List of films based on military books covering peacetime
This is a list of films based on military books in peacetime.
Since it only deals with preparation for conflict, this page is not organized chronologically by war, as the other pages are.
This page is organized by military mission, and by armed service.
1st century B.C.
Roman Army
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ♠ | 1966 | Richard Lester | UK & USA | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum [1][2] | Burt Shevelove & Larry Gelbart [3] (book), Stephen Sondheim (lyrics) | 1962 | Musical | - | - | - |
| 1 | Pseudolus (uncredited) | Plautus | before 184 B.C. | Play | - | - | - | ||||
| 1 | Miles Gloriosus (uncredited) | Plautus | before 184 B.C. | Play | - | - | - | ||||
| 1 | Mostellaria (uncredited) | Plautus | before 184 B.C. | Play | - | - | - | ||||
- ♠ Roman captain Miles Gloriosus, the one who "raped Thrace thrice", tries to secure a virgin bride.
18th century
Missions
Transportation of convicts
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Botany Bay | 1953 | John Farrow | USA | Botany Bay | Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall | 1941 | Novel | - | - | - |
British Army
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Recruiting Officer ♠ * | 1973 | David Giles | UK | The Recruiting Officer | George Farquhar | 1706 | Play | - | - | - |
- ♠ There had also been an Australian television production in 1965.
- * TV movie.
Royal Navy
Frequently filmed: Mutiny on the Bounty
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In the Wake of the Bounty | 1933 | Charles Chauvel | USA | Mutiny on the Bounty (uncredited) | Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall (uncredited) | 1932 | Novel | - | - | - |
| 2 | Mutiny on the Bounty | 1935 | Frank Lloyd | USA | Mutiny on the Bounty | Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall | 1932 | Novel | - | - | - |
Imperial Russian Army
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lieutenant Kijé ♠ Поручик Киже | 1934 | Aleksandr Faintsimmer | USSR | Lieutenant Kijé ♦ | Yury Tynyanov | 1927 | Novella | - | - | - |
19th century
Missions
African exploration
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mountains of the Moon | 1990 | Bob Rafelson | USA | Burton and Speke | William Harrison | 1984 | Novel | - | - | - |
Railway construction
Frequently filmed: The Man-Eaters of Tsavo
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | The Ghost and the Darkness | 1996 | Stephen Hopkins | USA | The Man-eaters of Tsavo and other East African Adventures (uncredited) | Lt. Col. John Henry Patterson (uncredited) | 1907 | Memoir/ Non-fiction | - | - | - |
Suppression of the working class
Peterloo Massacre
16 August 1819
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sharpe's Justice ♠ * | 1997 | Tom Clegg | UK | Sharpe's Eagle (characters) | Bernard Cornwell | 1981 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ The film alters the date and certain other details.
- * TV movie.
US Army
Cavalry
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heaven & Hell: North & South, Book III * | 1994 | Larry Peerce | USA | Heaven and Hell | John Jakes | 1987 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV miniseries.
Buffalo soldiers
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heaven & Hell: North & South, Book III * | 1994 | Larry Peerce | USA | Heaven and Hell | John Jakes | 1987 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV miniseries.
Cadets
| # | 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 | - | - | - |
| 2 | Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker ♦ * | 1994 | Harry Moses | USA | Court Martial: A Black Man in America | John Marszalek | 1972 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- ♠ The principal characters graduate from West Point prior to the Mexican War. Secondary characters graduate before the Civil War.
- ♦ The true story of Johnson Chesnut Whittaker, a freedman entering West Point in 1876.
- * TV movie.
British Army
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conduct Unbecoming | 1975 | Michael Anderson | UK | Conduct Unbecoming | Barry England | 1969 | Play | - | - | - |
French Army
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Judge and the Assassin | 1976 | Bertrand Tavernier | France | Le juge et l'assassin | Henri Garet & René Tavernier | 1976 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
| 1 | Vacher l'éventreur et les crimes sadiques | Alexandre Lacassagne | 1899 | Non-fiction | - | - | - | ||||
Dreyfus Affair
In the List of films based on war books, it is very unusual to have so many different books on a single subject made into films.
Comparable subjects would include D-Day and Stalingrad.
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | L'Affaire Dreyfus | 1930 | Richard Oswald | Germany | Der Fall Dreyfus (?) | Bruno Weil | 19?? | Novel | - | - | - |
| 2 | L'Affaire Dreyfus | 1931 | F.W. Kraemer & Milton Rosmer | UK | Der Fall Dreyfus (?) | Wilhelm Herzog & Hans Rehfisch | 19?? | Play | - | - | - |
| 3 | The Life of Emile Zola [5] | 1937 | William Dieterle | USA | Zola and His Time | Matthew Josephson | 1928 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
| 4 | I Accuse! | 1958 | José Ferrer | UK | Captain Dreyfus: The Story of a Mass Hysteria | Nicholas Halasz | 1955 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
| 5 | Affäre Dreyfus * | 1959 | Hanns Farenburg | West Germany | Der Fall Dreyfus (?) | Wilhelm Herzog & Hans Rehfisch | 19?? | Play | - | - | - |
| 6 | L'affaire Dreyfus * | 1995 | Yves Boisset | France & Germany | L'Affaire | Jean-Denis Bredin | 1983/1993 | Novel | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Frequently filmed: "J'accuse"
Zola (and Lazare) are assumed sources in these instances.
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | L'Affaire Dreyfus | 1899 | Georges Méliès | France | "J'accuse" | Émile Zola | 1898 | Open letter | - | - | - |
| 1 | L’affaire Dreyfus – Une erreur judiciaire | Bernard Lazare | 1896 | Pamphlet | - | - | - | ||||
| 2 | Trial of Captain Dreyfus | 1899 | American Mutoscope [6] | USA | "J'accuse" | Émile Zola | 1898 | Open letter | - | - | - |
| 3 | Dreyfus Receiving His Sentence | 1899 | American Mutoscope [6] | USA | "J'accuse" | Émile Zola | 1898 | Open letter | - | - | - |
| 4 | L'Affaire Dreyfus, partie 1 | 1902 | Ferdinand Zecca | France | "J'accuse" | Émile Zola | 1898 | Open letter | - | - | - |
| 5 | L'Affaire Dreyfus, partie 2 | 1908 | Lucien Nonguet & Ferdinand Zecca | France | "J'accuse" | Émile Zola | 1898 | Open letter | - | - | - |
| 6 | Theodor Herzl, der Bannerträger des jüdischen Volkes | 1921 | Otto Kreisler | Austria | "J'accuse" (uncredited) | Émile Zola (uncredited) | 1898 | Open letter | - | - | - |
| 7 | Wenn ihr wollt, ist es kein Märchen | 1973 | Imo Moszkowicz | Austria | "J'accuse" (uncredited) | Émile Zola (uncredited) | 1898 | Open letter | - | - | - |
| 8 | Émile Zola ou La conscience humaine * | 1978 | Stellio Lorenzi | France | "J'accuse" (uncredited) | Émile Zola (uncredited) | 1898 | Open letter | - | - | - |
| 9 | Prisoner of Honor * | 1991 | Ken Russell | UK | "J'accuse" (uncredited) | Émile Zola (uncredited) | 1898 | Open letter | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Army of a German state
Frequently filmed: Woyzeck
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Woyzeck | 1979 | Werner Herzog | West Germany | Woyzeck | Georg Büchner | 1837/1879 | Play | - | - | - |
Prussian Army
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Der Hauptmann von Köpenick | 1926 | Siegfried Dessauer | Germany | Wie ich Hauptmann von Köpenick wurde: mein Lebensbild | Wilhelm Voigt ♠ | 1909 | Memoir | - | - | - |
- ♠ There were also two immediate films made in 1906 based on Voigt's story, shortly after the incident occurred.
Frequently filmed: The Captain of Köpenick
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Der Hauptmann von Köpenick | 1931 | Richard Oswald | Germany | The Captain of Köpenick | Carl Zuckmayer | 1931 | Play | - | - | - |
| 2 | I Was a Criminal aka Captain of Koepenick | 1945 [7] | Richard Oswald | USA | The Captain of Köpenick | Carl Zuckmayer | 1931 | Play | - | - | - |
| 3 | Der Hauptmann von Köpenick | 1956 | Helmut Käutner | West Germany | The Captain of Köpenick | Carl Zuckmayer | 1931 | Play | - | - | - |
| 4 | Der Hauptmann von Köpenick * | 1997 | Frank Beyer | Germany, Austria, Switzerland | The Captain of Köpenick | Carl Zuckmayer | 1931 | Play | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Spanish Army
Frequently filmed: Carmen
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carmen | 2003 | Vicente Aranda | Spain | Carmen | Prosper Mérimée | 1845 | Novella | - | - | - |
20th century
Missions
Arctic exploration
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Red Tent Красная палатка | 1969 | Mikhail Kalatozov | USSR & Italy | My Polar Flights | Gen. Umberto Nobile | 1961 | Memoir | - | - | - |
Antarctic exploration
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scott of the Antarctic | 1948 | Charles Frend | UK | Scott's Last Expedition: The Personal Journals of Captain R.F. Scott, CVO, RN | Capt. R.F. Scott | 1913 | Journals | - | - | - |
| 2 | The Last Place on Earth ** | 1985 | Ferdinand Fairfax | UK | Scott and Amundsen | Roland Huntford | 1979 [8] | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- ** TV miniseries.
Occupation of Japan
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three Stripes in the Sun | 1955 | Richard Murphy | USA | "The Gentle Wolfhound" | E.J. Kahn Jr. | 195? | Article | - | - | - |
| 2 | The Teahouse of the August Moon | 1956 | Daniel Mann | USA | The Teahouse of the August Moon [9][10][11] | John Patrick | 1953 | Play | - | - | - |
| 2 | The Teahouse of the August Moon | Vern Sneider | 1951 | Novel | - | - | - | ||||
| 3 | Sayonara | 1957 | Joshua Logan | USA | Sayonara | James Michener | 1954 | Novel | - | - | - |
| 4 | Cry for Happy | 1961 | George Marshall | USA | Cry for Happy | George Campbell | 1958 [8] | Novel | - | - | - |
Occupation of Germany
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Town Without Pity Stadt ohne Mitleid | 1961 | Gottfried Reinhardt | USA & West Germany | Town Without Pity (?) Das Urteil | "Manfred Gregor" | 1960 | Novel |
| 2 | The Last Days of Patton * | 1986 | Delbert Mann | USA | The Last Days of Patton | Ladislas Farago | 1981 | Non-fiction |
- * TV movie.
"Occupation of France"
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New World Le Nouveau monde | 1995 | Alain Corneau | France | ? [12] | ? | 199? | Novel | - | - | - |
Space exploration
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marooned | 1969 | John Sturges | USA | Marooned | Martin Caidin | 1964/1969 | Novel | - | - | - |
| 2 | The Right Stuff | 1983 | Philip Kaufman | USA | The Right Stuff [13] | Tom Wolfe | 1979 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
| 3 | Apollo 13 | 1995 | Ron Howard | USA | Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 | Jim Lovell & Jeffrey Kluger | 1994 | Memoir/ Non-fiction | - | - | - |
| 4 | From the Earth to the Moon | 1998 | ? | USA | A Man on the Moon | Andrew Chaikin | 1994 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
Search and rescue
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Perfect Storm | 2000 | Wolfgang Petersen | USA | The Perfect Storm | Sebastian Junger | 1997 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
US Army
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At War with the Army | 1950 | Hal Walker | USA | At War with the Army | James B. Allardice | 1949 | Play | - | - | - |
| 2 | Soldier in the Rain | 1963 | Ralph Nelson | USA | Soldier in the Rain | William Goldman | 1960 | Novel | - | - | - |
| 3 | Once an Eagle ♦ ** | 1976 | Richard Michaels & E.W. Swackhamer | USA | Once an Eagle | Anton Myrer | 1968 | Novel | - | - | - |
| 4 | Fatal Vision ** | 1984 | David Greene | USA | Fatal Vision | Joe McGinniss | 1983 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
| 5 | Cadence | 1990 | Martin Sheen | USA | Count a Lonely Cadence | Gordon Weaver | 1968 [8] | Novel | - | - | - |
| 6 | Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story * | 1995 | Jeff Bleckner | USA | Serving in Silence | Margarethe Cammermeyer with Chris Fisher | 1994 [8] | Memoir | - | - | - |
| 7 | The General's Daughter | 1999 | Simon West | USA | The General's Daughter | Nelson DeMille | 1992 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♦ The wide-ranging film covers World War I, the interwar years, the Sino-Japanese War, and World War II (Pacific theatre).
The novel also includes a fictionalized Vietnam War.[14] - * TV movie.
- ** TV miniseries.
Armour
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Pentagon Wars * | 1998 | Richard Benjamin | USA | The Pentagon Wars: Reformers Challenge the Old Guard | Col. James G. Burton | 1993 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Cavalry (and mules)
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Army Girl ♠ | 1938 | George Nichols Jr. | USA | Army Girl (?) | Charles L. Clifford | 193? | Story | - | - | - |
- ♠ Cavalry finally gives way to tanks.
Cadets
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Francis Goes to West Point | 1952 | Arthur Lubin | USA | Francis (characters) | David Stern | 1946 [8] | Novel | - | - | - |
| 2 | The Long Gray Line | 1955 | John Ford | USA | Bringing Up The Brass: My 55 Years at West Point | Marty Maher with Nardi Reeder Campion | 1951 | Memoir | - | - | - |
| 3 | Taps | 1981 | Harold Becker | USA | Father Sky | Devery Freeman | 1979 [8] | Novel | - | - | - |
| 4 | The Lords of Discipline | 1983 | Franc Roddam | USA | The Lords of Discipline | Pat Conroy | 1980 | Novel | - | - | - |
| 5 | Dress Gray * | 1986 | Glenn Jordan | USA | Dress Gray | Lucian Truscott IV (novel) Gore Vidal (teleplay) | 1978 | Novel | - | - | - |
| 6 | Code Breakers ♠ | 2005 | Rod Holcomb | USA | A Return to Glory: the Untold Story of Honor, Dishonor, and Triumph at the United States Military Academy, 1950-53 | Bill McWilliams | 2000 [8]¤ | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- * TV miniseries.
- ♠ TV movie.
WACs
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Francis Joins the WACS | 1954 | Arthur Lubin | USA | Francis (characters) | David Stern | 1946 [8] | Novel | - | - | - |
Civilian justice
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anatomy of a Murder ♠ | 1959 | Otto Preminger | USA | Anatomy of a Murder | "Robert Traver" | 1958 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ A lieutenant and Korean War veteran is charged with murder.
Psychic soldiers
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Men Who Stare at Goats | 2009 | Grant Heslov | USA | The Men Who Stare at Goats | Jon Ronson | 2004 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
US Navy
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On the Town | 1949 | Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen | USA | On the Town | Betty Comden & Adolph Green | 1944 | Musical | - | - | - |
| 2 | Francis in the Navy | 1955 | Arthur Lubin | USA | Francis (characters) | David Stern | 1946 [8] | Novel | - | - | - |
| 3 | Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. | 1966 | Byron Paul | USA | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | 1719 | Novel | - | - | - |
| 4 | The Last Detail | 1973 | Hal Ashby | USA | The Last Detail | Daryl Ponicsan | 1970 | Novel | - | - | - |
| 5 | Cinderella Liberty | 1973 | Mark Rydell | USA | Cinderella Liberty | Daryl Ponicsan | 1973 | Novel | - | - | - |
| 6 | Grey Lady Down | 1978 | David Greene | USA | Event 1000 | David Lavallee | 1971 | Novel | - | - | - |
| 7 | Men of Honor | 2000 | George Tillman, Jr. | USA | The Reminiscences of Master Chief Boatswain's Mate Carl Brashear (uncredited) | Paul Stillwell (ed.) (uncredited) | 1998 | Memoir | - | - | - |
| 8 | A Glimpse of Hell * | 2001 | Mikael Salomon | Canada | A Glimpse of Hell: The Explosion on the USS Iowa and Its Cover-Up | Charles C. Thompson II | 1999 | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- * TV movie.
Midshipmen
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Navy Blue and Gold | 1937 | Sam Wood | USA | Navy Blue and Gold, a Story of the Naval Academy | George Bruce | 1936 [8] | Novel | - | - | - |
USMC
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Great Santini | 1979 | Lewis John Carlino | USA | The Great Santini | Pat Conroy | 1976 | Novel | - | - | - |
| 2 | A Few Good Men | 1992 | Rob Reiner | USA | A Few Good Men | Aaron Sorkin | 1989 | Play | - | - | - |
USAF
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Game of Their Lives ♠ | 2005 | David Anspaugh | USA | The Game of Their Lives | Geoffrey Douglas | 1996 [8] | Non-fiction | - | - | - |
- ♠ The World Cup soccer story involves a USAF airbase in Brazil in 1950.
Frequently filmed: No Time for Sergeants
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No Time for Sergeants | 1958 | Mervyn LeRoy | USA | No Time for Sergeants | Ira Levin | 1955 | Play | No Time for Sergeants | 1964 | USA |
| 1 | No Time for Sergeants | Mac Hyman | 1954 | Novel | - | - | - | ||||
British Army
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Another Dawn | 1937 | William Dieterle | USA | "The Ambassador's Wife" (uncredited) | W. Somerset Maugham (uncredited) | 193? | Story | - | - | - |
| 2 | Reluctant Heroes | 1951 | Jack Raymond | UK | Reluctant Heroes | Colin Morris | 195? | Play | - | - | - |
| 3 | Tunes of Glory | 1960 | Ronald Neame | UK | Tunes of Glory | James Kennaway | 1956 | Novel | - | - | - |
Royal Navy
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Morning Departure | 1950 | Roy Ward Baker | UK | Morning Departure | Kenneth Woollard | 195? | Play | - | - | - |
| 2 | The Baby and the Battleship | 1956 | Jay Lewis | UK | The Baby and the Battleship | Anthony Thorne | 195? | Novel | - | - | - |
Army of India
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kiss Me Sergeant | 1932 | "Monty Banks" | UK | Idol of Moolah | Syd Courtenay & Lola Harvey | 193? | Play | - | - | - |
Austro-Hungarian Army
Cadets
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Young Törless Der junge Törless | 1966 | Volker Schlöndorff | West Germany & France | The Confusions of Young Törless Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß | Robert Musil | 1906 | Novel/ Memoir | - | - | - |
Brazilian Navy
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My Sister Eileen ♠ | 1942 | Alexander Hall | USA | My Sister Eileen | Joseph Fields & Jerome Chodorov | 1940 | Play | - | - | - |
| 1 | My Sister Eileen | Ruth McKenney | 1938 | Stories/Memoir | - | - | - | ||||
| 2 | My Sister Eileen ♠ | 1955 | Richard Quine | USA | My Sister Eileen | Joseph Fields & Jerome Chodorov | 1940 | Play | - | - | - |
| 2 | My Sister Eileen | Ruth McKenney | 1938 | Stories/Memoir | - | - | - | ||||
- ♠ Brazilians appear in the 1955 film.
It is not established for certain that they appear in 1942. The 1942 film is in fact part of World War II, Home front. Brazil in 1942 is developing a belligerent stance toward Germany prior to a declaration of war in August by Pres. Vargas.
Czechoslovak Army
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tank Battalion Tankový prapor | 1991 | Vít Olmer | Czechoslovakia | The Republic of Whores: a Fragment from the Time of the Cults Tankový prapor | Josef Škvorecký | 1992 [15]¤ (in English) | Novel | - | - | - |
French Army
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Port of Shadows | 1938 | Marcel Carné | France | Le Quai des brumes | Pierre Mac Orlan | 1927 | Novel | - | - | - |
Japan Coast Guard
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Umizaru aka Sea Monkeys | 2004 | Eiichiro Hasumi | Japan | Umizaru | Shūhō Satō | 1998 | Manga | - | - | - |
| 2 | Umizaru Evolution | 2005 | ? | Japan | Umizaru | Shūhō Satō | 1998 | Manga | - | - | - |
Peruvian Army
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Captain Pantoja and the Special Services Pantaleón y las visitadoras ♠ | 1975 | José María Gutiérrez Santos & Mario Vargas Llosa [16] | Dominican Republic | Captain Pantoja and the Special Services | Mario Vargas Llosa [16] | 1973 | Novel | - | - | - |
| 2 | Captain Pantoja and the Special Services Pantaleón y las visitadoras ♠ | 1999 | Francisco J. Lombardi | Peru & Spain | Captain Pantoja and the Special Services | Mario Vargas Llosa [16] | 1973 | Novel | - | - | - |
- ♠ A Peruvian captain must provide for the needs of lonesome soldiers in the remote jungle.
Cadets
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Time of the Hero La ciudad y los perros | 1985 | Francisco José Lombardi | Peru | The Time of the Hero La ciudad y los perros | Mario Vargas Llosa | 1962 | Novel | - | - | - |
Red Fleet
(and Russian Fleet)
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Baltiytsy ♠ aka Men of the Sea | 1938 | Aleksandr Faintsimmer | USSR | Mr Midshipman Easy | Captain Marryat | 1836 | Novel | - | - | - |
| 2 | 72 Metres 72 метра | 2004 | Vladimir Khotinenko | Russia | ? | Aleksandr Pokrovsky | 199? | Novels | - | - | - |
- ♠ This film may be a war film, rather than a peace-time military film.
It has a listing at the IMDb, but no references in Russian Wikipedia (Википедия).
References
Notes
- ↑ Recipient of the Tony Award in 1963.
- ↑ Nominated for the Tony Award for Best Revival in 1996.
- ↑ Shevelove and Gelbart were awarded the Tony Award in 1963.
- ↑ Prokofiev's music might be familiar from the Christmas single, "I Believe in Father Christmas" by Greg Lake, or from Woody Allen's film Love and Death.
- ↑ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 2000.
- 1 2 A theatrical production from a company which distributed many documentary shorts about the Boxer Rebellion, Boer War, and Spanish–American War.
- ↑ The film was completed in 1941 but not released immediately.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 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 Pulitzer Prize in 1954.
- ↑ Recipient of the Tony Award in 1954.
- ↑ Recipient of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play in 1954.
- ↑ Source: DVD opening credits. This film's listing at the IMDb currently (as of December 2009) does not credit the novel.
- ↑ Recipient of the National Book Award in 1980.
- ↑ Source: Once-An-Eagle.com
- ↑ Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of Library and Archives Canada.
Source: Library Search. - 1 2 3 Vargas Llosa was awarded the Cervantes Prize in 1994.
Bibliography
- Clarke, James. Virgin Film: War Films, Virgin Books, London, 2006.
- 100 Greatest War Movies, special issue of Military History Magazine, Weider History Group, Leesburg, Virginia, 2007.
See also
- List of films based on war books
- List of films based on war books — pre-1775
- List of films based on war books — 1775–1898
- List of films based on war books — 1898–1926
- List of films based on war books — 1927–1945
- List of films based on war books — post-1945
- List of films based on war books — fantasy
- War film
- War novel
- List of war films
- List of book-based war films (21st-century wars)
- List of United States military books
- Assassinations in fiction
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