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 — pre-1775.
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18th century[]
American Revolutionary War[]
1775–1783
Politics[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Declaration of Independence ♠ | 1924 | Kenneth S. Webb | USA | Eve of the Revolution | Carl Becker | 1918 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
1 | Common Sense | An Englishman (Thomas Paine) |
1776 | Pamphlet | - | - | - | ||||
2 | America | 1924 | D.W. Griffith | USA | America; or, The Sacrifice | Robert W. Chambers | 1924 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | Alexander Hamilton | 1931 | John G. Adolfi | USA | Hamilton: a play in four acts | Mary Hamlin & George Arliss |
1917 [1] | Play | - | - | - |
4 | Give Me Liberty [2] | 1936 | B. Reeves Eason | USA | "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" | Patrick Henry | 1775 | Speech | - | - | - |
4 | Sketches of the life and character of Patrick Henry (uncredited) | William Wirt (uncredited) | 1816 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | ||||
5 | The Declaration of Independence [3] | 1938 | Crane Wilbur | USA | ? (uncredited) | Thomas Jefferson (uncredited) | c. 1776 | Writings | - | - | - |
6 | 1776 | 1972 | Peter H. Hunt | USA | 1776 [4][5] | Peter Stone (book) & Sherman Edwards (lyrics) | 1969 | Musical | - | - | - |
7 | The Adams Chronicles ** | 1976 | Paul Bogart & James Cellan Jones | USA | Diary and Autobiography of John Adams aka The Adams Papers |
John Adams & L.H. Butterfield (editor) | 1961 | Diary | - | - | - |
7 | Institutiones ♦ (uncredited) | by order of Justinian I (uncredited) | 533 | Legal manual | - | - | - | ||||
7 | Institutes of the Lawes of England ♦ (uncredited) | Sir Edward Coke (uncredited) | 1628–1644 | Legal treatises | - | - | - | ||||
7 | Works ♦ (uncredited) | Samuel von Pufendorf (uncredited) | after 1660 | Legal tracts | - | - | - | ||||
7 | "An Essay on Man" ♦♦ (uncredited) | Alexander Pope (uncredited) | 1734 | Poem | - | - | - | ||||
7 | Aeneid ♦♦♦ (uncredited) | Virgil (uncredited) | 29–19 BC | Epic poem | - | - | - | ||||
7 | Catiline Orations ♦♦♦ (uncredited) | Tully (uncredited) | 63 BC | Speech | - | - | - | ||||
8 | John Adams ** | 2008 | Tom Hooper | USA | John Adams [6] | David McCullough | 2001 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- ♠ Paine's pamphlet creates a stir. Franklin (J. Moy Bennett) and Adams discuss aid from the French. Colonials fall into three groups: radicals (independence), conservatives (loyalty), and those favouring a compromise. At the Continental Congress, a vote on Jefferson's draft is blocked by Morris and Dickinson. With those dissenters now abstaining, Pennsylvania supports the resolution. Rodney arrives in time to carry Delaware. Independence is declared unanimously. The King is hanged in effigy.[7]
- ♦ These are writings which the film asserts constituted a portion of Adams' legal training. Adams is criticized by a senior lawyer for only having read abridgements.[8]
- ♦♦ Abigail Adams proves to be well read in Pope (and Shakespeare).[9][8]
- ♦♦♦ The young John Quincy Adams is expected to know "Virgil and Tully's Orations" in the original Latin.[10]
- ** TV miniseries.
Land operations[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Spirit of Lafayette | 1919 | James Vincent | USA | The Spirit of Lafayette | James Mott Hallowell | 1918 [11] | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
2 | Cardigan | 1922 | John W. Noble | USA | Cardigan | Robert W. Chambers | 1901 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | Janice Meredith | 1924 | E. Mason Hopper | USA | Janice Meredith | Paul Leicester Ford | 1901 | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | The Howards of Virginia | 1940 | Frank Lloyd | USA | The Tree of Liberty | Elizabeth Page | 1939 | Novel | - | - | - |
Boston Massacre[]
5 March 1770
(preliminary incident)
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Adams Chronicles ** | 1976 | Paul Bogart & James Cellan Jones | USA | Diary and Autobiography of John Adams aka The Adams Papers |
John Adams & L.H. Butterfield (editor) | 1961 | Diary | - | - | - |
- ** TV miniseries.
Battles of Lexington and Concord[]
19 April 1775
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Eve of the Revolution ♠ | 1924 | Kenneth S. Webb | USA | Eve of the Revolution | Carl Becker | 1918 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
2 | Johnny Tremain | 1957 | Robert Stevenson | USA | Johnny Tremain [12] | Esther Forbes | 1944 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | The Bastard * | 1978 | Lee H. Katzin | USA | The Bastard | John Jakes | 1974 | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | April Morning * | 1988 | Delbert Mann | USA | April Morning | Howard Fast [13] | 1961 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ After the Boston Massacre and Tea Party, Adams (J. Moy Bennett) moves that Massachusetts attend the Continental Congress. Gage moves against Hancock and Adams in Lexington. Dr. Warren dispatches Dawes and Revere (Brian Donlevy). War begins.[14]
- * TV movie.
Battle of Bunker Hill[]
17 June 1775 [15]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | America | 1924 | D.W. Griffith | USA | America; or, The Sacrifice | Robert W. Chambers | 1924 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | The Rebels * | 1979 | Russ Mayberry | USA | The Rebels | John Jakes | 1975 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Battle of Brooklyn Heights[]
27 August 1776
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | George Washington * | 1984 | Buzz Kulik | USA | George Washington: The Forge of Experience [16] | James Thomas Flexner | 1965 | Biography | - | - | - |
1 | George Washington in the American Revolution [16] | James Thomas Flexner | 1968 | Biography | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Battle of Trenton[]
26 December 1776
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | George Washington * | 1984 | Buzz Kulik | USA | George Washington: The Forge of Experience [16] | James Thomas Flexner | 1965 | Biography | - | - | - |
1 | George Washington in the American Revolution [16] | James Thomas Flexner | 1968 | Biography | - | - | - | ||||
2 | The Crossing * | 2000 | Robert Harmon | USA | The Crossing | Howard Fast [13] | 1971 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Battle of Oriskany[]
6 August 1777
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Drums Along the Mohawk | 1939 | John Ford | USA | Drums Along the Mohawk | Walter D. Edmonds | 1936 | Novel | - | - | - |
Valley Forge[]
1777–1778
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | America | 1924 | D.W. Griffith | USA | America; or, The Sacrifice | Robert W. Chambers | 1924 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | Valley Forge * | 1975 | Fielder Cook | USA | Valley Forge | Maxwell Anderson | 1934 | Play | - | - | - |
3 | George Washington * | 1984 | Buzz Kulik | USA | George Washington: The Forge of Experience [16] | James Thomas Flexner | 1965 | Biography | - | - | - |
3 | George Washington in the American Revolution [16] | James Thomas Flexner | 1968 | Biography | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Battle of Monmouth[]
28 June 1778
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | George Washington * | 1984 | Buzz Kulik | USA | George Washington: The Forge of Experience [16] | James Thomas Flexner | 1965 | Biography | - | - | - |
1 | George Washington in the American Revolution [16] | James Thomas Flexner | 1968 | Biography | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Siege of Fort Sackville[]
23–25 February 1779
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Vincennes ♠ | 1923 | Edwin L. Hollywood | USA | The Old Northwest | Frederic A. Ogg [17] | 1919 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- ♠ The British pay the Chippewa to kill settlers. George Rogers Clark (Leslie Austin) traverses "five miles of waist-deep swamp" to take Vincennes and defeat the British.[18]
Betrayal of West Point[]
September 1780
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Scarlet Coat | 1955 | John Sturges | USA | "Betrayal on the Hudson" (uncredited) | Hollister Noble & Sidney Harmon (uncredited) |
195? | Story | - | - | - |
2 | George Washington * | 1984 | Buzz Kulik | USA | George Washington: The Forge of Experience [16] | James Thomas Flexner | 1965 | Biography | - | - | - |
2 | George Washington in the American Revolution [16] | James Thomas Flexner | 1968 | Biography | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Battle of Kings Mountain[]
7 October 1780
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Frontier Woman ♠ | 1924 | Webster Campbell | USA | Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a Chronicle of the Dark and Bloody Ground | Constance L. Skinner | 1921 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- ♠ Based in the Watauga Valley, John Sevier's mountain men contend with Tories, defeat Maj. Ferguson, and return home in time to foil a raid by murderous Cherokee. But a soldier's brave wife, Mrs. Johnston, is left a widow.[19]
Siege of Yorktown[]
1781
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Yorktown ♠ | 1924 | Webster Campbell | USA | Washington and His Comrades in Arms | George M. Wrong | 1918 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
2 | George Washington * | 1984 | Buzz Kulik | USA | George Washington: The Forge of Experience [16] | James Thomas Flexner | 1965 | Biography | - | - | - |
2 | George Washington in the American Revolution [16] | James Thomas Flexner | 1968 | Biography | - | - | - |
- ♠ Washington contends with rebellious troops. Rochambeau joins Washington in New York. Tarleton fails to capture Jefferson. De Grasse defeats the Royal Navy at the Chesapeake. Cornwallis surrenders to Rochambeau and Washington.[20]
- * TV movie.
[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | John Paul Jones | 1959 | John Farrow | USA | "Nor'wester" | Clements Ripley | 195? | Story | - | - | - |
Military justice and Courts-martial[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Scarlet Coat (uncredited) | 1955 | John Sturges | USA | "Betrayal on the Hudson" | Hollister Noble & Sidney Harmon (uncredited) |
195? | Story | - | - | - |
Home front[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Pursuit of Happiness ♠ | 1934 | Alexander Hall | USA | Pursuit of Happiness | Lawrence Langner & Armina Marshall Langner | 193? | Play | - | - | - |
3 | The Devil's Disciple | 1987 | David Hugh Jones | UK & Canada | The Devil's Disciple | George Bernard Shaw [21] | 1897 | Play | - | - | - |
- ♠ A Hessian soldier and his Puritan betrothed are required to "bundle".[22]
Classics never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | At War with the Americans [23] Mes services pendant la guerre americaine de 1775 |
Claude-Nicolas-Guillaume de Lorimier | 182? / 1873 |
Memoir | Lower Canada |
2 | Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile | Herman Melville | 1855 | Novel | USA |
3 | Arundel | Kenneth Roberts [24] | 1929 | Novel | USA |
4 | Oliver Wiswell | Kenneth Roberts [24] | 1940 | Novel | USA |
Fourth Dutch War[]
1780–1784
Gordon Riots[]
1780
Frequently filmed: Barnaby Rudge[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Barnaby Rudge | 1915 | Thomas Bentley & Cecil M. Hepworth |
UK | Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty | Charles Dickens | 1841 | Novel | - | - | - |
Northwest Indian War[]
1785–1795
St. Clair's Defeat[]
4 November 1791
(The greatest defeat ever suffered by US forces at the hands of Indian warriors)
• • • |
Battle of Fallen Timbers[]
20 August 1794
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Seekers Δ * | 1979 | Sidney Hayers | USA | The Seekers | John Jakes | 1975 | Novel | - | - | - |
- Δ The battle of a feature of the novel. It is unclear whether it is also a feature of the film.
- * TV movie.
Révolte des deux sous[]
1786
("Tuppence Revolt", forerunner of the Canut Revolts)
Shays' Rebellion[]
1786–1787
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Adams Chronicles [25] ** | 1976 | Paul Bogart & James Cellan Jones | USA | Diary and Autobiography of John Adams aka The Adams Papers |
John Adams & L.H. Butterfield (editor) | 1961 | Diary | - | - | - |
- ** TV miniseries.
Russo-Turkish War of 1787[]
1787–1792
Whiskey Rebellion[]
1794
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Alexander Hamilton ♠ | 1924 | Kenneth S. Webb | USA | Washington and His Colleagues: A Chronicle of the Rise and Fall of Federalism | Henry Jones Ford | 1918 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- ♠ The film begins with Washington's army in 1780, then continues through the rise and suppression of the Rebellion by militia.[26]
French Revolution[]
1789–1799
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Danton | 1921 | Dimitri Buchowetzki | Germany | Danton's Death | Georg Büchner | 1835/1902 | Play | - | - | - |
2 | Scaramouche | 1923 | Rex Ingram | USA | Scaramouche | Rafael Sabatini | 1921 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | Scaramouche | 1952 | George Sidney | USA | Scaramouche | Rafael Sabatini | 1921 | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | Marat/Sade | 1967 | Peter Brook | UK | The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade [27] | Peter Weiss | 1963 | Play | - | - | - |
5 | Start the Revolution Without Me | 1970 | Bud Yorkin | USA | The Corsican Brothers | Alexandre Dumas, père | 1844 | Novella | - | - | - |
6 | That Night in Varennes La Nuit de Varennes |
1982 | Ettore Scola | France & Italy | La Nuit de Varennes ou l'Impossible n'est pas français | Catherine Rihoit | 1982 | Novel | - | - | - |
7 | Danton | 1983 | Andrzej Wajda | France, Poland, West Germany | The Danton Case | Stanislawa Przybyszewska | 1929 | Play | - | - | - |
8 | The Lady and the Duke | 2001 | "Éric Rohmer" | France | Ma vie sous la révolution | Grace Elliott | 1859 (posthumous) | Memoir | - | - | - |
Frequently filmed: A Tale of Two Cities[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Only Way | 1925 | Herbert Wilcox | UK | The Only Way. A Tale of Two Cities adapted [...] from Charles Dickens’ novel | Freeman Wills [28] (& Frederick Langbridge) |
1899 [1] | Play | - | - | - |
1 | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | 1859 | Novel | - | - | - | ||||
2 | A Tale of Two Cities | 1935 | Jack Conway | USA | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | 1859 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | The French Revolution [29] (uncredited) | Thomas Carlyle (uncredited) | 1837/1857 | Novel | - | - | - | ||||
2 | A Journal of the Terror: being an account of the occurrences in the Temple during the confinement of Louis XVI [29][30] (uncredited) | M. Cléry (uncredited) | 18?? | Journal | - | - | - | ||||
2 | Memoirs [29] (uncredited) aka Side Lights on the Reign of Terror |
Mlle des Echerolles [31] (uncredited) | 1843 | Memoir | - | - | - | ||||
2 | Memoirs [29] (uncredited) | M. Nicholas (uncredited) | 18?? | Memoir | - | - | - |
Frequently filmed: The Scarlet Pimpernel[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Scarlet Pimpernel | 1934 | Harold Young | UK | The Scarlet Pimpernel | Baroness Orczy | 1903 & 1905 | Play & Novel | - | - | - |
Frequently filmed: Les deux orphelines[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Orphans of the Storm | 1921 | D.W. Griffith | USA | Les deux orphelines | Adolphe d'Ennery & Eugène Cormon | 1874 & 1877 | Play & Novel | - | - | - |
Vendée counter-revolution[]
1793–1796
Chouan counter-revolution[]
1794–1800
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Quatre-vingt-treize | 1920 | André Antoine, Léonard Antoine, Albert Capellani |
France | Ninety-Three Quatrevingt-treize |
Victor Hugo | 1874 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | Les Chouans | 1946 | Henri Calef | France | Les Chouans ou la Bretagne en 1799 | Honoré de Balzac | 1829 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | Quatrevingt-treize * | 1962 | Alain Boudet | France | Ninety-Three Quatrevingt-treize |
Victor Hugo | 1874 | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | Chouans! | 1988 | Philippe de Broca | France | Les Chouans ou la Bretagne en 1799 [32] (uncredited) | Honoré de Balzac (uncredited) | 1829 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Invasion of France in 1795[]
June – July 1795
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters * | 1999 | Andrew Grieve | UK | Mr. Midshipman Hornblower | "C.S. Forester" | 1950 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Wars of the French Revolution[]
1792–1802 (see also the Great French War)
Politics and Diplomacy[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Adams Chronicles ** | 1976 | Paul Bogart & James Cellan Jones | USA | Diary and Autobiography of John Adams aka The Adams Papers |
John Adams & L.H. Butterfield (editor) | 1961 | Diary | - | - | - |
- ** TV miniseries.
Land operations[]
Battle of Lodi[]
10 May 1796
Frequently filmed: The Man of Destiny[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
3 | The Man of Destiny * | 1981 | Desmond Davis | UK | The Man of Destiny [33] | George Bernard Shaw [21] | 1897 | Play | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
[]
Frequently filmed: Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (Horatio Hornblower series)[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Hornblower: The Even Chance * | 1998 | Andrew Grieve | UK | Mr. Midshipman Hornblower | "C.S. Forester" | 1950 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant * | 1998 | Andrew Grieve | UK | Mr. Midshipman Hornblower | "C.S. Forester" | 1950 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil * | 1999 | Andrew Grieve | UK | Mr. Midshipman Hornblower | "C.S. Forester" | 1950 | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters * | 1999 | Andrew Grieve | UK | Mr. Midshipman Hornblower | "C.S. Forester" | 1950 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Involuntary confinement[]
POWs[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil * | 1999 | Andrew Grieve | UK | Mr. Midshipman Hornblower | "C.S. Forester" | 1950 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | Hornblower: Retribution * | 2001 | Andrew Grieve | UK | Lieutenant Hornblower | "C.S. Forester" | 1952 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Haitian Revolution[]
1791–1804
Bulletin ... Film currently in development: Toussaint by Danny Glover[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Lydia Bailey | 1952 | Jean Negulesco | USA | Lydia Bailey | Kenneth Roberts [24] | 1947 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | San Domingo ♠ | 1970 | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | West Germany | Betrothal in St. Domingo | Heinrich von Kleist | 1811 | Novella | - | - | - |
- ♠ Syberberg updated the context for Kleist's tale of tragic lovers from rebellious Haitian slaves to rebellious hash-smoking Munich hippies.[34]
Frequently filmed: Horatio Hornblower series[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Hornblower: Mutiny * | 2001 | Andrew Grieve | UK | Lieutenant Hornblower | "C.S. Forester" | 1952 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | Hornblower: Retribution * | 2001 | Andrew Grieve | UK | Lieutenant Hornblower | "C.S. Forester" | 1952 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Classics never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Bug-Jargal | Victor Hugo | 1826 | Novel | France |
2 | The Kingdom of this World El reino de este mundo |
Alejo Carpentier [35] | 1949 | Novel | Cuba |
Spithead and Nore Mutinies[]
1797
Frequently filmed: Billy Budd[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Billy Budd | 1962 | Peter Ustinov | UK | Billy Budd | Louis O. Coxe & Robert H. Chapman |
1951 | Play | - | - | - |
1 | Billy Budd, Foretopman | Herman Melville | 1886/1924 (posthumous) | Novella | - | - | - |
Irish Rebellion of 1798[]
1798
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Year of the French ** | 1982 | Michael Garvey | Ireland & France | The Year of the French | Thomas Flanagan | 1979 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | Hornblower: Loyalty ♠ * | 2003 | Andrew Grieve | UK | Hornblower and the Hotspur | "C.S. Forester" | 1962 | Novel | - | - | - |
n | The Fighting O'Flynn | 1949 | Arthur Pierson | USA | The O'Flynn | Justin Huntly McCarthy | 19?? | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ Unrepentant Irish turncoats are active in the story set after the rebellion.
- ** TV miniseries.
Quasi-War[]
1798–1800
Politics and Diplomacy[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Adams Chronicles ** | 1976 | Paul Bogart & James Cellan Jones | USA | Diary and Autobiography of John Adams aka The Adams Papers |
John Adams & L.H. Butterfield (editor) | 1961 | Diary | - | - | - |
2 | John Adams ** | 2008 | Tom Hooper | USA | John Adams [6] | David McCullough | 2001 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- ** TV miniseries.
Egyptian Campaign[]
1798–1801
Interbellum[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Hornblower: Loyalty * | 2003 | Andrew Grieve | UK | Hornblower and the Hotspur | "C.S. Forester" | 1962 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
19th century[]
Napoleonic Wars[]
1799–1815
Politics and Diplomacy[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Young Mr. Pitt | 1942 | Carol Reed | UK & USA | The Young Mr. Pitt | Viscount Castlerosse | 194? | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | The Adams Chronicles ** | 1976 | Paul Bogart & James Cellan Jones | USA | Diary and Autobiography of John Adams aka The Adams Papers |
John Adams & L.H. Butterfield (editor) | 1961 | Diary | - | - | - |
3 | Hornblower: Duty * | 2003 | Andrew Grieve | UK | Hornblower and the Hotspur | "C.S. Forester" | 1962 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
- ** TV miniseries.
Land operations[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Two Sergeants I due sergenti |
1936 | Enrico Guazzoni | Italy | I due sergenti: romanzo dell'epoca napoleonica: sulla trama del dramma di D'Aubigny | Paolo Lorenzini [36] | 1932 | Novel | - | - | - |
1 | Les deux sergents | B. Daubigny & A. Maillard | 19?? | Drama | - | - | - | ||||
2 | Suvorov Суворов |
1941 | Vsevolod Pudovkin & Mikhail Doller | USSR | maxims [37] from The Science of Victory |
Generalissimo Marshal Alexander Suvorov |
18?? | Manual | - | - | - |
3 | Kolberg | 1945 | Veit Harlan & Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Nazi Germany | Joachim Nettelbeck, Bürger zu Colberg. Eine Lebensbeschreibung, von ihm selbst aufgezeichnet. | Joachim Nettelbeck | 1821 | Memoir | - | - | - |
3 | Colberg. Historisches Schauspiel in 5 Akten. | Paul Heyse [38] | 1865 | Play | - | - | - | ||||
4 | Wedding Night Noc poślubna |
1959 | Erik Blomberg & Stanisław Możdżeński | Sweden, Poland, Finland | "L'Attaque du moulin" ♣ from Les Soirées de Médan |
Émile Zola | 1880 | Story | - | - | - |
5 | Hussar Ballad ♠ Гусарская баллада |
1962 | Eldar Ryazanov | USSR | A Long Time Ago Davnym-davno |
Aleksandr Gladkov | 1940 | Play | - | - | - |
6 | The Ashes ♦ Popioły |
1965 | Andrzej Wajda | Poland | Popioły | Stefan Żeromski | 1902 | Novel | - | - | - |
7 | Love and Death ♥ | 1975 | "Woody Allen" | USA | Crime and Punishment (uncredited) | Fyodor Dostoyevsky (uncredited) | 1866 | Novel | - | - | - |
8 | The Duellists | 1977 | Ridley Scott | UK | "The Duel" | Joseph Conrad | 1908 | Story | - | - | - |
9 | War in the Highlands La Guerre dans le Haut Pays |
1999 | Francis Reusser | Switzerland, France, Belgium | La Guerre dans le Haut-Pays | Charles Ferdinand Ramuz | 1915 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♣ Zola's short story is set during the Franco-Prussian War.
- ♠ The film is inspired by the life of Russian cavalry maiden Nadezhda Durova.
- ♦ Dabrowski's Polish Legion fights with Napoleon for an independent Poland.
- ♥ The film includes the famous "How novel" conversation which uses the titles of Dostoyevsky books as dialogue.[39]
Frequently filmed: The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard[]
Bulletin ... film currently in development: The Adventures of Brigadier Gerard[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Brigadier Gerard | 1915 | Bert Haldane | USA | The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1896 | Stories | - | - | - |
1 | The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (?) | Arthur Conan Doyle | 189? | Play | - | - | - | ||||
2 | The Fighting Eagle | 1927 | Donald Crisp | USA | The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1896 | Stories | - | - | - |
3 | How the Brigadier Won His Medals * | 1954 | Jus Addiss | USA | "How The Brigadier Won His Medal" from The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1894/ 1896 |
Stories | - | - | - |
4 | The Adventures of Gerard ♠ | 1970 | Jerzy Skolimowski | UK & Switzerland | The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1896 | Stories | - | - | - |
5 | The Adventures of Brigadier Gerard | 2010 | In Development | USA | The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1896 | Stories | - | - | - |
- ♠ The film is set during the Peninsular War.
- * TV programme.
Battle of Schöngrabern[]
16 November 1805
↓↓ |
Battle of Austerlitz[]
2 December 1805
↓↓ |
Invasion of Russia[]
June 1812
↓↓ |
Battle of Borodino[]
7 September 1812
↓↓ |
Fall of Moscow[]
14 September 1812
↓↓ |
Frequently filmed: War and Peace[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | War and Peace | 1915 | Vladimir Gardin & Yakov Protazanov | Russian Empire | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | 1863–1869 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | War and Peace | 1956 | King Vidor | Italy & USA | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | 1863–1869 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | War and Peace | 1968 | Sergei Bondarchuk | USSR | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | 1863–1869 | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | War and Peace ** | 1972 | John Davies | UK | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | 1863–1869 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ** TV miniseries.
Land operations — Peninsular War[]
1807–1814
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Pride and the Passion | 1957 | Stanley Kramer | USA | The Gun | "C.S. Forester" | 1933 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | Rózaniec z granatów ♠ * | 1970 | Jan Rutkiewicz | Poland | Rózaniec z granatów (?) | Ksawery Pruszyński | 196? | Story | - | - | - |
3 | Sangre de mayo Sangre de mayo |
2008 | José Luis Garci | Spain | La Corte de Carlos IV from Episodios nacionales |
Benito Pérez Galdós | 187? | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | El 19 de marzo y el 2 de mayo from Episodios nacionales |
Benito Pérez Galdós | 187? | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ The Poles and the British in Spain.
- * TV movie.
Second Siege of Saragossa[]
December 1808 – February 1809
- What if ...
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Saragossa Manuscript Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie |
1965 | Wojciech Has | Poland | The Saragossa Manuscript Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse (French) Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie Template:Pl icon |
Jan Potocki (disputed) | 1815 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | La Duchesse d'Avila ** | 1973 | Philippe Ducrest | France | The Saragossa Manuscript Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse |
Jan Potocki (disputed) | 1815 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ** TV miniseries.
- Frequently filmed: Sharpe's Eagle and sequels
Battle of Talavera[]
27–28 July 1809
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sharpe's Eagle * | 1993 | Tom Clegg | UK | Sharpe's Rifles | Bernard Cornwell | 1981 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Siege of Almeida[]
July–August 1810
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sharpe's Gold Δ * | 1995 | Tom Clegg | UK | Sharpe's Gold | Bernard Cornwell | 1981 | Novel | - | - | - |
- Δ The battle appears only in the novel.
The film concerns a group of Spanish partisans who imagine they are Aztecs, cutting the hearts out of French POWs. - * TV movie.
Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo[]
20 January 1812
↓↓ |
Siege of Badajoz[]
March – April 1812 [15]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sharpe's Company * | 1994 | Tom Clegg | UK | Sharpe's Company | Bernard Cornwell | 1982 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Battle of Vitoria[]
21 June 1813 [15]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sharpe's Honour * | 1995 | Tom Clegg | UK | Sharpe's Honour | Bernard Cornwell | 1985 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Invasion of Gascony and Languedoc[]
1813–1814
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sharpe's Siege Δ * | 1996 | Tom Clegg | UK | Sharpe's Siege | Bernard Cornwell | 1987 | Novel | - | - | - |
- Δ The programme omits the United States Navy sailors who play a large role in the novel.
- * TV movie.
Battle of Toulouse[]
10 April 1814
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sharpe's Revenge * | 1997 | Tom Clegg | UK | Sharpe's Revenge | Bernard Cornwell | 1989 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Land operations — Hundred Days[]
1815 (including the Neapolitan War)
Battle of Quatre Bras[]
16 June 1815
↓↓ |
Battle of Waterloo[]
18 June 1815
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sharpe's Waterloo * | 1997 | Tom Clegg | UK | Sharpe's Waterloo | Bernard Cornwell | 1990 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Frequently filmed: The Charterhouse of Parma[]
Stendhal's book is said to have influenced Tolstoy in his writing of War and Peace.
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | La Certosa di Parma Δ ** | 1981 | Mauro Bolognini | Italy, France, West Germany | The Charterhouse of Parma | "Stendhal" | 1839 | Novel | - | - | - |
- Δ The 1981 series may omit the battle. The 1948 French film does not include the battle.[40]
- ** TV miniseries.
[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Nelson | 1918 | Maurice Elvey | UK | The Life of Nelson | Robert Southey | 1813 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
2 | Nelson | 1926 | Walter Summers | UK | The Life of Nelson | Robert Southey | 1813 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
3 | H.M.S. Defiant | 1962 | Lewis Gilbert | UK & USA | Mutiny | Frank Tilsley | 19?? | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World |
2003 | Peter Weir | USA | Master and Commander (Aubrey–Maturin series) |
Patrick O'Brian | 1969 | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | HMS Surprise | Patrick O'Brian | 1973 | Novel | - | - | - | ||||
4 | The Far Side of the World | Patrick O'Brian | 1984 | Novel | - | - | - |
Frequently filmed: Horatio Hornblower series[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Captain Horatio Hornblower | 1951 | Raoul Walsh | USA & UK | The Happy Return | "C.S. Forester" | 1937 | Novel | - | - | - |
1 | A Ship of the Line [41] | "C.S. Forester" | 1938 | Novel | - | - | - | ||||
1 | Flying Colours [41] | "C.S. Forester" | 1938 | Novel | - | - | - | ||||
2 | Hornblower: Loyalty * | 2003 | Andrew Grieve | UK | Hornblower and the Hotspur | "C.S. Forester" | 1962 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | Hornblower: Duty * | 2003 | Andrew Grieve | UK | Hornblower and the Hotspur | "C.S. Forester" | 1962 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
For the earlier exploits of Horatio Hornblower in the Wars of the French Revolution,
(See above) |
Frequently filmed: Mr Midshipman Easy[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Midshipman Easy | 1915 | Maurice Elvey | UK | Mr Midshipman Easy | Captain Marryat | 1836 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | Midshipman Easy ♠ | 1935 | Carol Reed | UK | Mr Midshipman Easy | Captain Marryat | 1836 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ The most recent version is a 1938 Soviet production.
Frequently filmed: Toilers of the Sea[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sea Devils | 1953 | Raoul Walsh | USA | Toilers of the Sea Les Travailleurs de la mer |
Victor Hugo | 1866 | Novel | - | - | - |
Battle of Trafalgar[]
21 October 1805
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | I Remember Nelson ** | 1981 [42] | Simon Langton | UK & Italy | Vathek | William Beckford | 1786 | Gothic novel | - | - | - |
- ** TV miniseries.
Dalliances[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Lady Hamilton ♠ | 1921 | Richard Oswald | Germany | Liebe und Leben der Lady Hamilton & Lord Nelsons letzte Liebe |
Heinrich Vollrath Schumacher | 19?? | Novels | - | - | - |
2 | Les amours de Lady Hamilton | 1968 | Christian-Jaque | Italy, West Germany, France | The Neapolitan Lovers & Love and Liberty | Alexandre Dumas, père | 1863 | Novels | - | - | - |
3 | Bequest to the Nation | 1973 | James Cellan Jones | UK | A Bequest to the Nation | Terence Rattigan | 1970 | Play | - | - | - |
4 | I Remember Nelson ** | 1981 [42] | Simon Langton | UK & Italy | Vathek ♦ | William Beckford | 1786 | Gothic novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ The film reunites the two leads of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, with Conrad Veidt here playing Horatio Nelson.
- ♦ Beckford presents a copy of his novel to Capt. Hardy at Lord Nelson's house.
- ** TV miniseries.
Partisans and guerrillas[]
The Spanish word guerrilla was first commonly used in English in reference to the Peninsular War.
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sharpe's Gold * | 1995 | Tom Clegg | UK | Sharpe's Gold | Bernard Cornwell | 1981 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | Sharpe's Honour * | 1995 | Tom Clegg | UK | Sharpe's Honour | Bernard Cornwell | 1985 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Military intelligence and Espionage[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Reluctant Widow | 1950 | Bernard Knowles | UK | The Reluctant Widow | Georgette Heyer | 1946 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | The Purple Mask | 1955 | H. Bruce Humberstone | USA | Le Chevalier au masque | Paul Armont & Jean Manoussi |
1913? [43] | Play | - | - | - |
Military hospitals[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | I Remember Nelson ** | 1981 [42] | Simon Langton | UK & Italy | Vathek | William Beckford | 1786 | Gothic novel | - | - | - |
- ** TV miniseries.
Military justice and Courts-martial[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | I Remember Nelson ** | 1981 [42] | Simon Langton | UK & Italy | Vathek | William Beckford | 1786 | Gothic novel | - | - | - |
2 | Sharpe's Honour * | 1995 | Tom Clegg | UK | Sharpe's Honour | Bernard Cornwell | 1985 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
- ** TV miniseries.
Involuntary confinement[]
POWs[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Secret of St. Ives | 1949 | Phil Rosen | USA | St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England | Robert Louis Stevenson, completed by Arthur Quiller-Couch | 1898 | Novel (posthumous) | - | - | - |
2 | St. Ives * St. Ives |
1998 | Harry Hook | France, Germany, Ireland, UK | St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England | Robert Louis Stevenson, completed by Arthur Quiller-Couch | 1898 | Novel (posthumous) | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Home front[]
Frequently filmed: Le Colonel Chabert[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Le Colonel Chabert | 1994 | Yves Angelo | France | Le Colonel Chabert | Honoré de Balzac | 1832 | Novel | - | - | - |
Justice and Retribution[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Emperor's New Clothes | 2001 | Alan Taylor | Italy, UK, Germany | The Death of Napoleon [44] La Mort de Napoléon |
"Simon Leys" | 1986 | Novel | - | - | - |
Classics never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier Denkwurdige Geschichtschreibung … |
Jakob Walter | 1856/1991 | Memoir | Württemberg, Westphalia |
2 | The Autobiography of a Seaman | Thomas Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald | 185? | Autobiography | UK |
3 | Death to the French | "C. S. Forester" | 1932 | Novel | UK |
Fourth Mysore War[]
1798–1799
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sharpe's Challenge * | 2006 | Tom Clegg | UK | Sharpe's Tiger ♣ | Bernard Cornwell | 1997 | Novel | - | - | - |
Second Maratha War[]
1803–1805
Arthur Wellesley's successes in India saw him brought into the war against Napoleon.
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sharpe's Challenge * | 2006 | Tom Clegg | UK | Sharpe's Triumph ♣ | Bernard Cornwell | 1998 | Novel | - | - | - |
1 | Sharpe's Fortress ♣ | Bernard Cornwell | 1998 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♣ Cornwell's novels are prequels to his popular Sharpe series, set in India prior to the main action of the Napoleonic Wars.
The film however continues with the same lead actor, so it needs to be set after the Battle of Waterloo, in a fictionalized Indian setting. - * TV movie.
Memorial[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Veteran of Waterloo | 1933 | A.V. Bramble | UK | A Story of Waterloo ♠ | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1894 | Play | - | - | - |
1 | "A Straggler of '15" from Round the Red Lamp |
Arthur Conan Doyle | 1894 | Story | - | - | - | ||||
2 | Waterloo * | 1937 | ? | UK | A Story of Waterloo ♠ | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1894 | Play | - | - | - |
2 | "A Straggler of '15" from Round the Red Lamp |
Arthur Conan Doyle | 1894 | Story | - | - | - |
- ♠ A play about a certain Corporal Brewster, a forgotten, penniless veteran of the Battle of Waterloo.[45] The short story covers the same ground.[46]
- * TV movie. (The BBC made television broadcasts prior to World War II, a fact not widely known.)
Barbary Coast War[]
1801–1805
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Old Ironsides | 1926 | James Cruze | USA | Old Ironsides | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 1830 | Poem | - | - | - |
Classics never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Lydia Bailey ♠ | Kenneth Roberts [24] | 1947 | Novel | USA |
- ♠ The novel covers the Barbary Coast in addition to the Haitian Revolution.
First Serbian Uprising[]
1804–1813
Classics never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Bridge on the Drina Дрини ћуприја |
Ivo Andrić [47] | 1945 | Novel | Yugoslavia |
Finnish War[]
1808–1809
Frequently filmed: Fänrik Ståls sägner[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Fänrik Ståls sägner | 1910 | Carl Engdahl | Sweden | The Tales of Ensign Stål | Johan Ludvig Runeberg | 1848–1860 | Epic poem | - | - | - |
2 | Fänrik Ståls sägner - del I | 1926 | John W. Brunius | Sweden | The Tales of Ensign Stål | Johan Ludvig Runeberg | 1848 | Epic poem | - | - | - |
3 | Fänrik Ståls sägner - del II | 1926 | John W. Brunius | Sweden | The Tales of Ensign Stål | Johan Ludvig Runeberg | 1860 | Epic poem | - | - | - |
4 | Sven Tuuva the Hero Sven Tuuva |
1958 | Edvin Laine | Finland | The Tales of Ensign Stål | Johan Ludvig Runeberg | 1848–1860 | Epic poem | - | - | - |
Spanish American wars of independence[]
(See also Latin American wars of independence)
1808–1829
Occupation by Napoleon led to unrest in Spain's colonies.
Politics and Diplomacy[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Monroe Doctrine ♠ | 1896 | Edison Company | USA | ? | ? | ? | ? | - | - | - |
2 | The Monroe Doctrine | 1939 | Crane Wilbur | USA | ? (uncredited) | James Monroe (uncredited) | 1820s | Writings | - | - | - |
3 | The Adams Chronicles ** | 1976 | Paul Bogart & James Cellan Jones | USA | Diary and Autobiography of John Adams aka The Adams Papers |
John Adams & L.H. Butterfield (editor) | 1961 | Diary | - | - | - |
- ♠ It is unclear what this film was about.[48]
But, the previous year, Martí had launched the Cuban War of Independence, so the film may have been political in nature. - ** TV miniseries.
Argentine War of Independence[]
1810–1818
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | La guerra gaucha La guerra gaucha |
1942 | Lucas Demare | Argentina | La guerra gaucha | Leopoldo Lugones | 1905 | Novel | - | - | - |
Battle of San Lorenzo[]
3 February 1813
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Knight of the Sword El Santo de la Espada |
1970 | Leopoldo Torre Nilsson | Argentina | El Santo de la Espada | Ricardo Rojas | 1933 | Novel | - | - | - |
Mexican War of Independence[]
1810–1821
Chilean War of Independence[]
1810–1826
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Héroes, la gloria tiene su precio [49] | 2007 | Cristián Galaz, Gustavo Graef-Marino, Ricardo Larraín, Rodrigo Sepúlveda | Chile | Balmaceda y la contrarevolución de 1891 | Hernán Ramírez Necochea | 1972 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
Crossing of the Andes[]
January – February 1817
↓↓ |
Battle of Chacabuco[]
12 February 1817
↓↓ |
Battle of Maipú[]
5 April 1818
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Knight of the Sword ♠ El Santo de la Espada |
1970 | Leopoldo Torre Nilsson | Argentina | El Santo de la Espada | Ricardo Rojas | 1933 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ This film provides a thorough account of the war.[50]
Classics never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Autobiography of a Seaman | Thomas Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald | 185? | Autobiography | UK |
Venezuelan War of Independence[]
1811–1823
Battle of San Mateo[]
25 July 1812
↓↓ |
Battle of Las Queseras del Medio[]
2 April 1819
↓↓ |
Battle of Boyacá[]
7 August 1819
↓↓ |
Battle of Carabobo[]
24 June 1821
↓↓ |
Classics never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Venezuela Heroica Venezuela Heroica |
Eduardo Blanco | 1881/ 1883 |
Novel | Venezuela |
Peruvian War of Independence[]
1811–1824
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Knight of the Sword El Santo de la Espada |
1970 | Leopoldo Torre Nilsson | Argentina | El Santo de la Espada | Ricardo Rojas | 1933 | Novel | - | - | - |
Classics never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The General in his Labyrinth | Gabriel García Márquez [51] | 1989 | Novel | Colombia |
Argentine Civil Wars[]
1814?–1880?
War of 1812[]
1812–1814
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Seekers * | 1979 | Sidney Hayers | USA | The Seekers | John Jakes | 1975 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Politics and Diplomacy[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Adams Chronicles ** | 1976 | Paul Bogart & James Cellan Jones | USA | Diary and Autobiography of John Adams aka The Adams Papers |
John Adams & L.H. Butterfield (editor) | 1961 | Diary | - | - | - |
- ** TV miniseries.
Land operations[]
Burning of Washington[]
24 August 1814
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Adams Chronicles ♠ ** | 1976 | Paul Bogart & James Cellan Jones | USA | Diary and Autobiography of John Adams aka The Adams Papers |
John Adams & L.H. Butterfield (editor) | 1961 | Diary | - | - | - |
- ♠ There is a brief scene in the White House.
- ** TV miniseries.
Battle of Baltimore[]
12–15 September 1814
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Song of a Nation | 1936 | Frank McDonald | USA | "The Defence of Fort McHenry" aka "The Star Spangled Banner" | Francis Scott Key | 1814 | Poem/ National anthem |
- | - | - |
Battle of New Orleans[]
8 January 1815 [15]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Buccaneer | 1958 | Anthony Quinn | USA | Lafitte, the Pirate | Lyle Saxon | 1930 | Novel | - | - | - |
[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Captain Caution | 1940 | Richard Wallace | USA | Captain Caution | Kenneth Roberts [24] | 1934 | Novel | - | - | - |
Classics never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Lively Lady | Kenneth Roberts [24] | 1931 | Novel | USA |
Tecumseh's War[]
1811
Red Stick War[]
1813–1814
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Alamo ♠ | 2004 | John Lee Hancock | USA | ? (uncredited) | José Enrique de la Peña (uncredited) | 1836? | Memoir | - | - | - |
1 | La Rebelión de Texas — Manuscrito inedito de 1836 por un oficial de Santa Anna (uncredited) | Jesús Sánchez Garza (uncredited) | 1955 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- ♠ Davy Crockett discusses his role in the war.
Zulu Civil War[]
1817–1819
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Shaka Zulu *** | 1986 | William C. Faure | South Africa | Shaka Zulu | Joshua Sinclair | 1985 [52] | Novel | - | - | - |
- *** TV series.
Caucasian War[]
1817–1864
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The White Warrior Agi Murad, il diavolo bianco |
1959 | Riccardo Freda | Italy | Hadji Murat | Leo Tolstoy | 1904/1912 (posthumous) | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | Prisoner of the Mountains ♠ | 1996 | Sergei Bodrov | Russia | "The Prisoner of the Caucasus" | Leo Tolstoy | 18?? | Story | - | - | - |
- ♠ The film updates the short story's time period to the Chechen War.
Battles of Valerik River[]
1840
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Lermontov | 1986 | Nikolai Burlyayev | USSR | "Death of a Poet" "Смерть Поэта" |
Mikhail Lermontov | 1837 | Poem | - | - | - |
1 | "Valerik" "Валерик" |
Mikhail Lermontov | 1840 | Poem | - | - | - |
Greek War of Independence[]
1821–1829
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Last Man on Earth Δ | 1924 | John G. Blystone | USA | The Last Man (uncredited) | Mary Shelley (uncredited) | 1826 | Novel | - | - | - |
- Δ The film updates the post-apocalyptic science fiction novel's setting to the Ozarks and makes it a comedy.
Classics never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Autobiography of a Seaman | Thomas Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald | 185? | Autobiography | UK |
Brazilian War of Independence[]
1822–1825
Classics never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Autobiography of a Seaman | Thomas Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald | 185? | Autobiography | UK |
Argentina-Brazil War[]
1825–1828
Brazilian slave revolts[]
19th century
Early revolts[]
Malê Revolt[]
1835
US slave revolts[]
19th century
Denmark Vesey's Insurrection[]
1822
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion * | 1982 | Stan Lathan | USA | An Account of the Late Insurrection Among A Portion of the Blacks of this City | James Hamilton Jr. | 1822 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Nat Turner's Rebellion[]
1831
The rebellion is mentioned in North and South.
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Roots * | 1977 | Marvin J. Chomsky, John Erman et al. |
USA | Roots: The Saga of an American Family [53] | Alex Haley | 1976 | Non-fiction (purported) [54]/ Novel (admitted) |
- | - | - |
2 | Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property † | 2003 | Charles Burnett | USA | The Confessions of Nat Turner [55] | William Styron | 1967 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrections in Southampton, Va. | Thomas Ruffin Gray | 1831 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- † Dramatized documentary.
- * TV miniseries.
Amistad Incident[]
1839
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Adams Chronicles ** | 1976 | Paul Bogart & James Cellan Jones | USA | Diary and Autobiography of John Adams aka The Adams Papers |
John Adams & L.H. Butterfield (editor) | 1961 | Diary | - | - | - |
2 | Amistad | 1997 | Steven Spielberg | USA | Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy | Howard Jones | 1987 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- ** TV miniseries.
Other slave revolts[]
19th century
Baptist War[]
1831–1832
Ashanti War[]
1823–1831
Decembrist Revolt[]
1825
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Captivating Star of Happiness Звезда пленительного счастья |
1975 | Vladimir Motyl | USSR | "К Чeдаеву" [56] | Alexander Pushkin | c. 1818 | Poem | - | - | - |
Portuguese Civil War[]
1828–1834
Chilean Civil War of 1829[]
1829–1830
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Héroes, la gloria tiene su precio [49] | 2007 | Cristián Galaz, Gustavo Graef-Marino, Ricardo Larraín, Rodrigo Sepúlveda | Chile | Balmaceda y la contrarevolución de 1891 | Hernán Ramírez Necochea | 1972 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
July Revolution[]
1830
Belgian Revolution[]
1830
Classics never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Eighteen Hundred Thirty! [57] Dih-ût-cint-trinte ! |
Théo Beauduin & Michel Duchatto | 1930 | Play | Belgium |
November Uprising[]
1830–1831
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Droga w swietle ksiezyca * | 1973 | Witold Orzechowski | Poland | "?" | Ambrose Bierce | 18?? | Stories | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Canut Revolts[]
1831
1834
1848
Black Hawk War[]
1832
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Abraham Lincoln ♠ | 1933 | Director unknown | USA | "Gettysburg Address" | Abraham Lincoln | 1863 | Speech | - | - | - |
2 | North and South, Book II ♦ * | 1986 | Kevin Connor | USA | Love and War | John Jakes | 1984 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ The life of Lincoln from log cabin birth in Kentucky to death. The family moves by Conestoga wagon to Indiana in 1816, then to Illinois in 1830. He visits the slave market in New Orleans. 1832 sees him elected captain of volunteers in the Black Hawk War. Postmaster, lawyer. Lincoln-Douglas debates. Election. War. He pardons a sleepy sentry. Emancipation Proclamation. Gettysburg Address. Appomattox. Assassination and death.[58]
- ♦ Pres. Lincoln discusses his experiences during the Black Hawk War.
- * TV movie.
Seminole Wars[]
1817–1818
1835–1842
1855–1858
First Seminole War[]
Politics and Diplomacy[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Adams Chronicles ** | 1976 | Paul Bogart & James Cellan Jones | USA | Diary and Autobiography of John Adams aka The Adams Papers |
John Adams & L.H. Butterfield (editor) | 1961 | Diary | - | - | - |
- ** TV miniseries.
Texas Revolution[]
1835–1836
Battle of the Alamo[]
February – March 1836
Bulletin ... Film currently in development: The Alamo by director unknown[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Martyrs of the Alamo | 1915 | Christy Cabanne | USA | Martyrs of the Alamo (?) | Theodosia Harris | 191? | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | The Alamo | 1960 | John Wayne | USA | Thirteen Days to Glory: The Siege of the Alamo (uncredited) | Lon Tinkle ♠ (uncredited) | 1958 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
3 | The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory * | 1987 | Burt Kennedy | USA | Thirteen Days to Glory: The Siege of the Alamo | Lon Tinkle | 1958 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
4 | The Alamo | 2004 | John Lee Hancock | USA | ? (uncredited) | José Enrique de la Peña (uncredited) | 1836? | Memoir | - | - | - |
4 | La Rebelión de Texas — Manuscrito inedito de 1836 por un oficial de Santa Anna (uncredited) | Jesús Sánchez Garza (uncredited) | 1955 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- ♠ Historian Lon Tinkle, an advisor on the film, had his name removed due to its lack of historical authenticity.
- * TV movie.
Battle of San Jacinto[]
21 April 1836
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Alamo | 2004 | John Lee Hancock | USA | ? (uncredited) | José Enrique de la Peña (uncredited) | 1836? | Memoir | - | - | - |
1 | La Rebelión de Texas — Manuscrito inedito de 1836 por un oficial de Santa Anna (uncredited) | Jesús Sánchez Garza (uncredited) | 1955 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
What if ...[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Viva Max! | 1969 | Jerry Paris | USA | Viva Max | James Lehrer | 1966 | Novel | - | - | - |
War of the Farrapos[]
1835–1845
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Netto Perde Sua Alma | 2001 | Tabajara Ruas & Beto Souza |
Brazil | Netto Perde Sua Alma | Tabajara Ruas | 2001 | Novel | - | - | - |
War of the Confederation[]
1836–1839
Upper Canada Rebellion[]
1837
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Robert Baldwin: A Matter of Principle * | 1961 | John Howe | Canada | The Patriots: a Canadian historical play in three acts | Eric Cross | 1955 [59]¤ | Play | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Lower Canada Rebellions[]
1837
1838
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Quelques arpents de neige ♠ | 1972 | Denis Héroux | Canada | Candide | Voltaire | 1758 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ The film's title is taken from a famous quotation in Candide which is dismissive of Canada.
Missouri Mormon War[]
1838
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Work and the Glory III: A House Divided | 2006 | Sterling Van Wagenen | USA | Truth Will Prevail | Gerald N. Lund | 1992 | Novel | - | - | - |
Zion's Camp[]
1834
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Work and the Glory: American Zion [60] | 2005 | Sterling Van Wagenen | USA | Like a Fire is Burning | Gerald N. Lund | 1991 | Novel | - | - | - |
Pastry War[]
1838
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ¡Mexicanos al grito de guerra! (Historia del Himno Nacional) ♠ | 1943 | Álvaro Gálvez y Fuentes & Ismael Rodríguez (uncredited) |
Mexico | "Mexicanos, al grito de guerra" | Francisco González Bocanegra | 1853 | Poem/ Himno nacional |
- | - | - |
- ♠ Although the film is set during the Franco-Mexican War, a mocking pastry cook character references the earlier Pastry War.
The Great Trek[]
1830s
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Untamed | 1955 | Henry King | USA | Untamed (?) | Helga Moray | 195? | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | The Fiercest Heart | 1961 | George Sherman | USA | The Fiercest Heart | Stuart Cloete | 1955 | Novel | - | - | - |
Blaauwekrans massacre[]
17 February 1838
↓↓ |
Battle of Italeni[]
9 April 1838
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Die Voortrekkers | 1973 | David Millin | South Africa | The Great Trek | Oliver Ransford | 1972 [1]¤ | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
The Great Game[]
1838–1907
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Lives of a Bengal Lancer | 1935 | Henry Hathaway | USA | The Lives of a Bengal Lancer [61] | Francis Yeats-Brown | 1930 | Memoir | - | - | - |
2 | Wee Willie Winkie | 1937 | John Ford | USA | Wee Willie Winkie | Rudyard Kipling [62] | 1888 | Story | - | - | - |
3 | The Drum | 1938 | Zoltan Korda | UK | The Drum | A. E. W. Mason | 1937 | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | Gunga Din [63] | 1939 | George Stevens | USA | "Gunga Din" | Rudyard Kipling [62] | 1892 | Poem | - | - | - |
4 | "Soldiers Three" (uncredited) | Rudyard Kipling [62] (uncredited) | 1888 | Story | - | - | - | ||||
5 | Kim | 1950 | Victor Saville | USA | Kim | Rudyard Kipling [62] | 1901 | Novel | - | - | - |
6 | King of the Khyber Rifles | 1953 | Henry King | USA | King of the Khyber Rifles | Talbot Mundy | 1916 | Novel | - | - | - |
7 | The Man Who Would Be King | 1975 | John Huston | USA | "The Man Who Would Be King" | Rudyard Kipling [62] | 1888 | Story | - | - | - |
8 | Kim * | 1984 | John Howard Davies | UK | Kim | Rudyard Kipling [62] | 1901 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
First Afghan War[]
1839–1842
Classics never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan: A Firsthand Account by One of the Few Survivors |
Florentia, Lady Sale | 1843 | Memoir | UK |
Anglo-Persian War[]
1856–1857
Second Afghan War[]
1878–1880
First Opium War[]
1839–1842
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Tai-Pan | 1986 | Daryl Duke | USA | Tai-Pan | James Clavell | 1966 | Novel | - | - | - |
Classics never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | An Insular Possession | Timothy Mo | 1986 | Novel | UK |
Uruguayan Civil War[]
1839–1851
Dominican War of Independence[]
1843–1849
Haitian-Dominican Wars[]
1849-1856
Maori Wars[]
1845
1872
Sikh Wars[]
1845–1846
1848–1849
Mexican-American War[]
1846–1848
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|
Battle of Churubusco[]
20 August 1847
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | North and South ♠ * | 1985 | Richard T. Heffron | USA | North and South | John Jakes | 1982 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ Omitted is any mention of Contreras on the same day, where Robert E. Lee crossed the "impassable" pedregal lava field.[64]
Battle of Chapultepec[]
12–13 September 1847
Occupation of Mexico City[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | North and South ♠ * | 1985 | Richard T. Heffron | USA | North and South | John Jakes | 1982 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ Omitted is any mention of Chapultepec Castle or the sacrifice of the six Boy Heroes, much celebrated all over Mexico.
- * TV miniseries.
Caste War[]
1847–1901
Classics never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Book of Lamentations Oficio de tinieblas |
Rosario Castellanos | 1962 | Novel | Mexico |
Revolutions of 1848[]
1848
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Royal Flash ♠ | 1975 | Richard Lester | UK | Royal Flash | George MacDonald Fraser | 1970 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ The story combines elements of the 1848 Revolutions with the Schleswig-Holstein Question.
Hungarian Revolution of 1848[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Rising Sea Föltámadott a tenger - Petőfi és Bem |
1953 | László Ranódy, Mihály Szemes, Kálmán Nádasdy | Hungary | Két férfi [65] | Gyula Illyés | 1936? | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | The Eagle and the Eaglet A sas meg a sasfiók ♠ * |
1975 | Miklós Hajdúfy | Hungary | Zoltánka | Gyula Krúdy | 192? [66] | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | Szökevény | Lõrinc Szabó | 193? [66]¤ | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ The film is about revolutionary poet and hero Sándor Petõfi and his son Zoltán.
- * TV movie.
Venezuelan Civil War[]
1848–1849
First Schleswig War[]
1848–1851
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Royal Flash ♠ | 1975 | Richard Lester | UK | Royal Flash | George MacDonald Fraser | 1970 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ The story combines elements of the 1848 Revolutions with the Schleswig-Holstein Question.
Argentine Civil War[]
1848–1856
Wars of Italian Independence[]
1848–1866 (including the Risorgimento)
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1860 | 1934 | Alessandro Blasetti | Italy | "La processione incontro a Garibaldi" | Gino Mazzucchi | 19?? | Story | - | - | - |
2 | The Leopard | 1963 | Luchino Visconti | Italy | Il Gattopardo | Giuseppe di Lampedusa | 1958 | Novel | - | - | - |
Early insurrections[]
1820–1830 (including the Carbonari)
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Vanina Vanini | 1961 | Roberto Rossellini | Italy | Vanina Vanini | Stendhal | 183? / 1855 [1] (collected edition) |
Novella | - | - | - |
2 | The Horseman on the Roof Le hussard sur le toit |
1995 | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | France | The Horseman on the Roof [67] Le hussard sur le toit |
Jean Giono | 1951 | Novel | - | - | - |
Second War of Independence[]
Politics and Diplomacy[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Edward the Seventh *** | 1975 | John Gorrie | UK | King Edward the Seventh | Philip Magnus | 1964 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- *** TV series.
Operations[]
Battle of Solferino[]
24 June 1859 [15]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Radetzky March Radetzkymarsch * |
1965 | Michael Kehlmann | West Germany, Austria | Radetzky March | Joseph Roth | 1932 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | Radetzky March Radetzkymarsch ** |
1995 | Axel Corti & Gernot Roll |
Germany, France, Austria | Radetzky March | Joseph Roth | 1932 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
- ** TV miniseries.
Demobilization[]
Classics never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | La Débâcle ♠ | Émile Zola | 1892 | Novel | France |
- ♠ The principal character is a veteran of Solferino.
Expedition of the Thousand[]
1860
Taiping Rebellion[]
1850–1864
Crimean War[]
1853–1856
Politics and Diplomacy[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Edward the Seventh *** | 1975 | John Gorrie | UK | King Edward the Seventh | Philip Magnus | 1964 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- *** TV series.
Operations[]
Bulletin ... Film currently in development: Flashman at the Charge by director unknown[]
Battle of Balaclava[]
25 October 1854
Frequently filmed: "The Charge of the Light Brigade"[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Balaclava ♠ | 1928 | Maurice Elvey & Milton Rosmer | UK | "The Charge of the Light Brigade" | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 1854 | Poem | - | - | - |
2 | The Charge of the Light Brigade | 1936 | Michael Curtiz | USA | "The Charge of the Light Brigade" | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 1854 | Poem | - | - | - |
3 | The Charge of the Light Brigade | 1968 | Tony Richardson | UK | "The Charge of the Light Brigade" | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 1854 | Poem | - | - | - |
- ♠ The scenario is a rather ridiculous one, involving an Englishwoman living in a cottage in the middle of the Crimean battlefield.[68]
Military hospitals[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Florence Nightingale | 1915 | Maurice Elvey | UK | The Life of Florence Nightingale | Edward Tyas Cook | 1913 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
Eureka Stockade[]
1854
Frequently filmed: "The Fight at Eureka Stockade"[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Eureka Stockade | 1907 | Arthur Cornwall & George Cornwell | Australia | "The Fight at Eureka Stockade" (uncredited) | Henry Lawson (uncredited) | 1890 | Poem | - | - | - |
2 | Eureka Stockade | 1949 | Harry Watt | UK | "The Fight at Eureka Stockade" (uncredited) | Henry Lawson (uncredited) | 1890 | Poem | Eureka Stockade | 1984 | Australia |
Rentap's Sarawak rebellion[]
c. 1854–1861
Frequently filmed: The Tigers of Mompracem[]
Peruvian Civil War[]
1856–1858
Classics never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Índole | Clorinda Matto de Turner | 1891 | Novel | Peru |
2 | Jorge, el hijo del pueblo | María Nieves y Bustamante | 1892 | Novel | Peru |
Second Opium War[]
1856–1860
Sepoy Mutiny[]
1857
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Campbells Are Coming Δ | 1915 | Francis Ford | USA | The Campbells Are Coming (?) | Emerson Hough | 19?? | Story | - | - | - |
2 | The Charge of the Light Brigade ♠ | 1936 | Michael Curtiz | USA | "The Charge of the Light Brigade" | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 1854 | Poem | - | - | - |
3 | Bengal Brigade | 1954 | Laslo Benedek | USA | Bengal Tiger | Hall Hunter | 195? | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | The Chess Players | 1977 | Satyajit Ray | India | "Shatranj ke khiladi" (हिंदी) / "Shatranj ki bazi" (اردو) |
Munshi Premchand | 193? | Story | - | - | - |
- Δ (This film may be incorrectly assigned to this category by the IMDb.)
- ♠ The film includes incidents modelled after the Sepoy Rebellion.
What if ...[]
Frequently filmed: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island[]
Verne's character of Captain Nemo is the son of a rajah, in exile following the Indian Mutiny.
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | 1916 | Stuart Paton | USA | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne | 1870 | Novel | - | - | - |
Classics never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Steam House aka The Demon of Cawnpore La Maison à vapeur |
Jules Verne | 1880 | Novel | France |
2 | The Siege of Krishnapur [69] | J. G. Farrell | 1973 | Novel | UK |
Utah War[]
1857–1858
Mountain Meadows massacre[]
11 September 1857
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | September Dawn | 2007 | Christopher Cain | USA | Mormonism Unveiled; Or The Life and Confessions of the Late Mormon Bishop John D. Lee [70][71] (uncredited) |
John D. Lee (uncredited) | 1877 | Memoir | - | - | - |
1 | Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows [70] (uncredited) | Will Bagley (uncredited) | 2002 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | ||||
1 | Journal of Discourses [70] (uncredited) | George D. Watt (editor) (uncredited) | 1854–1886 | Sermons | - | - | - | ||||
1 | The Hoth Diaries [70] (uncredited) | Hans Peter Emanuel Hoth (uncredited) | 1853–1857 | Diary | - | - | - | ||||
1 | The Mormon Kingdom [70] (uncredited) | Jerald & Sandra Tanner (uncredited) | 1969 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
War of Reform[]
1857–1861 (followed by the Franco-Mexican War [q.v.])
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ¡Mexicanos al grito de guerra! (Historia del Himno Nacional) | 1943 | Álvaro Gálvez y Fuentes & Ismael Rodríguez (uncredited) |
Mexico | "Mexicanos, al grito de guerra" | Francisco González Bocanegra | 1853 | Poem/ Himno nacional |
- | - | - |
Classics never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | El Zarco [72] | Ignacio Manuel Altamirano | 1885–1889/ 1901 (posthumous) |
Novel | Mexico |
Federal War[]
1859–1863
Battle of Santa Inés[]
10 December 1859
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zamora, tierra y hombres libres | 2009 | Román Chalbaud | Venezuela | "Proclama de Ezequiel Zamora y José R. González" | Ezequiel Zamora & José R. González | 1859 | Proclamation | - | - | - |
Colombian Civil War[]
1860–1862
American Civil War[]
1861–1865 (followed by Reconstruction)
Politics and Diplomacy[]
Bulletin ... film currently in development: Lincoln by Steven Spielberg[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Lincoln's Gettysburg Address | 1912 | J. Stuart Blackton & James Young | USA | "Gettysburg Address" | Abraham Lincoln | 1863 | Speech | - | - | - |
2 | The Crisis | 1916 | Colin Campbell | USA | The Crisis | Winston Churchill | 1901 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | Abraham Lincoln ♠ | 1933 | Director unknown | USA | "Gettysburg Address" | Abraham Lincoln | 1863 | Speech | - | - | - |
4 | The Perfect Tribute | 1935 | Edward Sloman | USA | "The Perfect Tribute" | Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews | 1906 | Story | - | - | - |
5 | North and South ♦ ** | 1985 | Richard T. Heffron | USA | North and South | John Jakes | 1982 | Novel | - | - | - |
6 | North and South, Book II ** | 1986 | Kevin Connor | USA | Love and War | John Jakes | 1984 | Novel | - | - | - |
7 | The Perfect Tribute * | 1991 | Jack Bender | USA | "Lincoln Got No Applause at Gettysburg: The Perfect Tribute" | Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews | 1906/1987 (retitled) | Story | - | - | - |
8 | Lincoln [73] | 2010? | Steven Spielberg | USA | Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln | Doris Kearns Goodwin | 2005 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
n | The Adams Chronicles ** | 1976 | Paul Bogart & James Cellan Jones | USA | Diary and Autobiography of John Adams aka The Adams Papers |
John Adams & L.H. Butterfield (editor) | 1961 | Diary | - | - | - |
n | Edward the Seventh *** | 1975 | John Gorrie | UK | King Edward the Seventh | Philip Magnus | 1964 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- ♠ The life of Lincoln from log cabin birth in Kentucky to death. The family moves by Conestoga wagon to Indiana in 1816, then to Illinois in 1830. He visits the slave market in New Orleans. 1832 sees him elected captain of volunteers in the Black Hawk War. Postmaster, lawyer. Lincoln-Douglas debates. Election. War. He pardons a sleepy sentry. Emancipation Proclamation. Gettysburg Address. Appomattox. Assassination and death.[58]
- ♦ Book I ends with Ft. Sumter and the parting of the two best friends.
- * TV movie.
- ** TV miniseries.
- *** TV series.
Frequently filmed: "The Man Without a Country"[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Man Without a Country | 1917 | Ernest C. Warde | USA | "The Man Without a Country" | Edward Everett Hale | 1863 | Story | - | - | - |
2 | My Own United States | 1918 | John W. Noble | USA | "The Man Without a Country" (uncredited) | Edward Everett Hale (uncredited) | 1863 | Story | - | - | - |
3 | The Man Without a Country | 1937 | Crane Wilbur | USA | "The Man Without a Country" | Edward Everett Hale | 1863 | Story | - | - | - |
Frequently filmed: Uncle Tom's Cabin[]
Inspiration for abolitionists specifically, the Union side generally.
The book is featured prominently in North and South.
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Topsy and Eva ♠ | 1927 | Del Lord, D.W. Griffith (uncredited), Lois Weber (uncredited) |
USA | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1852 | Novel | - | - | - |
1 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Catherine Chisholm Cushing | 192? | Play | - | - | - | ||||
2 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | 1927 | Harry A. Pollard | USA | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1852 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | Onkel Toms Hütte | 1965 | Géza von Radványi | France, Italy, West Germany, Yugoslavia | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1852 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ Ironically, this film provides an overtly racist treatment of the patronizing but still anti-slavery story.[74]
"My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of bigotry", as the serviceman expresses it in Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II.[75]
Prelude[]
(including Bleeding Kansas, Harpers Ferry)
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | North and South * | 1985 | Richard T. Heffron | USA | North and South | John Jakes | 1982 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Frequently filmed: Abe Lincoln in Illinois[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Abe Lincoln in Illinois | 1940 | John Cromwell | USA | Abe Lincoln in Illinois [76][77] |
Robert E. Sherwood | 1938 | Play | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Frequently filmed: Gallows Glorious[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Gallows Glorious * | 1938 | Director unknown | UK | Gallows Glorious | Ronald Gow | 1933 | Play | - | - | - |
2 | Gallows Glorious * | 1939 | Director unknown | UK | Gallows Glorious | Ronald Gow | 1933 | Play | - | - | - |
3 | John Brown * | 1960 | Max Douwes | Netherlands | Gallows Glorious | Ronald Gow | 1933 | Play | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Land operations[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | A Time Out of War [78][79] | 1954 | Denis Sanders | USA | "Pickets" from The Haunts of Men [80] | Robert W. Chambers | 1898 | Story | - | - | - |
2 | Au coeur de la vie ♠ | 1963 | Robert Enrico | France | "The Mocking-Bird" | Ambrose Bierce | 1890? | Story | - | - | - |
3 | Journey to Shiloh | 1968 | William Hale | USA | Journey to Shiloh | Heck Allen | 1960 | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | The Private History of a Campaign That Failed ♦ * | 1981 | Peter H. Hunt | USA & West Germany |
"The Private History of a Campaign That Failed" | "Mark Twain" | 1885 | Story/Memoir | - | - | - |
5 | "The War Prayer" | "Mark Twain" | 1916 (posthumous) | Story | - | - | - | ||||
6 | North and South, Book II * | 1986 | Kevin Connor | USA | Love and War | John Jakes | 1984 | Novel | - | - | - |
7 | The Colt * | 2005 | Yelena Lanskaya | USA | "Zherebyonok" ♥ | Mikhail Sholokhov [81] | 192? | Story | - | - | - |
8 | Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories (Segment 1) |
2006 | Don Maxwell | USA | "One Kind of Officer" from Civil War Stories |
Ambrose Bierce | 1890? | Story | - | - | - |
9 | Dog Jack | 2009 | Edward T. McDougal | USA | Dog Jack | Florence W. Biros | © 1990 [11]¤ | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ This anthology film combines two earlier short films with one addition, noted here.
- ♦ This adaptation combines a story of the Civil War with a later story of the Spanish-American War.[82]
- ♥ Sholokhov's short story is set during the Russian Civil War, with the colt the foal of a Red Army mare.
- * TV movie.
Battle of Bull Run[]
21 July 1861
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | North and South, Book II * | 1986 | Kevin Connor | USA | Love and War | John Jakes | 1984 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | Gods and Generals | 2003 | Ronald F. Maxwell | USA | Gods and Generals | Jeffrey Shaara | 1998 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV miniseries.
Battle of Shiloh[]
6–7 April 1862
Occupation of Frederick[]
7 September 1862
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Barbara Fritchie: The Story of a Patriotic American Woman | 1908 | J. Stuart Blackton | USA | "Barbara Frietchie" | John Greenleaf Whittier | 1864 | Poem | - | - | - |
Battle of Antietam[]
17 September 1862
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | North and South, Book II * | 1986 | Kevin Connor | USA | Love and War | John Jakes | 1984 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | Glory | 1989 | Edward Zwick | USA | Lay This Laurel | Lincoln Kirstein | 1973 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
2 | One Gallant Rush | Peter Burchard | 1965 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | ||||
3 | Gods and Generals (Director's Cut only) |
2003 | Ronald F. Maxwell | USA | Gods and Generals | Jeffrey Shaara | 1998 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV miniseries.
Battle of Fredericksburg[]
11–15 December 1862
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Gods and Generals | 2003 | Ronald F. Maxwell | USA | Gods and Generals | Jeffrey Shaara | 1998 | Novel | - | - | - |
Battle of Chancellorsville[]
30 April – 6 May 1863
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Gods and Generals | 2003 | Ronald F. Maxwell | USA | Gods and Generals | Jeffrey Shaara | 1998 | Novel | - | - | - |
Frequently filmed: The Red Badge of Courage[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Red Badge of Courage | 1951 | John Huston | USA | The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane | 1895 | Novel | The Red Badge of Courage | 1974 | USA |
Battle of Gettysburg[]
1–3 July 1863
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | North and South, Book II * | 1986 | Kevin Connor | USA | Love and War | John Jakes | 1984 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | Gettysburg | 1993 | Ronald F. Maxwell | USA | The Killer Angels [83] | Michael Shaara | 1974 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV miniseries.
Battle of Fort Wagner[]
18 July 1863
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Glory | 1989 | Edward Zwick | USA | Lay This Laurel | Lincoln Kirstein | 1973 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
1 | One Gallant Rush | Peter Burchard | 1965 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
Battle of Chickamauga[]
19–20 September 1863
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Chickamauga | 1962 | Robert Enrico | France | "Chickamauga" | Ambrose Bierce | 1890? | Story | - | - | - |
Battle of Fort Pillow[]
12 April 1864
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Roots * | 1977 | Marvin J. Chomsky, John Erman et al. |
USA | Roots: The Saga of an American Family [53] | Alex Haley | 1976 | Non-fiction (purported) [54]/ Novel (admitted) |
- | - | - |
- * TV miniseries.
Battle of the Wilderness[]
5–7 May 1864
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | North and South, Book II * | 1986 | Kevin Connor | USA | Love and War | John Jakes | 1984 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV miniseries.
Battle of the Crater[]
30 July 1864
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Cold Mountain | 2003 | Anthony Minghella | USA | Cold Mountain [84] | Charles Frazier | 1997 | Novel | - | - | - |
Battle of Jonesborough[]
31 August – 1 September 1864
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Gone with the Wind [85] |
1939 | Victor Fleming | USA | Gone with the Wind [86][67] |
Margaret Mitchell | 1936 | Novel | - | - | - |
Fall of Petersburg[]
2 April 1865
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | North and South, Book II * | 1986 | Kevin Connor | USA | Love and War | John Jakes | 1984 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV miniseries.
Surrender at Appomattox[]
9 April 1865
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Dixie | 1924 | Webster Campbell | USA | The Day of the Confederacy | W.M. Stephenson | 1919 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
2 | North and South, Book II * | 1986 | Kevin Connor | USA | Love and War | John Jakes | 1984 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV miniseries.
[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sahara | 2005 | Breck Eisner | USA | Sahara | Clive Cussler | 1992 | Novel | - | - | - |
Trent Affair[]
8 November 1861
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Adams Chronicles ** | 1976 | Paul Bogart & James Cellan Jones | USA | Diary and Autobiography of John Adams aka The Adams Papers |
John Adams & L.H. Butterfield (editor) | 1961 | Diary | - | - | - |
- ** TV miniseries.
Blockade running[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Gone with the Wind [85] | 1939 | Victor Fleming | USA | Gone with the Wind [86][67] |
Margaret Mitchell | 1936 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | North and South, Book II ** | 1986 | Kevin Connor | USA | Love and War | John Jakes | 1984 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ** TV miniseries.
Raiders and Irregulars[]
The term "commando" dates from the Boer War.
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Dark Command | 1940 | Raoul Walsh | USA | The Dark Command: A Kansas Iliad [87] | W.R. Burnett | 1938 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | The Raid ♠ | 1954 | Hugo Fregonese | USA | Affair at St. Albans | Herbert Ravenel Sass | 195? | Non-fiction? | - | - | - |
3 | The Horse Soldiers | 1959 | John Ford | USA | The Horse Soldiers | Harold Sinclair | © 1956 [11] | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | Major Dundee | 1965 | Sam Peckinpah | USA | Moby Dick (uncredited) | Herman Melville (uncredited) | 1851 | Novel | - | - | - |
5 | The Outlaw Josey Wales [88] | 1976 | Clint Eastwood | USA | Gone to Texas: The Rebel Outlaw Josey Wales | Forrest Carter | 1973 | Novel | - | - | - |
6 | Ride with the Devil | 1999 | Ang Lee | USA | Woe to Live On | Daniel Woodrell | 1998 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ Confederates plan an attack on Vermont from their base in Canada.
Andrews' Raid[]
12 April 1862
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The General [85] | 1927 | Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton | USA | Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure (uncredited) | William Pittenger ♠ (uncredited) | 1863 | Memoir | - | - | - |
1 | The Great Locomotive Chase (uncredited) | William Pittenger ♠ (uncredited) | 1899 | Memoir | - | - | - | ||||
2 | The Great Locomotive Chase | 1956 | Francis D. Lyon | USA | Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure (uncredited) | William Pittenger ♠ (uncredited) | 1863 | Memoir | - | - | - |
2 | The Great Locomotive Chase (uncredited) | William Pittenger ♠ (uncredited) | 1899 | Memoir | - | - | - |
- ♠ Cpl. (later Sgt.) William Pittenger, 2nd Ohio Infantry (1840–1904): Did Sgt. Pittenger really write two distinct books about his exploit?
Military intelligence and Espionage[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Operator 13 | 1934 | Richard Boleslavsky | USA | Secret Service Operator 13 | Robert W. Chambers ♠ | 1934 [11] (posthumous) | Stories | - | - | - |
2 | The Man from Dakota | 1940 | Leslie Fenton | USA | Arouse and Beware | MacKinlay Kantor | © 1936 [11] | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ Chambers is best known for The King in Yellow. His historic house may be visited in Broadalbin, New York.
Frequently filmed: Secret Service[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Secret Service | 1931 | J. Walter Ruben | USA | Secret Service | William Gillette | 1896 | Play | - | - | - |
Military justice and Courts-martial[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Sleeping Sentinel ♠ | 1914 | ? | USA | "The Sleeping Sentinel. An incident, in verse." | Francis De Haes Janvier | 1863 | Poem | - | - | - |
2 | Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories (Segment 2) |
2006 | Don Maxwell | USA | "The Story of Conscience" from Civil War Stories |
Ambrose Bierce | 1890 | Story | - | - | - |
- ♠ The film is based on the story of William Scott.
Frequently filmed: "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Bridge | 1929 | Charles Vidor | USA | "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" | Ambrose Bierce | 1890 | Story | - | - | - |
2 | An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | 1962 | Robert Enrico | France | "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" | Ambrose Bierce | 1890 | Story | - | - | - |
3 | Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories (Segment 3) |
2006 | Don Maxwell & Brian James Egen |
USA | "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" from Civil War Stories |
Ambrose Bierce | 1890 | Story | - | - | - |
Military hospitals[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Gone with the Wind [85] | 1939 | Victor Fleming | USA | Gone with the Wind [86][67] | Margaret Mitchell | 1936 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | North and South, Book II * | 1986 | Kevin Connor | USA | Love and War | John Jakes | 1984 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Involuntary confinement[]
POWs[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Held by the Enemy ♠ | 1920 | Donald Crisp | USA | Held by the Enemy | William Gillette | 1886 | Play | - | - | - |
2 | The Beguiled | 1971 | Don Siegel | USA | A Painted Devil | Thomas Cullinan | 196? | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | North and South, Book II * | 1986 | Kevin Connor | USA | Love and War | John Jakes | 1984 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ The placement of this film in the POW table is a best guess.
- * TV movie.
Convicts[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Littlest Rebel ♠ | 1935 | David Butler | USA | The Littlest Rebel | Edward Peple | 1911 | Play | - | - | - |
- ♠ Shirley Temple appeals to Pres. Lincoln for clemency. Who could refuse?
Civilians[]
Occupation[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Band of Angels | 1957 | Raoul Walsh | USA | Band of Angels | Robert Penn Warren | 1955 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | Glory | 1989 | Edward Zwick | USA | Lay This Laurel | Lincoln Kirstein | 1973 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
2 | One Gallant Rush | Peter Burchard | 1965 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | ||||
3 | Dear America: When Will This Cruel War Be Over? * | 2000 | ? | USA | When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: the Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson | Barry Denenberg | 1996 [11] | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Home front[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Dixie ♠ | 1924 | Webster Campbell | USA | The Day of the Confederacy | W.M. Stephenson | 1919 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
2 | So Red the Rose | 1935 | King Vidor | USA | So Red the Rose | Stark Young | 1934 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | Gone with the Wind [85] | 1939 | Victor Fleming | USA | Gone with the Wind [86][67] |
Margaret Mitchell | 1936 | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | The Old Maid | 1939 | Edmund Goulding | USA | The Old Maid [89] | Zoe Akins | 1935 | Play | - | - | - |
4 | The Mother's Recompense | Edith Wharton | 1925 | Novel | - | - | - | ||||
5 | Raintree County | 1957 | Edward Dmytryk | USA | Raintree County | Ross Lockridge, Jr. | 1948 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ The problems of a Southern plantation family during wartime only increase when a Northern spy spreads rumours about slave emancipation. When the older son is killed in battle, the younger son enlists. Lee and Grant meet at Appomattox. Lee rides away.[90]
New York Draft Riots[]
13–16 July 1863
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Gangs of New York ♠ | 2002 | Martin Scorsese | USA | The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld (uncredited) | Herbert Asbury (uncredited) | 1928 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- ♠ For decades, director Scorsese had planned a film based on the book. In the end, the book is uncredited since the film ignores the history as described.[citation needed]
Demobilization[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sommersby | 1993 | Jon Amiel | USA | Arrest Memorable (uncredited) | Jean de Coras (uncredited) | 1565 | Memoir | - | - | - |
1 | The Return of Martin Guerre (uncredited) | Natalie Zemon Davis (uncredited) | 1983 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | ||||
2 | Last Stand at Saber River * | 1997 | Dick Lowry | USA | Last Stand at Saber River | Elmore Leonard | 1959 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | Cold Mountain | 2003 | Anthony Minghella | USA | Cold Mountain [84] | Charles Frazier | 1997 | Novel | - | - | - |
n | The Romance of Rosy Ridge | 1947 | Roy Rowland | USA | The Romance of Rosy Ridge | MacKinlay Kantor | 1937 [11]¤ | Novella | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Justice and Retribution[]
Lincoln Assassination[]
14 April 1865
Bulletin ... film currently in development: Manhunt by director unknown[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Birth of a Nation [91] | 1915 | D.W. Griffith | USA | The Clansman | Rev. Thomas F. Dixon Jr. | 1905 | Novel | - | - | - |
1 | The Leopard's Spots | Rev. Thomas F. Dixon Jr. | 1902 | Novel | - | - | - | ||||
2 | They've Killed President Lincoln ♠ * | 1971 | Robert Guenette | USA | Our American Cousin (uncredited) | Tom Taylor (uncredited) | 1858 | Play | - | - | - |
3 | The Day Lincoln Was Shot * | 1998 | John Gray | USA | The Day Lincoln Was Shot | Jim Bishop | 1955 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
4 | National Treasure: Book of Secrets | 2007 | Jon Turteltaub | USA | Our American Cousin (uncredited) | Tom Taylor (uncredited) | 1858 | Play | - | - | - |
5 | Manhunt | 2010? | In development | USA | Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer | James L. Swanson | 2006 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
n | The Last of Mrs. Lincoln * | 1976 | George Schaefer | USA | The Last of Mrs. Lincoln | James Prideaux | 1972 | Play | - | - | - |
- ♠ Co-written by Theodore Strauss, who wrote Four Days in November, the very strong 1964 documentary about the 1963 Kennedy assassination.
- * TV movie.
Frequently filmed: The Andersonville Trial[]
Levitt's play is sometimes confused with Kantor's novel Andersonville.[92]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Andersonville Trial * | 1970 | George C. Scott | USA | The Andersonville Trial ♠ | Saul Levitt | 1959 | Play | - | - | - |
- ♠ Also filmed in Flemish (1962), German (1972), and Serbo-Croatian (1975).
- * TV movie.
Classics never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country | Topic |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Andersonville [92] | MacKinlay Kantor | 1955 | Novel | USA | Andersonville prison |
2 | The Last Full Measure ♠ | Jeffrey Shaara | 1998 | Novel | USA | Gettysburg to Appomattox |
- ♠ The final part of the Shaara family's trilogy.
History never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country | Topic |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command [93]¤ | Douglas S. Freeman | 19?? | Non-fiction | USA |
What if ...[]
Classics never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country | Topic |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Bring the Jubilee | Ward Moore | 1953 | Novel | USA | CSA victory |
Reconstruction[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Birth of a Nation [91] | 1915 | D.W. Griffith | USA | The Clansman | Rev. Thomas F. Dixon Jr. | 1905 | Novel | - | - | - |
1 | The Leopard's Spots | Rev. Thomas F. Dixon Jr. | 1902 | Novel | - | - | - | ||||
2 | Freedom Road * | 1979 | Jan Kadar | USA | Freedom Road [94] | Howard Fast | 1944 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | Heaven & Hell: North & South, Book III ♠ ** | 1994 | Larry Peerce | USA | Heaven and Hell | John Jakes | 1987 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ The highlight is the settling of scores between the freedmen and the Ku Klux Klan.
- * TV movie.
- ** TV miniseries.
Franco-Mexican War[]
1861–1867
Politics and Diplomacy[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Juarez | 1939 | William Dieterle | USA | Juarez und Maximilian | Franz Werfel | 1925 | Play | - | - | - |
2 | ¡Mexicanos al grito de guerra! (Historia del Himno Nacional) ♠ | 1943 | Álvaro Gálvez y Fuentes & Ismael Rodríguez (uncredited) |
Mexico | "Mexicanos, al grito de guerra" | Francisco González Bocanegra | 1853 | Poem/ Himno nacional |
- | - | - |
3 | Präriejäger in Mexiko: Benito Juarez * | 1988 | Hans Knötzsch | East Germany | Präriejäger in Mexiko | Karl May | 1925? | Novel | - | - | - |
n | Edward the Seventh *** | 1975 | John Gorrie | UK | King Edward the Seventh | Philip Magnus | 1964 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- ♠ The 1943 film draws some comparisons between Napoleon III's France and Hitler's Germany.
- *** TV series.
Operations[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Major Dundee ♠ | 1965 | Sam Peckinpah | USA | Moby Dick (uncredited) | Herman Melville (uncredited) | 1851 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | The Undefeated | 1969 | Andrew V. McLaglen | USA | ? (uncredited) | Lewis B. Patten (uncredited) | 196? | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ A mixed force of Union and Confederate soldiers encounters Maximilian's French in Mexico.
- * TV movie.
Occupation of Veracruz[]
8 December 1861
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ¡Mexicanos al grito de guerra! (Historia del Himno Nacional) ♠ | 1943 | Álvaro Gálvez y Fuentes & Ismael Rodríguez (uncredited) |
Mexico | "Mexicanos, al grito de guerra" | Francisco González Bocanegra | 1853 | Poem/ Himno nacional |
- | - | - |
- ♠ The French are initially supported by the British and the Spanish.
Battle of Puebla[]
5 May 1862 (Cinco de Mayo)
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ¡Mexicanos al grito de guerra! (Historia del Himno Nacional) ♠ | 1943 | Álvaro Gálvez y Fuentes & Ismael Rodríguez (uncredited) |
Mexico | "Mexicanos, al grito de guerra" | Francisco González Bocanegra | 1853 | Poem/ Himno nacional |
- | - | - |
- ♠ The troops of Pres. Juárez rally at the sound of the new national anthem to defeat the French zouaves.
Refugees[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | La fuga | 1944 | Norman Foster | Mexico | "Boule de Suif" (unconfirmed) | Guy de Maupassant | 1880 | Story | - | - | - |
January Uprising[]
1863–1865
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Our God's Brother Brat naszego boga ♠ |
1997 | Krzysztof Zanussi | Poland | Brat naszego boga | Karol Wojtyła (Pope John Paul II) |
1944 | Play | - | - | - |
2 | 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 | Gian Franco Svidercoschi | 2001 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
2 | "Chopin's Piano" "Fortepian Szopena" |
Cyprian Norwid | 1866 | Poem | - | - | - |
- ♠ The film is about Polish priest Saint Albert Chmielowski.
- ♦ The film mentions the Uprising and Norwid's famous poem.
- * TV movie.
Frequently filmed: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea[]
In the original draft of Verne's novel, altered for political reasons, Captain Nemo was a Polish nobleman, in exile following the Uprising of 1863.
(See above) |
Dominican Restoration War[]
1863–1865
Dominican Civil Wars[]
1865–1879
1897–1905
Classics never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | La Mañosa | Juan Bosch ♠ | 1936 | Novella | Dominican Republic |
- ♠ Bosch later became the reformist President of the Dominican Republic but he was almost immediately overthrown by a coup in 1963.
Second Schleswig War[]
1864
Politics and Diplomacy[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Edward the Seventh *** | 1975 | John Gorrie | UK | King Edward the Seventh | Philip Magnus | 1964 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- *** TV series.
Frequently filmed: Peer Gynt[]
Ibsen's verse drama contains references to Scandinavian guilt over not coming to the aid of Denmark against Prussia and Austria.
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Peer Gynt | 1941 | David Bradley | USA | Peer Gynt | Henrik Ibsen | 1867 | Play | - | - | - |
Operations[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Tine | 1964 | Knud Leif Thomsen | Denmark | Tine | Herman Bang | 1889 | Novel | - | - | - |
War of the Triple Alliance[]
1864–1870
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Netto Perde Sua Alma | 2001 | Tabajara Ruas & Beto Souza |
Brazil | Netto Perde Sua Alma | Tabajara Ruas | 2001 | Novel | - | - | - |
Frequently filmed: In Search of the Castaways[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2 | In Search of the Castaways Δ | 1962 | Robert Stevenson | USA | In Search of the Castaways ♠ | Jules Verne | 1867–1868 | Novel | - | - | - |
- Δ It is unclear to what extent the war appears in the film versions.
- ♠ The novel [95] was the basis for an 1877 zarzuela.[96]
Austro-Prussian War[]
1866
Politics and Diplomacy[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Edward the Seventh *** | 1975 | John Gorrie | UK | King Edward the Seventh | Philip Magnus | 1964 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- *** TV series.
Great Cretan Revolt[]
1866–1869
Cretan Rebellion of 1889[]
Classics never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Captain Michalis Ο καπετάν Μιχάλης |
Nikos Kazantzakis | 1953 | Novel | Greece |
Glorious Revolution in Spain[]
1868
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Fencing Master El maestro de esgrima |
1992 | Pedro Olea | Spain | The Fencing Master | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | 1988 | Novel | - | - | - |
Te Kooti's War[]
1868–1870
Classic never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Season of the Jew [97] | Maurice Shadbolt | 1987 | Novel | New Zealand |
Franco-Prussian War[]
1870–1871
Politics and Diplomacy[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Edward the Seventh *** | 1975 | John Gorrie | UK | King Edward the Seventh | Philip Magnus | 1964 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- *** TV series.
Unclassified[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Mademoiselle Fifi | 1944 | Robert Wise | USA | "Mademoiselle Fifi" | Guy de Maupassant | 1882 | Story | - | - | - |
1 | "Boule de Suif" from Les Soirées de Médan |
Guy de Maupassant | 1880 | Story | - | - | - | ||||
2 | The Green Mare | 1959 | Claude Autant-Lara | France | La Jument verte | Marcel Aymé | 1933 | Novel | - | - | - |
n | The Attack on the Mill ♠ | 1910 | Edison Company | USA | "L'Attaque du moulin" from Les Soirées de Médan |
Émile Zola | 1880 | Story | - | - | - |
- ♠ This film may be set during a different war.
Frequently filmed: Nana[]
The novel ends with the outbreak of the war.
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Nana ** | 1968 | John Davies | UK | Nana | Émile Zola | 1880 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ** TV miniseries.
Classics never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | La Débâcle | Émile Zola | 1892 | Novel | France |
Paris Commune[]
1871
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Komunaris chibukhi | 1929 | Kote Mardjanishvili | USSR | Pipe of a Communard | Ilya Ehrenburg | 19?? | Novel | - | - | - |
Third Carlist War[]
1872–1876
Classics never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | La Cigarette ♠ | Jules Claretie | 1890 | Novel | France |
2 | Peace in War Paz en la guerra |
Miguel de Unamuno | 1895 | Novel/ Memoir |
Spain |
- ♠ The basis for the libretto to the opera La Navarraise by Massenet.
French colonial conflicts in North Africa[]
18??–19??
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Under Two Flags | 1936 | Frank Lloyd | USA | Under Two Flags | Ouida | 1867 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | Fort Saganne | 1984 | Alain Corneau | France | Fort Saganne [98] | Louis Gardel | 1980 | Novel | - | - | - |
Frequently filmed: Beau Geste and sequels[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Beau Geste | 1926 | Herbert Brenon | USA | Beau Geste | P.C. Wren | 1924 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | Beau Sabreur | 1928 | John Waters | USA | Beau Sabreur | P.C. Wren | 1926 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | Beau Ideal | 1931 | Herbert Brenon | USA | Beau Ideal | P.C. Wren | 1928 | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | Beau Geste | 1939 | William A. Wellman | USA | Beau Geste | P.C. Wren | 1924 | Novel | - | - | - |
5 | Hermoso ideal ♠ | 1948 | Alejandro Galindo | Mexico | Beau Ideal | P.C. Wren | 1928 | Novel | - | - | - |
6 | Beau Geste | 1966 | Douglas Heyes | USA | Beau Geste | P.C. Wren | 1924 | Novel | - | - | - |
7 | Beau Geste ** | 1982 | Douglas Camfield | UK | Beau Geste | P.C. Wren | 1924 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ In the 1948 Mexican version, Mexico and Spain are added to the storyline before the Foreign Legion.[99]
- ** TV miniseries.
Cypress Hills massacre[]
1 June 1873
The incident which led to the formation of the Northwest Mounted Police.
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Englishman's Boy * | 2008 | John N. Smith | Canada | The Englishman's Boy [100][101] |
Guy Vanderhaeghe | 1996 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Revolt of the Muckers[]
1874 [102]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | A Paixão de Jacobina | 2002 | Fábio Barreto | Brazil | Videiras de Cristal | Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil | 1990 | Novel | - | - | - |
US Indian Wars[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Dances with Wolves [103] | 1990 | Kevin Costner | USA | Dances with Wolves | Michael Blake | 1988 | Novel | - | - | - |
Tonquin Incident[]
June 1811
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | This Woman Is Mine [104] | 1941 | Frank Lloyd | USA | "I, Jack Lewis" | Gilbert W. Gabriel | 194? | Story | - | - | - |
Apache Wars[]
1851–1886
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Rio Grande | 1950 | John Ford | USA | "Mission with No Record" | James Warner Bellah | 1947 | Story | - | - | - |
2 | Only the Valiant | 1951 | Gordon Douglas | USA | Only the Valiant | Charles Marquis Warren | 1943 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | Hondo | 1953 | John Farrow | USA | "The Gift of Cochise" | Louis L'Amour | 194? | Story | - | - | - |
4 | A Distant Trumpet | 1964 | Raoul Walsh | USA | A Distant Trumpet | Paul Horgan | 1951 | Novel | - | - | - |
5 | Duel at Diablo | 1966 | Ralph Nelson | USA | Apache Rising | Marvin H. Albert | 1957 | Novel | - | - | - |
Sioux War of 1865[]
Sand Creek Massacre[]
29 November 1864
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Soldier Blue | 1970 | Ralph Nelson | USA | Arrow in the Sun | Theodore V. Olsen | 196? | Novel | - | - | - |
Snake War[]
1864–1868
Bannock War[]
1878
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Silver River ♠ | 1948 | Raoul Walsh | USA | ? | "Stephen Longstreet" | 194? | Novel (unpublished) [105] | - | - | - |
- ♠ This film may have an error in its historical chronology.[106]
Black Hills War[]
1876–1877
(See also Great Sioux War of 1876-77)
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson | 1976 | Robert Altman | USA | Indians | Arthur Kopit | 1969 | Play | - | - | - |
Battle of Powder River[]
17 March 1876
Battle of the Little Bighorn[]
25–26 June 1876
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Tonka | 1958 | Lewis R. Foster | USA | Tonka | David Appel | 195? | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | The Glory Guys | 1965 | Arnold Laven | USA | The Dice of God | Hoffman Birney | 1956 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | Little Big Man | 1970 | Arthur Penn | USA | Little Big Man | Thomas Berger | 1964 | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | Son of the Morning Star * | 1991 | Mike Robe | USA | Son Of The Morning Star: Custer And The Little Bighorn [107] | Evan S. Connell | 1984 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
What if ...[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer * | 1977 | Glenn Jordan | USA | The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer | Douglas C. Jones | 197? | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Cheyenne War[]
1878–1879
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | White Feather | 1955 | Robert D. Webb | USA | White Feather (?) | John Prebble | 195? | Story (?) | - | - | - |
South American Indian Wars[]
Conquest of the Chaco[]
1870–1917
Conquest of the Desert[]
1872–1881
Russo-Turkish War[]
1877–1878
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Under the Yoke | 1952 | Dako Dakovski | Bulgaria | Under the Yoke | Ivan Vazov | 1893 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | Under the Yoke ** | 1990 | Yanko Yankov | Bulgaria | Under the Yoke | Ivan Vazov | 1893 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ** TV miniseries.
Siege of Plevna[]
1877 [15]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Turkish Gambit | 2005 | Dzhanik Faiziyev | Russia & Bulgaria | The Turkish Gambit | Boris Akunin | 1998 | Novel | - | - | - |
Romanian War of Independence[]
1877–1878
Zulu War[]
1879 [108]
Battle of Isandlwana[]
22 January 1879
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zulu Dawn | 1979 | Douglas Hickox | USA, South Africa | Zulu Dawn | Cy Endfield | 1979 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
Siege of Rorke's Drift[]
22–23 January 1879
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Zulu | 1964 | Cy Endfield | UK | "Slaughter in the Sun" | John Prebble | 1958 | Article | - | - | - |
Urabi Revolt[]
1879–1882
Politics and Diplomacy[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Edward the Seventh *** | 1975 | John Gorrie | UK | King Edward the Seventh | Philip Magnus | 1964 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- *** TV series.
Anglo-Egyptian War[]
1882
War of the Pacific[]
1879–1883
Bulletin ... Film currently in development: Adiós al Séptimo de Línea by Alex Bowen & Diego Rougier[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Héroes, la gloria tiene su precio [49] | 2007 | Cristián Galaz, Gustavo Graef-Marino, Ricardo Larraín, Rodrigo Sepúlveda | Chile | Balmaceda y la contrarevolución de 1891 | Hernán Ramírez Necochea | 1972 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
2 | Adiós al Séptimo de Línea | 2010 | Alex Bowen & Diego Rougier |
Chile | Adiós al Séptimo de Línea | Jorge Inostrosa Cuevas | 1955 | Epic novel | - | - | - |
Classics never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Saltpeter War (?) La Guerra del Salitre |
Guillermo Thorndike | 1977–1979 | Tetralogy | Peru |
First Boer War[]
1880–1881
Battle of Bronkhorstspruit[]
20 December 1880
↓↓ |
Battle of Laing's Nek[]
28 January 1881
↓↓ |
Battle of Majuba Hill[]
27 February 1881
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Majuba | 1968 | David Millin | South Africa | The Hill of Doves | Stuart Cloete | 1941 | Novel | - | - | - |
North-West Rebellion[]
1885
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | North West Mounted Police | 1940 | Cecil B. DeMille | USA | The Royal Canadian Mounted Police [109] (uncredited) | R.C. Fetherstonhaugh (uncredited) | 1938 [59][1] | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
2 | Big Bear | 1998 | Gil Cardinal | Canada | The Temptations of Big Bear [110] (uncredited) (unconfirmed) | Rudy Wiebe | 1973 | Novel | - | - | - |
Serbo-Bulgarian War[]
1885
Frequently filmed: Arms and the Man[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Arms and the Man | 1932 | Cecil Lewis | UK | Arms and the Man | George Bernard Shaw [21] | 1894 | Play | - | - | - |
2 | Arms and the Man * | 1946 | Harold Clayton | UK | Arms and the Man | George Bernard Shaw | 1894 | Play | - | - | - |
3 | Arms and the Man Helden |
1958 | Franz Peter Wirth | West Germany | Arms and the Man | George Bernard Shaw | 1894 | Play | - | - | - |
4 | Arms and the Man * | 1983 | Philip Casson | UK | Arms and the Man | George Bernard Shaw | 1894 | Play | - | - | - |
5 | Arms and the Man * | 1989 | James Cellan Jones | UK | Arms and the Man | George Bernard Shaw | 1894 | Play | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Colombian Civil War of 1885[]
1885
Operations[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Love in the Time of Cholera ♠ | 2007 | Mike Newell | USA & Colombia | Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel García Márquez [51] | 1985 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ A deleted scene involves guerrilla activity.
Home front[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Love in the Time of Cholera | 2007 | Mike Newell | USA & Colombia | Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel García Márquez [51] | 1985 | Novel | - | - | - |
Chilean Civil War of 1891[]
1891
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Héroes, la gloria tiene su precio [49] | 2007 | Cristián Galaz, Gustavo Graef-Marino, Ricardo Larraín, Rodrigo Sepúlveda | Chile | Balmaceda y la contrarevolución de 1891 | Hernán Ramírez Necochea | 1972 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
Johnson County Cattle War[]
1892
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Johnson County War ** | 2002 | David S. Cass Sr. | Germany & USA | Riders of Judgment | "Frederick Manfred" | 1957 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ** TV miniseries.
First Matabele War[]
1893
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Shangani Patrol | 1970 | David Millin | Rhodesia | A Time to Die | Robert Cary | 1968 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
Second Matabele War[]
1896–1897
Jameson Raid[]
29 December 1895 – 2 January 1896
Politics and Diplomacy[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Edward the Seventh *** | 1975 | John Gorrie | UK | King Edward the Seventh | Philip Magnus | 1964 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- *** TV series.
Cuban War of Independence[]
1895–1898
War of Canudos[]
1896–1897
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Antônio Conselheiro e a Guerra dos Pelados | 1977 | Guga de Oliveira | Brazil | Os Sertões aka Rebellion in the Backlands |
Euclides da Cunha | 1902 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
2 | Guerra de Canudos | 1997 | Sérgio Rezende | Brazil | Os Sertões aka Rebellion in the Backlands (uncredited) |
Euclides da Cunha (uncredited) | 1902 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
Classics never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The War of the End of the World | Mario Vargas Llosa [111] | 1981 | Novel | Peru |
Greco-Turkish War of 1897[]
1897
Politics and Diplomacy[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Edward the Seventh *** | 1975 | John Gorrie | UK | King Edward the Seventh | Philip Magnus | 1964 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- *** TV series.
Battle of Velestino[]
4 May 1897 [112]
Classics never filmed[]
# | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | "A Fragment of Velestino" [113] "A Battle in Greece" |
Stephen Crane | 1897/ 1936 |
Essay/ Reportage |
USA |
2 | "Death and the Child" [114] from The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure |
Stephen Crane | 1898 | Story | USA |
Mahdist War[]
(War of the Sudan)
1898
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Young Winston ♠ | 1972 | Richard Attenborough | UK | My Early Life: A Roving Commission | Winston Churchill [115] | 1930 | Memoir | - | - | - |
1 | The River War (uncredited) | Winston Churchill [115] | 1899 | Memoir | - | - | - |
- ♠ This film spans two wars, concluding with the Boer War.
Frequently filmed: The Light That Failed[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Light That Failed | 1939 | William A. Wellman | USA | The Light That Failed | Rudyard Kipling [62] | 1890 | Novel | - | - | - |
Battle of Omdurman[]
2 September 1898
Frequently filmed: The Four Feathers[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Four Feathers | 1915 | J. Searle Dawley | USA | The Four Feathers | A. E. W. Mason | 1902 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | The Four Feathers | 1921 | René Plaissetty [116] | UK | The Four Feathers | A. E. W. Mason | 1902 | Novel | - | - | - |
3 | The Four Feathers | 1929 | Merian C. Cooper, Lothar Mendes, & Ernest B. Schoedsack | USA | The Four Feathers | A. E. W. Mason | 1902 | Novel | - | - | - |
4 | The Four Feathers | 1939 | Zoltan Korda | UK | The Four Feathers | A. E. W. Mason | 1902 | Novel | - | - | - |
5 | Storm Over the Nile | 1955 | Zoltan Korda & Terence Young | UK | The Four Feathers | A. E. W. Mason | 1902 | Novel | - | - | - |
5 | The Four Feathers * | 1977 | Don Sharp | UK | The Four Feathers | A. E. W. Mason | 1902 | Novel | - | - | - |
6 | The Four Feathers | 2002 | Shekhar Kapur | UK & USA | The Four Feathers | A. E. W. Mason | 1902 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Fashoda Crisis[]
1898
Scramble for Africa[]
1880–1914
Battle of Lougou[]
1898
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sarraounia | 1986 | Med Hondo | France & Burkina Faso | Sarraounia | Abdoulaye Mamani | 1980 | Novel | - | - | - |
Frequently filmed: The War of the Worlds[]
Wells' science fiction novel about a Martian invasion is traditionally considered to be his commentary on European colonialism.[citation needed]
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Piracy[]
19th century
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | A High Wind in Jamaica | 1965 | Alexander Mackendrick | UK | A High Wind in Jamaica | Richard Hughes | 1929 | Novel | - | - | - |
2 | The Light at the Edge of the World | 1971 | Kevin Billington | USA, Liechtenstein, Spain, Switzerland | The Lighthouse at the End of the World Le Phare du bout du monde |
Jules Verne (and Michel Verne) | 1905 (posthumous) | Novel | - | - | - |
Frequently filmed: The Pirates of Penzance[]
# | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The Pirates of Penzance | 1983 | Wilford Leach | USA & UK | The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty | W. S. Gilbert (libretto) | 1879 | Savoy opera | - | - | - |
War in the abstract[]
19th century
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Twice filmed: "The War Prayer"[]
Mark Twain wrote his story in reaction to the Spanish-American War, but the story itself is general, and not specific.
So far, adaptations have chosen to assign it to specific conflicts.
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For later conflicts, see the List of films based on war books — 1898–1926.
References[]
Unless otherwise stated, the source for film information is the IMDb.
Bibliography[]
- Clarke, James. Virgin Film: War Films, Virgin Books, London, 2006.
- Crane, Stephen with Kate Lyon (ghostwriter). Great Battles of the World, J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1900.
- Halliwell, Leslie. Halliwell's Film Guide to 8,000 English Language Films, Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, London, 1977; Granada Publishing, London, 1979.
- Hartley, William H., Ed.D. Selected Films for American History and Problems, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, 1940.[117]
- Keegan, John. The Battle for History: Re-fighting World War Two (Barbara Frum lecture series), Vintage Canada, Toronto, 1995.
Republished by Vintage Books, New York, 1996. - Pearce, Kenneth. A Traveller's History of Mexico, Windrush Press, Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos., with Cassell & Co., London, 2002.
- Wertheim, Stanley. A Stephen Crane Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, 1997.
- 100 Greatest War Movies, special issue of Military History Magazine, Weider History Group, Leesburg, Virginia, 2007.
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of the British Library.
Source: British Library Integrated Catalogue. - ↑ Recipient of the 1937 Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Colour.
- ↑ Recipient of the 1939 Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel.
- ↑ Recipient of the Tony Award in 1969.
- ↑ Nominated for the Tony Award for Best Revival in 1998.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 2002.
- ↑ Source: Hartley (q.v.), p. 162-163. Information on this film at the IMDb is incomplete.
Dr. Hartley, writing in 1940, somewhat favours the 1924 film (Webb), since in the 1938 remake (Wilbur), "the Rodney incident is overdramatized". - ↑ 8.0 8.1 The Adams Chronicles, Chapter I.
- ↑ "Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake"
(Abigail rephrases the verse slightly.)
Source: "An Essay on Man", Epistle IV: Of the Nature and State of Man, With Respect to Happiness. - ↑ The Adams Chronicles, Chapter III.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of the US Library of Congress.
Source: Library of Congress Online Catalog. - ↑ Recipient of the Newbery Medal in 1944.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Fast was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1953.
- ↑ Source: Hartley (q.v.), p. 163. Information on this film at the IMDb is incomplete.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 Designated by Stephen Crane as one of the Great Battles of the World, from his book of the same title.
- ↑ 16.00 16.01 16.02 16.03 16.04 16.05 16.06 16.07 16.08 16.09 16.10 16.11 Recipient of a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation in 1973.
- ↑ Ogg was President of the American Political Science Association from 1940–1941.
- ↑ Source: Hartley (q.v.), p. 165. Information on this film at the IMDb is incomplete.
- ↑ Source: Hartley (q.v.), p. 164. Information on this film at the IMDb is incomplete.
- ↑ Source: Hartley (q.v.), p. 165-166. Information on this film at the IMDb is incomplete.
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.
- ↑ Source: Halliwell (q.v.), p. 737.
- ↑ First published in Invasion du Canada, edited by H.-A.-J.-B. Verreau, Montreal, 1873. Source: Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 24.4 24.5 Roberts was awarded a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation in 1957 for his historical novels.
- ↑ The Adams Chronicles, Chapter IV.
- ↑ Source: Hartley (q.v.), p. 71. Information on this film at the IMDb is incomplete.
- ↑ Recipient of the Tony Award in 1966.
- ↑ The British Library associates Freeman Wills with Freeman Wills Crofts, but his career apparently begins in 1920, not 1899.
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 29.3 Source: IMDb, but further corroboration is lacking. Retrieved 2009-09-13.
- ↑ Cléry, Jean Baptiste Cant Hanet. A journal of the Terror: being an account of the occurrences in the Temple during the confinement of Louis XVI, by M. Cléry, the King's valet-de-chambre (London: Folio Society, 1955).
Source: Wikipedia article on Pauline de Tourzel.
The valet Cléry is quoted by Carlyle in his French Revolution. - ↑ Source: The Reign of Terror: Memoirs of Mlle des Echerolles, review, New York Times, 7 May 1904. Retrieved 2009-09-16.
- ↑ French Wikipédia: « Libre adaptation du roman d'Honoré de Balzac. » Retrieved on 2009-07-20.
- ↑ Source: Aurora Theatre Production of George Bernard Shaw's The Man of Destiny Boasts an Exceptional Ensemble, Richard Connema, 13 February 2004. Retrieved 2010-05-30.
- ↑ Source: Allmovie review by Dan Pavlides, 200?.
- ↑ Carpentier was awarded the Cervantes Prize in 1977.
- ↑ Lorenzini was the nephew of "Carlo Collodi", author of Pinocchio. The nephew wrote a sequel to his uncle's work, as well as other children's books, under the pseudonym "Collodi Nipote". Lorenzini was editor of Topolino, Italy's Mickey Mouse magazine.
"[Lorenzini p]artecipò all realizzazione del film (1936) "I due sergenti" diretto da Enrico Guazzoni con Gino Cervi e Alida Maria Altenburger (ovvero Alida Valli al suo debutto cinematografico), tratto dal suo "I due sergenti: romanzo dell'epoca napoleonica: sulla trama del dramma di D'Aubigny", Firenze, 1932."
Source: Biblioteca dei miei ragazzi: Collodi Nipote Template:It icon Retrieved on 2009-07-20. - ↑ Source: IMDb plot summary by Les Adams.
- ↑ Heyse was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1910.
- ↑ The conversation takes place in prison between Boris and his father.
Father: "... he was a raw youth."
Boris: "Raw youth? He was an idiot."
The novels named, in conversation order, are: Crime and Punishment (Raskolnikov, "he killed two ladies"), The Brothers Karamazov, The Possessed, The Raw Youth, The Idiot, The Insulted and Injured, The Gambler, and The Double.
The conversation occurs shortly before Boris's mock execution. Dostoyevsky, in history, was the subject of a Tsarist mock execution. - ↑ Source: IMDb review by Bob Taylor, 2004.
- ↑ 41.0 41.1 Joint recipients of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1938.
- ↑ 42.0 42.1 42.2 42.3 Source: Acorn DVD. The IMDb information on this series is incorrect, giving the year as 1982 and the nationality as UK. The series is in fact a co-production between ATV and RAI.
- ↑ French Wikipédia lists a production of the play in 1913 with Firmin Gémier as director and actor.
- ↑ Recipient of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 1992.
- ↑ Source: War Plays 2005, Finborough Theatre, London.
- ↑ A Straggler of '15
- ↑ Andrić was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961.
- ↑ It could even, conceivably, have been a comedy, about a husband, or father, named Monroe.
- ↑ 49.0 49.1 49.2 49.3 On the historical value of the miniseries, Rodrigo Sepúlveda, one of the directors (of the episode "Portales"), has this to say: "Con estas películas nadie aprenderá mucha historia." ("With these films, nobody will learn much history.") So now Chile can do it Hollywood-style.
- ↑ Source: IMDb review by "Matum", 1998.
- ↑ 51.0 51.1 51.2 García Márquez was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.
- ↑ Source: IMDb page on Joshua Sinclair, Trivia section.
- ↑ 53.0 53.1 Recipient of a Pulitzer Prize Special Award in 1977.
- ↑ 54.0 54.1 For the controversies assailing Roots, see Alex Haley.
- ↑ Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1968.
- ↑ The poem provides Pushkin's familiar lines:
Товарищ, верь: взойдет она,
Звезда пленительного счастья
Source: "К Чедаеву", lines 17–18.
The film's title comes from a line with several variants, each variant employing a different adjective to describe the star (звезда):
Звезда таинственного счастья
Звезда желаннейшего счастья
Звезда цивического счастья - ↑ This title is a literal translation from Walloon.
- ↑ 58.0 58.1 Source: Hartley (q.v.), p. 73. This two-reel short film is currently (as of June 2009) not listed at the IMDb.
Dr. Hartley, who is normally very careful in his praise, describing most films as "Good", had this to say about Abraham Lincoln (1933), writing in 1940: "Excellent. One of the best films on Lincoln. Extremely well cast. The film is well dated and follows good chronological order."
He continues to make a strong recommendation to his readership of history teachers: "It may well be used in connection with the study of pre-Civil War and Civil War periods." - ↑ 59.0 59.1 Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of Library and Archives Canada.
Source: Library Search. - ↑ The film involves "Joseph Smith and his '1834 Zion's Camp Expedition--an army of 250 men carrying bayonets and muskets.' [... This] army invades Missouri".
Source: The Work and the Glory II: American Zion review, Steve Klein, MormonInfo.org, 28 October 2005. Retrieved 2010-07-07. - ↑ Recipient of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Biography) in 1930.
- ↑ 62.0 62.1 62.2 62.3 62.4 62.5 62.6 Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907.
- ↑ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 1999.
- ↑ Source: Pearce (q.v.), p. 165.
- ↑ Source: IMDb. Hungarian Wikipedia does not list a source.
- ↑ 66.0 66.1 No publication details for this title are available at the British Library.
Source: British Library Integrated Catalogue. - ↑ 67.0 67.1 67.2 67.3 67.4 Listed in the 100 livres du siècle, from a poll organized by FNAC and Le Monde in 1999.
- ↑ Source: IMDb review by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, 2004. This is the original, and only, IMDb review of the film.
- ↑ Recipient of the Booker Prize in 1973.
- ↑ 70.0 70.1 70.2 70.3 70.4 Source: communication with the homesite of screenwriter Carole Whang Schutter by the editor ("Varlaam"), 22 June 2009.
- ↑ Screenwriter Schutter lists 48 sources in her novelization. She considers this book to be particularly significant: White Flag: America's First 9/11, by Wayne Capurro.
- ↑ The novel is "considerada una joya de la literatura mexicana", according to Spanish Wikipedia.
- ↑ Source: Clarke (q.v.), p. 8.
- ↑ Source: IMDb review by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, 2008. This is the original, and only, IMDb review of the film.
- ↑ Source: IMDb review by "Varlaam", 1999. This is the original, and only, IMDb review of the film. This film later became controversial following an exposé about its authenticity.[citation needed]
- ↑ Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1939.
- ↑ Nominated for the Tony Award for Best Revival in 1994.
- ↑ Recipient of the 1955 Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel.
- ↑ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 2006.
- ↑ Source: Films of Robert W. Chambers, Larry Loc. Retrieved on 2009-08-30.
- ↑ Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965.
- ↑ Source: IMDb review by "Theo Winthrop", 2005.
- ↑ Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1975.
- ↑ 84.0 84.1 Recipient of the National Book Award in 1997.
- ↑ 85.0 85.1 85.2 85.3 85.4 Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 1989.
- ↑ 86.0 86.1 86.2 86.3 Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1937.
- ↑ Source: Rara-Avis bibliography of W.R. Burnett
- ↑ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 1996.
- ↑ Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1935.
- ↑ Source: Hartley (q.v.), p. 168-169. Information on this film at the IMDb is incomplete.
- ↑ 91.0 91.1 Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 1992.
- ↑ 92.0 92.1 Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1956.
- ↑ Recommended by John Keegan who, in a series of lectures, succinctly summarized the historiography of the Second World War. Source: Keegan (q.v.), Ch. 2, p. 40.
- ↑ Fast's novel has a foreword by W. E. B. Du Bois.
- ↑ In the novel, the travelling party of Scots and French notice the depopulation of the countryside brought about by the war, the "civil war between the Paraguayans and the Buenos Ayriens Template:Sic [...] which ultimately required the intervention of Brazil".
Source: Captain Grant's Children, Chapter XXI, "Fort Independence". - ↑ In the operetta, the travelling party is arrested by the Argentine Army and accused of spying for Paraguay.
Source: Los sobrinos del Capitán Grant (Captain Grant's Nephews), Miguel Ramos Carrión and Manuel Fernández Caballero. - ↑ Recipient of the Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Award in 1987.
- ↑ Recipient of the Grand Prix du Roman in 1980.
- ↑ Source: IMDb review by Richard O'Brien, 2004. This is the original, and only, IMDb review of the film.
- ↑ Recipient of the Governor General's Award in 1996.
- ↑ Shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Award in 1998.
- ↑ This appears to have no connection to the novel The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs, initially serialized in 1913.
- ↑ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 2007.
- ↑ Source: The Suicide Bomber of Clayoquot Sound, Revived, The Tyee, Claudia Cornwall, March 14, 2008.
- ↑ Source: [1]
- ↑ According to plot descriptions, the film takes place at a time when U.S. Grant is President, and the Shoshone are "on the warpath" (TCM with the US. However, according to Wikipedia's dating, Grant's presidency (1869–1877) misses the periods of hostility with the Shoshone.
- ↑ Recipient of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 1985.
- ↑ Current publications from the British National Army Museum call this conflict by its traditional name, the "Zulu War", and not by the recent coinage, the "Anglo-Zulu War".
- ↑ Publisher: Carrick & Evans, New York, 1938.
- ↑ Recipient of the Governor General's Award in 1973.
- ↑ Vargas Llosa was awarded the Cervantes Prize in 1994.
- ↑ Source: Wertheim (q.v.), p. 21.
- ↑ Source: Wertheim (q.v.), p. 114.
- ↑ Source: Wertheim (q.v.), pp. 86–88.
- ↑ 115.0 115.1 Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953.
- ↑ Franco-American director René Plaissetty also appeared in the controversial Mission to Moscow as an actor.
- ↑
Dr. Hartley, in his now-forgotten book, is very thorough in documenting educational films for the benefit of his readership of elementary and high school teachers, and explaining where prints can be rented, typically at "$5.00 for two weeks". But while Hartley can devote nearly a page to his plot synopsis and review, he provides no cast or crew information at all, other than the book from which the film was adapted. So combining Hartley with the complementary information at the IMDb gives a full picture in many cases.
The editor is using a copy of Hartley discovered in Toronto in 2008. The copy had been discarded by the library at Pepperdine College, now University, in Los Angeles in Sept. 1966.
As noted above, Hartley documents a series of silent historical films made in 1924, apparently of very high quality, which do not now circulate. They have 0 votes (or fewer than 5) at the IMDb, and the information about them there is of the kind that comes from a catalogue listing rather than a screening. Someone should make these titles available again.
This American series reminds the editor of a Canadian series made c. 1961 by the National Film Board, under the supervision of the late historian J.M.S. Careless: historical short subjects handled in depth for students of history, rather than the general commercial audience.
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 — 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
- War film
- War novel
- List of war films
- List of United States military books
- Assassinations in fiction
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