List of films based on war books — pre-1775

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.

==[[Trojan War]]==
c. 1200 BC

===Frequently filmed: ''[[Iliad|The Iliad]]''===
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| 1 || ''[[The Trojan Horse (1961 film)|The Trojan Horse]]'' || [[1961 in film|1961]] || [[:it:Giorgio Ferroni|Giorgio Ferroni]]|| [[Italy]] & [[France]]||''[[Iliad]]'' || [[Homer]] || 8th century BC|| [[Epic poem]] || - || - || -
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| 2 || ''[[Troy (film)|Troy]]'' || [[2004 in film|2004]] || [[Wolfgang Petersen]]|| [[USA]], [[Malta]], [[UK]]||''[[Iliad]]'' || [[Homer]] || 8th century BC|| [[Epic poem]] || - || - || -
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|}

===Frequently filmed: ''[[Aeneid|The Aeneid]]''===
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! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
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| 1 || ''[[The Last Glory of Troy]]'' || [[1962 in film|1962]] || [[Giorgio Venturini|Giorgio Rivalta]]|| [[Yugoslavia]], [[Italy]], [[France]]||''[[Aeneid]]'' || [[Virgil]] || 29–19 BC|| [[Epic poem]] || - || - || -
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==Wars of Israel with [[Philistia]] and [[Ammon]]==
c. 1000 BC
===Battle of the [[Valley of Elah]]===
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! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
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| 1 || ''[[David and Bathsheba]]'' || [[1951 in film|1951]] || [[Henry King]]|| [[USA]]||''[[Books of Samuel|1 Samuel]]'' || ''The Bible'' || ?|| [[Scripture]] || - || - || -
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| 1 || || || || ||''[[Books of Samuel|2 Samuel]]'' || ''The Bible'' || ?|| [[Scripture]] || - || - || -
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| 2 || ''[[King David (film)|King David]]'' || [[1985 in film|1985]] || [[Bruce Beresford]]|| [[UK]] & [[USA]]||''[[Books of Samuel|1 Samuel]]'' || ''The Bible'' || ?|| [[Scripture]] || - || - || -
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==[[Greco-Persian Wars]]==
499 BC – 448 BC
===[[Battle of Marathon]]===
490 BC
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! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
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| 1 || ''[[La Battaglia di Maratona]]'' || [[1959 in film|1959]] || [[Jacques Tourneur]] & [[Mario Bava]]|| [[Italy]]||''[[Histories (Herodotus)|The Histories]]'' (uncredited) || [[Herodotus]] (uncredited) || 440 BC|| [[Non-Fiction]] || - || - || -
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===[[Battle of Thermopylae]]===
480 BC
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! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
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| 1 || ''[[The 300 Spartans]]'' ♣ || [[1962 in film|1962]] || [[Rudolph Maté]]|| [[USA]]||''[[Histories (Herodotus)|The Histories]]'' (uncredited) || [[Herodotus]] (uncredited) || 440 BC|| [[Non-Fiction]] || - || - || -
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| 2 || ''[[300 (film)|300]]'' ♠ || [[2007 in film|2007]] || [[Zack Snyder]]|| [[USA]]||''[[300 (comics)|300]]'' ♣ || [[Frank Miller (comics)|Frank Miller]] || 1998|| [[Graphic Novel]] || - || - || -
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* ♣ A boyhood viewing of the film inspired [[Frank Miller (comics)|Frank Miller]] to create his graphic novel.
* ♠ An outrageous propaganda film, widely vilified for its racist portrayal of Iranians and compared to the [...] film ''[[The Eternal Jew]]''. See ''Persepolis'' under '''[[List of films based on war books — post-1945#Iran–Iraq War|Iran–Iraq War]]''' for a more complex view of Iran.

==[[Warring States Period|Chinese Warring States Period]]==
476 BC – 221 BC

==[[Peloponnesian War]]==
431 BC – 404 BC

===Home front===
====Protest====
=====<big>Frequently filmed: ''[[Lysistrata]]''</big>=====
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! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
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| 1 || ''[[Lysistrata ou La grève des baisers]]'' ♠ || [[1910 in film|1910]] || [[Louis Feuillade]]|| [[France]]||''[[Lysistrata]]'' || [[Aristophanes]] || 411 BC || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
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| 2 || ''[[Lysistrata (1976 film)|Lysistrata]]'' ♦ || [[1976 in film|1976]] || [[Ludo Mich]]|| [[Belgium]]||''[[Lysistrata]]'' || [[Aristophanes]] || 411 BC || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
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| 3 || ''[[Lysistrate]]'' * || [[1982 in film|1982]] || [[Inger Åby]] & [[Göran Järvefelt]]|| [[Sweden]]||''[[Lysistrata]]'' || [[Aristophanes]] || 411 BC || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
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| 4 || ''[[Komediya o Lisistrate]]'' || [[1989 in film|1989]] || [[Valeri Rubinchik]]|| [[Soviet Union]], [[UK]], [[Greece]]||''[[Lysistrata]]'' || [[Aristophanes]] || 411 BC || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
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| 5 || ''[[Lisístrata]]'' || [[2002 in film|2002]] || [[Francesc Bellmunt]]|| [[Spain]]||''[[Lysistrata]]'' || [[Aristophanes]] || 411 BC || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
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| 5 || || || || ||''[[Lysistrata (comic)|Lysistrata]]'' || [[Ralf König]] || 1987 || [[Comic]] || - || - || -
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* ♠ The French title means ''Lysistrata, or The Kiss Strike''.
* ♦ This production was performed by a [...] cast in order to arouse the viewer's inner anarchism.
* <nowiki>*</nowiki> TV movie.

==[[Wars of Alexander the Great|Wars of Alexander]]==
336 BC – 323 BC
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==[[Second Punic War]]==
218 BC – 201 BC
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! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
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| 1 || ''[[Cabiria]]'' || [[1914 in film|1914]] || [[Giovanni Pastrone]]|| [[Italy]]||''[[Salammbô (novel)|Salammbô]]'' || [[Gustave Flaubert]] || 1862 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
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| 2 || ''[[:it:Scipione l'Africano (film 1937)|Scipione l'africano]]'' <ref>Recipient of the highly coveted [[Mussolini Cup]] for Best Italian Film of 1937 at the [[Venice Film Festival]].</ref>
|| [[1937 in film|1937]] || [[Carmine Gallone]]|| [[Fascist Italy]]||''[[The Histories (Polybius)|The Histories]]'' (uncredited) || [[Polybius]] (uncredited) || before 120 BC || [[Non-Fiction]] || - || - || -
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==[[Third Servile War]]==
73 BC – 71 BC
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! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
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| 1 || ''[[Spartaco]]'' || [[1913 in film|1913]] || [[:it:Giovanni Enrico Vidali|Giovanni Enrico Vidali]]|| [[Italy]]||''[[Spartaco]]'' || [[:it:Raffaello Giovagnoli|Raffaello Giovagnoli]] || 1873 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
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| 2 || ''[[Spartacus (1960 film)|Spartacus]]'' || [[1960 in film|1960]] || [[Stanley Kubrick]]|| [[USA]]||''[[Spartacus (Fast novel)|Spartacus]]'' || [[Howard Fast]] || 1951 || [[Novel]] || ''[[Spartacus (2004 film)|Spartacus]]'' || 2004 || USA
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==[[Gallic Wars]]==
58 BC – 51 BC
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! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
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| 1 || ''[[Giulio Cesare, il conquistatore delle Gallie]]''|| [[1962 in film|1962]] || [[Tanio Boccia]]|| [[Italy]] ||''[[Commentarii de Bello Gallico]]'' (uncredited) || [[Julius Caesar]] (uncredited) || after 51 BC || [[Memoir]] || - || - || -
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| 2 || ''[[:fr:Vercingétorix : La légende du druide roi|Vercingétorix]]'' ''[[Druids (film)|Druids]]''|| [[2001 in film|2001]] || [[:fr:Jacques Dorfmann|Jacques Dorfmann]]|| [[France]], [[Canada]], [[Belgium]] ||''[[Commentarii de Bello Gallico]]'' (uncredited) || [[Julius Caesar]] (uncredited) || after 51 BC || [[Memoir]] || - || - || -
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==[[Caesar's civil war|Great Roman Civil War]]==
49 BC – 44 BC
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! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
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| 1 || ''[[Caesar and Cleopatra (film)|Caesar and Cleopatra]]''|| [[1945 in film|1945]] || [[Gabriel Pascal]]|| [[UK]] ||''[[Caesar and Cleopatra (play)|Caesar and Cleopatra]]'' || [[George Bernard Shaw]] <ref name="NobelShaw">Shaw was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1925.</ref>
|| 1898 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
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| 2 || ''[[Cleopatra (1963 film)|Cleopatra]]'' ♠|| [[1963 in film|1963]] || [[Joseph L. Mankiewicz]]|| [[UK]], [[USA]], [[Switzerland]] ||''[[Cleopatra (Franzero book)|Cleopatra]]'' (?) || [[Carlo Mario Franzero]] || 19?? || [[Novel]]? || - || - || -
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| 2 || || || || ||''[[Poetry of Catullus|Catulli Carmina]]'' (uncredited) || [[Catullus]] (uncredited) || before 54 BC || [[Poem]]s || - || - || -
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| 3 || ''[[Cleopatra (1999 film)|Cleopatra]]'' * || [[1999 in film|1999]] || [[Franc Roddam]]|| [[Germany]] & [[USA]] ||''[[Memoirs of Cleopatra]]'' || [[Margaret George]] || 1998 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
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* ♠ The 1963 film is chiefly notable for its budget and for an excruciating "performance" by the [[callipygian]] [[Elizabeth Taylor]]. Scenes from which Michael Jackson's best friend are absent are not such an embarrassment.
* <nowiki>*</nowiki> TV movie.

===Frequently filmed: ''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]''===
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| 1 || ''[[Julius Caesar (1953 film)|Julius Caesar]]''|| [[1953 in film|1953]] || [[Joseph L. Mankiewicz]]|| [[USA]] ||''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]'' || [[William Shakespeare]] || 1599 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
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| 2 || ''[[Julius Caesar (1970 film)|Julius Caesar]]''|| [[1970 in film|1970]] || [[Stuart Burge]]|| [[UK]] ||''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]'' || [[William Shakespeare]] || 1599 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
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==[[Final War of the Roman Republic|Final Civil Wars of the Roman Republic]]==
45 BC –
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| 1 || ''[[Antony and Cleopatra (film)|Antony and Cleopatra]]''|| [[1972 in film|1972]] || [[Charlton Heston]]|| [[UK]], [[Spain]], [[Switzerland]] ||''[[Antony and Cleopatra]]'' || [[William Shakespeare]] || 1606 – 1607 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
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===[[Battle of Actium]]===
2 September 31 BC
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| 1 || ''[[Cleopatra (1963 film)|Cleopatra]]'' ♠ || [[1963 in film|1963]] || [[Joseph L. Mankiewicz]]|| [[UK]], [[USA]], [[Switzerland]] ||''[[Cleopatra (Franzero book)|Cleopatra]]'' (?) || [[Carlo Mario Franzero]] || 19?? || [[Novel]]? || - || - || -
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* ♠ The 1963 film includes an admirable account of the battle. The series ''[[Rome (TV series)|Rome]]'', for budgetary reasons, deals with the aftermath of Actium, not the battle directly.

==[[Roman conquest of Britain]]==
43–96
===Bulletin ... film currently in production: ''[[Centurion (film)|Centurion]]'' by [[Neil Marshall]]===
===Bulletin ... film currently in production: ''[[Glastonbury: Isle of Light]]'' by [[David M. Evans]]===
===Bulletin ... film currently in production: ''Boudicca'' by [[director unknown]]===

===Bulletin ... film currently in production: ''I, Claudius'' by [[Jim Sheridan]]===
===Frequently filmed: ''[[I, Claudius]]'' and ''[[Claudius the God]]''===
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! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
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| 1 || ''[[I, Claudius (TV series)|I, Claudius]]'' * || [[1976 in film|1976]] || [[Herbert Wise]]|| [[UK]] ||''[[I, Claudius]]'' || [[Robert Graves]] || 1934 || [[Novel]] || -|| - || -
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| 1 || || || || ||''[[Claudius the God]]'' || [[Robert Graves]] || 1935 || [[Novel]] || -|| - || -
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| 2 || ''[[I, Claudius (2010 film)|I, Claudius]]'' || [[2010 in film|2010]] || [[Jim Sheridan]]|| [[UK]] ||''[[I, Claudius]]'' || [[Robert Graves]] || 1934 || [[Novel]] || -|| - || -
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| 2 || || || || ||''[[Claudius the God]]'' || [[Robert Graves]] || 1935 || [[Novel]] || -|| - || -
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* <nowiki>*</nowiki> TV miniseries.

==[[First Jewish-Roman War|Jewish War]]==
66–73
===Siege of [[Masada]]===
72–73
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! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
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| 1 || ''[[Masada (miniseries)|Masada]]'' * || [[1981 in film|1981]] || [[Boris Sagal]]|| [[USA]] ||''[[The Antagonists]]'' || [[Ernest K. Gann]] || 1971 || [[Novel]] || -|| - || -
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* <nowiki>*</nowiki> TV miniseries.

==Dacian Wars==
===[[Domitian's Dacian War]]===
86–87

===[[Trajan's Dacian Wars]]===
101–102 
105–106

==[[Marcomannic Wars]]==
166–180

==[[End of the Han Dynasty]]==
===Frequently filmed: ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]''===
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! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
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| 1 || ''[[Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon]]'' || [[2008 in film|2008]] || [[Daniel Lee Yan-Kong|Daniel Lee]]|| [[China]] || ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]''|| [[Luo Guanzhong]] (attributed) || c. 1400 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
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====[[Battle of Red Cliffs]]====
(赤壁之戰) 
208–209
=====<big>Bulletin ... film to be released soon: ''[[Red Cliff (film)|Red Cliff]]'' (shortened [[Gweilo]] Edition)</big>=====
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! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
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| 1 || ''[[Red Cliff (film)|Red Cliff]]'' ''[[:zh:赤壁 (電影)|赤壁]]'' || [[2008 in film|2008]] || [[John Woo]]|| [[China]] || ''[[Records of Three Kingdoms|Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms]]''|| [[Chen Shou]] || before 297 || [[Chronicle]] || - || - || -
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| 1 || || || || || ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]''|| [[Luo Guanzhong]] (attributed) || c. 1400 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
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| 2 || ''[[Red Cliff (film)|Red Cliff]]'', Part 2 || [[2009 in film|2009]] || [[John Woo]]|| [[China]] || ''[[Records of Three Kingdoms|Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms]]''|| [[Chen Shou]] || before 297 || [[Chronicle]] || - || - || -
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| 2 || || || || || ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]''|| [[Luo Guanzhong]] (attributed) || c. 1400 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
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==[[Battle of Milvian Bridge]]==
312 ♠
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! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
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| 1 || ''[[Fabiola]]''|| [[1949 in film|1949]] || [[Alessandro Blasetti]]|| [[Italy]] ||''[[Fabiola (novel)|Fabiola]]'' ♦ || Cardinal [[Nicholas Patrick Wiseman]] || 1854 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
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| 2 || ''[[Constantine and the Cross]]''|| [[1962 in film|1962]] || [[Lionello De Felice]]|| [[Yugoslavia]] & [[Italy]] ||''[[De Mortibus Persecutorum]]'' (uncredited) || [[Lactantius]] (uncredited) || c. 320 || [[Non-Fiction]] || - || - || -
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* ♠ The battle where Emperor [[Constantine I|Constantine]]'s vision of <big>[[☧]]</big>, the [[chi rho]], led to the adoption of his motto "[[In hoc signo vinces]]".
* ♦ There are other film versions of ''Fabiola'', but the conflict between [[Constantine I|Constantine]] and [[Maxentius]] appears to be an addition specific to this film.

==[[Hunnic Empire|Hunnic Invasions]]==
===Campaigns of [[Attila the Hun|Attila]]===
434–453

==[[Early Middle Ages|Dark Ages]]==
c. 500 – c. 1000

===[[Battle of Mons Badonicus|Battle of Badon Hill]]===
c. 500
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| 1 || ''[[The Last Legion]]'' || [[2007 in film|2007]] || [[Doug Lefler]] || [[UK]], [[Italy]], [[France]] ||''[[L'ultima legione]]'' || [[Valerio Massimo Manfredi]] || 2002 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
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===[[Gothic War (535–554)|Gothic War]]===
535–554
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| 1 || ''[[Justinian and Theodora]]'' ♠ || [[1910 in film|1910]] || [[Otis Turner]] || [[USA]] ||''[[Justinian And Theodora: A Drama, Being A Chapter Of History And The One Gleam Of Light During The Dark Ages]]'' || [[Elbert Hubbard]] & [[Alice Hubbard]] || 1906 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
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| 2 || ''[[Théodora]]'' || [[1912 in film|1912]] || [[Henri Pouctal]] || [[France]] ||''[[Théodora (play)|Théodora]]'' || [[Victorien Sardou]] || 1884 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
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| 3 || ''[[Teodora]]'' || [[1919 in film|1919]] || [[Leopoldo Carlucci]] || [[Italy]] ||''[[Théodora (play)|Théodora]]'' || [[Victorien Sardou]] || 1884 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
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| 4 || ''[[Kampf um Rom I]]'' || [[1968 in film|1968]] || [[Robert Siodmak]] & [[Andrew Marton]] (uncredited) & [[Sergiu Nicolaescu]] (uncredited)|| [[West Germany]], [[Italy]], [[Romania]] ||''[[A Struggle for Rome]]'' || [[Felix Dahn]] || 1876 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
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| 5 || ''[[Kampf um Rom II - Der Verrat]]'' || [[1969 in film|1969]] || [[Robert Siodmak]] & [[Andrew Marton]] (uncredited) & [[Sergiu Nicolaescu]] (uncredited)|| [[West Germany]], [[Italy]], [[Romania]] ||''[[A Struggle for Rome]]'' || [[Felix Dahn]] || 1876 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
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|}
* ♠ The [[IMDb]] lists a story by [[Edward Bulwer-Lytton|Bulwer-Lytton]] as the source for this film. But there appears to be no such work. The 1906 play seems a more likely source.

===[[Swedish-Geatish wars]]===
Before 600
====Frequently filmed: ''[[Beowulf]]''====

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| 1 || ''[[Grendel Grendel Grendel]]''|| [[1981 in film|1981]] || [[Alexander Stitt]]|| [[Australia]] ||''[[Grendel (novel)|Grendel]]'' || [[John Gardner (novelist)|John Gardner]] || 1971 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
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| 1 || || || || ||''[[Beowulf]]'' (uncredited) || ''Beowulf'' poet (uncredited) || c. 700– c. 1000 || [[Epic Poem]] || - || -|| -
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| 2 || ''[[The 13th Warrior]]''|| [[1999 in film|1999]] || [[John McTiernan]], [[Michael Crichton]] (uncredited)|| [[USA]] ||''[[Eaters of the Dead]]'' || [[Michael Crichton]] || 1976 || [[Novel]] || - || -|| -
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| 2 || || || || ||''[[Kitāb ilā Malik al-Saqāliba]]'' (uncredited) || [[Ahmad ibn Fadlan]] أحمد بن فضلان‎ (uncredited) || after 922 || [[Non-Fiction]] || - || -|| -
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| 2 || || || || ||''[[Beowulf]]'' (uncredited) || ''Beowulf'' poet (uncredited) || c. 700– c. 1000 || [[Epic Poem]] || - || -|| -
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| 3 || ''[[Beowulf & Grendel]]''|| [[2005 in film|2005]] || [[Sturla Gunnarsson]]|| [[Canada]], [[UK]], [[Iceland]] ||''[[Beowulf]]'' || ''Beowulf'' poet || c. 700– c. 1000 || [[Epic Poem]] || - || - || -
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|}

===Frequently filmed: ''[[Nibelungenlied|Das Nibelungenlied]]''===
Before 600
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| 1 || ''[[Die Nibelungen: Siegfried]]''|| [[1924 in film|1924]] || [[Fritz Lang]]|| [[Germany]] ||''[[Nibelungenlied|Das Nibelungenlied]]'' (uncredited) || ''Nibelungenlied'' poet (uncredited) || c. 1200 || [[Epic Poem]] || - || - || -
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| 2 || ''[[Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache]]''|| [[1924 in film|1924]] || [[Fritz Lang]]|| [[Germany]] ||''[[Nibelungenlied|Das Nibelungenlied]]'' (uncredited) || ''Nibelungenlied'' poet (uncredited) || c. 1200 || [[Epic Poem]] || - || - || -
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|}

===Campaigns of [[Muhammad]]===
====[[Battle of Badr]]====
17 March 624
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! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
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| 1 || ''[[Mohammad, Messenger of God]]'' || [[1977 in film|1977]] || [[Moustapha Akkad]]|| [[Lebanon]], [[Libya]], [[Kuwait]] ||''[[Sirah Rasul Allah]]'' || [[Ibn Ishaq]] || before 767|| [[Non-Fiction]] || - || - || -
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|}
====[[Battle of Uhud]]====
19 March 625
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! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
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| 1 || ''[[Mohammad, Messenger of God]]'' || [[1977 in film|1977]] || [[Moustapha Akkad]]|| [[Lebanon]], [[Libya]], [[Kuwait]] ||''[[Sirah Rasul Allah]]'' || [[Ibn Ishaq]] || before 767|| [[Non-Fiction]] || - || - || -
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| 2 || ''[[Muhammad: The Last Prophet]]'' || [[2004 in film|2004]] || [[Richard Rich (director)|Richard Rich]]|| [[USA]] ||''[[Sirah Rasul Allah]]'' || [[Ibn Ishaq]] || before 767|| [[Non-Fiction]] || - || - || -
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|}

===[[Battle of Roncevaux Pass|Battle of Roncesvalles]]===
778
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! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
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| 1 || ''[[The Song of Roland (film)|The Song of Roland]]'' || [[1978 in film|1978]] || [[:fr:Frank Cassenti|Frank Cassenti]]|| [[France]] ||''[[La Chanson de Roland]]'' || ''Roland'' poet || 1040 – 1115 || [[Epic Poem]] || - || - || -
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|}

===War of [[Wessex]] with the Danes===
868–878
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! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
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| 1 || ''[[Alfred the Great (film)|Alfred the Great]]''|| [[1969 in film|1969]] || [[Clive Donner]]|| [[UK]] ||''[[Vita Ælfredi regis Angul Saxonum]]'' (uncredited) || [[Asser]] (uncredited) || 893 || [[Non-Fiction]] || - || - || -
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|}

===[[Viking|Viking Raids]]===
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! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
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| 1 || ''[[The Vikings (film)|The Vikings]]''|| [[1958 in film|1958]] || [[Richard Fleischer]]|| [[USA]] ||''[[The Viking (novel)|The Viking]]'' || [[Edison Marshall]] || 19?? || [[Novel]] || ''[[Tales of the Vikings]]'' || 1959–1960 || USA
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| 2 || ''[[The War Lord]]'' ♠|| [[1965 in film|1965]] || [[Franklin Schaffner]]|| [[USA]] ||''[[The Lovers (Stevens play)|The Lovers]]'' || [[Leslie Stevens]] || 196? || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
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|}
* ♠ Normans fend off Vikings in the Early Middle Ages.

==Middle Ages==
===[[Norman Conquest]]===
1066 (and [[1066 and All That|All That]])
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! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
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| 1 || ''[[1066 and All That (1939 film)|1066 and All That]]'' * || [[1939 in film|1939]] || [[?]]|| [[UK]] ||''[[1066 and All That|1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England, comprising all the parts you can remember, including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings and 2 Genuine Dates]]'' || [[W. C. Sellar]] & [[R. J. Yeatman]] || before 1930 || [[Chronicle]]/ [[Humour]] || - || - || -
|-
| 2 || ''[[Wilhelm Cuceritorul]]'' aka ''William the Conqueror'' || [[1982 in film|1982]] || [[Sergiu Nicolaescu]]|| [[Romania]] & [[France]] ||''[[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]'' (uncredited) || Chronicle compilers || before 1154 || [[Chronicle]] || - || - || -
|-
| 3 || ''[[1066: The Battle for Middle Earth]]'' ** || May [[2009 in film|2009]] || [[Justin Hardy]]|| [[UK]] ||''[[Carmen de Hastingae Proelio]]'' || [[Guy (Bishop of Amiens)|Guy of Amiens]] || 1067 || [[Epic Poem]] || - || - || -
|-
| 3 || || || || ||''[[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]'' || Chronicle compilers || before 1154 || [[Chronicle]] || - || - || -
|-
| 3 || || || || ||''[[Heimskringla]]'' || [[Snorri Sturluson]] || c. 1230 || [[Saga]] || - || - || -
|-
| 3 || || || || ||''[[Domesday Book]]'' || [[William I of England|William the Conqueror]] (commissioned) || 1086 || [[Survey]] || - || - || -
|-
| 3 || || || || ||''[[Bayeux Tapestry]]'' || [[Matilda of Flanders]] (attributed) || c. 1077 ? || [[Tapestry]] || - || - || -
|-
| 3 || || || || ||''[[Chronicon ex Chronicis]]'' || [[John of Worcester]] || c. 1140 || [[Chronicle]] || - || - || -
|-
| 3 || || || || ||''[[Gesta Normannorum Ducum]]'' || [[William of Jumieges]], [[Orderic Vitalis]], [[Robert of Torigni]] || before 1186 || [[Chronicle]] || - || - || -
|-
| 3 || || || || ||''[[Gesta Guillelmi II Ducis Normannorum]]'' || [[William of Poitiers]] || 1071–1077 || [[Biography]] || - || - || -
|-
| 3 || || || || ||''[[Historia Ecclesiastica (Orderic)|Historia Ecclesiastica]]'' || [[Orderic Vitalis]] || before 1142 || [[Chronicle]] || - || - || -
|-
| 3 || || || || ||''[[Gesta regum Anglorum]]'' || [[William of Malmesbury]] || 1127 || [[Chronicle]] || - || - || -
|-
| 3 || || || || ||''[[Roman de Rou]]'' || [[Wace]] || c. 1175 || Verse [[Chronicle]] || - || - || -
|-
|}
* * TV musical.
* ** TV miniseries.

===[[El Cid#El Cid's Conquest of Valencia (1094-1102)|Conquest of Valencia]]===
1094–1102 (part of the [[Reconquista]])
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[El Cid (film)|El Cid]]''|| [[1961 in film|1961]] || [[Anthony Mann]]|| [[Italy]], [[USA]], [[UK]] ||''[[Cantar de Mio Cid]]'' || ''Cid'' poet || before 1207 || [[Epic Poem]] || - || - || -
|-
|}

===[[First Crusade]]===
1096–1099
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
|}

====Frequently filmed: ''[[Jerusalem Delivered|Gerusalemme liberata]]''====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Le tyran de Jérusalem]]''|| [[1910 in film|1910]] || [[:fr:Camille de Morlhon|Camille de Morlhon]]|| [[France]] ||''[[Jerusalem Delivered|La Jérusalem délivrée]]'' || [[Torquato Tasso]] || 1581 || [[Epic Poem]] || - || - || -
|-
| 2 || ''[[Gerusalemme liberata (1910 film)|Gerusalemme liberata]]''|| [[1910 in film|1910]] || [[:it:Enrico Guazzoni|Enrico Guazzoni]] ♠ || [[Italy]] ||''[[Jerusalem Delivered|Gerusalemme liberata]]'' || [[Torquato Tasso]] || 1581 || [[Epic Poem]] || - || - || -
|-
| 3 || ''[[:it:La Gerusalemme liberata (film 1957)|La Gerusalemme liberata]]''|| [[1958 in film|1958]] || [[Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia]]|| [[Italy]] & [[France]] ||''[[Jerusalem Delivered|Gerusalemme liberata]]'' || [[Torquato Tasso]] || 1581 || [[Epic Poem]] || - || - || -
|-
|}
* ♠ Guazzoni released a version in 1913, and another in 1918. The 1918 version was reissued with sound in 1935.

===11th Century Scotland===
1000–1099
====Frequently filmed: ''[[Macbeth]]''====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Macbeth (1908 film)|Macbeth]]''|| [[1908 in film|1908]] || [[J. Stuart Blackton]]|| [[USA]] ||''[[Macbeth]]'' || [[William Shakespeare]] || 1605? || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
| 2 || ''[[Macbeth (1909 film)|Macbeth]]''|| [[1909 in film|1909]] || [[Mario Caserini]]|| [[Italy]] ||''[[Macbeth]]'' || [[William Shakespeare]] || 1605? || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || -|| -
|-
| 3 || ''[[Macbeth (1948 film)|Macbeth]]''|| [[1948 in film|1948]] || [[Orson Welles]]|| [[USA]] ||''[[Macbeth]]'' || [[William Shakespeare]] || 1605? || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
| 4 || ''[[Throne of Blood]]'' ♠|| [[1957 in film|1957]] || [[Akira Kurosawa]]|| [[Japan]] ||''[[Macbeth]]'' || [[William Shakespeare]] || 1605? || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
| 5 || ''[[Macbeth (1971 film)|The Tragedy of Macbeth]]''|| [[1971 in film|1971]] || [[Roman Polanski]]|| [[UK]] & [[USA]] ||''[[Macbeth]]'' || [[William Shakespeare]] || 1605? || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
| 6 || ''[[:it:Macbeth (Carmelo Bene)|Macbeth horror suite di Carmelo Bene da William Shakespeare]]'' *|| [[1997 in film|1997]] || [[Carmelo Bene]]|| [[Italy]] ||''[[Macbeth]]'' || [[William Shakespeare]] || 1605? || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
|}
* ♠ Feudal Japan is the setting in Kurosawa's famous version.
* * TV movie.

===[[Guelphs and Ghibellines|Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines]]===
====Campaigns of [[Frederick Barbarossa]]====
1155–1177
=====[[Battle of Legnano]]=====
29 May 1176
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[La battaglia di Legnano (film)|La battaglia di Legnano]]'' aka ''Barbarossa''|| [[1910 in film|1910]] || [[Mario Caserini]]|| [[Italy]] ||''[[La battaglia di Legnano]]'' ♠ (unconfirmed)|| [[Salvatore Cammarano]] (unconfirmed) || 1849 || [[Libretto]] || - || - || -
|-
| 1 || || || || ||''[[La Bataille de Toulouse|La Bataille de Toulouse, ou un Amour espagnol]]'' (uncredited) || [[Joseph Méry]] (uncredited) || 1836 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
|}
* ♠ It is a reasonable supposition that Italian filmmmakers based their story on [[Giuseppe Verdi|Verdi]]'s opera ''[[La battaglia di Legnano]]''.

===[[Igor Svyatoslavich|Rus–Cuman War]]===
c. 1185
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Prince Igor (film)|Prince Igor]]'' [[Князь Игорь]] || [[1970 in film|1970]] || [[:ru:Тихомиров, Роман Иринархович|Roman Tikhomirov]]|| [[Soviet Union]] ||''[[Prince Igor]]'' || [[Alexander Borodin]] || before 1887 || [[Libretto]] || - || - || -
|-
| 1 || || || || ||''[[The Tale of Igor's Campaign|The Lay of Igor's Host]]'' ''[[:ru:Слово о полку Игореве|Слово о полку Игореве]]'' ♠ || ''Igor'' poet || c. 1400 || [[Epic Poem]] || - || - || -
|-
|}
* ♠ The poem's [[Old East Slavic]] title is "Слово о плъку Игоревѣ", using the [[Early Cyrillic alphabet|older]] pre-Russian Revolution [[orthography]].

===[[Third Crusade]]===
1187–1192
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-

| 1 || ''[[Al Nasser Salah Ad-Din (film)|Al Nasser Salah Ad-Din]]'' '''[[:ar:الناصر صلاح الدين (فيلم)|الناصر صلاح الدين]]'''|| [[1963 in film|1963]] || [[Youssef Chahine]]|| [[Egypt]] ||''[[Al Nasser Salah Ad-Din]]'' ''An-Nāṣir Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn'' || [[Naguib Mahfouz]] <ref>Mahfouz was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1988.</ref> || 195? || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|}
<!--Adding an Arabic link really twists the table. Here it is originally:
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Al Nasser Salah Ad-Din (film)|Al Nasser Salah Ad-Din]]''|| [[1963 in film|1963]] || [[Youssef Chahine]]|| [[Egypt]] ||''[[Al Nasser Salah Ad-Din]]'' ''An-Nāṣir Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn'' || [[Naguib Mahfouz]] <ref>Mahfouz was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1988.</ref> || 195? || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|}

[[:ar:الناصر صلاح الدين|الناصر صلاح الدين (فيلم(]]
[[:ar:الناصر صلاح الدين (فيلم)|الناصر صلاح الدين]]
-->

====[[Battle of Montgisard]]====
25 November 1177
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Arn - Tempelriddaren]]'' ''[[Arn: The Knight Templar]]''|| [[2007 in film|2007]] || [[Peter Flinth]]|| [[Sweden]], [[Denmark]], [[Norway]] ||''[[Arn: The Knight Templar]]'' || [[Jan Guillou]] || 195? || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
|}

===[[Timeline of Mongol conquests|Mongol Invasions]]===
1206–c. 1300

====Campaigns of [[Genghis Khan]]====
1206–1227
=====Bulletin ... film currently in production: ''[[The Great Khan]]'' by [[Sergei Bodrov]]=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea]]''|| [[2007 in film|2007]] || [[Shinichirō Sawai]]|| [[Japan]] & [[Mongolia]]||''[[Chi hate umi tsukiru made: shōsetsu Chingisu Hān]]'' || [[Seiichi Morimura]] || 198? || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
| 2 || ''[[Mongol (film)|Mongol]]'' ''Монгол''|| [[2007 in film|2007]] || [[Sergei Bodrov]]|| [[Kazakhstan]], [[Russia]], [[Mongolia]], [[Germany]] ||''[[The Secret History of the Mongols]]'' (uncredited) || Mongol chronicler (uncredited) || after 1227 || [[Non-Fiction]] || - || - || -
|-
|}

===[[Children's Crusade]]===
1212
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Crusade in Jeans (film)|Crusade in Jeans]]''|| [[2006 in film|2006]] || [[Ben Sombogaart]]|| [[Netherlands]] ||''[[Crusade in Jeans]]'' || [[Thea Beckman]] || 1973 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
|}

===[[First Barons' War]]===
1215–1217
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[King John (film)|King John]]''|| [[1899 in film|1899]] || [[Walter Pfeffer Dando]] & [[William K.L. Dickson]]|| [[UK]] ||''[[The Life and Death of King John|King John]]'' || [[William Shakespeare]] || c. 1598 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
|}
===[[Northern Crusades]]===
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Seventh Seal]]'' ''[[:sv:Det sjunde inseglet|Det sjunde inseglet]]''|| [[1957 in film|1957]] || [[Ingmar Bergman]]|| [[Sweden]] || ''[[Wood Painting]]'' ''Trämålning'' || [[Ingmar Bergman]] || 1954 || [[Play]] || - || - || -
|-
| 2 || ''[[Hundiseaduse aegu]]''|| [[1984 in film|1984]] || [[:et:Olav Neuland|Olav Neuland]]|| [[Estonia]] || || || || || - || - || -
|-
| 2 || ''[[:et:Malev (film)|Malev]]''|| [[2005 in film|2005]] || [[Kaaren Kaer]]|| [[Estonia]] || ''[[Chronicle of Henry of Livonia]]'' || [[Henry of Livonia]] || c. 1224 || [[Chronicle]] || - || - || -
|-
|}
====[[Battle of the Ice]]====
5 April 1242
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Alexander Nevsky (film)|Alexander Nevsky]]'' ''[[:ru:Александр Невский (фильм)|Александр Невский]]'' || [[1938 in film|1938]] || [[Sergei Eisenstein]] & [[Dmitri Ivanovich Vasilyev|Dmitri Vasilyev]] <ref>Dmitri Ivanovich Vasilyev, Дмитрий Иванович Васильев, († 1984) has no page (as of June 2009) at Russian Wikipedia. He appears only on a disambiguation page, described as a советский кинорежиссёр or Soviet film director. Linguists may note that the Russian word for film director is a combination of the German ''Kino'' (cinema) and the French ''régisseur'' (manager, director).</ref>|| [[Soviet Union]] || ''[[?]]''|| [[?]] || ? || [[Non-Fiction]] || - || - || -
|-
|}

===[[War of the Sicilian Vespers]]===
1282–1302
====[[Sicilian Vespers]]====
30 March 1282
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Vespro siciliano]]''|| [[1949 in film|1949]] || [[:it:Giorgio Pàstina|Giorgio Pàstina]]|| [[Italy]] ||''[[Lu rebellamentu di Sichilia|Cronica di lu rebellamentu di Sichilia contra re Carlu]]'' || [[Atanasiu di Iaci]] (attributed)|| c. 1290 || [[Chronicle]] || - || - || -
|-
|}
* Films based on this rebellion tend to be performances of [[Giuseppe Verdi|Verdi]]'s opera ''[[I vespri siciliani]]''.

===[[Wars of Scottish Independence]]===
1296–1357

===[[Battle of the Field of Blackbirds]]===
15 June 1389
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Boj na Kosovu|Battle of Kosovo]]'' ''[[:sr:Бој на Косову (филм)|Бој на Косову]]''|| [[1989 in film|1989]] || [[Zdravko Šotra]]|| [[Yugoslavia]] ||''[[Boj na Kosovu]]'' || [[:sr:Љубомир Симовић|Ljubomir Simović]] || 19?? || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
|}

===[[Polish-Lithuanian–Teutonic War|Polish–Teutonic War]]===
1409–1411

====[[Battle of Grunwald]]====
15 July 1410
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Krzyżacy]]''|| [[1960 in film|1960]] || [[Aleksander Ford]]|| [[Poland]] ||''[[The Teutonic Knights (novel)|The Teutonic Knights]]'' || [[Henryk Sienkiewicz]] <ref name="NobelSien">Sienkiewicz was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1905.</ref> || 1900 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
|}

===[[Hundred Years' War]]===
1337–1453

====[[Battle of Shrewsbury]]====
21 July 1403
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Chimes at Midnight]]'' ♠ || [[1965 in film|1965]] || [[Orson Welles]]|| [[France]], [[Spain]], [[Switzerland]] ||''[[Five Kings]]'' || [[Orson Welles]] || 1939 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
| 1 || || || || ||''[[Henry IV, Part 1]]'' || [[William Shakespeare]] || 1597 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
| 1 || || || || ||''[[Henry IV, Part 2]]'' || [[William Shakespeare]] || 1597–1599 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
| 1 || || || || ||''[[Henry V (play)|Henry V]]'' || [[William Shakespeare]] || 1599 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
| 1 || || || || ||''[[The Merry Wives of Windsor]]'' || [[William Shakespeare]] || 1597 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
| 1 || || || || ||''[[The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland]]'' || [[Raphael Holinshed]] || 1587 || [[Chronicle]] || - || - || -
|-
|}
* ♠ An Orson Welles film that is very highly regarded by those who have succeeded in seeing it.

====[[Battle of Agincourt]]====
25 October 1415
=====Frequently filmed: ''[[Henry V (play)|Henry V]]''=====
Also, Siege of [[Harfleur]] 
1415
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Henry V (1944 film)|The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France]]'' || [[1944 in film|1944]] || [[Laurence Olivier]]|| [[UK]] ||''[[Henry V (play)|Henry V]]'' || [[William Shakespeare]] || 1599 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
| 2 || ''[[Henry V (1989 film)|Henry V]]'' || [[1989 in film|1989]] || [[Kenneth Branagh]]|| [[UK]] ||''[[Henry V (play)|Henry V]]'' || [[William Shakespeare]] || 1599 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
|}

====[[Siege of Orléans]]====
1428–1429
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Joan of Arc (1948 film)|Joan of Arc]]'' || [[1948 in film|1948]] || [[Victor Fleming]]|| [[UK]] ||''[[Joan of Lorraine]]'' || [[Maxwell Anderson]] || 1946 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
| 2 || ''[[Jeanne oder Die Lerche]]'' * || [[1956 in film|1956]] || [[Franz Peter Wirth]]|| [[West Germany]] ||''[[?]]'' || [[Jean Anouilh]] || 195? || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
| 3 || ''[[Saint Joan (film)|Saint Joan]]'' || [[1957 in film|1957]] || [[Otto Preminger]]|| [[USA]] ||''[[Saint Joan (play)|Saint Joan]]'' || [[George Bernard Shaw]] <ref name="NobelShaw"/> || 1923 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
|}
* <nowiki>*</nowiki> TV movie.

===[[Skanderbeg|Ottoman-Albanian War]]===
1443–
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Great Warrior Skanderbeg]]'' aka ''[[Великий воин Албании Скандербег]]'' || [[1953 in film|1953]] || [[Sergei Yutkevich]]|| [[Soviet Union]] & [[Albania]] ||''[[Historia de vita et gestis Scanderbegi, Epirotarum Principis]]'' || [[Marin Barleti]] || c. 1510 || [[Non-Fiction]] || - || - || -
|-
|}

===[[Fall of Constantinople]]===
1453

===[[Wars of the Roses]]===
1453–1487
====[[Battle of Mortimer's Cross]]====
2 February 1461

====[[Battle of Bosworth Field]]====
22 August 1485
=====Frequently filmed: ''[[Richard III (play)|Richard III]]''=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Richard III (1912 film)|Richard III]]'' || [[1912 in film|1912]] || [[André Calmettes]] & [[James Keane]]|| [[France]] & [[USA]] ||''[[Richard III (play)|Richard III]]'' || [[William Shakespeare]] || 1591 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
| 2 || ''[[Richard III (1955 film)|Richard III]]'' || [[1955 in film|1955]] || [[Laurence Olivier]]|| [[UK]] ||''[[Richard III (play)|Richard III]]'' || [[William Shakespeare]] || 1591 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
| 3 || ''[[Richard III (1995 film)|Richard III]]'' ♠ || [[1995 in film|1995]] || [[Richard Loncraine]]|| [[UK]] & [[USA]] ||''[[Richard III (play)|Richard III]]'' || [[William Shakespeare]] || 1591 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
|}
* ♠ This version is set in a Fascist Britain.

===[[Mad War]]===
1485–1488

===[[:es:Guerra del Salitre (México)|Saltpeter War]]===
1480–1510 <ref>Does this war have a conventional name in English? (The editor has coined "Saltpeter War" by translating from the Spanish ''Guerra del Salitre''.) But there is already another Saltpeter War / ''Guerra del Salitre''. That is an alternative name for the [[War of the Pacific]].</ref>

===[[Granada War]]===
1482–1492

==16th Century==
===[[Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire]]===
1519–1521
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Fall of Montezuma]]'' || [[1912 in film|1912]] || [[Harry McRae Webster]]|| [[USA]] ||''[[Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España]]'' (uncredited) || [[Bernal Díaz del Castillo]] ♠ (uncredited) || 1576 || [[Memoir]] || - || - || -
|-
| 1 || || || || ||''[[History of the Conquest of Mexico|History of the Conquest of Mexico ...]]'' (uncredited) || [[William H. Prescott]] ♠ (uncredited) || 1843 || [[Non-Fiction]] || - || - || -
|-
| 2 || ''[[Captain from Castile]]'' || [[1947 in film|1947]] || [[Henry King]]|| [[USA]] ||''[[Captain From Castile]]'' || [[Samuel Shellabarger]] || 1945 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
| 3 || ''[[Fray Bartolomé de las Casas (film)|Fray Bartolomé de las Casas]]'' || [[1993 in film|1993]] || [[Sergio Olhovich]]|| [[Mexico]] ||''[[Fray Bartolomé de las Casas (novel)|Fray Bartolomé de las Casas]]'' ? || [[Jaime Salom]] || 19?? || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
|}
* ♠ Díaz appears in the film as a character, while Prescott is the eminent historian of his century.

===[[Peasants' War]]===
1524–1525
===[[Russo-Kazan Wars]]===
1467–1552

====Bulletin ... Film currently in production: ''Ivan the Terrible'' by [[Andrei Andreyevich Eshpai|Andrei Eshpai]]====
====[[Siege of Kazan (1552)|Fall of Kazan]]====
1552
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[:ru:Борис Годунов (фильм, 1954)|Boris Godunov]]'' ♠ || [[1954 in film|1954]] || [[Vera Stroyeva]]|| [[Soviet Union]] ||''[[Boris Godunov (opera)|Boris Godunov]]'' || [[Modest Mussorgsky]] || 1874 || [[Opera]] || - || - || -
|-
| 1 || || || || ||''[[Boris Godunov (drama)|Boris Godunov]]'' || [[Aleksandr Pushkin]] || 1825 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
| 1 || || || || ||''[[History of the Russian State]]'' ''Истории государства Российского'' || [[Nikolay Karamzin]] || 1816–1829 || [[Non-Fiction]] || - || - || -
|-
|}
* ♠ A song about [[Ivan IV of Russia|Ivan the Terrible]] and the Fall of Kazan is sung by [[Boris Godunov (opera)#Setting|Varlaam]], a drunken vagabond monk, at an inn on the Lithuanian border.

===[[Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire]]===
1526–1572
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Royal Hunt of the Sun (film)|The Royal Hunt of the Sun]]'' || [[1969 in film|1969]] || [[Irving Lerner]]|| [[UK]] ||''[[The Royal Hunt of the Sun]]'' || [[Peter Shaffer]] || 1964 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
|}

====[[Inca Civil War]]====
1525–1527
===[[Conquest of Chile|Spanish conquest of Chile]]===
1541–1598
====Bulletin ... film currently in production: ''Finis Terrae: La voluntad de ser'' by [[director unknown]]====
====[[Arauco War]]====
1536–1883

===[[Great Italian Wars]]===
1494–1559
====[[Italian War of 1551–59]]====
1551–1559
=====[[Battle of St. Quentin (1557)|Battle of St. Quentin]]=====
1557
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Return of Martin Guerre]]'' || [[1982 in film|1982]] || [[Daniel Vigne]]|| [[France]] ||''[[Arrest Memorable]]'' || [[Jean de Coras]] || 1565 || [[Memoir]] || - || - || -
|-
| 1 || || || || ||''[[The Return of Martin Guerre (book)|The Return of Martin Guerre]]'' || [[Natalie Zemon Davis]] || 1983 || [[Non-Fiction]] || - || - || -
|-
|}

===[[Russo-Swedish War (1554–1557)|Russo-Swedish War of 1554]]===
1554–1557 (followed by the [[Livonian War]] [''q.v.''])
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Gustav Vasa (film)|Gustav Vasa]]'' * || [[1965 in film|1965]] || [[:sv:Henrik Dyfverman|Henrik Dyfverman]]|| [[Sweden]] ||''[[Gustav Vasa (play)|Gustav Vasa]]'' || [[August Strindberg]] || 1899 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
|}
* <nowiki>*</nowiki> TV movie.

===[[Livonian War]]===
1558–1582 (coincident with the [[Northern Seven Years' War]] [''q.v.''])
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Erik XIV (1965 film)|Erik XIV]]'' * || [[1965 in film|1965]] || [[:fi:Mirjam Himberg|Mirjam Himberg]]|| [[Finland]] ||''[[Erik XIV (play)|Erik XIV]]'' || [[August Strindberg]] || 1899 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
| 2 || ''[[Viimne reliikvia]]''|| [[1969 in film|1969]] || [[Grigori Kromanov]]|| [[Estonia]] || ''[[Furst Gabriel or Last Days of the Pirita Monastery]]'' || [[Eduard Bornhöhe]] || 1893 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
| 3 || ''[[Kolme katku vahel (film)|Kolme katku vahel]]''|| [[1970 in film|1970]] || [[Jaan Tooming]]|| [[Estonia]] || ''[[:et:Kolme katku vahel|Kolme katku vahel]]'' || [[Jaan Kross]] || 1970 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
| 4 || ''[[Erik XIV (1974 film)|Erik XIV]]'' * || [[1974 in film|1974]] || [[:sv:Kurt-Olof Sundström|Kurt-Olof Sundström]]|| [[Sweden]] ||''[[Erik XIV (play)|Erik XIV]]'' || [[August Strindberg]] || 1899 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
|}
* <nowiki>*</nowiki> TV movie.

===[[French Wars of Religion]]===
1562–1598
====[[St. Bartholomew's Day massacre]]====
1572

=====Frequently filmed: ''[[La Reine Margot (novel)|La Reine Margot]]''=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[La Reine Margot (1994 film)|Queen Margot]]'' || [[1994 in film|1994]] || [[Patrice Chéreau]]|| [[France]] ||''[[La Reine Margot (novel)|La Reine Margot]]'' || [[Alexandre Dumas, père]] || 1845 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
|}

===[[Northern Seven Years' War]]===
1563–1570
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Erik XIV (1965 film)|Erik XIV]]'' * || [[1965 in film|1965]] || [[:fi:Mirjam Himberg|Mirjam Himberg]]|| [[Finland]] ||''[[Erik XIV (play)|Erik XIV]]'' || [[August Strindberg]] || 1899 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
| 2 || ''[[Erik XIV (1974 film)|Erik XIV]]'' * || [[1974 in film|1974]] || [[:sv:Kurt-Olof Sundström|Kurt-Olof Sundström]]|| [[Sweden]] ||''[[Erik XIV (play)|Erik XIV]]'' || [[August Strindberg]] || 1899 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
|}
* <nowiki>*</nowiki> TV movie.

===[[Sengoku period|Japanese Warring States Period]]===
1467–1600
====[[Battle of Nagashino]]====
1575
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Kagemusha]]'' || [[1980 in film|1980]] || [[Akira Kurosawa]] || [[Japan]] || ''[[Kōyō Gunkan]]'' (uncredited) || [[Kōsaka Masanobu]] (attributed) || 1616 || [[Non-Fiction]] || - || - || -
|-
|}

===[[Eighty Years' War]]===
1568–1648 
(The [[Dutch Revolt]] merges into the [[Thirty Years' War]].)
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Alatriste]]''|| [[2006 in film|2006]] || [[Agustín Díaz Yanes]]|| [[Spain]] ||''[[Captain Alatriste|The Adventures of Captain Alatriste]]'' || [[Arturo Pérez-Reverte]] || 1996 || [[Novel]]s || - || - || -
|-
|}

===[[Anglo–Spanish War (1585)|Anglo–Spanish War of 1585]]===
1585–1604
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Sea Hawk (1924 film)|The Sea Hawk]]'' ♠ || [[1924 in film|1924]] || [[Frank Lloyd]]|| [[USA]] ||''[[The Sea Hawk]]'' || [[Rafael Sabatini]] || 1915 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
| 2 || ''[[Young Bess]]'' || [[1953 in film|1953]] || [[George Sidney]]|| [[USA]] ||''[[Young Bess]]'' || [[Margaret Irwin]] || 1944 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
|}
* ♠ A [[Cornishman]] joins [[Barbary Coast]] corsairs and fights the Spanish. The better-known 1940 [[Errol Flynn]] film does not follow the novel.

====[[Spanish Armada|Battle of Gravelines]]====
1588
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Fire Over England]]'' || [[1937 in film|1937]] || [[William K. Howard]]|| [[UK]] ||''[[Fire Over England (novel)|Fire Over England]]'' || [[A. E. W. Mason]] || 1936 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
|}

===[[Long War (Ottoman wars)|Long War]]===
1593–1606

==17th Century==
===[[The Time of Troubles]]===
1598–1613
====[[Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618)]]====
1605–1618
=====[[Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618)#The Polish invasion (1605–1606)|Polish Invasion of 1605]]=====
1605
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[:ru:Борис Годунов (фильм, 1954)|Boris Godunov]]'' || [[1954 in film|1954]] || [[Vera Stroyeva]]|| [[Soviet Union]] ||''[[Boris Godunov (opera)|Boris Godunov]]'' || [[Modest Mussorgsky]] || 1874 || [[Opera]] || - || - || -
|-
| 1 || || || || ||''[[Boris Godunov (drama)|Boris Godunov]]'' || [[Aleksandr Pushkin]] || 1825 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
| 1 || || || || ||''[[History of the Russian State]]'' ''Истории государства Российского'' || [[Nikolay Karamzin]] || 1816–1829 || [[Non-Fiction]] || - || - || -
|-
|}

===[[Thirty Years' War]]===
1618–1648
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Last Valley]]''|| [[1971 in film|1971]] || [[James Clavell]]|| [[UK]] & [[USA]] ||''[[The Last Valley (novel)|The Last Valley]]'' || [[J.B. Pick]] || 196? || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
|}
====Siege of [[Arras]]====
1640
=====Frequently filmed: ''[[Cyrano de Bergerac (play)|Cyrano de Bergerac]]''=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Cyrano de Bergerac (1950 film)|Cyrano de Bergerac]]''|| [[1950 in film|1950]] || [[Michael Gordon]]|| [[USA]] ||''[[Cyrano de Bergerac (play)|Cyrano de Bergerac]]'' || [[Edmond Rostand]] || 1897 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
| 2 || ''[[Cyrano de Bergerac (1990 film)|Cyrano de Bergerac]]''|| [[1990 in film|1990]] || [[Jean-Paul Rappeneau]]|| [[France]] ||''[[Cyrano de Bergerac (play)|Cyrano de Bergerac]]'' || [[Edmond Rostand]] || 1897 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
|}
====[[Battle of Rocroi]]====
1643
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Alatriste]]''|| [[2006 in film|2006]] || [[Agustín Díaz Yanes]]|| [[Spain]] ||''[[Captain Alatriste|The Adventures of Captain Alatriste]]'' || [[Arturo Pérez-Reverte]] || 1996 || [[Novel]]s || - || - || -
|-
|}

===[[Siege of La Rochelle]]===
1627–1628 <ref>The final [...] war epic, ''[[Kolberg (film)|Kolberg]]'', premiered at the besieged naval base in La Rochelle in 1945.</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Under the Red Robe]]'' || [[1923 in film|1923]] || [[Alan Crosland]]|| [[USA]] ||''[[Under the Red Robe]]'' || [[Stanley J. Weyman]] || 1894 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
| 2 || ''[[Under the Red Robe]]'' || [[1937 in film|1937]] || [[Victor Sjöström]]|| [[UK]] & [[USA]] ||''[[Under the Red Robe]]'' || [[Stanley J. Weyman]] || 1894 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
| 2 || || || || ||''[[Under the Red Robe]]'' || [[Edward Rose]] || 1896 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
|}

====Frequently filmed: ''[[The Three Musketeers]]''====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Four Musketeers (film)|The Four Musketeers]]'' ♠ || [[1974 in film|1974]] || [[Richard Lester]]|| [[Spain]] & [[Panama]]||''[[The Three Musketeers]]'' || [[Alexandre Dumas, père]] || 1844 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
|}
* ♠ These versions of the story mention La Rochelle.

===[[English Civil War]]===
1642–1651 (followed by the [[Commonwealth of England|Commonwealth]], the [[The Protectorate|Protectorate]] and the [[English Restoration|Restoration]])
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Witchfinder General (film)|Witchfinder General]]'' || [[1968 in film|1968]] || [[Michael Reeves]]|| [[UK]] ||''[[Witchfinder General (novel)|Witchfinder General]]'' || [[Ronald Bassett]] || 1966 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
| 2 || ''[[Winstanley (film)|Winstanley]]'' || [[1975 in film|1975]] || [[Kevin Brownlow]]|| [[UK]] ||''[[Comrade Jacob]]'' || [[David Caute]] || 1962 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
| 3 || ''[[The Devil's [...]]]'' * || [[2008 in film|2008]] || [[Marc Munden]]|| [[UK]] ||''[[Wicked Women in the 17th Century]]'' || [[Martine Brant]] || 200? || [[Thesis]] || - || - || -
|-
| 3 || || || || ||''?'' || [[Anne, Lady Fanshawe]] || 16?? || [[Diaries]] || - || - || -
|-
|}
* * TV movie.

====[[Battle of Naseby]]====
14 June 1645
=====<big>Frequently filmed: ''[[The Children of the New Forest]]''</big>=====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Children of the New Forest (1998 film)|Children of the New Forest]]'' || [[1998 in film|1998]] || [[Andrew Morgan (director)|Andrew Morgan]]|| [[UK]] ||''[[The Children of the New Forest]]'' || [[Frederick Marryat|Captain Marryat]] || 1847 || [[Novel]] || -|| - || -
|-
|}

====[[Third English Civil War]]====
1649–1651
=====[[Battle of Worcester]]=====
3 September 1651
======<big>Frequently filmed: ''[[The Children of the New Forest]]''</big>======
(See above)

====[[English Restoration]]====
1660
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Restoration (film)|Restoration]]'' || [[1995 in film|1995]] || [[Michael Hoffman (American director)|Michael Hoffman]]|| [[USA]] & [[UK]] ||''[[Restoration (Tremain novel)|Restoration]]'' || [[Rose Tremain]] || 1989 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
| 2 || ''[[Stage Beauty]]'' || [[2004 in film|2004]] || Sir [[Richard Eyre]]|| [[UK]] & [[USA]] ||''[[Compleat Female Stage Beauty]]'' || [[Jeffrey Hatcher]] || 200? || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
| 2 || || || || ||''[[Samuel Pepys#The diary|Diary of Samuel Pepys]]'' (uncredited) || [[Samuel Pepys]] (uncredited) || 1660–1669/ 1825 || [[Diary]] || - || - || -
|-
|}

===[[Cretan War (1645–1669)|Cretan War]]===
1645–1669
===[[Masaniello|Masaniello's Revolt]]===
1647 <ref>Does this event have a conventional name in English? (The editor has coined "[[Masaniello]]'s Revolt".) Italian Wikipedia does not give it a name either, calling it "''la rivolta popolare animata da Masaniello e [[Giulio Genoino]] contro il regime vicereale spagnolo''". Accurate, but not helpful.</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Dumb Girl of Portici (film)|The Dumb Girl of Portici]]'' || [[1916 in film|1916]] || [[Lois Weber]] & [[Phillips Smalley]]|| [[USA]] ||''[[La muette de Portici]]'' || [[Germain Delavigne]] & [[Eugène Scribe]] || 1828 || [[Libretto]] ♠ || - || - || -
|-
|}
* ♠ A silent film based on the libretto to [[Daniel Auber|Auber]]'s opera.

===[[Khmelnytsky Uprising]]===
1648–1654
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[With Fire and Sword (film)|With Fire and Sword]]'' || [[1999 in film|1999]] || [[Jerzy Hoffman]]|| [[Poland]] ||''[[With Fire and Sword]]'' || [[Henryk Sienkiewicz]] <ref name="NobelSien"/> || 1884 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
|}

====Frequently filmed: ''[[Taras Bulba]]''====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Taras Bulba (1924 film)|Taras Bulba]]'' || [[1938 in film|1938]] || [[Vladimir Strizhevsky]] & [[Joseph N. Ermolieff]]|| [[[...] Germany]] ||''[[Taras Bulba]]'' || [[Nikolai Gogol]] || 1835 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
| 2 || ''[[Tarass Boulba]]'' || [[1936 in film|1936]] || [[Alexis Granowsky]]|| [[France]] & [[UK]] ||''[[Taras Bulba]]'' || [[Nikolai Gogol]] || 1835 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
| 3 || ''[[The Rebel Son]]'' || [[1938 in film|1938]] || [[Adrian Brunel]], [[Albert de Courville]], [[Alexis Granowsky]]|| [[UK]] ||''[[Taras Bulba]]'' || [[Nikolai Gogol]] || 1835 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
| 4 || ''[[Taras Bulba (1962 film)|Taras Bulba]]'' || [[1962 in film|1962]] || [[J. Lee Thompson]]|| [[Yugoslavia]] & [[USA]] ||''[[Taras Bulba]]'' || [[Nikolai Gogol]] || 1835 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
|}

===[[Deluge (history)|The Deluge]]===
1655–1660
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Colonel Wolodyjowski (film)|Colonel Wolodyjowski]]'' || [[1969 in film|1969]] || [[Jerzy Hoffman]]|| [[Poland]] ||''[[Fire in the Steppe]]'' || [[Henryk Sienkiewicz]] <ref name="NobelSien"/> || 1888 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
| 2 || ''[[The Deluge (film)|The Deluge]]'' || [[1974 in film|1974]] || [[Jerzy Hoffman]]|| [[Poland]] ||''[[The Deluge (novel)|The Deluge]]'' || [[Henryk Sienkiewicz]] <ref name="NobelSien"/> || 1886 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
|}

===[[Second Anglo-Dutch War|Second Dutch War]]===
1665–1667
====Capture of [[New Amsterdam]]====
(now New York City) 
27 August 1664
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Peter Stuyvesant (film)|Peter Stuyvesant]]'' ♠ || [[1924 in film|1924]] || [[Frank Tuttle]]|| [[USA]] ||''[[The Dutch and English on the Hudson|Dutch and English on the Hudson: a chronicle of colonial New York]]'' || [[Maud Wilder Goodwin|Maud W. Goodwin]] || 1919 || [[Non-Fiction]] || - || - || -
|-
|}
* ♠ Under Dutch governor [[Peter Stuyvesant|Stuyvesant]]'s harsh rule, Englishman [[George Baxter (New Amsterdam)|George Baxter]] revolts. He fails, but appeals to [[Charles II of England|King Charles]]. The smuggling of goods duty free into New England is an issue. English ships arrive in harbour. Townsfolk petition for surrender. Stuyvesant complies.<ref>Source: ''Hartley'' (q.v.), p. 78. The information on this film at the [[IMDb]] is incomplete.</ref>

===[[Franco-Dutch War]]===
1672–1678
====[[Scanian War]]====
1675–1679
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[:sv:Snapphanar (film)|Snapphanar]]'' aka ''Scanian Guerrilla''|| [[1941 in film|1941]] || [[:sv:Åke Ohberg|Åke Ohberg]]|| [[Sweden]] ||''[[Snapphanar]]'' || [[:sv:Karl Ragnar Gierow|Karl Ragnar Gierow]] || 194? || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
|}

===[[Palmares (quilombo)#From Palmares to Angola Janga|Palmares War]]===
(Guerra dos escravos) 
1675–1677 
1679–1695
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[:pt:Ganga Zumba (filme)|Ganga Zumba]]''|| [[1963 in film|1963]] || [[Carlos Diegues|Cacá Diegues]]|| [[Brazil]] ||''[[Ganga Zumba (book)|Ganga Zumba]]'' || [[João Felício dos Santos]] || 196? || [[Non-Fiction]]? || - || - || -
|-
| 2 || ''[[:pt:Quilombo (filme)|Quilombo]]''|| [[1984 in film|1984]] || [[Carlos Diegues|Cacá Diegues]]|| [[Brazil]] & [[France]] ||''[[Ganga Zumba (book)|Ganga Zumba]]'' || [[João Felício dos Santos]] || 196? || [[Non-Fiction]]? || - || - || -
|-
| 2 || || || || ||''[[Palmares (book)|Palmares. A guerra dos escravos.]]'' || [[Décio Freitas]] || 1973 || [[Non-Fiction]] || - || - || -
|-
| 2 || || || || ||''[[Relação das guerras de Palmares]]'' || [[?]] || 1678 || [[Non-Fiction]] || - || - || -
|-
|}

===[[Monmouth Rebellion]]===
1685
====Frequently filmed: ''[[Lorna Doone]]''====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Lorna Doone (1922 film)|Lorna Doone]]'' || [[1922 in film|1922]] || [[Maurice Tourneur]]|| [[USA]] ||''[[Lorna Doone|Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor]]'' || [[R.D. Blackmore]] || 1869 || [[Novel]] || -|| - || -
|-
| 2 || ''[[Lorna Doone (1934 film)|Lorna Doone]]'' || [[1934 in film|1934]] || [[Basil Dean]]|| [[UK]] ||''[[Lorna Doone|Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor]]'' || [[R.D. Blackmore]] || 1869 || [[Novel]] || -|| - || -
|-
| 3 || ''[[Lorna Doone (2001 film)|Lorna Doone]]'' || [[2001 in film|2001]] || [[Mike Barker (film director)|Mike Barker]]|| [[UK]] ||''[[Lorna Doone|Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor]]'' || [[R.D. Blackmore]] || 1869 || [[Novel]] || -|| - || -
|-
|}

====Frequently filmed: ''[[Captain Blood (novel)|Captain Blood]]''====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Captain Blood (1935 film)|Captain Blood]]'' || [[1935 in film|1935]] || [[Michael Curtiz]]|| [[USA]] ||''[[Captain Blood (novel)|Captain Blood: His Odyssey]]'' || [[Rafael Sabatini]] || 1922 || [[Novel]] || -|| - || -
|-
|}

===[[Glorious Revolution]]===
1688–1689
====Frequently filmed: ''[[Captain Blood (novel)|Captain Blood]]''====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Captain Blood (1935 film)|Captain Blood]]'' || [[1935 in film|1935]] || [[Michael Curtiz]]|| [[USA]] ||''[[Captain Blood (novel)|Captain Blood: His Odyssey]]'' || [[Rafael Sabatini]] || 1922 || [[Novel]] || -|| - || -
|-
|}
===[[Nine Years' War]]===
1688–1697
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The King's [...]]]'' ''[[:fr:La putain du roi|La putain du roi]]''|| [[1990 in film|1990]] || [[Axel Corti]]|| [[UK]], [[Austria]], [[France]], [[Italy]] ||''[[Jeanne de Luynes, comtesse de Verue]]'' || [[Jacques Tournier]] || 19?? || [[Novel]] || -|| - || -
|-
|}

==18th Century==
===[[Jacobite rising|First Jacobite Rebellion]]===
(aka The '15) 
1715

===[[Great Northern War]]===
1700–1721
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[:ru:Пётр Первый (фильм)|Peter the First, Part Two]]'' || [[1938 in film|1938]] || [[:ru:Петров, Владимир Михайлович (режиссёр)|Vladimir Petrov]]|| [[Soviet Union]] ||''[[Peter the First]]'' <ref>The novel was awarded the [[Stalin Prize]] in 1941.</ref> || [[Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy|Alexei Tolstoy]] || 1929–1934 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
| 2 || ''[[:pl:Hrabina Cosel (film)|Hrabina Cosel]]'' || [[1968 in film|1968]] || [[Jerzy Antczak]]|| [[Poland]] ||''[[:pl:Hrabina Cosel|Hrabina Cosel]]'' ♠ || [[Józef Ignacy Kraszewski]] || 1873 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
| 3 || ''[[Epitaph für einen König]]'' * || [[1969 in film|1969]] || [[Fritz Umgelter]]|| [[West Germany]] ||''[[Carl XII (play)|Carl XII]]'' || [[August Strindberg]] || 1901 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
| 4 || ''[[Karl XII (1974 film)|Karl XII]]'' * || [[1974 in film|1974]] || [[:sv:Keve Hjelm|Keve Hjelm]]|| [[Sweden]] ||''[[Carl XII (play)|Carl XII]]'' || [[August Strindberg]] || 1901 || [[Play (theatre)|Play]] || - || - || -
|-
| 5 || ''[[:de:Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria|Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria: Gräfin Cosel]]'' * || [[1985 in film|1985]] || [[:de:Hans-Joachim Kasprzik|Hans-Joachim Kasprzik]]|| [[East Germany]] ||''[[:pl:Hrabina Cosel|Hrabina Cosel]]'' ♠ || [[Józef Ignacy Kraszewski]] || 1873 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
| 6 || ''[[Peter the Great (TV series)|Peter the Great]]'' * || [[1986 in film|1986]] || [[Marvin J. Chomsky]] & [[Lawrence Schiller]]|| [[USA]] ||''[[Peter the Great: His Life and World]]'' || [[Robert K. Massie]] || 1980 || [[Non-Fiction]] || - || - || -
|-
|}
* ♠ Part 1 of the [[:de:Sachsentrilogie|Saxon Trilogy]], about [[Anna Constantia of Brockdorff|Countess Cosel]], [[Augustus II the Strong]], and [[Charles XII of Sweden]].
* <nowiki>*</nowiki> TV movie.

===[[War of the Spanish Succession]]===
1701–1714
===[[War of the Polish Succession]]===
1733–1738

===[[War of the Austrian Succession]]===
1740–1748
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[:de:Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria|Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria: Brühl]]'' * || [[1985 in film|1985]] || [[:de:Hans-Joachim Kasprzik|Hans-Joachim Kasprzik]]|| [[East Germany]] ||''[[Bruehl (Kraszewski novel)|Bruehl]]'' ♠ || [[Józef Ignacy Kraszewski]] || 1874 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
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* ♠ Part 2 of the [[:de:Sachsentrilogie|Saxon Trilogy]], about [[Heinrich von Brühl]], [[Frederick Augustus Rutowsky]], and [[Augustus III of Poland|Friedrich August II]].
* <nowiki>*</nowiki> TV movie.

====[[Jacobite rising|Second Jacobite Rebellion]]====
(aka The '45) 
1745–1746 
The rebellion broke out as Great Britain was heavily involved in the ''War of the Austrian Succession'', 
just as the ''Easter Rebellion'' broke out as Britain was heavily involved in ''World War I''.

=====[[Battle of Culloden]]=====
1746
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
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| 1 || ''[[Culloden (film)|Culloden]]'' <ref>Recipient of the [[British Academy Television Awards|BAFTA Award]] for Specialised Programmes in 1965.</ref> * || [[1964 in film|1964]] || [[Peter Watkins]]|| [[UK]] ||''[[Culloden (book)|Culloden]]'' || [[John Prebble]] || 1962 || [[Non-Fiction]] || - || - || -
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|}
* <nowiki>*</nowiki> TV movie.

===[[Seven Years' War]]===
1754–1763
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
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| 1 || ''[[Fridericus]]'' || [[1937 in film|1937]] || [[Johannes Meyer (director)|Johannes Meyer]]|| [[[...] Germany]] ||''[[Fridericus (novel)|Fridericus]]'' || [[Walter von Molo]] || 1918 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
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| 2 || ''[[Barry Lyndon]]'' || [[1975 in film|1975]] || [[Stanley Kubrick]]|| [[UK]] ||''[[The Luck of Barry Lyndon]]'' || [[William Makepeace Thackeray]] || 1844 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
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| 3 || ''[[:de:Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria|Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria: Brühl]]'' * || [[1985 in film|1985]] || [[:de:Hans-Joachim Kasprzik|Hans-Joachim Kasprzik]]|| [[East Germany]] ||''[[Bruehl (Kraszewski novel)|Bruehl]]'' ♠ || [[Józef Ignacy Kraszewski]] || 1874 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
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| 4 || ''[[:de:Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria|Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria - Aus dem siebenjährigen Krieg]]'' * || [[1987 in film|1987]] || [[:de:Hans-Joachim Kasprzik|Hans-Joachim Kasprzik]]|| [[East Germany]] ||''[[Z siedmioletniej wojny]]'' ♦ || [[Józef Ignacy Kraszewski]] || 1875 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
|}
* ♠ Part 2 of the [[:de:Sachsentrilogie|Saxon Trilogy]], about [[Heinrich von Brühl]], [[Frederick Augustus Rutowsky]], and [[Augustus III of Poland|Friedrich August II]].
* ♦ Part 3 of the [[:de:Sachsentrilogie|Saxon Trilogy]], about [[Heinrich von Brühl]], [[Augustus III of Poland]], and [[Frederick II of Prussia]].
* <nowiki>*</nowiki> TV movie.

====[[French and Indian War]]====

{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Northwest Passage (film)|Northwest Passage]]'' || [[1940 in film|1940]] || [[King Vidor]]|| [[USA]] ||''[[Northwest Passage (novel)|Northwest Passage]]'' || [[Kenneth Roberts]] || 1937 || [[Novel]] || ''[[Northwest Passage (tv series)|Northwest Passage]]''|| 1958–1959 || [[USA]]
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=====[[Battle of Fort William Henry|Siege of Fort William Henry]]=====
3–9 August 1757
======<big>Frequently filmed: ''[[The Last of the Mohicans]]''</big>======
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|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
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| 1 || ''[[The Last of the Mohicans (1920 film)|The Last of the Mohicans]]'' || [[1920 in film|1920]] || [[Clarence Brown]] & [[Maurice Tourneur]]|| [[USA]] ||''[[The Last of the Mohicans]]'' || [[James Fenimore Cooper]] || 1826 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
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| 2 || ''[[The Last of the Mohicans (serial)|The Last of the Mohicans]]'' || [[1932 in film|1932]] || [[Ford Beebe]] & [[B. Reeves Eason]]|| [[USA]] ||''[[The Last of the Mohicans]]'' || [[James Fenimore Cooper]] || 1826 || [[Novel]] || ''[[Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans]]'' || 1957 || [[Canada]]
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| 3 || ''[[The Last of the Mohicans (1936 film)|The Last of the Mohicans]]'' || [[1936 in film|1936]] || [[George B. Seitz]]|| [[USA]] ||''[[The Last of the Mohicans]]'' || [[James Fenimore Cooper]] || 1826 || [[Novel]] || ''[[The Last of the Mohicans (1971 mini-series)|The Last of the Mohicans]]'' || 1971 || [[UK]]
|-
| 4 || ''[[Der letzte Mohikaner]]'' || [[1965 in film|1965]] || [[Harald Reinl]]|| [[West Germany]], [[Italy]], [[Spain]]||''[[The Last of the Mohicans]]'' || [[James Fenimore Cooper]] || 1826 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
| 5 || ''[[Uncas, el fin de una raza]]'' || [[1965 in film|1965]] || [[Mateo Cano]]|| [[Spain]], [[Italy]] ||''[[The Last of the Mohicans]]'' || [[James Fenimore Cooper]] || 1826 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
| 6 || ''[[Ultimul Mohican]]'' || [[1968 in film|1968]] || [[Sergiu Nicolaescu]], [[Jean Dréville]], [[:fr:Pierre Gaspard-Huit|Pierre Gaspard-Huit]]|| [[Romania]] & [[France]]||''[[The Last of the Mohicans]]'' || [[James Fenimore Cooper]] || 1826 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
| 7 || ''[[The Last of the Mohicans (1992 film)|The Last of the Mohicans]]'' || [[1992 in film|1992]] || [[Michael Mann (film director)|Michael Mann]]|| [[USA]] ||''[[The Last of the Mohicans]]'' || [[James Fenimore Cooper]] || 1826 || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
|-
|}

=====[[Battle of Fort Duquesne]]=====
15 September 1758
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
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| 1 || ''[[Gateway to the West (film)|Gateway to the West]]'' ♠ || [[1924 in film|1924]] || [[Webster Campbell]]|| [[USA]] ||''[[The Conquest of New France]]'' || [[George MacKinnon Wrong|George M. Wrong]] || 1910 || [[Non-Fiction]] || -|| - || -
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* ♠ Prime Minister [[Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne|Newcastle]] asks [[Robert Dinwiddie|Dinwiddie]] of Virginia to oust the French. Dinwiddie settles on Washington ([[Arthur Vinton]]). But the defeat of the French at [[Fort Le Boeuf]] is followed by Washington's defeat at Fort Duquesne, then his retreat to [[Broad Meadows]] and surrender.<ref>Source: ''Hartley'' (q.v.), p. 160. The information on this film at the [[IMDb]] is incomplete and incorrect.</ref>

=====[[Battle of the Plains of Abraham]]=====
13 September 1759
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|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
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| 1 || ''[[Wolfe and Montcalm (film)|Wolfe and Montcalm]]'' ♠ || [[1924 in film|1924]] || [[Kenneth S. Webb]]|| [[USA]] ||''[[The Conquest of New France]]'' || [[George MacKinnon Wrong|George M. Wrong]] || 1910 || [[Non-Fiction]] || -|| - || -
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|}
* ♠ Prime Minister [[William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham|Pitt]] is determined to oust the French. [[James Wolfe|Wolfe]] ([[Arthur Hohl]]) takes the outpost at [[Beauport, Quebec City|Beauport]], then lands at the [[Anse-au-Foulon|"Faloun"]] (Wolfe's Cove). Outside Quebec, French and Indians face the British. Wolfe and [[Louis-Joseph de Montcalm|Montcalm]] perish.<ref>"The battle [shows] gruesome scenes of agony as Wolfe and Montcalm die... There is a ... gory glorification of war. The long scenes of the death agonies of Wolfe and Montcalm seem unnecessary." (''Hartley'')</ref><ref>Source: ''Hartley'' (q.v.), p. 161. The information on this film at the [[IMDb]] is incomplete.</ref>

====[[Third Carnatic War]]====
1756–1763

===[[Pontiac's Rebellion|Pontiac's War]]===
1763–1766
====[[Black Boys|Black Boys Uprising]]====
1769
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|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
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| 1 || ''[[Allegheny Uprising]]'' || [[1939 in film|1939]] || [[William A. Seiter]]|| [[USA]] ||''[[The First Rebel|The First Rebel: Being a lost chapter of our history and a true narrative of America's first uprising against English military authority]]'' || [[Neil H. Swanson]] || 1937 || [[Novel]]? || - || - || -
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| 1 || || || || ||''[[Colonel James Smith's Life Among the Delawares, 1755-1759]]'' || [[James Smith (pioneer)|James Smith]] || 17?? || [[Memoir]] || - || - || -
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|}
===[[Anglo-Mysore Wars|Mysore Wars]]===
1766–1799 <ref>The traditional name Mysore Wars is [http://www.tigerandthistle.net/tipu321.htm still in use].</ref>
====[[Third Anglo-Mysore War|Third Mysore War]]====
1789–1792
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[The Sword of Tipu Sultan]]'' * || [[1990 in film|1990]] || [[Akbar Khan]] & [[Sanjay Khan]]|| [[India]] ||''[[The Sword of Tipu Sultan]]'' || [[Bhagwan Gidwani]] || 198? || [[Novel]] || - || - || -
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|}
* <nowiki>*</nowiki> TV movie.

===[[Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)|Russo-Turkish War of 1768]]===
1768–1774
====Frequently filmed: ''[[Baron Munchausen]]''====
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! Film !! Date !! Director !! Country !! Source work !! Author !! Date !! Type !! TV !! Date !! Country
|-
| 1 || ''[[Münchhausen (film)|Münchhausen]]'' || [[1943 in film|1943]] || [[Josef von Báky]]|| [[[...] Germany]] ||''[[The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen]]'' || [[Rudolf Erich Raspe]] ♠ || 1785 || Stories || - || - || -
|-
| 2 || ''[[The Fabulous Baron Munchausen|Baron Prášil]]'' || [[1961 in film|1961]] || [[Karel Zeman]]|| [[Czechoslovakia]] ||''[[The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen]]'' || [[Rudolf Erich Raspe]] ♠ || 1785 || Stories || - || - || -
|-
| 3 || ''[[The Adventures of Baron Munchausen]]'' || [[1988 in film|1988]] || [[Terry Gilliam]]|| [[UK]] & [[West Germany]] ||''[[The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen]]'' || [[Rudolf Erich Raspe]] ♠ || 1785 || Stories || - || - || -
|-
|}
* ♠ The Munchausen stories were published in English by [[Rudolf Erich Raspe|Raspe]], then translated back into German by [[Gottfried August Bürger|Bürger]]. The historical [[Baron Münchhausen]] († 1797), a German in Russian service at a somewhat earlier period, had been a notable teller of tall tales.

''For later conflicts, see the [[List of films based on war books — 1775–1898]].''

==References==
{{reflist}}

===Bibliography===
* Clarke, James. ''Virgin Film: War Films'', [[Virgin Books]], London, 2006.
* Hartley, William H., Ed.D. ''Selected Films for American History and Problems'', Teachers College, [[Columbia University]], New York, 1940.
* ''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 — 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]]

* [[War film]]
* [[War novel]]
* [[List of war films]]
* [[List of United States military books]]
* [[Assassinations in fiction]]

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[[Category:Films based on military novels]]
[[Category:War drama films]]
[[Category:Classical war films]]
[[Category:Films set in ancient Rome]]
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