List of films based on civics books

A list of films that are based on books about common topics and issues in social science and political science.

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## Addiction

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### Alcoholism

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#### India

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Devdas
देवदास | 1936 | P.C. Barua | India | Devdas | Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay
শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায় | 1917 | Novella | \-

#### Mexico

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Under the Volcano ♠ | 1984 | John Huston | USA | Under the Volcano | Malcolm Lowry | 1947 | Novel | \-

* ♠ The subject is the British consul in a Mexican town (based on Cuernavaca).

#### United States

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The Lost Weekend | 1945 | Billy Wilder | USA | The Lost Weekend | Charles Jackson | 1944 | Novel | \-
Leaving Las Vegas | 1995 | Mike Figgis | USA | Leaving Las Vegas | John O'Brien | 1990 | Novel/
Memoir | John O'Brien (simulacrum)
The Doors | 1991 | Oliver Stone | USA | notes [1] (unpublished) for No One Here Gets Out Alive (uncredited) | Jerry Hopkins & Danny Sugerman (both uncredited) | 1980 | Non-fiction | Jim Morrison

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#### Germany

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Christiane F. | 1981 | Uli Edel | West Germany | Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo ♠ | Christiane F. with Kai Herrmann & Horst Rieck (ghostwriters) | 197? | Non-fiction | Christiane F.

* ♠ The German book title translates literally as Christiane F. – We Children from the Zoo Station.[citation needed]

#### United Kingdom

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Trainspotting | 1996 | Danny Boyle | UK | Trainspotting | Irvine Welsh | 1993 | Novel | \-
The Seven Percent Solution | 1976 | Herbert Ross | UK & USA | The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. | Nicholas Meyer | 1974 | Novel | Sherlock Holmes

#### United States

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The Boost | 1988 | Harold Becker | USA | Ludes | Ben Stein | 1982 | Novel | \-
The Basketball Diaries | 1995 | Scott Kalvert | USA | The Basketball Diaries | Jim Carroll | 1978 | Diary | Jim Carroll
Permanent Midnight | 1998 | David Veloz | USA | Permanent Midnight | Jerry Stahl | 1995 | Memoir | Jerry Stahl

### Sex addiction

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#### United States

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Auto Focus | 2002 | Paul Schrader | USA | The Murder of Bob Crane: Who Killed the Star of Hogan's Heroes? | Robert Graysmith | 199? | Biography | Bob Crane

## Civil rights

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### South Africa

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Cry Freedom | 1987 | Richard Attenborough | UK | Biko | Donald Woods | 1978 | Memoir | Steve Biko, Donald Woods
In My Country | 2004 | John Boorman | UK ? | Country of My Skull | Antjie Krog | 1998 | Memoir | \-
Goodbye Bafana aka The Color of Freedom | 2007 | Bille August | UK, South Africa, Germany | Goodbye Bafana: Nelson Mandela, My Prisoner, My Friend | James Gregory & Bob Graham | 199? | Memoir | Nelson Mandela

### United States

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For slave revolts, see List of films based on war books — 1775–1898.

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Boycott * | 2001 | Clark Johnson | USA | Daybreak of Freedom:
the Montgomery Bus Boycott | Stewart Burns (editor) | 1997 [2]¤ | Non-fiction | Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Rosa Parks
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan * | 1975 | Marvin J. Chomsky | USA | Attack on Terror: The F.B.I. Against the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi | Don Whitehead | 1970 | Non-fiction | Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman

* * TV movie.
* ** TV miniseries.

## Journalism

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(Print and television)

### Reporters

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Culloden [3] ♠ * | 1964 | Peter Watkins | UK | Culloden | John Prebble | 1962 | Non-fiction | \-
All the President's Men | 1976 | Alan J. Pakula | USA | All the President's Men | Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward | 1974 | Memoir | Bob Woodward,
Carl Bernstein

* ♠ A television reporter broadcasts live from the 1746 Battle of Culloden.
* * TV movie.

### Editors

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All the President's Men | 1976 | Alan J. Pakula | USA | All the President's Men | Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward | 1974 | Memoir | Ben Bradlee

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All the President's Men | 1976 | Alan J. Pakula | USA | All the President's Men | Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward | 1974 | Memoir | Katharine Graham ♠

* ♠ Mrs. Graham is often mentioned but not dramatized.

## Labour

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### Belgium

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Daens | 1992 | Stijn Coninx | Belgium, France, Netherlands | Pieter Daens | Louis Paul Boon | 1971 | Novel | Adolf Daens

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#### Agriculture

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The Grapes of Wrath [4] | 1940 | John Ford | USA | The Grapes of Wrath [5] | John Steinbeck[6] | 1939 | Novel | Okies
Mr. Majestyk | 1974 | Richard Fleischer | USA | Mr. Majestyk | Elmore Leonard | 1974 [2] | Novel | \-

#### Manufacturing

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The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal * | 1979 | Mel Stuart | USA | The Triangle Fire (unofficial) | Leon Stein (unofficial) | 1962 | Non-fiction | Triangle Shirtwaist

* * TV movie.

#### Mining

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North Country | 2005 | Niki Caro | USA | Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law | Clara Bingham & Laura Leedy Gansler | 196? | Non-fiction | Lois Jenson
One of the Hollywood Ten | 2000 | Karl Francis | Spain & UK | Salt of the Earth: The Story of a Film | Herbert Biberman | 1965 | Non-fiction | Salt of the Earth [7]

#### Sports

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Eight Men Out | 1988 | John Sayles | USA | 8 Men Out | Eliot Asinof | 1963 | Non-fiction | Black Sox
Net Worth ♠ * | 1995 | Jerry Ciccoritti | Canada | Net Worth:
Exploding the Myth of Pro Hockey | David Cruise
& Alison Griffiths | 1991 [8] | Non-fiction |

* ♠ The hockey players in the wage dispute are Canadian; the club owners are American.
* * TV movie.

## Mental disorder

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#### Canada

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Beautiful Dreamers | 1990 | John Kent Harrison | Canada | Walt Whitman | Dr. Maurice Bucke | 1883 | Biography | insane asylum

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### United States

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Frances | 1982 | Graeme Clifford | USA | Shadowland | William Arnold | 198? | Fictional biography | Frances Farmer,
lobotomy
Mister Buddwing | 1966 | Delbert Mann | USA | Buddwing | Evan Hunter | 1964 | Novel | amnesia

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### Australia

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Rabbit-Proof Fence | 2002 | Phillip Noyce | Australia | Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence | Doris Pilkington Garimara | 1996 | Non-fiction | Molly Craig

### United States

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The Outsider ♠ | 1961 | Delbert Mann | USA | "The Outsider" from
Wolf Whistle and Other Stories | William Bradford Huie | 1959 | Non-fiction | Ira Hayes

* ♠ The story of Ira Hayes was also told in Flags of Our Fathers.

## Penology

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### Roman Empire

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Barabbas | 1961 | Richard Fleischer | Italy | Barabbas | Pär Lagerkvist[9] | 1950 | Novel | Barabbas

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Carandiru
Carandiru | 2003 | Hector Babenco | Brazil & Argentina | Carandiru Station [10]
Estação Carandiru | Dr. Dráuzio Varella | 1999 | Non-fiction/
Memoir | Carandiru massacre

### France

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Papillon | 1973 | Franklin J. Schaffner | USA | Papillon | Henri Charrière | 1969 | Memoir/
Novel | Henri Charrière

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Goodbye Bafana aka The Color of Freedom | 2007 | Bille August | UK, South Africa, Germany | Goodbye Bafana: Nelson Mandela, My Prisoner, My Friend | James Gregory & Bob Graham | 199? | Memoir | Nelson Mandela

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Boy A | 2007 | John Crowley | UK | Boy A | Jonathan Trigell | 2004 | Novel | \-
A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick | UK | A Clockwork Orange ♠ | Anthony Burgess | 1962 | Novel | \-

* ♠ The earliest editions of the novel did not contain a glossary, or any indication that the slang was based on Russian.

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Pierrepoint | 1995 | Adrian Shergold | UK | Executioner: Pierrepoint | Albert Pierrepoint | 1974 | Memoir | Albert Pierrepoint

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Birdman of Alcatraz | 1962 | John Frankenheimer | USA | Birdman of Alcatraz | Thomas E. Gaddis | 1955 | Non-fiction | Robert Stroud
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang [11] | 1932 | Mervyn LeRoy | USA | I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang | Robert Elliott Burns | 1932 | Autobiography | Robert Elliott Burns

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The Executioner's Song * | 1982 | Lawrence Schiller | USA | The Executioner's Song [12] | Norman Mailer | 1980 | Novel | Gary Gilmore
Shot in the Heart * | 2001 | Agnieszka Holland | USA | Shot in the Heart | Mikal Gilmore | 1995 | Non-fiction | Gary Gilmore

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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | 1970 | Caspar Wrede | UK & Norway | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn[13] | 1962 | Novel | \-

## Political prisoners

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### Greece

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Cell No. 5 ♠
To kelli miden × | 1975 | Yannis Smaragdis | Greece | The Method: A Personal Account of the Tortures in Greece
Ανθρωποφύλακες (Anthropofylakes) | Periklis Korovesis
Περικλής Κοροβέσης | 1969 | Memoir | Periklis Korovesis

* ♠ The film concerns torture during the period of the colonels.[14]

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Goodbye Bafana aka The Color of Freedom | 2007 | Bille August | UK, South Africa, Germany | Goodbye Bafana: Nelson Mandela, My Prisoner, My Friend | James Gregory & Bob Graham | 199? | Memoir | Nelson Mandela

## Poverty

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Barren Lives
Vidas Secas | 1963 | Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Brazil | Vidas Secas | Graciliano Ramos | 1938 | Novel | sertão

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Broken Blossoms [15] | 1919 | D. W. Griffith | USA | "The Chink and the Child"
from Limehouse Nights | Thomas Burke | 1916 | Story | Limehouse
Love on the Dole | 1941 | John Baxter | UK | Love on the Dole: a Tale of Two Cities | Walter Greenwood | 1933 | Novel | Salford

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#### Urban

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A Tree Grows In Brooklyn | 1945 | Elia Kazan | USA | A Tree Grows In Brooklyn | Betty Smith | 1943 | Novel | Brooklyn
Last Exit to Brooklyn | 1989 | Uli Edel | USA, UK,
West Germany | Last Exit to Brooklyn | Hubert Selby Jr. | 1964 | Novel | Brooklyn

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Beggars of Life | 1928 | William A. Wellman | USA | Beggars of Life | Jim Tully | 1924 | Novel | hobos
The Grapes of Wrath [4] | 1940 | John Ford | USA | The Grapes of Wrath [5] | John Steinbeck[6] | 1939 | Novel | Okies
Sounder | 1972 | Martin Ritt | USA | Sounder [16] | William H. Armstrong | 1969 | Novel | sharecroppers
Conrack | 1974 | Martin Ritt | USA | The Water Is Wide | Pat Conroy | 1972 | Memoir | Sea Islands

## References

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### Notes

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1. ^ The families of Jim Morrison and Pamela Courson both objected to the book by Hopkins and Sugerman. The producers bought the rights to the notes, rather than the book itself.
Source: Lavington (q.v.), p. 138.
2. ^ a b Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of the US Library of Congress.
Source: Library of Congress Online Catalog.
3. ^ Recipient of the BAFTA Award for Specialised Programmes in 1965.
4. ^ a b Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 1989.
5. ^ a b Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1940.
6. ^ a b Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.
7. ^ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 1992.
8. ^ Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of Library and Archives Canada.
Source: Library Search.
9. ^ Lagerkvist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951.
10. ^ Recipient of the Prêmio Jabuti in 2000.
11. ^ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 1991.
12. ^ Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1980.
13. ^ Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970.
14. ^ "Der erste Buch von Periklis Korovesis, der selbst ein Opfer der Folter der Junta ist, mit dem Titel «Anthropofylakes», auf griechisch «Ανθρωποφύλακες» (1969), beschreibt ausführlich die Foltermethoden der Militärpolizei ESA. Der buch ist auf viele Sprachen übersetzt worden: La filière, Seuil, 1969, Frankreich; The Method-A Personal Account of the Tortures in Greece, Allison & Busby, 1970 und The Method, Panther, 1970, England [...]" Source: Folter während der griechischen Militärdiktatur (1967-1974), Krimpedia (in German).
15. ^ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 1996.
16. ^ Recipient of the Newbery Medal in 1970.

### Bibliography

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Lavington, Stephen. Virgin Film: Oliver Stone, Virgin Books, London, 2004.

## See also

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* List of fiction works made into feature films
* List of non-fiction works made into feature films
* List of biographical films

Pages with the same format

* List of films based on arts books
* List of films based on crime books
* List of films based on film books
* List of films based on sports books
* List of films based on spy books
* List of films based on war books
* List of films based on westerns

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