US ||''[[Day One (book)|Day One: Before Hiroshima and After]]''|| [[Peter Wyden]]|| 198?|| '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* * TV movie.
====Commando operations and Secret missions ====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison]]'' || 1957 || [[John Huston]]|| US ||''[[Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (novel)|Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison]]''|| [[Charles Shaw (writer)|Charles Shaw]]|| 1952|| '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[Up Periscope]]'' || 1959 || [[Gordon Douglas (director)|Gordon Douglas]]|| US ||''[[Up Periscope (novel)|Up Periscope]]''|| [[Robb White]]|| 1956|| '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
====Resistance movements ====
=====[[Commonwealth of the Philippines|Philippines]]=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />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 [[John F. Kennedy|President Kennedy]].
=====[[Guam]], [[Mariana Islands|Marianas]]=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[No Man Is an Island (film)|No Man Is an Island]]'' || 1962 || [[Richard Goldstone (film director)|Richard Goldstone]] & [[John Cherry Monks, Jr.|John Monks Jr.]]|| US ||''[[Robinson Crusoe, USN.]]'' (uncredited) || [[?]] (uncredited) || 1945 || '''Non-fiction''' (?) ||-||-||-
|-
|}
=====[[Dutch East Indies]], [[Sarawak]], [[North Borneo]]=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Farewell to the King]]'' || 1989 || [[John Milius]]|| US ||''[[L'Adieu au Roi]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[Prix Interallié]] in 1969.</ref> || [[Pierre Schoendoerffer]] || 1969 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
=====[[British Malaya|Malaya]]=====
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=====[[Thailand]]=====
======Frequently filmed: ''[[Khu Kam|Sunset at Chaophraya]]''======
{|style="background:silver;"
|(See above)
|-
|}
====Military intelligence and Espionage ====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Francis (1950 film)|Francis the Talking Mule]]'' ♠ || 1950 || [[Arthur Lubin]]|| US || ''[[Francis (novel)|Francis]]'' || [[David Stern (novelist)|David Stern]]|| 1946<ref name="LC">Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of the US [[Library of Congress]].<br />Source: [http://catalog.loc.gov/ Library of Congress Online Catalog].</ref><sup>¤<!--Main ref--></sup> || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* ♠ For another film about talking animals risking hoof and wing, see ''[[Valiant (2005 film)|Valiant]]''.<ref>''Valiant'' is a little intense for younger children.</ref>
====Military bases ====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Battle Cry (film)|Battle Cry]]'' || 1955 || [[Raoul Walsh]]|| US ||''[[Battle Cry (Leon Uris novel)|Battle Cry]]'' || [[Leon Uris]] || 1953 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[The Proud and Profane]]'' || 1956 || [[William Seaton]]|| US ||''[[The Magnificent Bastards (novel)|The Magnificent Bastards]]'' || [[Lucy Herndon Crockett]] || 1954 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[Don't Go Near the Water (film)|Don't Go Near the Water]]'' || 1957 || [[Charles Walters]]|| US || ''[[Don't Go Near the Water (novel)|Don't Go Near the Water]]'' || [[William Brinkley]]|| 1956 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
====Military hospitals====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[So Proudly We Hail!]]'' || 1943 || [[Mark Sandrich]]|| US ||''[[I Served on Bataan]]'' || Lt. [[Juanita Redmond]] || 1943<ref name="LC"/> || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[Cry 'Havoc']]'' || 1943 || [[Richard Thorpe]]|| US ||''[[Cry Havoc (play)|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 (novel)|The Story of Dr. Wassell]]'' || [[James Hilton (novelist)|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 film)|South Pacific]]'' || 1958 || [[Joshua Logan]]|| US ||''[[South Pacific (musical)|South Pacific]]''<br /><ref>Recipient of the [[New York Drama Critics' Circle#Best Musical|New York Drama Critics' Circle Award]] for Best Musical in 1949.</ref><ref>Recipient of the [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama|Pulitzer Prize]] in 1950.</ref><ref>Recipient of the [[Tony Award for Best Musical|Tony Award]] in 1950.</ref><ref>Recipient of the [[Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical|Tony Award for Best Revival]] in 2008.</ref> || [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] &<br />[[Joshua Logan]]<ref>Hammerstein and Logan were awarded the [[Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical|Tony Award]] in 1950.</ref><br />(book, lyrics) || 1949 || '''Musical''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 5 || || || || ||''[[Tales of the South Pacific]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction|Pulitzer Prize]] in 1948.</ref> || [[James A. Michener]] || 1947 || '''Stories''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 6 || ''[[Captain Newman, M.D.]]'' || 1963 || [[David Miller (director)|David Miller]]|| US ||''[[Captain Newman, M.D. (novel)|Captain Newman, M.D.]]'' || [[Leo Rosten]] || 1961<ref name="LC"/> || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
====Military justice and Courts-martial ====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Man in the Middle (film)|Man in the Middle]]'' || 1963 || [[Guy Hamilton]]|| UK ||''[[The Winston Affair]]'' || [[Howard Fast]] || 1959 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[Rebel (1985 film)|Rebel]]'' ♠ || 1985 || [[Michael Jenkins (director)|Michael Jenkins]]|| Australia ||''[[No Names No Pack Drill]]'' || [[Bob Herbert (playwright)|Bob Herbert]] || 198? || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* ♠ A US Marine is AWOL in Australia.
====Involuntary confinement ====
=====Allied POWs =====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Bridge on the River Kwai]]''<ref name="NFR97">Inducted into the US [[National Film Registry]] in 1997.</ref> || 1957 || [[David Lean]]|| UK & US ||''[[The Bridge over the River Kwai (novel)|The Bridge over the River Kwai]]'' || [[Pierre Boulle]] || 1952 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[The Catch (1961 film)|The Catch]]'' ♠<br />''[[Shiiku]]'' || 1961 || [[Nagisa Ōshima]]|| [[Japan]] ||''[[The Catch (story)|The Catch]]'' || [[Kenzaburō Ōe]]<ref name="NobelOe">Ōe was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1994.</ref> || 196? || '''Novella''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[King Rat (film)|King Rat]]'' || 1965 || [[Bryan Forbes]]|| US ||''[[King Rat (1962 novel)|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]]'' (?) || [[Clay Blair|Joan Blair]] & [[Clay 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'''<br />''[[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 =====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Man in the Middle (film)|Man in the Middle]]'' || 1963 || [[Guy Hamilton]]|| UK ||''[[The Winston Affair]]'' || [[Howard Fast]]<ref name="LeninFast">Fast was awarded the [[Lenin Peace Prize]] in 1953.</ref> || 1959 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
=====Civilians =====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Three Came Home]]'' || 1950 || [[Jean Negulesco]]|| US ||''[[Three Came Home (book)|Three Came Home]]'' || [[Agnes Newton Keith]] || 1947 || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[A Town Like Alice (1956 film)|A Town Like Alice]]'' '''aka''' ''[...] of Malaya'' || 1950 || [[Jack Lee (film director)|Jack Lee]]|| UK ||''[[A Town Like Alice]]''<ref name="Vintage"/> || [[Nevil Shute]] || 1950 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[Empire of the Sun (film)|Empire of the Sun]]'' || 1987 || [[Steven Spielberg]]|| US ||''[[Empire of the Sun]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] in 1984.</ref> <ref name="Vintage"/> || [[J. G. Ballard]] || 1984 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 4 || ''[[Paradise Road (1997 film)|Paradise Road]]'' || 1997 || [[Bruce Beresford]]|| Australia & US ||''[[White Coolies]]'' || [[Betty Jeffrey]] || 1969<ref name="NLA">Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of the [[National Library of Australia]].<br />Source: [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home Catalogue Home].</ref><sup>¤<!--Main ref--></sup> || '''Diary''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 5 || ''[[Seven Years in Tibet (1997 film)|Seven Years in Tibet]]'' ♠ || 1997 || [[Jean-Jacques Annaud]]|| US ||''[[Seven Years in Tibet]]'' || [[Heinrich Harrer]] || 1952 || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 6 || ''[[American Pastime (film)|American Pastime]]'' ♦ || 2007 || [[Desmond Nakano]]|| US ||''[[Through a Diamond|Through a Diamond:<br />100 Years of Japanese American Baseball]]'' (uncredited) || [[Kerry Yo Nakagawa]]<ref>Nakagawa is credited as associate producer and actor, rather than author.</ref> (uncredited) || 2002 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| n || ''[[A Town Like Alice (TV series)|A Town Like Alice]]'' ** || 1981 || [[David Stevens (screenwriter)|David Stevens]]|| Australia ||''[[A Town Like Alice]]''<ref name="Vintage"/> || [[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! (1951 film)|Go for Broke!]]''.
* ** TV miniseries.
====Other atrocities ====
For atrocities not classified elsewhere.
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Umi to dokuyaku]]'' ♠ || 1986 || [[Kei Kumai]]|| [[Japan]] ||''[[The Sea and Poison]]''<ref name="Vintage"><br />Recommended by [[Sebastian Faulks]]. Source: ''Faulks and Hensgen'' (q.v.).</ref><sup>¤<!--Main ref--></sup> || [[Shusaku Endo]] || 1958 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* ♠ The true story of Japanese surgeons performing lethal medical experiments on US POWs.
====Refugees ====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />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 =====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Jewel in the Crown (TV series)|The Jewel in the Crown]]'' ♠ ** || 1984 || [[Jim O'Brien (director)|Jim O'Brien]] &<br />[[Christopher Morahan]]|| UK|| ''[[Raj Quartet]]''|| [[Paul Mark Scott|Paul Scott]] || 1966–1975 || [[Tetralogy]] ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[Australia (2008 film)|Australia]]'' ♦ || 2008 || [[Baz Luhrmann]]|| Australia & US|| ''[[The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire]]''<ref>''Gibbon'' is mentioned by [[Jack Thompson (actor)|Jack Thompson]]'s accountant character.</ref> (uncredited)|| [[Edward Gibbon]] (uncredited) || 1776–1789 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| n || ''[[Until They Sail]]'' || 1957 || [[Robert Wise]]|| US || "Until They Sail" '''from''' ''[[Return to Paradise (novel)|Return to Paradise]]''|| [[James A. Michener]] || 1951 || '''Story''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* ♠ The story of Britons in India includes the pro-Japanese [[Indian National Army]] and the pro-[...] [[Indische Legion|Free India Legion]].
* ♦ The bombing of [[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin]] was long overdue for screen treatment.<ref>Japanese troops [...] by pistol rather than bayonet is not especially historical.<br />See ''[[The Valour and the Horror|A Savage Christmas]]'' for the [...] of bound POWs in Hong Kong by bayonet.</ref>
* ** TV miniseries.
======[[Bengal famine of 1943]]======
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Ashani Sanket|Distant Thunder]]''<br />''[[:bn:অশনি সংকেত (চলচ্চিত্র)|অশনি সংকেত]]'' || 1973 || [[Satyajit Ray]] || [[India]] || ''[[Ashani Sanket (novel)|Ashani Sanket]]''|| [[Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay]] || 1966 ? || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
=====United States =====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Anchors Aweigh (film)|Anchors Aweigh]]'' || 1945 || [[George Sidney]]|| US ||"[[Anchors Aweigh (story)|Anchors Aweigh]]" (?) || [[Natalie Marcin]] || 193? || '''Story''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
======[[Zoot Suit Riots]]======
June 1943
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Zoot Suit (film)|Zoot Suit]]'' || 1981 || [[Luis Valdez]]|| US ||''[[Zoot Suit (play)|Zoot Suit]]'' || [[Luis Valdez]] || 1979 || '''Play''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
=====Pacific islands=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Return to Paradise (1953 film)|Return to Paradise]]'' || 1953 || [[Mark Robson]]|| US || "Mr. Morgan" '''from''' ''[[Return to Paradise (novel)|Return to Paradise]]''|| [[James A. Michener]] || 1951 || '''Story''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
=====Japan=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />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 (Japanese film)|Black Rain]]''<br />''[[:jp:黒い雨 (映画)|黒い雨]]'' || 1989 || [[Shohei Imamura]]|| [[Japan]] ||''[[Black Rain (novel)|Black Rain]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[Noma Literary Prize|Noma Prize]] in 1966.</ref> || [[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 (novel)|Grave of the Fireflies]]''======
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Grave of the Fireflies]]''<br />''[[:jp:火垂るの墓|火垂るの墓]]'' α || 1988 || [[Isao Takahata]]|| [[Japan]] ||''[[Grave of the Fireflies (novel)|Grave of the Fireflies]]'' || [[Akiyuki Nosaka]] || 1967 || '''Novel'''/'''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[Grave of the Fireflies (2005 film)|Grave of the Fireflies]]'' * α || 2005 || [[Toya Sato]]<br />(Tōya Satō)|| [[Japan]] ||''[[Grave of the Fireflies (novel)|Grave of the Fireflies]]'' || [[Akiyuki Nosaka]] || 1967 || '''Novel'''/'''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[Grave of the Fireflies (2008 film)|Grave of the Fireflies]]'' α || 2008 || [[Taro Hyugaji]]|| [[Japan]] ||''[[Grave of the Fireflies (novel)|Grave of the Fireflies]]'' || [[Akiyuki Nosaka]] || 1967 || '''Novel'''/'''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* * TV movie.
* α Animated film.
====Demobilization ====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Outsider (1961 film)|The Outsider]]'' ♠ || 1961 || [[Delbert Mann]]|| US ||"The Outsider" from<br />''[[Wolf Whistle and Other Stories]]'' || [[William Bradford Huie]] || 1959 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[Snow Falling on Cedars (film)|Snow Falling on Cedars]]'' || 1999 || [[Scott Hicks]]|| US ||''[[Snow Falling on Cedars]]''<ref>Recipient of the [[PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction|PEN/Faulkner Award]] in 1995.</ref> || [[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#Occupation of Japan|List of films based on war books — peace]].''
====Justice and Retribution ====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />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.<ref>Source: ''Manvell'' (q.v.), pp. 333–334. The film's script is by [[Kōbō Abe]], [[Nobel Prize for Literature|Nobel]]-nominated author.</ref>
====Memorial ====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (film)|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====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Human Condition (film trilogy)|The Human Condition II:<br />Road to Eternity]]'' || 1959 || [[Masaki Kobayashi]]|| [[Japan]] ||''[[Ningen no jōken]]'' || [[Junpei Gomikawa]]<ref name=Junpei>Gomikawa's given name is variously transliterated: Jumpei, Junpei, Junbei, Jyunpei, even Shunpei, perhaps erroneously.<br />The [[Criterion Collection]] DVD release of ''The Human Condition'' uses the spelling Junpei.</ref> || 1956–1958? || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[The Mountain Road]]'' || 1960 || [[Daniel Mann]]|| [[United States|US]] ||''[[The Mountain Road (novel)|The Mountain Road]]'' || [[Theodore H. White]] || 1956 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[Assembly (film)#Sequel|Assembly 2: The Cold Flame]]''<br />''[[:zh:集结号2-烽火|集结号2-烽火]]'' || 2008 || [[Feng Xiaogang]] (?)|| [[China]] ||''[[Guan Si]]'' (?) || [[Liu Heng]] (?) || 199? || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
====Air operations====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[God Is My Co-Pilot (film)|God Is My Co-Pilot]]'' || 1945 || [[Robert Florey]]|| [[United States|US]] ||''[[God is My Co-Pilot (book)|God Is My Co-Pilot]]'' || Col. [[Robert Lee Scott, Jr.]] || 194? || '''Memoir''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
====Resistance movement====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Lust, Caution (film)|Lust, Caution]]'' || 2007 || [[Ang Lee]]|| [[China]] & [[Taiwan]] ||"[[Lust, Caution]]" || [[Eileen Chang]] || 1979 || '''Novella''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
====Military bases====
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====Military hospitals====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Red Angel]]''<br />''[[赤い天使|Akai tenshi]]'' || 1966 || [[Yasuzo Masumura]]|| [[Japan]] || ''[[Akai tenshi]]'' || [[Yoriyoshi Arima]] || 196? || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
====Involuntary confinement====
=====POWs=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Human Condition (film trilogy)|The Human Condition I:<br />No Greater Love]]'' || 1959 || [[Masaki Kobayashi]]|| [[Japan]] ||''[[Ningen no jōken]]'' || [[Junpei Gomikawa]]<ref name=Junpei/> || 1956–1958? || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[The Human Condition (film trilogy)|The Human Condition III:<br />A Soldier's Prayer]]'' || 1961 || [[Masaki Kobayashi]]|| [[Japan]] ||''[[Ningen no jōken]]'' || [[Junpei Gomikawa]]<ref name=Junpei/> || 1956–1958? || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[Devils on the Doorstep]]'' || 2000 || [[Jiang Wen]]|| [[China]] ||''Survival''<br />''[[Shengcun]]'' || You Fengwei || 199? || '''Novella''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
====Other atrocities====
(See also [[Unit 731]])
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
|}
====Refugees====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Mountain Road]]'' || 1960 || [[Daniel Mann]]|| [[United States|US]] ||''[[The Mountain Road (novel)|The Mountain Road]]'' || [[Theodore H. White]] || 1956 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
====Occupation====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Farewell My Concubine (film)|Farewell My Concubine]]''<br />''[[:zh:霸王別姬 (電影)|霸王别姬]]'' || 1993 || [[Chen Kaige]]|| [[China]] ||''[[Farewell My Concubine (novel)|Farewell My Concubine]]'' || [[Lilian Lee]] || 1993 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 2 || ''[[Devils on the Doorstep]]'' || 2000 || [[Jiang Wen]]|| [[China]] ||''Survival''<br />''[[Shengcun]]'' || You Fengwei || 199? || '''Novella''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
====Home front====
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====Justice and Retribution====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Devils on the Doorstep]]'' || 2000 || [[Jiang Wen]]|| [[China]] ||''Survival''<br />''[[Shengcun]]'' || [[You Fengwei]] || 199? || '''Novella''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
====Histories never filmed====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! Country !! Category
|-
| 1 || ''[[August Storm (book)|August Storm:<br />The Soviet 1945 Strategic Offensive in Manchuria]]''<ref name="Keegan"/> || [[David Glantz|David M. Glantz]] || 1983/<br /><small>2003</small> || '''Non-fiction''' || US || Manchukuo
|-
|}
===Unclassified===
Of uncertain subject matter
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! Notes
|-
| ''[[And All Will Be Quiet]]''<br />''[[:pl:Potem nastąpi cisza|Potem nastąpi cisza]]'' || 1965 || [[:pl:Janusz Morgenstern|Janusz Morgenstern]]|| [[Poland]] || ''[[Potem nastąpi cisza]]''<br>''[[Zanim przemówią]]'' || [[:pl:Zbigniew Safjan|Zbigniew Safjan]] || 196? || '''Novel'''
|
|-
| ''[[Men and War]]''<br />''[[Senso to ningen: Unmei no jokyoku]]'' || 1970 || [[Satsuo Yamamoto]]|| [[Japan]] ||''[[Senso to ningen: Unmei no jokyoku]]'' (?) || [[Junpei Gomikawa]]<ref name=Junpei/> || 195? || '''Novel'''
|
|-
| ''[[A Dance to the Music of Time#Adaptations|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'''/<br />'''[[Dodecalogue]]''' |
| TV miniseries
|-
|}
* ** .
===What if ...===
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source<br />work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 2 || ''[[The Boys from Brazil (film)|The Boys from Brazil]]'' || 1978 || [[Franklin J. Schaffner]]|| US ||''[[The Boys from Brazil (novel)|The Boys from Brazil]]'' || [[Ira Levin]] || 1976 || '''Novel''' || - || - ||-
|-
| 3 || ''[[The Keep (film)|The Keep]]'' || 1983 || [[Michael Mann (director)|Michael Mann]]|| US ||''[[The Keep (F. Paul Wilson novel)|The Keep]]'' || [[F. Paul Wilson]] || 1981 || '''Novel''' || - || - ||-
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| 4 || ''[[The Philadelphia Experiment (film)|The Philadelphia Experiment]]''|| 1984 || [[Stewart Raffill]]|| US ||''[[The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility]]'' || [[Charles Berlitz]] & [[William L. Moore (author)|William L. Moore]] || 1979 || '''Non-fiction''' ||-||-||-
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| 5 || ''[[River of Death (film)|River of Death]]''|| 1989 || [[Steve Carter (director)|Steve Carter]]|| US ||''[[River of Death]]'' || [[Alistair MacLean]] || 1981 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 7 || ''[[Fatherland (TV movie)|Fatherland]]'' * || 1994 || [[Christopher Menaul]]|| US ||''[[Fatherland (novel)|Fatherland]]'' || [[Robert Harris (novelist)|Robert Harris]] || 1992 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 8 || ''[[Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean]]'' || 2005 || [[Shinji Higuchi]] & [[Cellin Gluck]]|| [[Japan]] ||'''''Formal translation or transliteration required'''''<br />''[[:jp:終戦のローレライ|終戦のローレライ]]'' || [[Harutoshi Fukui]] || 2002 || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
| 9 || ''[[Ghostboat (film)|Ghostboat]]'' * || 2006 || [[Stuart Orme]]|| UK ||''[[Ghostboat]]'' (?) || [[George E. Simpson]] &<br />[[Neal R. Burger]] || 199? || '''Novel''' ||-||-||-
|-
|}
* * TV movie.
==[[Franco-Thai War]]==
1940–1941
==[[Ecuadorian–Peruvian War]]==
1941–1942
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''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==
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;Citations
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==Bibliography==
* Clarke, James. ''Virgin Film: War Films'', [[Virgin Books]], London, 2006.
* Deveny, Thomas G. ''Cain on Screen: Contemporary Spanish Cinema'', [[The Scarecrow Press]], [[Lanham, Maryland|Lanham, Md.]], 1999.
* [[Sebastian Faulks|Faulks, Sebastian]] and Jörg Hensgen. ''[[The Vintage Book of War Stories]]'', Vintage, London, 1999.
* [[John Keegan|Keegan, John]]. ''The Battle for History: Re-fighting World War Two'' ([[Barbara Frum]] lecture series), [[Random House#Other international branches|Vintage Canada]], Toronto, 1995.<br />Republished by [[Vintage Books]], New York, 1996.
* [[Roger Manvell|Manvell, Roger]]. ''Films and the Second World War'', [[A.S. Barnes]], [[Cranbury Township, New Jersey|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 and Brimscombe|Thrupp]], [[Stroud, Gloucestershire|Stroud]], Gloucestershire, 2005.
* ''100 Greatest War Movies'', special issue of ''[[Military History Magazine]]'', Weider History Group, [[Leesburg, Virginia|Leesburg, Va.]], 2007.
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