List of films based on military books (fantasy)

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

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

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

Hyborian Age

Campaigns of Thulsa Doom

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
1	Conan the Barbarian	1982	John Milius	US	Conan the Barbarian	Robert E. Howard	1954	Stories

War of the Ring

T.A. 3018–3019

Skirmish on Weathertop

T.A. 3018?

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
1	J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings	1978	Ralph Bakshi	US	The Fellowship of the Ring[1]	J.R.R. Tolkien	1954	Novel
1					The Two Towers[1]	J.R.R. Tolkien	1954	Novel

Battle of Helm's Deep

3–4 March, T.A. 3019

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
1	J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings	1978	Ralph Bakshi	US	The Fellowship of the Ring[1]	J.R.R. Tolkien	1954	Novel
1					The Two Towers[1]	J.R.R. Tolkien	1954	Novel

Battle of Pelennor Fields

15 March, T.A. 3019

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
1	The Return of the King	1980	Arthur Rankin Jr. & Jules Bass	US	The Return of the King[1]	J.R.R. Tolkien	1954	Novel

Demobilization

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type

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

Campaigns of Arthur

Twice filmed: The Once and Future King

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
1	The Sword in the Stone	1963	Wolfgang Reitherman	US	The Sword in the Stone from The Once and Future King	T. H. White	1938/ 1958	Novel
2	Camelot	1967	Joshua Logan	US	Camelot	Alan Jay Lerner	1960	Musical
2					The Ill-Made Knight from The Once and Future King	T. H. White	1940/ 1958	Novel
2					The Candle in the Wind from The Once and Future King	T. H. White	1958	Novel

Campaigns of Ilya Muromets

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

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
1	Ilya Muromets Илья Муромец	1956	Aleksandr Ptushko	USSR	Bogatyr cycle	Epic poet	?	Bylina
2	Ilya Muromets and Nightingale the Robber Илья Муромец и Соловей-Разбойник	2007	Vladimir Toropchin	USSR	Bogatyr cycle	Epic poet	?	Bylina

Lilliput–Blefuscu War

1699–1702

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
1	Le Voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les géants	1902	Georges Méliès	France	Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships	Jonathan Swift	1726/1735	Novel
2	Gulliver's Travels	1939	Dave Fleischer	US	Gulliver's Travels	Jonathan Swift	1726/1735	Novel

Dwarf–Giant War

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
1	Le royaume nain de Lilliput contre Gigas le long, prince des géants ♠	1914	?	France	Gulliver's Travels	Jonathan Swift	1726/1735	Novel

• ♠ According to the film's title,^[2] the French discovered a conflict between the tiny Lilliputians and giant Brobdingnagians which Swift neglected to mention in his account.

Great Lilliputian Proletarian Revolution

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
1	The New Gulliver ♠ Новый Гулливер	1935	Aleksandr Ptushko	USSR	Gulliver's Travels	Jonathan Swift	1726/1735	Novel

• ♠ The Soviets expose the true nature of exploitation and class struggle in capitalistic Lilliputian society.^[3]

Wars of Nonestica

(The Land of Oz and neighbouring countries)

Roly-Rogue War

c. 1905

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
1	The Magic Cloak of Oz	1914	J. Farrell MacDonald	US	Queen Zixi of Ix ♠	L. Frank Baum	1904–1905	Novel

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

Scarecrow's Rebellion

c. 1914

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
1	His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz ♠	1914	J. Farrell MacDonald	US	The Scarecrow of Oz	L. Frank Baum	1915	Novel
1					The Wonderful Wizard of Oz	L. Frank Baum	1900	Novel

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

Wars of Magic Land

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

Wooden Soldier Rebellion

c. 1939

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
1	The Wizard of the City of Emeralds Volshebnik izumrudnogo goroda *	1974	Valentin Popov & L. Smironov	USSR	Urfin Jus and his Wooden Soldiers Урфин Джюс и его деревянные солдаты	Aleksandr Volkov	1963	Novel
1					The Wizard of the Emerald City Волшебник Изумрудного города	Aleksandr Volkov	1939/1959	Novel
1					The Seven Underground Kings Семь подземных королей	Aleksandr Volkov	1964	Novel
1					The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (uncredited)	L. Frank Baum (uncredited)	1900	Novel

• * TV series.

Wars of Narnia

c. 1940–1949 (Narnian Year 1000–2555)

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
1	The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe *	1979	Bill Melendez	US	The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ♠	C.S. Lewis	1950	Novel
2	The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe *	1988	Marilyn Fox	UK	The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ♠	C.S. Lewis	1950	Novel
3	The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe *	2005	Andrew Adamson	UK	The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ♠	C.S. Lewis	1950	Novel

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

Battle of Aslan's How

Narnian Year c. 2300

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
1	Prince Caspian *	1989	Alex Kirby	UK	Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia	C.S. Lewis	1951	Novel
2	Prince Caspian *	2008	Andrew Adamson	UK	Prince Caspian ♠	C.S. Lewis	1951	Novel

• * TV movie.

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

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
1	The Voyage of the Dawn Treader *	1989	Michael Apted	UK	The Voyage of the Dawn Treader	C.S. Lewis	1952	Novel

Rebellion of Manor Farm

1940s^[4]

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
1	Animal Farm	1954	John Halas & Joy Batchelor	UK	Animal Farm: A Fairy Story[5]	"George Orwell" ♠	1945	Novel

• ♠ Orwell may have been inspired by the 1924 farm revolt novel, Bunt,^[6] the final work by Polish Nobel Laureate Władysław Reymont.^[7]

Collapse of Animal Government

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

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
1	Animal Farm ♠	1999	Joseph Stephenson	US	Animal Farm: A Fairy Story	"George Orwell"	1945	Novel

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

Efrafan War

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

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	TV	Date	Country
1	Watership Down	1978	Martin Rosen[8]	UK	Watership Down[9]	Richard Adams	1972	Novel	Watership Down	1999–2001	Canada & UK

Second Rebellion of Voldemort

1990s^[10]

Prewar

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
1	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	2001	Chris Columbus	UK & US	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone[11][12][13]	J.K. Rowling	1997	Novel

Phoney War

Basilisk Incident

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
1	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	2002	Chris Columbus	UK & US	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets[14][15]	J.K. Rowling	1998	Novel

Dementor Mutiny

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
1	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	2004	Alfonso Cuarón	UK & US	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban[16][17][18][19][20]	J.K. Rowling[21]	1999	Novel

Skirmish at the Graveyard

^[22][23]

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type

Battle of the Ministry of Magic

^[24][25]

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type

Skirmish on Astronomy Tower

^[26][27][28]

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type

Skirmish at Malfoy Manor

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
1	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1	2010	David Yates	UK & US	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows[29]	J.K. Rowling	2007	Novel

Battle of Hogwarts

2 May 1998

#	Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
1	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2	2011	David Yates	UK & US	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	J.K. Rowling	2007	Novel

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

References

Notes

1. The Lord of the Rings was the recipient of the Prix du Meilleur livre étranger in 1972.
2. The French title translates as The dwarf kingdom of Lilliput against Gigas the tall, prince of the giants.
3. Source: Plot of The New Gulliver
4. The official title of Animal Farm in Spanish is Rebelión en la granja, or Rebellion on the Farm.
5. Recipient of the Hugo Award for Best Novella for 1946.
6. "Bunt" in Polish means "Resist".
7. Reymont was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1924.
8. Rosen made a second film of equal quality, The Plague Dogs (1982), based on a later novel by Adams.
   That film's bleak conclusion will trouble some viewers.
9. Recipient of the Carnegie Medal in 1972.
10. J.K. Rowling appears to have modelled her Voldemort character after Adolf Hitler,
    so the Harry Potter section has been structured like the Second World War.
11. Recipient of the Smarties Prize in 1997.
12. Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal in 1997.
13. Recipient of the British Book Award in 1998.
14. Recipient of the Smarties Prize in 1998.
15. Recipient of the British Book Award in 1999.
16. Recipient of the Whitbread Award in 1999.
17. Recipient of the Bram Stoker Award in 1999.
18. Recipient of the Smarties Prize in 1999.
19. Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal in 1999.
20. Recipient of the Locus Award in 2000.
21. Rowling was awarded the British Book Award for The Author of the Year in 2000.
22. Nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in 2000.
23. Recipient of the Hugo Award in 2001.
24. Recipient of the Bram Stoker Award in 2003.
25. Nominated for the Carnegie Medal in 2003.
26. Nominated for the Carnegie Medal in 2005.
27. Recipient of the British Book Award in 2006.
28. Recipient of the WH Smith Literary Award in 2006.
29. Nominated for the Carnegie Medal in 2008.

See also

• List of films based on war books — future
• List of films based on war books
• List of films based on war books — pre-1775
• List of films based on war books — 1775–1898
• List of films based on war books — 1898–1926
• List of films based on war books — 1927–1945
• List of films based on war books — post-1945
• List of films based on war books — peace
• Assassinations in fiction
• List of films based on Slavic mythology

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