List of non-fiction works made into feature films

s. The title of the work is followed by the work's author, the title of the film, and the year of the film. If a film has an alternate title based on geographical distribution, the title listed will be that of the widest distribution area.

Please note: This list does not include documentary films that are based on real events and people which are not based chiefly on a written work. For other documentary film categories, see .

Books

*"Across the Wide Missouri", Bernard DeVoto - "Across the Wide Missouri", 1951
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*"All the President's Men", Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein - "All the President's Men", 1976
*"The Anarchist Cookbook", William Powell - "The Anarchist Cookbook", 2002
*"Awakenings", Oliver Sacks - "Awakenings", 1990
*"The Basketball Diaries", Jim Carroll - "The Basketball Diaries", 1995
*"", Mark Bowden - "Black Hawk Down", 2001
*"Bravo Two Zero", Andy McNab - "Bravo Two Zero", 1999
*"Bully: Does Anyone Deserve to Die?", Jim Schutze - "Bully", 2001
*"Catatan Seorang Demonstran", Soe Hok Gie - "Gie", 2005
*"Charlie Wilson's War", George Crile III - "Charlie Wilson's War", 2007
*"A Civil Action", Jonathan Harr - "A Civil Action", 1998
*"Class Action", Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler - "North Country", 2005
*"The Conquest of Space", Chesley Bonestell & Willy Ley - "Conquest of Space", 1955
*"The Dam Busters", Paul Brickhill - "The Dam Busters", 1954 - see also "Enemy Coast Ahead"
*"Dead Man Walking", Sister Helen Prejean - "Dead Man Walking", 1995
*"Enemy Coast Ahead", Guy Gibson - "The Dam Busters", 1954 - see also "The Dam Busters"
*"", Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind - "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room", 2005
*"Escape from Alcatraz", J. Campbell Bruce - "Escape from Alcatraz", 1979
*"Estação Carandiru (Carandiru Station)", Drauzio Varella - "Carandiru", 2003
*"The Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice", Thomas Hauser - "Missing", 1982
*"The Final Days", Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein - "The Final Days", 1989
*"", H. G. Bissinger - "Friday Night Lights", 2004
*"The Game of Their Lives", Geoffrey Douglas - "The Game of Their Lives", 2005
*"In Cold Blood", Truman Capote - "In Cold Blood", 1967
*"J'ai serré la main du diable (Shake Hands with the Devil)", Roméo Dallaire - "Shake Hands with the Devil" (in production)
*"Jarhead", Anthony Swofford - "Jarhead", 2005
*"Live from Baghdad", Robert Wiener - "Live from Baghdad", 2002
*"Lost Moon", Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger - "Apollo 13", 1995
*"The Man-eaters of Tsavo", John Henry Patterson - "Bwana Devil", 1952 ; "The Ghost and the Darkness", 1996
*"Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil", John Berendt - "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil", 1997
*"Molly's Daughter", Doris Pilkington Garimara - "Rabbit-Proof Fence", 2002
*"The Mountain Road", Theodore White - "The Mountain Road", 1961
*"Never Cry Wolf", Farley Mowat - "Never Cry Wolf", 1983
*"A Night to Remember", Walter Lord - "A Night to Remember", 1958
*"Ondskan (Evil)", Jan Guillou - "Evil"

*"The One That Got Away", Kendall Burt and James Leasor - "The One That Got Away", 1957
*"The Orchid Thief", Susan Orlean - "Adaptation.", 2002
*"The Perfect Storm", Sebastian Junger - "The Perfect Storm", 2000
*"Pork Chop Hill", S. L. A. Marshall - "Pork Chop Hill", 1959
*"Queen Bees and Wannabees", Rosalind Wiseman - "Mean Girls", 2004
*"Reversal of Fortune", Alan Dershowitz" - "Reversal of Fortune", 1990
*"See No Evil", Robert Baer - "Syriana", 2005
*"The Short-Timers", Gustav Hasford - "Full Metal Jacket", 1987
*"The Story of Mankind", Hendrik Willem van Loon - "The Story of Mankind", 1957
*"The Strawberry Statement", James Simon Kunen - "The Strawberry Statement", 1970
*"Touching the Void", Joe Simpson - "Touching the Void", 2003
*"", Daniel Topolski - "True Blue", 1996
*"We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young", Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway - "We Were Soldiers", 2002
*"Zodiac" and "Zodiac Unmasked", Robert Graysmith - "Zodiac", 2006

Biographies

*"84 Charing Cross Road", Helene Hanff - "84 Charing Cross Road", 1975, 1987
*"", Marty Jezer - "Steal This Movie!", 2000
*"The Agony and the Ecstasy", Irving Stone - "The Agony and the Ecstasy", 1965
*"Angela's Ashes", Frank McCourt - "Angela's Ashes", 1999
*"Before Night Falls", Reinaldo Arenas - "Before Night Falls", 2000
*"Blow: How a Small- Town Boy Made $100 Million With the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All", Bruce Porter - "Blow", 2001
*"Bound for Glory", Woody Guthrie - "Bound for Glory", 1976
*"Camille Claudel", Reine-Marie Paris - "Camille Claudel", 1988
*"Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career", George Plimpton - "Infamous", 2006
*"Carve Her Name with Pride", R. J. Minney - "Carve Her Name with Pride", 1958
*"", Johnny Cash - "Walk the Line", 2005
*"Castaway", Lucy Irvine - "Castaway", 1986
*"Catch Me If You Can", Frank Abagnale - "Catch Me If You Can", 2002
*"", David Robinson - "Chaplin", 1992
*"Cheaper by the Dozen", Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey - "Cheaper by the Dozen", 1950
*"Crazy", Benjamin Lebert - "Crazy", 2000
*"Diarios de motocicleta", Che Guevara - "The Motorcycle Diaries", 2004
*"Elegy for Iris", John Bayley - "Iris", 2001
*"Finding Fish", Antwone Quenton Fisher - "Antwone Fisher", 2002
*"", Hayden Herrera - "Frida", 2002
*"The General", Paul Williams - "The General", 1998
*"Girl, Interrupted", Susanna Kaysen - "Girl, Interrupted", 1999
*"Gorillas in the Mist", Dian Fossey
*"The Great Impostor", Robert Crichton - "The Great Impostor", 1961
*"", Gypsy Rose Lee - "Gypsy", 1962, 1993
*"Hideous Kinky", Esther Freud - "Hideous Kinky", 1998
*"The Honest Courtesan", Margaret Rosenthal - "Dangerous Beauty", 1998
*"I, Tina", Tina Turner - "What's Love Got to Do with It?", 1993
*"I Was Cicero", Elyesa Bazna - "5 Fingers", 1952
*"Ich war Hitlerjunge Salomon (I Was Hitler Youth Salomon)", Solomon Perel - "Europa Europa", 1990
*"In Search of Captain Zero", Allan Weisbecker - "In Search of Captain Zero" (future)
*"Inside Hitler's Bunker", Joachim Fest - "Der Untergang (Downfall)", 2004
*"Iron & Silk", Mark Salzman - "Iron & Silk", 1990
*"", Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith - "Pollock", 2000
*"Joe Gould's Secret", Joseph Mitchell - "Joe Gould's Secret", 2000
*"The Learning Tree", Gordon Parks - "The Learning Tree", 1969
*"Leaving Las Vegas", John O'Brien - "Leaving Las Vegas", 1995
*"Life Is Not a Fairy Tale", Fantasia Barrino - "The Fantasia Barrino Story", 2006
*"Man in Black", Johnny Cash - "Walk the Line", 2005
*"The Man Who Was Peter Pan" (play), Allan Knee - "Finding Neverland", 2004
*"", Antonia Fraser - "Marie-Antoinette", 2006
*"Midnight Express", Billy Hayes - "Midnight Express", 1978
*"A Mighty Heart", Mariane Pearl - "A Mighty Heart", 2007
*"Mommie Dearest", Christina Crawford - "Mommie Dearest", 1981
*"My Autobiography", Charlie Chaplin - "Chaplin", 1992
*"My Early Life: A Roving Commission", Winston Churchill - "Young Winston", 1972
*"My Father and Myself", J. R. Ackerley - "Secret Orchards", 1979
*"My Left Foot", Christy Brown - "My Left Foot", 1989
*"My Posse Don't Do Homework", Louanne Johnson - "Dangerous Minds", 1995
*"Nine and a half weeks: a memoir of a love affair", Elizabeth McNeill - "9½ Weeks", 1986
* "One Who Walked Alone" and "Day of the Stranger", Novalyne Price Ellis - "The Whole Wide World", 1996
*"Our Cancer Year", Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner - "American Splendor", 2003
*"Our Sunshine", Robert Drewe - "Ned Kelly", 2003
*"Out of Africa", Karen Blixen - "Out of Africa", 1985
*"Papillon", Henri Charrière - "Papillon", 1973
*"The Pianist", Władysław Szpilman - "The Pianist", 2002
*"Prisoners are People", Kenyon J. Scudder - "Unchained", 1955
*"Private Parts", Howard Stern - "Private Parts", 1997
*"Prozac Nation", Elizabeth Wurtzel - "Prozac Nation", 2001
*"", Jake LaMotta - "Raging Bull", 1980
*"Riding in Cars with Boys", Beverly D'Onofrio - "Riding in Cars with Boys", 2001
*"Rocket Boys", Homer Hickam - "October Sky", 1999
*"A Rumor of War", Philip Caputo - "A Rumor of War", 1980
*"Running with Scissors", Augusten Burroughs - "Running with Scissors", 2006
*"Savage Messiah", H. S. Ede - "Savage Messiah", 1972
*"", Laura Hillenbrand - "Seabiscuit", 2003
*"The Seven Pillars of Wisdom", T. E. Lawrence - "Lawrence of Arabia", 1962 ; "", 1990
*"Seven Years in Tibet", Heinrich Harrer - "Seven Years in Tibet", 1997
*"The Story of the Trapp Family Singers", Maria von Trapp - "The Sound of Music", 1965
*"Stung", Gary Ross - "Owning Mahowny", 2003
*"To America with Love", Abbie Hoffman - "Steal This Movie!", 2000
*"The True Story of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero", Maxwell Anderson - "The Wrong Man", 1956
*"Truman", David McCullough - "Truman", 1995
*"Tuesdays With Morrie", Mitch Albom - "Tuesdays With Morrie", 1999
*"UFO Crash at Roswell", Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt - "Roswell", 1994
*Various articles, Leon G. Turrou - "Confessions of a Nazi Spy", 1939
*Various works, Mark Brandon Read - "Chopper", 2000
*"Viva Villa!", Edgecumb Pinchon & Odo B. Stade - "Viva Villa!", 1934
*"Wallace : The Classic Portrait of Alabama Governor George Wallace", Marshall Frady - "George Wallace", 1997
*"The Walton Experience", Travis Walton - "Fire in the Sky", 1993
*"The Wild Boy of Aveyron", Jean Itard - "L'Enfant Sauvage (Wild Child)", 1970
*"", Bob Woodward - "Wired", 1989
*"Wise Guy", Nicholas Pileggi - "Goodfellas", 1990
*"Young Man with a Horn", Dorothy Baker - "Young Man with a Horn", 1950

Essays and articles

*"Adventures in the Ransom Trade", William Prochnau, "Vanity Fair" - "Proof of Life", 2000
*"The Allman Brothers Story" [ [http://www.cameroncrowe.com/eyes_ears/articles/crowe_jrl_allman_bros.html Reprint on Crowe's website] ] , Cameron Crowe and Faybeth Diamond, "Rolling Stone" magazine, December 6, 1973 - "Almost Famous", 2000
*"The Ballad of the Urban Cowboy: America's Search for True Grit", Aaron Latham, "Esquire", 1978 - "Urban Cowboy", 1980
*"Biker Boyz", article by Michael Gougis, "New Times Los Angeles", [2000?] - "Biker Boyz", 2003
*"The boys in the bank: A fouled-up holdup moves step by step from threats to farce to violence", article by P. F. Kluge and Thomas Moore in "Life" magazine (September 22, 1972) [ [http://www.asklargo.com/bookstomovies75.html Based on the Book] ] - "Dog Day Afternoon", 1975
*"The Death and Life of Dith Pran", Sydney Schanberg - "The Killing Fields", 1984
*"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", Hunter S. Thompson, based on two-part series in "Rolling Stone", 1971 - "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
*"Life's Swell", Susan Orlean, "Women Outside" magazine, 1998 - "Blue Crush", 2002
*"The Man Who Knew Too Much", Marie Brenner, "Vanity Fair", 1996 - "The Insider", 1999
*"Mark of a murderer", article by Mike McAlary, "Esquire", 1997 - "City by the Sea", 2002
*"The Muse of the Coyote Ugly", article by Elizabeth Gilbert, "GQ" Magazine, March 1997 - "Coyote Ugly", 2000
*"Racer X", Ken Li, "Vibe" magazine - "The Fast and the Furious", 2001
*"Shattered Glass" by Buzz Bissinger, "Vanity Fair", 1998 - "Shattered Glass", 2003
*"Someone to Lean On" by Gary Smith, "Sports Illustrated", December 16, 1996 - "Radio", 2003
*"Something's Got To Give", Darcy Frey, "The New York Times Magazine" - "Pushing Tin", 1999
*"To See and Not See" [http://www.newyorker.com/archive/content/articles/060619fr_archive01] , Oliver Sacks - "At First Sight", 1999
*Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night", "New York" - Nik Cohn - "Saturday Night Fever", 1977

ee also

*Film adaptation
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*List of fiction works made into feature films
*Lists of film source material

ources

*reflist
* [http://www.imdb.com The Internet Movie Database]