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 & USAA 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 ---

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 ---

Royal Navy

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

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 USAMutiny on the Bounty (uncredited) Charles Nordhoff &
James Norman Hall (uncredited) 		1932 Novel ---
2 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd USAMutiny 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 USSRLieutenant 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 USABurton 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 ---

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 ---
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 ---

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 ---

British Army

# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 Conduct Unbecoming 1975 Michael Anderson UKConduct Unbecoming Barry England 1969 Play ---

Royal Navy

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

French Army

# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 The Judge and the Assassin 1976 Bertrand Tavernier FranceLe 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 GermanyDer Fall Dreyfus (?) Bruno Weil 19?? Novel ---
2 L'Affaire Dreyfus 1931 F.W. Kraemer &
Milton Rosmer		 UKDer Fall Dreyfus (?) Wilhelm Herzog &
Hans Rehfisch 		19?? Play ---
3 The Life of Emile Zola [5] 1937 William Dieterle USAZola and His Time Matthew Josephson 1928 Non-fiction ---
4 I Accuse! 1958 José Ferrer UKCaptain Dreyfus: The Story of a Mass Hysteria Nicholas Halasz 1955 Non-fiction ---
5 Affäre Dreyfus * 1959 Hanns Farenburg West GermanyDer Fall Dreyfus (?) Wilhelm Herzog &
Hans Rehfisch 		19?? Play ---
6 L'affaire Dreyfus * 1995 Yves Boisset France & GermanyL'Affaire Jean-Denis Bredin 1983/1993 Novel ---
Frequently filmed: "J'accuse"

Zola (and Lazare) are assumed sources in these instances.

Bulletin ... film currently in development: The Dreyfus Affair by director unknown
# 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 ---
10 The Dreyfus Affair 2009 In development ?"J'accuse" (unconfirmed) Émile Zola (unconfirmed) 1898 Open letter ---

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 GermanyWoyzeck 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 GermanyWie ich Hauptmann von Köpenick wurde: mein Lebensbild Wilhelm Voigt ♠ 1909 Memoir ---

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 GermanyThe Captain of Köpenick Carl Zuckmayer 1931 Play ---
2 I Was a Criminal
aka Captain of Koepenick 		1945 [7] Richard Oswald USAThe Captain of Köpenick Carl Zuckmayer 1931 Play ---
3 Der Hauptmann von Köpenick 1956 Helmut Käutner West GermanyThe Captain of Köpenick Carl Zuckmayer 1931 Play ---
4 Der Hauptmann von Köpenick * 1997 Frank Beyer Germany, Austria, SwitzerlandThe Captain of Köpenick Carl Zuckmayer 1931 Play ---

Imperial Russian Army

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

Spanish Army

Frequently filmed: Carmen

# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 Carmen 2003 Vicente Aranda SpainCarmen 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 & ItalyMy 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 UKScott'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 UKScott and Amundsen Roland Huntford 1979 [8] Non-fiction ---

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 USAThe 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 USASayonara James Michener 1954 Novel ---
4 Cry for Happy 1961 George Marshall USACry 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

"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 USAMarooned Martin Caidin 1964/1969 Novel ---
2 The Right Stuff 1983 Philip Kaufman USAThe Right Stuff [13] Tom Wolfe 1979 Non-fiction ---
3 Apollo 13 1995 Ron Howard USALost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 Jim Lovell &
Jeffrey Kluger 		1994 Memoir/
Non-fiction 		---
4 From the Earth to the Moon 1998 ? USAA 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 USAThe 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 USAAt War with the Army James B. Allardice 1949 Play ---
2 Soldier in the Rain 1963 Ralph Nelson USASoldier 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 USAFatal Vision Joe McGinniss 1983 Non-fiction ---
5 Cadence 1990 Martin Sheen USACount a Lonely Cadence Gordon Weaver 1968 [8] Novel ---
6 Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story * 1995 Jeff Bleckner USAServing in Silence Margarethe Cammermeyer with Chris Fisher 1994 [8] Memoir ---
7 The General's Daughter 1999 Simon West USAThe General's Daughter Nelson DeMille 1992 Novel ---

Armour

# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 The Pentagon Wars * 1998 Richard Benjamin USAThe Pentagon Wars: Reformers Challenge the Old Guard Col. James G. Burton 1993 Non-fiction ---

Cavalry (and mules)

# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 Army Girl ♠ 1938 George Nichols Jr. USAArmy Girl (?) Charles L. Clifford 193? Story ---

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 USABringing Up The Brass:
My 55 Years at West Point 		Marty Maher with
Nardi Reeder Campion 		1951 Memoir ---
3 Taps 1981 Harold Becker USAFather Sky Devery Freeman 1979 [8] Novel ---
4 The Lords of Discipline 1983 Franc Roddam USAThe Lords of Discipline Pat Conroy 1980 Novel ---
5 Code Breakers * 2005 Rod Holcomb USAA 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 ---

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 ---

Psychic soldiers

Bulletin ... Film now in release: The Men Who Stare at Goats by Grant Heslov
# 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 USAOn 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 USARobinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe 1719 Novel ---
4 The Last Detail 1973 Hal Ashby USAThe Last Detail Daryl Ponicsan 1970 Novel ---
5 Cinderella Liberty 1973 Mark Rydell USACinderella Liberty Daryl Ponicsan 1973 Novel ---
6 Grey Lady Down 1978 David Greene USAEvent 1000 David Lavallee 1971 Novel ---
7 Men of Honor 2000 George Tillman, Jr. USAThe Reminiscences of Master Chief Boatswain's Mate Carl Brashear (uncredited) Paul Stillwell (ed.) (uncredited) 1998 Memoir ---
8 A Glimpse of Hell * 2001 Mikael Salomon CanadaA Glimpse of Hell: The Explosion on the USS Iowa and Its Cover-Up Charles C. Thompson II 1999 Non-fiction ---

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 USAThe Great Santini Pat Conroy 1976 Novel ---
2 A Few Good Men 1992 Rob Reiner USAA 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 ---

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 UKReluctant Heroes Colin Morris 195? Play ---
3 Tunes of Glory 1960 Ronald Neame UKTunes of Glory James Kennaway 1956 Novel ---

Armour

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

Royal Navy

# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 Morning Departure 1950 Roy Ward Baker UKMorning Departure Kenneth Woollard 195? Play ---
2 The Baby and the Battleship 1956 Jay Lewis UKThe Baby and the Battleship Anthony Thorne 195? Novel ---

Royal Marines

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

RAF

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

Australian Army

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

Canadian Army

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

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 ---

New Zealand Army

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

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 USAMy Sister Eileen Joseph Fields &
Jerome Chodorov 		1940 Play ---
1 My Sister Eileen Ruth McKenney 1938 Stories/Memoir ---
2 My Sister Eileen ♠ 1955 Richard Quine USAMy Sister Eileen Joseph Fields &
Jerome Chodorov 		1940 Play ---
2 My Sister Eileen Ruth McKenney 1938 Stories/Memoir ---

Czechoslovak Army

# Film Date Director Country Source
work 		Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 Tank Battalion
Tankový prapor 		1991 Vít Olmer CzechoslovakiaThe 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 FranceLe 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 JapanUmizaru Shūhō Satō 1998 Manga ---
2 Umizaru Evolution 2005 ? JapanUmizaru 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 ---

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 Army

(Красная Армия)

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

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 ---

Red Air Force


References

Notes

  1. ↑ Recipient of the Tony Award in 1963.
  2. ↑ Nominated for the Tony Award for Best Revival in 1996.
  3. ↑ Shevelove and Gelbart were awarded the Tony Award in 1963.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 2000.
  6. 1 2 A theatrical production from a company which distributed many documentary shorts about the Boxer Rebellion, Boer War, and Spanish–American War.
  7. ↑ The film was completed in 1941 but not released immediately.
  8. 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.
  9. ↑ Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1954.
  10. ↑ Recipient of the Tony Award in 1954.
  11. ↑ Recipient of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play in 1954.
  12. ↑ Source: DVD opening credits. This film's listing at the IMDb currently (as of December 2009) does not credit the novel.
  13. ↑ Recipient of the National Book Award in 1980.
  14. ↑ Source: Once-An-Eagle.com
  15. ↑ Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of Library and Archives Canada.
    Source: Library Search.
  16. 1 2 3 Vargas Llosa was awarded the Cervantes Prize in 1994.

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