List of films based on military books (fantasy)

A list of films that are based on war books. If a book has been turned into both a film and a TV series (or TV film), then the TV series is included.

This is a fictional history page. The films and books are real. The history is not.

For other conflicts, see the List of films based on war books — future.

Hyborian Age

Campaigns of Thulsa Doom

War of the Ring

T.A. 3018–3019

Bulletin ... films currently in production: The Hobbit by Guillermo del Toro

• ♠ Tolkien's history documents events prior to the War's outbreak, including the recovery of the One Ring.

Skirmish on Weathertop

T.A. 3018?

Battle of Helm's Deep

3–4 March, T.A. 3019

Battle of Pelennor Fields

15 March, T.A. 3019

Demobilization

• ♠ The subject of soldiers returning home is dealt with more thoroughly in the novel than in the film.

Campaigns of Arthur

Twice filmed: The Once and Future King

Campaigns of Ilya Muromets

980–1453 (against enemies including the Polovtsi and the Golden Horde)

Lilliput–Blefuscu War

1699–1702

Dwarf–Giant War

• ♠ According to the film's title, the French discovered a conflict between the tiny Lilliputians and giant Brobdingnagians which Swift neglected to mention in his account.

Great Lilliputian Proletarian Revolution

• ♠ The Soviets expose the true nature of exploitation and class struggle in capitalistic Lilliputian society.

Wars of Nonestica

(The Land of Oz and neighbouring countries)

Roly-Rogue War

c. 1905

• ♠ The Kingdoms of Ix and Noland ally against the Roly-Rogues.

Scarecrow's Rebellion

c. 1914

• ♠ The rebellion leads to the overthrow of King Krewl, dictator of Oz.

Wars of Magic Land

(Not to be confused with the Land of Oz, in spite of having a Wizard residing in an Emerald City)

Wooden Soldier Rebellion

c. 1939

• * TV series.

Wars of Narnia

c. 1940–1949 (Narnian Year 1000–2555)

• ♠ Lewis chronicles the beginnings of modern Narnian history, and the arrival of the four Kings and Queens.
• * TV movie.

Battle of Aslan's How

Narnian Year c. 2300

• * TV movie.

Bulletin ... upcoming film: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by Michael Apted

Rebellion of Manor Farm

1940s

• ♠ Orwell may have been inspired by the 1924 farm revolt novel, Bunt, the final work by Polish Nobel Laureate Władysław Reymont.

Collapse of Animal Government

1999
The experimental government by the "more equal" animals ended at the same time as the Bolshevik experiment in the Soviet Union.

• ♠ The 1999 film "improves" Orwell by adding the happy ending that people ^[who?] demanded for half a century.

Efrafan War

(War of the rabbits of Watership Down with Efrafa)
1970s

Second Rebellion of Voldemort

1990s

Prewar

Phoney War

Basilisk Incident

Dementor Mutiny

Skirmish at the Graveyard

Rearmament

Dumbledore's Army

Battle of the Ministry of Magic

Skirmish on Astronomy Tower

Skirmish at Malfoy Manor

Bulletin ... film currently in production: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by David Yates

Battle of Hogwarts

2 May 1998

For other conflicts, see the List of films based on war books — future.

Notes

Bibliography

See also

• List of films based on war books — future

• List of films based on war books
• List of films based on war books — pre-1775
• List of films based on war books — 1775–1898
• List of films based on war books — 1898–1926
• List of films based on war books — 1927–1945
• List of films based on war books — post-1945
• List of films based on war books — peace

• Assassinations in fiction

• List of films based on Slavic mythology