List of book-based war films (1945–2000 wars)

• ♠ The film is set in Vienna during the Allied occupation of Austria.
• * television film.

• ♠ A US agent must rescue a born-again Bible smuggler from the Romanians.

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

The famous 1935 Alfred Hitchcock version is set during the interwar years.

• * television film.

1980

• * television film.

1954

• * television film.

October 1962

• * television film.

• ♠ Huchthausen is credited as a researcher, not as an author.
• * television film.

• * television film.

• * television film.
• α Animated film.

The fictional defeat of the US by the bowmen of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick.

February 1946

• Δ It is not clear to what extent this conflict is covered by the film or by the source novel.[17]

• ♠ The novel is in fact credited, but its relationship to the film is said to be coincidental, with its creditation being merely legal in nature.[19]

• * television film.

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

• ♠ US soldiers are under orders to murder a North Korean POW.

• * television film.

1953–ongoing

28 May 1957

28 December 1958 – 1 January 1959

1961

• * television film.

• ♠ The film is set in the fictional Southeast Asian country of Sarkhan, rather than Vietnam per se.
  Sarkhan, a US ally, is invaded by Communist North Sarkhan.
• * television film.

• ♠ A South Korean sergeant deals with his memories by writing a novel about the guys in his unit.[35]

14–18 November 1965

1968

• * television film.

• * television film.

• ♠ Information on this film is scanty, but it appears to be about the effect of war on Vietnamese children.[39]
  The novel's publication date implies that it actually concerned the First Indochina War.

• ♠ A rootless veteran works to repair a small town merry-go-round.

• ♠ For another recent autobiography of a seriously wounded serviceman, see Tumbledown (Falklands War).
  The World War II classic film on this subject is The Men with Marlon Brando (original screenplay, not based on a book).
  Of related interest are Pride of the Marines with John Garfield and The Best Years of Our Lives with Harold Russell.
• ♦ One veteran of the South Korean platoon is left badly disturbed.
• ♥ The story involves a troubled Sioux veteran.

1967–1975

• ♠ Cambodia is covered, in addition to Vietnam.

• * television film.

1971

4–5 December 1971

18 May 1978

1979–1990

• ** TV miniseries.

• * television film.

• ♠ Journalist Pelletier broke the story for La Presse and appears in the film as a character.[55]
• * television film.

• ♠ Abu Rish [sic] is credited as script consultant, rather than author.
• ** TV miniseries.

• * television film.

• α Animated film.

• ♠ The book was reprinted in 1999 as Malvinas, diario del regreso: iluminados por el fuego.

13–14 June 1982

• * television film.

• * television film.

• ◊ The graphic novel was published after the release of the film.
• † Dramatized documentary.
• α Animated film.

16 September 1982

1991

• * television film.

• ♠ Abu Rish [sic] is credited as script consultant, rather than author.
• ** TV miniseries.

• ♠ The events of these books were thoroughly questioned by Michael Asher in The Real Bravo Two Zero: The Truth Behind Bravo Two Zero.
  (See Bravo Two Zero accounts for the saga of the historiography on this single patrol.)
• ♦ Producer Ingrid Formanek is seen with a copy of the book shortly before the war commences.
• * television film.

• ♠ The film is set in the industrial city of Sarnia, Ontario in order to have an oil industry parallel with the war.[59]

1992–1995

• * television film.

1992–1996

• * television film.

• ♠ The detective leading an investigation is a Canadian veteran of Bosnia.

• * television film.

1993

• ♠ The film concerns a coup in the fictional African country of 'Zangaro', but the novel's basis was a genuine plot against the government of Equatorial Guinea.
• * Television film.
• ** Television miniseries.