- 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.
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documentary film s that are based on real events and people which are not based chiefly on a written work. For other documentary film categories, see .Books
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Across the Wide Missouri ",Bernard DeVoto - "Across the Wide Missouri", 1951
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*"All the President's Men ",Bob Woodward andCarl 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 andLaura 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 ", SisterHelen 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", 2006Biographies
*"
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 andJoyce 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", 1950Essays 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 byP. 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 byMike 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 ", 1977ee also
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