List of films based on war books — post-1945

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.

For earlier conflicts, see the List of films based on war books — 1927–1945.

Chinese Civil War — Final stage

1945–1950

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Left Hand of God	1955	Edward Dmytryk	USA	The Left Hand of God	William E. Barrett	195?	Novel	-	-	-
2	Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst	1957	Michael Anderson	UK	Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst	Lawrence Earl	195?	Non-Fiction	-	-	-
3	Satan Never Sleeps	1962	Leo McCarey	USA	Satan Never Sleeps	Pearl S. Buck	1962	Novel	-	-	-
4	Farewell My Concubine 霸王别姬	1993	Chen Kaige	China	Farewell My Concubine	Lilian Lee	1993	Novel	-	-	-

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Assembly ♠ 集結號	2007	Feng Xiaogang	China	Guan Si	Liu Heng	199?	Novel	-	-	-

♠ The film's 2008 sequel Assembly 2: The Cold Flame is in fact a prequel. See World War II, China Theatre.

Resistance to Soviet occupation

Baltic countries

1945–

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Utterly Alone	2003	Jonas Vaitkus	Lithuania	Fighters for Freedom	"Juozas L. Daumantas"	1949?/1975	Memoir/ Non-fiction	-	-	-

Greek Civil War

1946–1949

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Eleni	1985	Peter Yates	USA	Eleni	Nicholas Gage	198?	Non-fiction	-	-	-

First Indochina War

1946–1954

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Quiet American	1958	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	USA	The Quiet American	Graham Greene	1955	Novel	-	-	-
2	The 317th Platoon	1965	Pierre Schoendoerffer	France	La 317^e Section	Pierre Schoendoerffer	1963	Novel	-	-	-
3	The Quiet American	2002	Phillip Noyce	USA	The Quiet American	Graham Greene	1955	Novel	-	-	-

Background

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Lover	1992	Jean-Jacques Annaud	USA	The Lover	Marguerite Duras	1984	Novel/Memoir	-	-	-

Cold War

1947–1989
This section deals with the confrontational elements of the Cold War, including mutual suspicion and espionage.
Actual combat operations, such as proxy wars supported by the two sides, are handled in their own sections.

Iron Curtain

Confrontation

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Third Man	1949	Carol Reed	UK	The Third Man	Graham Greene	1950	Novella	-	-	-
2	The Red Danube	1949	George Sidney	USA	Vespers in Vienna	Bruce Marshall	1947	Novel	-	-	-
3	Seven Days in May	1964	John Frankenheimer	USA	Seven Days in May	Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II	1962	Novel	-	-	-
4	The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming	1966	Norman Jewison	USA	The Off-Islanders	Nathaniel Benchley	1961	Novel	-	-	-
5	The Shoes of the Fisherman	1968	Michael Anderson	USA	The Shoes of the Fisherman	Morris West	1963	Novel	-	-	-
6	Don't Drink the Water	1969	Howard Morris	USA	Don't Drink the Water	Woody Allen	1966	Play	-	-	-
7	Gorky Park	1983	Michael Apted	USA	Gorky Park	Martin Cruz Smith	1981	Novel	-	-	-
8	Der Bockerer 2 ♠	1996	Franz Antel	Austria	Der Bockerer (characters)	Ulrich Becher & Peter Preses	1946	Play	-	-	-
9	Buffalo Soldiers	2001	Gregor Jordan	USA	Buffalo Soldiers	Robert O'Connor	1993	Novel	-	-	-
10	The Good German	2006	Steven Soderbergh	USA	The Good German	Joseph Kanon	2001	Novel	-	-	-

♠ Vienna during the Allied occupation of Austria.
* TV movie.

Secret missions

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Action of the Tiger	1957	Terence Young	USA	Action of the Tiger	James Wellard	195?	Novel	-	-	-
2	Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident	1976	Delbert Mann	USA	Operation Overflight	Francis Gary Powers & Curt Gentry	1971	Memoir	-	-	-
3	Firefox	1982	Clint Eastwood	USA	Firefox	Craig Thomas	1977	Novel	-	-	-

Espionage

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Iron Curtain	1948	William Wellman	USA	This Was My Choice	Igor Gouzenko	1948	Memoir	-	-	-
2	5 Steps to Danger	1957	Henry S. Kesler	USA	The Steel Mirror	Donald Hamilton	1948	Novel	-	-	-
3	Hot Enough for June	1964	Ralph Thomas	UK	The Night of Wenceslas	Lionel Davidson	1960	Novel	-	-	-
4	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	1965	Martin Ritt	UK	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	John le Carré	1963	Novel	-	-	-
5	The Deadly Affair	1966	Sidney Lumet	UK	Call for the Dead	John le Carré	1961	Novel	-	-	-
6	The Looking Glass War	1969	Frank Pierson	UK	The Looking Glass War	John le Carré	1965	Novel	-	-	-
7	The Russia House	1990	Fred Schepisi	USA	The Russia House	John le Carré	1989	Novel	-	-	-
8	A Different Loyalty	2004	Marek Kanievska	Canada, UK, USA	Kim Philby: The Spy I Loved (uncredited)	Eleanor Brewer Philby (uncredited)	1967	Memoir	-	-	-
9	The Company ♠ *	2007	Mikael Salomon	USA	The Company: A Novel of the CIA	Robert Littell	2002	Novel	-	-	-

♠ The story of the CIA, from postwar Berlin, through the Hungarian Revolution and the Bay of Pigs, to Gorbachev and Yeltsin.
* TV movie.

Defection

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Judgment in Berlin	1988	Leo Penn	West Germany & USA	Judgment in Berlin	Herbert Jay Stern	1984	Memoir	-	-	-

Mariel Boatlift

(analogous to the Berlin Airlift)
1980

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Scarface	1983	Brian De Palma	USA	Scarface (uncredited)	Armitage Trail (uncredited)	193?	Novel	-	-	-

"Bamboo Curtain"

Confrontation

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	On Dangerous Ground *	1996	Lawrence Gordon Clark	Canada, UK	On Dangerous Ground	Jack Higgins	1994	Novel	-	-	-

* TV movie.

Secret missions

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Soldier of Fortune	1955	Edward Dmytryk	USA	Soldier of Fortune	Ernest K. Gann	1954	Novel	-	-	-

McCarthy hearings

1954

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Citizen Cohn *	1992	Frank Pierson	USA	Citizen Cohn	Nicholas von Hoffman	1988	Non-fiction	-	-	-

* TV movie.

Frequently filmed: The Crucible

The best-known drama about the Communist witchhunts is set in colonial Massachusetts.

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Les Sorcières de Salem ♠	1957	Raymond Rouleau	France & East Germany	The Crucible	Arthur Miller	1953	Play	-	-	-
2	The Crucible	1996	Nicholas Hytner	USA	The Crucible	Arthur Miller	1953	Play	-	-	-

♠ The Witches of Salem has an adapted screenplay by Jean-Paul Sartre.

Cuban Missile Crisis

October 1962

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Missiles of October *	1974	Anthony Page	USA	Thirteen Days	Robert F. Kennedy	1969	Memoir	-	-	-
2	Thirteen Days	2000	Roger Donaldson	USA	The Kennedy Tapes - Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis	Ernest May & Philip Zelikow	1997	Non-fiction	-	-	-

* TV movie.

Mutually assured destruction

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Bombers B-52	1957	Gordon Douglas	USA	Bombers B-52 (?)	Sam Rolfe	195?	Novel	-	-	-
2	The Hunt for Red October	1990	John McTiernan	USA	The Hunt for Red October	Tom Clancy	1984	Novel	-	-	-

Doomsday Scenario

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Fail-Safe	1964	Sidney Lumet	USA	Fail-Safe	Eugene Burdick & Harvey Wheeler	1962	Novel	Fail Safe	2000	USA
2	Dr. Strangelove	1964	Stanley Kubrick	UK & USA	Red Alert	Peter Bryant	1958	Novel	-	-	-
3	The Bedford Incident	1965	James B. Harris	USA	The Bedford Incident	Mark Rascovich	1963	Novel	-	-	-
4	Twilight's Last Gleaming	1977	Robert Aldrich	USA	Viper Three	Walter Wager	1971	Novel	-	-	-
5	By Dawn's Early Light *	1990	Jack Sholder	USA	Trinity's Child	William Prochnau	1983	Novel	-	-	-

* TV movie.

Grand Fenwick-American War

The embarrassing, and rarely discussed, defeat of the USA by the bowmen of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick.

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Mouse That Roared	1959	Jack Arnold	UK	The Day New York Was Invaded aka The Mouse That Roared	Leonard Wibberley ♠	1955	Novel	-	-	-
2	The Mouse on the Moon	1963	Richard Lester	UK	The Mouse on the Moon	Leonard Wibberley ♠	1962	Novel	-	-	-

♠ Wibberley was the father of Cormac Wibberley, screenwriter of the National Treasure film series, amongst other titles.

Partition of India

1947

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Jewel in the Crown *	1984	Jim O'Brien & Christopher Morahan	UK	Raj Quartet	Paul Scott	1966–1975	Tetralogy	-	-	-
2	Train to Pakistan	1998	Pamela Rooks	UK & India	Train to Pakistan	Khushwant Singh	1956	Novel	-	-	-
3	Earth	1998	Deepa Mehta	India & Canada	Ice Candy Man	Bapsi Sidhwa	1988	Novel	-	-	-
4	Pinjar	2003	Dr. Chandraprakash Dwivedi	India & Pakistan	Pinjar	Amrita Pritam	1970	Novel	-	-	-

* TV miniseries.

Indo-Pakistani War of 1947

1947–1948

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

1948 Arab–Israeli War

1948–1949

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Hill 24 Doesn't Answer Giv'a 24 Eina Ona	1955	Thorold Dickinson	Israel	?	Zvi Kolitz	195?	Story	-	-	-

2	Exodus	1960	Otto Preminger	USA	Exodus	Leon Uris	1958	Novel	-	-	-

3	Cast a Giant Shadow	1966	Melville Shavelson	USA	Cast a Giant Shadow	Ted Berkman	196?	Non-fiction	-	-	-

4	O Jerusalem	2006	Élie Chouraqui	Belgium	O Jerusalem!	Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre	1972	Non-fiction	-	-	-

La Violencia

1948–1958 (including El Bogotazo)

Malayan Emergency

1948–1960

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The 7th Dawn	1964	Lewis Gilbert	UK	The Durian Tree	Michael Keon	196?	Novel	-	-	-
2	The Virgin Soldiers	1969	John Dexter	UK	The Virgin Soldiers	Leslie Thomas	1966	Novel	-	-	-
3	Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers	1977	Norman Cohen	UK	Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers ♠	Leslie Thomas	1975	Novel	-	-	-

♠ Thomas wrote a third, intermediate novel in his series, Onward Virgin Soldiers (1971).

Korean War

1950–1953

Politics

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Give 'em Hell, Harry!	1975	Steve Binder & Peter H. Hunt	USA	Give 'em Hell, Harry!	Samuel Gallu	197?	Play	-	-	-

Land operations

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Fixed Bayonets!	1951	Samuel Fuller	USA	Immortal Sergeant	John Brophy	194?	Novel	-	-	-
2	Men in War	1957	Anthony Mann	USA	Day Without End	Van Van Praag	195?	Novel	-	-	-
3	Pork Chop Hill	1959	Lewis Milestone	USA	Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Action, Korea, Spring, 1953	S.L.A. Marshall	1956	Non-fiction	-	-	-

Air operations

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Bridges at Toko-Ri	1955	Mark Robson	USA	The Bridges at Toko-Ri	James Michener	1953	Novel	-	-	-
2	The Hunters	1958	[...] Powell	USA	The Hunters	James Salter	1956	Novel	-	-	-

Naval operations

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

Military hospitals

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Great Impostor ♠	1961	Robert Mulligan	USA	The Great Impostor	Robert Crichton	1959	Non-fiction	-	-	-
2	MASH ♦	1970	Robert Altman	USA	MASH*	Richard Hooker	1953	Novel	MASH*	1972–1983	USA

♠ The hospital is aboard an RCN destroyer, the HMCS Cayuga.
♦ In the film version, the implicit target of the satire is the Vietnam War, rather than the Korean War.

Involuntary confinement

POWs

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Manchurian Candidate	1962	John Frankenheimer	USA	The Manchurian Candidate	Richard Condon	1959	Novel	-	-	-

Mau Mau Uprising

1952–1960

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Simba	1955	Brian Desmond Hurst	UK	Simba	Anthony Perry	195?	Novel	-	-	-
2	Something of Value	1957	Richard Brooks	USA	Something of Value	Robert Ruark	1955	Novel	-	-	-
3	Guns at Batasi ♠	1964	John Guillermin	UK	The Siege of Battersea	Robert Holles	1962	Novel	-	-	-

♠ Officially, this film does not take place in Kenya, but in a fictional emerging East African country where there is a rebellion against a British garrison. Both Uganda and Tanganyika enjoyed smooth transitions during this period.

Cuban Revolution

1953–1959

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Gun Runners	1958	Don Siegel	USA	To Have and Have Not	Ernest Hemingway	1937	Novel	-	-	-
2	Che	2008	Steven Soderbergh	USA	Diario del Che en Bolivia	Ernesto "Che" Guevara	1968/1994	Diary	-	-	-

Bay of Pigs Invasion

1961

Bulletin ... film currently in production: Fire Bay by director unknown

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Company *	2007	Mikael Salomon	USA	The Company: A Novel of the CIA	Robert Littell	2002	Novel	-	-	-

* TV movie.

Algerian War

1954–1962

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Lost Command	1966	Jean Lartéguy	USA	Les centurions	Jean Lartéguy	1960	Novel	-	-	-
2	Le Crabe-tambour	1977	Pierre Schoendoerffer	France	Le Crabe-tambour	Pierre Schoendoerffer	1976	Novel	-	-	-
3	Là-bas... mon pays	2000	Alexandre Arcady	France	Grande vacance	René Bonnell	19??	Novel	-	-	-
4	Mon colonel	2006	Laurent Herbiet	France & Belgium	Mon colonel	Francis Zamponi	19??	Novel	-	-	-

Suez Crisis

1956

Hungarian Revolution

1956

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Der Bockerer III — Die Brücke von Andau	2000	Franz Antel	Austria	Der Bockerer (characters)	Ulrich Becher & Peter Preses	1946	Play	-	-	-
2	The Company *	2007	Mikael Salomon	USA	The Company: A Novel of the CIA	Robert Littell	2002	Novel	-	-	-

* TV movie.

Ifni War

1957–1958

Vietnam War

1957–1975
(See also the First Indochina War)

Politics

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Ugly American ♠	1963	George Englund	USA	The Ugly American	William Lederer & Eugene Burdick	1958	Novel	-	-	-
2	JFK	1991	Oliver Stone	USA	On the Trail of the Assassins	Jim Garrison ♦	1990	Non-fiction	-	-	-
2					Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy	Jim Marrs ♦	1989	Non-fiction	-	-	-
2					JFK: The CIA, Vietnam and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy ♣ (uncredited)	L. Fletcher Prouty ♦ (uncredited)	198?	Non-fiction	-	-	-
2					JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power (uncredited)	John M. Newman ♦ (uncredited)	1992	Non-fiction	-	-	-
3	Nixon	1995	Oliver Stone	USA	The Final Days	Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein	1976	Non-fiction	-	-	-
3					Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character (uncredited)	Fawn Brodie (uncredited)	1981	Non-fiction	-	-	-
3					Nixon: the Education of a Politician 1913-62 (uncredited)	Stephen Ambrose (uncredited)	1991	Non-fiction	-	-	-
3					Nixon: the Triumph of a Politician 1962-72 (uncredited)	Stephen Ambrose (uncredited)	1991	Non-fiction	-	-	-
3					Nixon: Ruin and Recovery 1973-90 (uncredited)	Stephen Ambrose (uncredited)	1991	Non-fiction	-	-	-
3					Nixon: A Life (uncredited)	Jonathan Aitken (uncredited)	1996	Non-fiction	-	-	-
3					"The Second Coming" (uncredited)	W.B. Yeats (uncredited)	1920	Poem	-	-	-
4	Kissinger and Nixon *	1995	Daniel Petrie	Canada	Kissinger: A Biography	Walter Isaacson	1992	Non-fiction	-	-	-
5	A Bright Shining Lie *	1998	Terry George	USA	A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam	Neil Sheehan	1988	Non-fiction	-	-	-
6	Frost/Nixon	2008	Ron Howard	USA	Frost/Nixon	Peter Morgan	2006	Play	-	-	-

♠ Set in the fictional Southeast Asian country of Sarkhan, rather than Vietnam per se.
Sarkhan, a US ally, is invaded by Communist North Sarkhan.
♦ Technical advisors on JFK.
♣ Prouty's book has an introduction by Oliver Stone.
* TV movie.

Background

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Red Dust ♠	1932	Victor Fleming (uncredited)	USA	Red Dust	Wilson Collison	193?	Play	-	-	-

♠ About an American on his rubber plantation in French Indochina.

Land operations

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Green Berets	1968	John Wayne	USA	The Green Berets	Robin Moore	1965	Novel	-	-	-
2	The Deer Hunter	1978	Michael Cimino	USA	Three Comrades (uncredited)	Erich Maria Remarque (uncredited)	1937	Novel	-	-	-
3	Go Tell the Spartans	1978	Ted Post	USA	Incident at Muc Wa	Daniel Ford	1967	Novel	-	-	-
4	Apocalypse Now	1979	Francis Ford Coppola	USA	“Inspired by” Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad	1902	Novella	-	-	-
4					Dispatches (unofficial)	Michael Herr (unofficial)	1977	Non-fiction	-	-	-
5	The Odd Angry Shot	1979	Tom Jeffrey	Australia	The Odd Angry Shot	William L. Nagle	19??	Novel	-	-	-
6	Full Metal Jacket	1987	Stanley Kubrick	USA	The Short-Timers	Gustav Hasford	1980	Novel	-	-	-
6					Dispatches (unofficial)	Michael Herr (unofficial)	1977	Non-fiction	-	-	-
7	Platoon Leader	1988	Aaron Norris	USA	Platoon Leader	James R. McDonough	1985	Novel/Memoir	-	-	-
8	White Badge ♠	1992	Jeong Ji-yeong	South Korea	''White Badge: A Korean Novel	'' Ahn Junghyo	198?	Novel	-	-	-
9	We Were Soldiers	2002	Randall Wallace	USA	We Were Soldiers Once… And Young	Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore & Joseph L. Galloway	1953	Novel	-	-	-

♠ About the South Korean contingent in the Vietnam War.

Air operations

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	A Yank in Viet-Nam	1964	Marshall Thompson	USA	"?" ♠	Jack Lewis	196?		-	-	-
2	Bat21*	1988	Peter Markle	USA	BAT-21	William Charles Anderson	1980	Non-fiction	-	-	-
3	Air America	1990	Roger Spottiswoode	USA	Air America	Christopher Robbins	1979	Novel	-	-	-
4	Flight of the Intruder	1991	John Milius	USA	''Flight of the Intruder	'' Stephen Coonts	1986	Novel	-	-	-

♠ The film's New York Times review refers to "a story" but does not name it.

Military bases

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

Involuntary confinement

POWs

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Some Kind of Hero	1982	Michael Pressman	USA	Some Kind of Hero	James Kirkwood, Jr.	197?	Novel	-	-	-

Atrocities

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Casualties of War	1989	Brian De Palma	USA	Casualties of War	Daniel Lang	1969	Novel	-	-	-
1					Casualties of War	Daniel Lang	1969		-	-	-

Refugees and Boat people

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Turtle Beach	1992	Stephen Wallace	Australia	Turtle Beach	Blanche d'Alpuget	1981	Novel	-	-	-

Home front

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Hoa-Binh ♠	1970	Raoul Coutard	France	?	Françoise Lorrain	196?	Novel	-	-	-
2	Friendly Fire	1979	David Greene	USA	Friendly Fire	C.D. Bryan	1976	Non-fiction	-	-	-
2					New Yorker articles	C.D. Bryan	197?	Articles	-	-	-

♠ Information on this film is scanty, but it appears to be about the effect of war on Vietnamese children.

Protest

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Steal This Movie!	2000	Robert Greenwald	USA	To America with Love: Letters From the Underground	Anita Hoffman & Abbie Hoffman	1976	Non-fiction	-	-	-
1					Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel	Marty Jezer	1992	Non-fiction	-	-	-
1					Steal This Book	Abbie Hoffman	1971	Non-fiction	-	-	-
2	Chicago 10: Speak Your Peace	2007	Brett Morgen	USA	Chicago Seven trial transcripts	Abbie Hoffman, et al.	1969–1970	Non-fiction	-	-	-

Demobilization

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Heaven & Earth	1993	Oliver Stone	USA	When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace	Le Ly Hayslip & Jay Wurts	1989	Memoir	-	-	-
1					Child of War, Woman of Peace	Le Ly Hayslip & James Hayslip	1993	Memoir	-	-	-
2	Who'll Stop the Rain	1978	Karel Reisz	USA	Dog Soldiers	Robert Stone	1974	Novel	-	-	-

Casualties physical and mental

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Coming Home	1978	Hal Ashby	USA	Coming Home	George Davis	197?	Novel	-	-	-
2	Birdy	1984	Alan Parker	USA	Birdy	William Wharton	1978	Novel	-	-	-
3	Born on the Fourth of July ♠	1989	Oliver Stone	USA	Born on the Fourth of July	Ron Kovic	1976	Memoir	-	-	-
4	Jacknife	1989	David Jones	USA	Strange Snow	Stephen Metcalfe	1982	Play	-	-	-

♠ For another recent autobiography of a seriously wounded serviceman, see Tumbledown (Falklands War).
The World War II classic film on this subject is The Men with Marlon Brando (original screenplay, not based on a book).

Memorial

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Gardens Of Stone	1987	Francis Ford Coppola	USA	Gardens Of Stone	Nicholas Proffitt	1983	Novel	-	-	-
2	In Country	1989	Norman Jewison	USA	In Country	Bobbie Ann Mason	1985	Novel	-	-	-

Cambodian Civil War

1967–1975

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The [...] Fields	1984	Roland Joffé	UK	The Death and Life of Dith Pran	Sydney Schanberg	1980	Non-fiction	-	-	-
2	Nixon ♠	1995	Oliver Stone	USA	The Final Days	Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein	1976	Non-fiction	-	-	-

♠ Cambodia is covered, in addition to Vietnam.

Congo Crisis

1960–1966 (including the Katangan Secession and the Simba Rebellion)

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Dark of the Sun ♠	1968	Jack Cardiff	USA	Train From Katanga aka The Dark of the Sun	Wilbur Smith	1965	Novel	-	-	-

♠ Unofficially remade as Tears of the Sun, set in a fictitious Nigerian Civil War.

Guatemalan Civil War

1960–1996

Sino-Indian War

1962

Borneo Confrontation

1962–1966

Papuan Civil War

1965–ongoing

Rhodesian Bush War

1966–1980

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Albino aka Whispering Death	1976	Jürgen Goslar	West Germany	The Whispering Death	Daniel Carney	1969	Novel	-	-	-

The Troubles

1966–1998

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Cal	1984	Pat O'Connor	UK & Ireland	Cal	Bernard MacLaverty	1983	Novel	-	-	-
2	Harry's Game *	1982	Lawrence Gordon Clark	UK	Harry's Game	Gerald Seymour	1975	Novel	-	-	-
3	In the Name of the Father	1993	Jim Sheridan	Ireland & UK	Proved Innocent	Gerry Conlon	199?	Memoir	-	-	-
4	The Informant *	1997	Jim McBride	Ireland & USA	Field of Blood	Gerald Seymour	1985	Novel	-	-	-
5	Bloody Sunday *	2002	Paul Greengrass	UK & Ireland	Eyewitness Bloody Sunday – The Truth (uncredited)	Don Mullan (uncredited)	1997	Memoir/ Non-fiction	-	-	-
6	Fifty Dead Men Walking	2008	Kari Skogland	UK & Canada	Fifty Dead Men Walking	Martin McGartland	1997	Memoir	-	-	-

* TV movie.

Six Day War

1967

Biafran War

1967–1970

Prague Spring

1968

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Unbearable Lightness of Being	1988	Philip Kaufman	USA	The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Milan Kundera	1984	Novel	-	-	-
2	Der Bockerer IV — Prager Frühling	2003	Franz Antel & Kurt Ockermüller	Austria	Der Bockerer (characters)	Ulrich Becher & Peter Preses	1946	Play	-	-	-

Indo-Pakistani War of 1971

1971

October War

1973

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Kippur	2000	Amos Gitai	Israel	One-Dimensional Man (uncredited)	Herbert Marcuse ✡ (uncredited)	1964	Non-Fiction	-	-	-
2	Golda's Balcony	2007	Jeremy Kagan	USA	Golda's Balcony	William Gibson	2003	Play	-	-	-

✡ Two Israeli reservists discuss Marcuse (as well as used cars) as they drive, looking for the war.

Angolan Civil War

1975–2002

Entebbe Raid

1976

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Rise and Fall of Idi Amin	1981	Sharad Patel	UK	The White Pumpkin	Denis Hills	1976	Non-fiction	-	-	-
2	The Last King of Scotland	2006	Kevin Macdonald	UK	The Last King of Scotland	Giles Foden	1998	Novel	-	-	-

Dirty War

1976–1983

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Funny Dirty Little War	1983	Héctor Olivera	Argentina	No habrá más penas ni olvido	Osvaldo Soriano	1979	Novel	-	-	-
2	Night of the Pencils	1986	Héctor Olivera	Argentina	La noche de los lápices	María Seoane & Héctor Ruiz Núñez	198?	Non-fiction	-	-	-
3	Imagining Argentina	2003	Christopher Hampton	Spain, UK, USA	Imagining Argentina	Lawrence Thornton	1987	Novel	-	-	-

Ogaden War

1977–1978

Second Shaba War

1978

Beagle conflict

1978

Uganda-Tanzania War

1978–1979

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Rise and Fall of Idi Amin	1981	Sharad Patel	UK	The White Pumpkin	Denis Hills	1976	Non-fiction	-	-	-

Nicaraguan Revolution

1978–1979

Nicaraguan Civil War

1979–1990

Soviet-Afghan War

1978–1989

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Beast	1988	Kevin Reynolds	USA	Nanawatai	William Mastrosimone	198?	Play	-	-	-
2	Charlie Wilson's War	2007	Mike Nichols	USA	Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History	George Crile	2003	Non-fiction	-	-	-
3	The Kite Runner	2007	Marc Forster	USA	The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini	2003	Novel	-	-	-

Sino-Vietnamese War

1979

Iranian Revolution

1979

Iran–Iraq War

1980–1988

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Persepolis	2007	Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi	France & USA	Persepolis	Marjane Satrapi	2000-2003	Memoir/ Graphic Novel	-	-	-

Salvadoran Civil War

1980–1992

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Salvador	1986	Oliver Stone	USA	Flower of the Dragon (uncredited)	Richard Boyle (uncredited)	198?	Non-fiction	-	-	-
1					Weakness and Deceit: U.S. Policy and El Salvador (uncredited)	Raymond Bonner (uncredited)	1984	Non-fiction	-	-	-
1					Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (uncredited)	Hunter S. Thompson (uncredited)	1971	Novel/Memoir	-	-	-
1					Final sermon	Archbishop Óscar Romero	1980	Sermon	-	-	-

Falklands War

1982

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Tumbledown *	1988	Richard Eyre	UK	When the Fighting Is Over: A Personal Story of the Battle for Tumbledown Mountain and Its Aftermath	John Lawrence & Robert Lawrence	198?	Memoir	-	-	-
2	Resurrected	1989	Paul Greengrass	UK	Summer Soldier	Philip Williams & M. S. Power	1990	Memoir	-	-	-

* TV movie.

Invasion of Lebanon

1982–1985

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Beaufort בופור‎	2007	Joseph Cedar	Israel	Beaufort	Ron Leshem	2005	Novel	-	-	-
2	Waltz with Bashir	2008	Ari Folman	Israel	Waltz with Bashir: A Lebanon War Story †	Ari Folman & David Polonsky	2009	Memoir/ Graphic Novel	-	-	-

† The graphic novel was published after the animated film.

Invasion of Grenada

1983

Sri Lankan Civil War

1983–2009

US Bombing of Libya

15 April 1986

8-8-88 Uprising

1988

Liberian Civil Wars

1989–1996
1999–2003

Sierra Leone Civil War

1991–2002

Collapse of the Soviet Union

Soviet coup of 1991

1991

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Company *	2007	Mikael Salomon	USA	The Company: A Novel of the CIA	Robert Littell	2002	Novel	-	-	-

* TV movie.

Gulf War

1991

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Courage Under Fire	1996	Edward Zwick	USA	"In a Grove" (uncredited)	Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (uncredited)	1922		-	-	-
2	The One That Got Away *	1996	Paul Greengrass	UK	The One That Got Away ♠	"Chris Ryan", M.M.	1995?	Memoir	-	-	-
3	Bravo Two Zero *	1999	Tom Clegg	UK	Bravo Two Zero ♠	"Andy McNab"	1993	Memoir	-	-	-
4	Jarhead	2005	Sam Mendes	USA	Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles	Anthony Swofford	2003	Memoir	-	-	-

♠ The events of these books were thoroughly questioned by Michael Asher in The Real Bravo Two Zero: The Truth Behind Bravo Two Zero. (See Bravo Two Zero accounts for the saga of the historiography on this single patrol.)
* TV movie.

Yugoslav Wars

1991–2001

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Harrison's Flowers	2000	Elie Chouraqui	France	Harrison's Flowers (?)	Isabel Ellsen	199?	Novel	-	-	-
2	Dezerter Дезертер	2000	Živojin Pavlović	Yugoslavia	"The Eternal Husband"	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	18??		-	-	-

Bosnian War

1992–1995

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Welcome To Sarajevo	1997	Michael Winterbottom	USA & UK	Natasha's Story	Michael Nicholson	1993	Novel	-	-	-
2	The Hunting Party	2007	Richard Shepard	USA, Croatia, Bosnia	"How I Spent My Summer Vacation"	Scott Anderson	2000		-	-	-

Somalian Civil War

Battle of Mogadishu

1993

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Black Hawk Down	2001	Ridley Scott	USA	Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War	Mark Bowden	1999	Non-fiction	-	-	-

Rwandan [...]

1994

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	A Sunday in Kigali	2006	Robert Favreau	Canada	A Sunday at the pool in Kigali	Gil Courtemanche	2000	Novel	-	-	-
2	Shake Hands with the Devil	2007	Roger Spottiswoode	Canada	Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda	Roméo Dallaire	2003	Non-fiction	-	-	-

First Chechen War

1994–1996

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Prisoner of the Mountains	1996	Sergei Bodrov	Russia	"The Prisoner of the Caucasus"	Leo Tolstoy	18??		-	-	-

Kargil War

1999

21st Century

"War on Terror"

2001–ongoing

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	The Guys	2002	Jim Simpson	USA	The Guys	Anne Nelson	2002	Play	-	-	-
2	Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story *	2003	Robert Dornhelm	USA	Rudy!: An Investigative Biography of Rudy Giuliani	Wayne Barrett	2000	Non-fiction	-	-	-
3	The Path to 9/11 *	2006	David L. Cunningham	USA	The Cell	John Miller & Michael Stone	200?	Non-fiction	-	-	-
3					1000 Years for Revenge: International [...] and the FBI – the Untold Story	Peter Lance	2003	Non-fiction	-	-	-
3					Relentless Pursuit	Samuel M. Katz	200?	Non-fiction	-	-	-
4	A Mighty Heart	2007	Michael Winterbottom	USA	A Mighty Heart	Mariane Pearl	200?	Non-fiction	-	-	-

* TV movie.

Prior international [...]

Prior to 11/09/2001

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Barcelona	1994	Whit Stillman	USA	The Scarlet Pimpernel ♠ (uncredited)	Baroness Orczy (uncredited)	1903 & 1905	Play & Novel	-	-	-

♠ A victim of [...] is read the novel in his hospital bed.

War in Afghanistan

2001–ongoing

Iraq War

2003–ongoing

Politics

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	W.	2008	Oliver Stone	USA	Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President (uncredited)	J.H. Hatfield (uncredited)	1999	Non-fiction	-	-	-
1					The Perfect Wife (uncredited)	Ann Gerhart (uncredited)	200?	Non-fiction	-	-	-
1					Ambling Into History: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush (uncredited)	Frank Bruni (uncredited)	2002	Non-fiction	-	-	-

Operations

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Saving Jessica Lynch ♠ *	2003	Peter Markle	USA	Because Each Life Is Precious	Mohammed Odeh al-Rehaief	2003	Non-fiction	-	-	-
2	Green Zone	2010	Paul Greengrass	USA	Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone	Rajiv Chandrasekaran	2006	Non-fiction	-	-	-

♠ A Lynch's authorized biography is Rick Bragg's I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story, 2003.
* TV movie.

Atrocities

Home front

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

Demobilization

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

Casualties

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Taking Chance *	2009	Ross Katz	USA	"Taking Chance Home"	Lt. Col. Michael Strobl	200?	Article	-	-	-

* TV movie.

Memorial

This is the present day.
For future conflicts which have yet to occur, see the List of films based on war books — future.

Bibliography

Clarke, James. Virgin Film: War Films, Virgin Books, London, 2006.
Lavington, Stephen. Virgin Film: Oliver Stone, Virgin Books, London, 2004.
Russell, Jamie. The Pocket Essential Vietnam War Movies, Pocket Essentials, Harpenden, Herts, 2002.
100 greatest War Movies, special issue of Military History Magazine, Weider History Group, Leesburg, Virginia, 2007.

: The Cinema of North Korea

Delisle, Guy. Pyongyang: A Journey to North Korea, L'Association, Paris, 2003; Drawn & Quarterly, Montreal, 2005.

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