This is a list of nonfiction works that have been made into feature film

Feature film

In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...

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 film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

s that are based on real events and people which are not based chiefly on a written work. For other documentary film categories, see documentaries.

Books

• Across the Wide Missouri
  Across the Wide Missouri
  Across the Wide Missouri is a 1947 historical work by Bernard DeVoto. It is the second volume of a trilogy that includes The Year of Decision and The Course of Empire ....
  
  , Bernard DeVoto
  Bernard DeVoto
  Bernard Augustine DeVoto was an American historian and author who specialized in the history of the American West.- Life and work :He was born in Ogden, Utah...
  
   - Across the Wide Missouri
  Across the Wide Missouri (film)
  Across the Wide Missouri is a 1951 American film based on historian Bernard DeVoto's book, Across the Wide Missouri. The film dramatizes an account of several fur traders and their interaction with the Native Americans....
  
  , 1951
• Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
  Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
  Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors is a 1974 book by the British writer Piers Paul Read documenting the events of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571.-Story:...
  
  , Piers Paul Read
  Piers Paul Read
  Piers Paul Read, FRSL is a British novelist and non-fiction writer.-Background:Read was born in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire...
  
   - Alive: The Miracle of the Andes
• All the President's Men
  All the President's Men
  All the President's Men is a 1974 non-fiction book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, two of the journalists investigating the first Watergate break-in and ensuing scandal for The Washington Post. The book chronicles the investigative reporting of Woodward and Bernstein from Woodward's initial...
  
  , Bob Woodward
  Bob Woodward
  Robert Upshur Woodward is an American investigative journalist and non-fiction author. He has worked for The Washington Post since 1971 as a reporter, and is currently an associate editor of the Post....
  
   and Carl Bernstein
  Carl Bernstein
  Carl Bernstein is an American investigative journalist who, at The Washington Post, teamed up with Bob Woodward; the two did the majority of the most important news reporting on the Watergate scandal. These scandals led to numerous government investigations, the indictment of a vast number of...
  
   - All the President's Men
  All the President's Men (film)
  All the President's Men is a 1976 Academy Award-winning political thriller film based on the 1974 non-fiction book of the same name by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two journalists investigating the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post...
  
  , 1976
• The Anarchist Cookbook
  The Anarchist Cookbook
  The Anarchist Cookbook, first published in 1971, is a book that contains instructions for the manufacture of explosives, rudimentary telecommunications phreaking devices, and other items...
  
  , William Powell - The Anarchist Cookbook
  The Anarchist Cookbook (film)
  The Anarchist Cookbook is a 2002 black comedy film directed by Jordan Susman. The movie is about a young honors student-turned-anarchist, Puck , and his group of anarchist friends living peacefully in a Dallas commune until a nihilist, Johnny Black , appears with The Anarchist Cookbook and...
  
  , 2002
• And the Band Played On
  And the Band Played On
  And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic is a nonfiction book written by San Francisco Chronicle journalist Randy Shilts, published in 1987...
  
  , Randy Shilts
  Randy Shilts
  Randy Shilts was a pioneering gay American journalist and author. He worked as a freelance reporter for both The Advocate and the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as for San Francisco Bay Area television stations....
  
   - And the Band Played On
  And the Band Played On (film)
  And the Band Played On is a 1993 American television film docudrama directed by Roger Spottiswoode. The teleplay by Arnold Schulman is based on the best-selling 1987 non-fiction book And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts.The film premiered at the Montreal...
  
  , 1993
• Awakenings
  Awakenings (book)
  Awakenings is a 1973 non-fiction book by Oliver Sacks. It recounts the life histories of those who had been victims of the 1920s encephalitis lethargica epidemic. Sacks chronicles his efforts in the late 1960s to help these patients at the Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx, New York. The...
  
  , Oliver Sacks
  Oliver Sacks
  Oliver Wolf Sacks, CBE , is a British neurologist and psychologist residing in New York City. He is a professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University, where he also holds the position of Columbia Artist...
  
   - Awakenings
  Awakenings
  Awakenings is a 1990 American drama film based on Oliver Sacks's 1973 memoir Awakenings. It tells the true story of British neurologist Oliver Sacks, fictionalized as American Malcolm Sayer and portrayed by Robin Williams who, in 1969, discovers beneficial effects of the then-new drug L-Dopa...
  
  , 1990
• The Basketball Diaries
  The Basketball Diaries
  The Basketball Diaries is a 1978 memoir written by author and musician Jim Carroll. It is an edited collection of the diaries he kept between the ages of twelve and sixteen...
  
  , Jim Carroll
  Jim Carroll
  James Dennis "Jim" Carroll was an author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which was made into the 1995 film of the same name, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll.-Biography:Carroll was born to a...
  
   - The Basketball Diaries
  The Basketball Diaries (film)
  The Basketball Diaries is a 1995 American drama film directed by Scott Kalvert, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, James Madio, and Mark Wahlberg...
  
  , 1995
• Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
  Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
  Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War is a 1999 book by Mark Bowden that chronicles the United States Army Rangers, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, Delta Force, Navy SEALs, and UN forces attempt to capture Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid in Mogadishu and the...
  
  , Mark Bowden
  Mark Bowden
  Not to be confused with Mark Bowden, U.N. Resident & Humanitarian Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative for Somalia.Mark Robert Bowden is an American writer and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he is a 1973 graduate of Loyola University Maryland...
  
   - Black Hawk Down, 2001
• Bravo Two Zero, Andy McNab
  Andy McNab
  Sergeant ‘Andy McNab’ DCM MM is the pseudonym of an English novelist and former SAS operative and soldier.McNab came into public prominence in 1993, when he published his account of the failed Special Air Service patrol, Bravo Two Zero for which he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal in...
  
   - Bravo Two Zero
  Bravo Two Zero (film)
  Bravo Two Zero is a 1999 two hour television miniseries , based on the book of the same name by Andy McNab. The film covers real life events - from the perspective of Andy McNab, patrol commander of Bravo Two Zero, a British SAS patrol , tasked to find Iraqi Scud missile launchers during the Gulf...
  
  , 1999
• Bully: Does Anyone Deserve to Die?, Jim Schutze - Bully
  Bully (film)
  Bully is a 2001 independent American drama film, based on actual events, starring Brad Renfro, Bijou Phillips, Rachel Miner, Michael Pitt, Leo Fitzpatrick and Nick Stahl. The story concerns the plot to murder a mutual friend of several young adults in Southern Florida, in revenge for his continual...
  
  , 2001
• Catatan Seorang Demonstran
  Catatan Seorang Demonstran
  Catatan Seorang Demonstran or Catatan Harian Seorang Demonstran is the diary of Indonesian activist Soe Hok Gie, published in 1983....
  
  , Soe Hok Gie
  Soe Hok Gie
  Soe Hok Gie was a Chinese Indonesian activist who opposed the successive dictatorships of Presidents Sukarno and Suharto.- Overview :...
  
   - Gie
  Gie
  Gie is a 2005 Indonesian film directed by Riri Riza. The film tells the story of Soe Hok Gie, a graduate from University of Indonesia who is known as an activist and nature lover. The film is based on a diary Catatan Seorang Demonstran written by Soe himself...
  
  , 2005
• Charlie Wilson's War, George Crile III
  George Crile III
  George Crile III was an U.S. American journalist most closely associated with his three decades of work at CBS News.-Personal:...
  
   - Charlie Wilson's War
  Charlie Wilson's War
  Charlie Wilson's War is a 2007 American biographical comedy drama film recounting the true story of U.S. Congressman Charlie Wilson who partnered with "bare knuckle attitude" CIA operative Gust Avrakotos to launch Operation Cyclone, a program to organize and support the Afghan mujahideen in their...
  
  , 2007
• A Civil Action
  A Civil Action
  A Civil Action is a 1998 American drama film starring John Travolta and Robert Duvall, based on the book of the same name by Jonathan Harr...
  
  , Jonathan Harr
  Jonathan Harr
  Jonathan Harr is an American writer, best known for A Civil Action.Harr was born in Beloit, Wisconsin. He lives and works in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he has taught nonfiction writing at Smith College. He is a former staff writer at New England Monthly and has written for The New Yorker...
  
   - A Civil Action, 1998
• Class Action, Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler - North Country
  North Country (film)
  North Country is a 2005 American drama film directed by Niki Caro. The screenplay by Michael Seitzman was inspired by the 2002 book Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law by Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler, which chronicled the case of...
  
  , 2005
• The Conquest of Space
  The Conquest of Space
  The Conquest of Space is a 1949 speculative science book illustrated by Chesley Bonestell and written by Willy Ley. The book contains a portfolio of paintings by Bonestell depicting the possible future exploration of the solar system with explanatory text by Ley.Some of Bonestell's designs inspired...
  
  , Chesley Bonestell
  Chesley Bonestell
  Chesley Bonestell was an American painter, designer and illustrator. His paintings were a major influence on science fiction art and illustration, and he helped inspire the American space program...
  
   & Willy Ley
  Willy Ley
  Willy Ley was a German-American science writer and space advocate who helped popularize rocketry and spaceflight in both Germany and the United States. The crater Ley on the far side of the Moon is named in his honor.-Life:...
  
   - Conquest of Space
  Conquest of Space
  Conquest of Space is a 1955 science fiction movie produced by George Pal which depicts a voyage to Mars. The science and technology were intended to be as realistic as possible...
  
  , 1955
• The Dam Busters
  The Dam Busters (book)
  The Dam Busters is a 1951 book by Paul Brickhill about Royal Air Force Squadron 617, originally commanded by Wing Commander Guy Gibson V.C. during World War II...
  
  , Paul Brickhill
  Paul Brickhill
  Paul Chester Jerome Brickhill was an Australian writer, whose World War II books were turned into popular movies.-Biography:...
  
   - The Dam Busters
  The Dam Busters (film)
  The Dam Busters is a 1955 British Second World War war film starring Michael Redgrave and Richard Todd and directed by Michael Anderson. The film recreates the true story of Operation Chastise when in 1943 the RAF's 617 Squadron attacked the Möhne, Eder and Sorpe dams in Germany with Wallis's...
  
  , 1954 - see also Enemy Coast Ahead
• Dead Man Walking, Sister Helen Prejean
  Helen Prejean
  Sister Helen Prejean, C.S.J., is a Roman Catholic religious sister, a member of the Congregation of St. Joseph, who has become a leading American advocate for the abolition of the death penalty.-Death row ministry:...
  
   - Dead Man Walking
  Dead Man Walking (film)
  Dead Man Walking is a 1995 American drama film directed by Tim Robbins, who adapted the screenplay from the non-fiction book of the same name...
  
  , 1995
• Enemy Coast Ahead
  Enemy Coast Ahead
  Enemy Coast Ahead is an autobiographical book recounting the World War II flying career of Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC, DSO, DFC. It covers his time in Bomber Command from the very earliest days of war in 1939 through to 1943....
  
  , Guy Gibson
  Guy Gibson
  Wing Commander Guy Penrose Gibson VC, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar, RAF , was the first CO of the Royal Air Force's 617 Squadron, which he led in the "Dam Busters" raid in 1943, resulting in the destruction of two large dams in the Ruhr area...
  
   - The Dam Busters
  The Dam Busters (film)
  The Dam Busters is a 1955 British Second World War war film starring Michael Redgrave and Richard Todd and directed by Michael Anderson. The film recreates the true story of Operation Chastise when in 1943 the RAF's 617 Squadron attacked the Möhne, Eder and Sorpe dams in Germany with Wallis's...
  
  , 1954 - see also The Dam Busters
• Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
  Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
  Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is a 2005 documentary film based on the best-selling 2003 book of the same name by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, a study of one of the largest business scandals in American history...
  
  , Bethany McLean
  Bethany McLean
  Bethany McLean is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair magazine, and known for her work on the Enron scandal and the 2008 financial crisis...
  
   and Peter Elkind - Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, 2005
• Escape from Alcatraz, J. Campbell Bruce - Escape from Alcatraz
  Escape from Alcatraz (film)
  Escape from Alcatraz is a 1979 American thriller film, directed by Don Siegel and starring Clint Eastwood. It dramatizes possibly the only successful escape attempt from the maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island. The film co-stars Fred Ward, and also features Patrick McGoohan as the...
  
  , 1979
• Estação Carandiru (Carandiru Station), Drauzio Varella
  Drauzio Varella
  Drauzio Varella, MD, is a Brazilian physician, educator, scientist and noted medical science popularizer in the press and TV, as well as best-selling author...
  
   - Carandiru
  Carandiru (film)
  Carandiru is a 2003 Brazilian and Argentine film directed by Hector Babenco. It is based on the book Estação Carandiru by Dr. Drauzio Varella, a physician and AIDS specialist, who is portrayed in the film by Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos....
  
  , 2003
• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)
  Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)
  Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex is a book by U.S. physician Dr. David Reuben. It was one of the first sex manuals that entered mainstream culture in the 1960s, and it had a profound effect on sex education and in liberalizing attitudes towards sex...
  
  , David Reuben
  David Reuben (sex author)
  David R. Reuben is a California psychiatrist, sex expert, and author of several books, such as Any Woman Can! and How to Get More out of Sex. He is most famous for his book Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex , published in 1969.-External links:...
  
   - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask), 1972
• The Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice, Thomas Hauser - Missing
  Missing (film)
  Missing is a 1982 American drama film directed by Costa Gavras, and starring Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea, Charles Cioffi and Janice Rule...
  
  , 1982
• Fast Food Nation
  Fast Food Nation
  Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal is a book by investigative journalist Eric Schlosser that examines the local and global influence of the United States fast food industry....
  
  , Eric Schlosser
  Eric Schlosser
  Eric Schlosser is an American journalist and author known for investigative journalism, such as in his books Fast Food Nation, Reefer Madness and Chew On This.- Personal History :...
  
   - Fast Food Nation
  Fast Food Nation (film)
  Fast Food Nation is a 2006 American/British drama film directed by Richard Linklater. The screenplay was written by Linklater and Eric Schlosser, loosely based on the latter's bestselling 2001 non-fiction book of the same name...
  
  , 2006
• The Final Days
  The Final Days
  The Final Days is a 1976 non-fiction book written by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. A follow up to their book All the President's Men, The Final Days concerns itself with the final months of the Richard Nixon presidency....
  
  , Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein - The Final Days
  The Final Days (film)
  The Final Days is a 1989 television movie adaptation of the book written by Bob Woodward, and Carl Bernstein. The movie is directed by Richard Pearce and follows the events in the Nixon White House after the Washington Posts Watergate revelations....
  
  , 1989
• Friday Night Lights, H. G. Bissinger
  H. G. Bissinger
  Harry Gerard Bissinger III, also known as H. G. Bissinger and Buzz Bissinger , is an American journalist and author, best known for his non-fiction book Friday Night Lights.-Early life and education:...
  
   - Friday Night Lights, 2004
• The Game of Their Lives, Geoffrey Douglas - The Game of Their Lives, 2005
• In Cold Blood
  In Cold Blood (book)
  In Cold Blood is a 1966 book by American author Truman Capote detailing the brutal 1959 murders of Herbert Clutter, a successful farmer from Holcomb, Kansas, his wife and two of their four children. Two older daughters no longer lived at the farm and were not there at the time of the murders...
  
  , Truman Capote
  Truman Capote
  Truman Streckfus Persons , known as Truman Capote , was an American author, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's and the true crime novel In Cold Blood , which he labeled a "nonfiction novel." At...
  
   - In Cold Blood
  In Cold Blood (film)
  In Cold Blood is a 1967 film based on Truman Capote's book of the same name. Richard Brooks prepared the adaptation and directed the film. Some scenes were filmed on the locations of the original events, in Garden City and Holcomb, Kansas including the Clutter residence...
  
  , 1967
• Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
  Jon Krakauer
  Jon Krakauer is an American writer and mountaineer, primarily known for his writing about the outdoors and mountain-climbing...
  
   - Into the Wild
  Into the Wild (film)
  Into the Wild is a 2007 American biographical drama film directed by Sean Penn. It is an adaptation of 1996 non-fiction book of the same name by Jon Krakauer based on the travels of Christopher McCandless across North America in the early 1990s. The film stars Emile Hirsch as McCandless with...
  
  , 2007
• J'ai serré la main du diable (Shake Hands with the Devil), Roméo Dallaire
  Roméo Dallaire
  Lieutenant-General Roméo Antonius Dallaire, is a Canadian senator, humanitarian, author and retired general...
  
   - Shake Hands with the Devil, 2007
• Jarhead
  Jarhead (book)
  Jarhead is a Gulf War memoir by author Anthony Swofford. After leaving military service, the author went on to college and earned a Masters Degree in Fine Arts at the University of Iowa.- Synopsis :...
  
  , Anthony Swofford
  Anthony Swofford
  Anthony Swofford is a writer and former United States Marine known for being the author of the book Jarhead, published in 2003, which is primarily based on his accounts of various situations encountered in the first Gulf War. This memoir was the basis of the 2005 movie of the same name, directed...
  
   - Jarhead
  Jarhead (film)
  Jarhead is a 2005 biographical drama war film based on U.S. Marine Anthony Swofford's 1991 Gulf War memoir of the same name, directed by Sam Mendes, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Swofford with co-stars Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard, and Chris Cooper. The title comes from the slang term used to refer to...
  
  , 2005
• Live from Baghdad
  Live from Baghdad
  Live from Baghdad is a non-fiction book by CNN producer Robert Wiener about his experiences before the Persian Gulf War of 1990–91.It was filmed by HBO in 2002 under the same title....
  
  , Robert Wiener - Live from Baghdad
  Live from Baghdad (film)
  Live from Baghdad is a television movie produced in 2002 by HBO. It was directed by Mick Jackson and written by Robert Wiener . The movie was released during the prelude stage of the Iraq War....
  
  , 2002
• Lost Moon
  Lost Moon
  Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 , later re-named Apollo 13, is a book written by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger. It is about the failed Apollo 13 moon landing mission, of which Lovell was the commander...
  
  , Jim Lovell
  Jim Lovell
  James "Jim" Arthur Lovell, Jr., is a former NASA astronaut and a retired captain in the United States Navy, most famous as the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, which suffered a critical failure en route to the Moon but was brought back safely to Earth by the efforts of the crew and mission...
  
   and Jeffrey Kluger - Apollo 13
  Apollo 13 (film)
  Apollo 13 is a 1995 American drama film directed by Ron Howard. The film stars Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Kathleen Quinlan and Ed Harris. The screenplay by William Broyles, Jr...
  
  , 1995
• The Man-eaters of Tsavo
  The Man-eaters of Tsavo
  The Man-eaters of Tsavo is a book written by John Henry Patterson in 1907 that recounts his experiences while overseeing the construction of a railroad bridge in what would become Kenya...
  
  , John Henry Patterson
  John Henry Patterson
  John Henry Patterson may refer to:* John Henry Patterson , Anglo-Irish soldier who wrote The Man-Eaters of Tsavo which was made into the film The Ghost and the Darkness in 1996...
  
   - Bwana Devil
  Bwana Devil
  Bwana Devil is a 1952 drama based on the true story of the Tsavo maneaters. It was written, directed, and produced by Arch Oboler, and is considered the first color, American 3-D feature. It started the 3-D boom in the U.S. film making industry from 1952 to 1954...
  
  , 1952 ; The Ghost and the Darkness
  The Ghost and the Darkness
  The Ghost and the Darkness is a 1996 adventure film starring Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer set in Africa at the end of the 19th century.It was directed by Stephen Hopkins and the screenplay was written by William Goldman....
  
  , 1996
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
  Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
  Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a non-fiction work by John Berendt. Published in 1994, the book was Berendt's first, and became a The New York Times bestseller for 216 weeks following its debut....
  
  , John Berendt
  John Berendt
  John Berendt is an American author, known for writing the best-selling non-fiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction....
  
   - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 1997
• Molly's Daughter, Doris Pilkington Garimara
  Doris Pilkington Garimara
  Doris Pilkington Garimara AM is an Australian author. She is best known for her 1996 book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, a story of three Aboriginal girls, among them Pilkington's mother Molly Craig, who escaped from the Moore River Native Settlement in Western Australia and travelled for nine...
  
   - Rabbit-Proof Fence
  Rabbit-Proof Fence (film)
  Rabbit-Proof Fence is a 2002 Australian drama film directed by Phillip Noyce based on the book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara...
  
  , 2002
• The Mountain Road, Theodore White
  Theodore H. White
  Theodore Harold White was an American political journalist, historian, and novelist, known for his wartime reporting from China and accounts of the 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1980 presidential elections.-Life and career:...
  
   - The Mountain Road
  The Mountain Road
  The Mountain Road is a 1960 war film starring James Stewart and directed by Daniel Mann. Based on a book by Theodore White, the film follows the attempts of a U.S. Army major to destroy bridges and roads potentially useful to the Japanese during World War II.Starting on Sunday, June 28, 1959,...
  
  , 1961
• Never Cry Wolf
  Never Cry Wolf (book)
  Never Cry Wolf is a book by Canadian author Farley Mowat, first published in 1963 by McClelland and Stewart. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1983. It has been credited for dramatically changing the public image of the wolf to a more positive one. It is presented as a first-person...
  
  , Farley Mowat
  Farley Mowat
  Farley McGill Mowat, , born May 12, 1921 is a conservationist and one of Canada's most widely-read authors.His works have been translated into 52 languages and he has sold more than 14 million books. He achieved fame with the publication of his books on the Canadian North, such as People of the...
  
   - Never Cry Wolf
  Never Cry Wolf (film)
  Never Cry Wolf is a 1983 American drama film directed by Carroll Ballard. The film is an adaption of Farley Mowat's 1963 autobiography of the same name and stars Charles Martin Smith as a government biologist sent into the wilderness to study the caribou population, whose decline is believed to be...
  
  , 1983
• A Night to Remember, Walter Lord
  Walter Lord
  John Walter Lord, Jr. , was an American author, best known for his documentary-style non-fiction account A Night to Remember, about the sinking of the RMS Titanic.-Early life:...
  
   - A Night to Remember, 1958
• Ondskan
  Ondskan
  Ondskan may refer to:* Ondskan , the book by Jan Guillou* Evil , Ondskan, the movie based on the book...
  
   (Evil), Jan Guillou
  Jan Guillou
  Jan Oskar Sverre Lucien Henri Guillou is a Swedish author and journalist. Among his books are a series of spy fiction novels about a spy named Carl Hamilton, and a trilogy of historical fiction novels about a Knight Templar, Arn Magnusson...
  
   - Evil
  
• The One That Got Away, Kendall Burt and James Leasor - The One That Got Away
  The One That Got Away
  The One That Got Away is a 1957 World War II film starring Hardy Krüger and featuring Michael Goodliffe, Jack Gwillim and Alec McCowen. It was directed by Roy Ward Baker with a screenplay written by Howard Clewes...
  
  , 1957
• The Orchid Thief
  The Orchid Thief
  The Orchid Thief is a 1998 non-fiction book by American journalist and author Susan Orlean, based on her investigation of the 1994 arrest of John Laroche and a group of Seminoles in south Florida for poaching rare orchids in the Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve.The book is based on an article that...
  
  , Susan Orlean
  Susan Orlean
  Susan Orlean is an American journalist. She has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992, and has contributed articles to Vogue, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Outside....
  
   - Adaptation.
  Adaptation.
  Adaptation. is a 2002 American comedy-drama film directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman. The film is based on Susan Orlean's non-fiction book The Orchid Thief through self-referential events...
  
  , 2002
• The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger
  Sebastian Junger
  Sebastian Junger is an American author, journalist and documentarian, most famous for the best-selling book The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea, his award-winning chronicle of the war in Afghanistan in the 2010 movie Restrepo, and his 2010 book War.-Background:Junger was born...
  
   - The Perfect Storm
  The Perfect Storm (film)
  The Perfect Storm is a 2000 dramatic disaster film directed by Wolfgang Petersen. It is an adaptation of the 1997 non-fiction book of the same title by Sebastian Junger about the crew of the Andrea Gail that got caught in the Perfect Storm of 1991. The film stars George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg,...
  
  , 2000
• Pork Chop Hill, S. L. A. Marshall - Pork Chop Hill
  Pork Chop Hill
  Pork Chop Hill , directed by Lewis Milestone, is a Korean War war film based upon the eponymous book by military historian S. L. A. Marshall, depicting the bitterly fierce first Battle of Pork Chop Hill between the U.S. Army's 7th Infantry Division, and Chinese and Korean Communist forces at the...
  
  , 1959
• Queen Bees and Wannabees, Rosalind Wiseman - Mean Girls
  Mean Girls
  Mean Girls is a 2004 American teen comedy-drama film directed by Mark Waters. The screenplay was written by Tina Fey and is based in part on the non-fiction book Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman, which describes how female high school social cliques operate and the effect they can have...
  
  , 2004
• Reversal of Fortune, Alan Dershowitz
  Alan Dershowitz
  Alan Morton Dershowitz is an American lawyer, jurist, and political commentator. He has spent most of his career at Harvard Law School where in 1967, at the age of 28, he became the youngest full professor of law in its history...
  
  - Reversal of Fortune
  Reversal of Fortune
  Reversal of Fortune is a 1990 film adapted from the 1985 book Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow Case, written by law professor Alan Dershowitz...
  
  , 1990
• The Secret Life of Plants
  The Secret Life of Plants
  The Secret Life of Plants is a book by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, described as "A fascinating account of the physical, emotional, and spiritual relations between plants and man."...
  
  , Peter Tompkins
  Peter Tompkins
  Peter Tompkins was an American journalist, World War II Office of Strategic Services spy in Rome, and best-selling occult author....
  
   and Christopher Bird
  Christopher Bird
  Christopher Bird was a best-selling author, specialising in unconventional beliefs. His notable works included The Secret Life of Plants which was co-authored with Peter Tompkins and The Divining Hand: The 500-Year-Old Mystery of Dowsing...
  
   - The Secret Life of Plants, 1979
• See No Evil
  See No Evil (book)
  See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War Against Terrorism is a 2003 memoir by Robert Baer, a former CIA case officer in the Directorate of Operations. Baer begins with his upbringing in the US and Europe and continues with a tour of his CIA experiences across the globe...
  
  , Robert Baer
  Robert Baer
  Robert "Bob" Booker Baer is an American author and a former CIA case officer assigned to the Middle East. He is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and has contributed to Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Baer is a frequent commentator and author about issues related to...
  
   - Syriana
  Syriana
  Syriana is a 2005 geopolitical thriller film written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, and executive produced by George Clooney, who also stars in the film with an ensemble cast. Gaghan's screenplay is loosely adapted from Robert Baer's memoir See No Evil...
  
  , 2005
• The Short-Timers
  The Short-Timers
  The Short-Timers is a 1979 semi-autobiographical novel by American former Marine Gustav Hasford,about his experience in the Vietnam War. It was later adapted into the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket by Hasford, Michael Herr, and Stanley Kubrick....
  
  , Gustav Hasford
  Gustav Hasford
  Gustav Hasford was an American writer. His semi-autobiographical novel The Short-Timers was the basis of the film Full Metal Jacket.-Biography:...
  
   - Full Metal Jacket
  Full Metal Jacket
  Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 war film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is an adaptation of the 1979 novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford and stars Matthew Modine, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Arliss Howard and Adam Baldwin. The film follows a platoon of U.S...
  
  , 1987
• The Story of Mankind
  The Story of Mankind
  The Story of Mankind was written and illustrated by American journalist, professor, and author Hendrik Willem van Loon and published in 1921...
  
  , Hendrik Willem van Loon
  Hendrik Willem van Loon
  Hendrik Willem van Loon was a Dutch-American historian and journalist.-Life:He was born in Rotterdam, the son of Hendrik Willem van Loon and Elisabeth Johanna Hanken. He went to the United States in 1902 to study at Cornell University, receiving his degree in 1905...
  
   - The Story of Mankind
  The Story of Mankind (1957 film)
  The Story of Mankind is a 1957 American fantasy film, based on the nonfiction book The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon, which is notable mostly for its campness, and for featuring an ensemble of notable Hollywood performers in the last years of their careers...
  
  , 1957
• Storyville, New Orleans, Al Rose (1974) - Pretty Baby, 1978
• The Strawberry Statement
  The Strawberry Statement
  The Strawberry Statement is a non-fiction book by James Simon Kunen, written when he was 19, which chronicled his experiences at Columbia University from 1966–1968, particularly the April 1968 protests and takeover of the office of the dean of Columbia by student protesters.-Explanation of...
  
  , James Simon Kunen - The Strawberry Statement
  The Strawberry Statement (film)
  The Strawberry Statement is a 1970 cult film about the counterculture and student revolts of the 1960s, loosely based on the non-fiction book by James Simon Kunen about the Columbia University protests of 1968.-Cast:* Bruce Davison: Simon...
  
  , 1970
• To See and Not to See, Oliver Sacks - At First Sight
  At First Sight
  At First Sight is a 1999 American film starring Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino, based on the essay To See and Not to See in neurologist Oliver Sacks' book An Anthropologist on Mars and inspired by the true life story of Shirl Jennings.-Plot:...
  
  , 1999
• Touching the Void
  Touching the Void
  Touching the Void is a 1988 book by Joe Simpson, recounting his and Simon Yates's disastrous and nearly fatal climb of the 6,344-metre Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985....
  
  , Joe Simpson
  Joe Simpson (mountaineer)
  Joe Simpson is an English mountaineer, author and motivational speaker. He is best known for his book Touching the Void and the 2003 film adaptation of his book.-Early life:...
  
   - Touching the Void
  Touching the Void (film)
  Touching the Void is a 2003 documentary film based on the book of the same name by Joe Simpson about Simpson's and Simon Yates' disastrous and near fatal attempt to climb the 6,344 metre Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.-Outline:...
  
  , 2003
• True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny, Daniel Topolski
  Daniel Topolski
  For the stand-up comedian and actor, see Dan AntopolskiDaniel Topolski is an author, former rower and rowing coach, and summariser on BBC television....
  
   - True Blue
  True Blue (film)
  True Blue is a 1996 British sports film based on the book True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny by Daniel Topolski and Patrick Robinson. It follows the 1987 Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race and the disagreement amongst the Oxford team known as the "Oxford mutiny". For the US DVD release, the film was...
  
  , 1996
• Twelve Days of Terror
  Twelve Days of Terror
  Twelve Days of Terror: A Definitive Investigation of the 1916 New Jersey Shark Attacks is a non-fiction book by Richard G. Fernicola about the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916. The book was published in 2001 by Lyons Press. Fernicola offers an in-depth investigation of the shark attacks of 1916...
  
  , Richard Fernicola - 12 Days of Terror
  12 Days of Terror
  12 Days of Terror is a 2004 docudrama made for The Discovery Channel, directed by Jack Sholder and starring Colin Egglesfield, Mark Dexter, Jenna Harrison and John Rhys-Davies.-Plot:...
  
  , 2004
• We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young
  We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young
  We Were Soldiers Once… And Young is a 1992 book, by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and war journalist Joseph L. Galloway about the Vietnam War...
  
  , Harold G. Moore
  Hal Moore
  Harold Gregory "Hal" Moore, Jr. is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Army and author. Moore is a recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross, which is the second highest military decoration of the United States Army, and was the first of his West Point class to be promoted to...
  
   and Joseph L. Galloway - We Were Soldiers
  We Were Soldiers
  We Were Soldiers is a 2002 American war film that dramatizes the Battle of Ia Drang on November 14, 1965. The film was directed by Randall Wallace and stars Mel Gibson. It is based on the book We Were Soldiers Once… And Young by Lieutenant General Hal Moore and reporter Joseph L...
  
  , 2002
• Zodiac
  Zodiac (book)
  Zodiac is a non-fiction book written by Robert Graysmith about the unsolved serial murders committed by the "Zodiac Killer" in San Francisco in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Since its initial release in 1986, Zodiac has sold 4 million copies worldwide...
  
  and Zodiac Unmasked, Robert Graysmith - Zodiac
  Zodiac (film)
  Zodiac is a 2007 American mystery-thriller film directed by David Fincher and based on Robert Graysmith's non-fiction book of the same name. The Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros...
  
  , 2006

Biographies

• 84 Charing Cross Road
  84 Charing Cross Road
  84, Charing Cross Road is a 1970 book by Helene Hanff, later made into a stage play, television play and film, about the twenty-year correspondence between her and Frank Doel, chief buyer of Marks & Co, antiquarian booksellers located at the eponymous address in London, England.Hanff, in search of...
  
  , Helene Hanff
  Helene Hanff
  Helene Hanff was an American writer. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she is best known as the author of the book 84, Charing Cross Road, which became the basis for a stage play, , and film of the same name.- Career :...
  
   - 84 Charing Cross Road, 1975, 1987
• Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel
  Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel
  Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel is a biography of radical Abbie Hoffman, by Marty Jezer. It was published in 1992 by Rutgers University Press...
  
  , Marty Jezer - Steal This Movie!
  Steal This Movie!
  Steal This Movie is a 2000 American biographical film of 1960s radical figure Abbie Hoffman. It was directed by Robert Greenwald and the screenplay was written by Bruce Graham...
  
  , 2000
• Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall
  Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (book)
  Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall, published in 1971, is the first of Spike Milligan's war autobiographies. The book spans from when Britain declares war on Germany to when Milligan lands in Algeria as a part of the Allied liberation of Africa....
  
  , Spike Milligan - Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall
  Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (film)
  Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall is a film adaptation of the similarly titled first volume of Spike Milligan's autobiography. It starred Jim Dale as the young Terence "Spike" Milligan. Spike played the part of his father, Leo Milligan....
  
  , 1972
• The Agony and the Ecstasy, Irving Stone
  Irving Stone
  Irving Stone was an American writer known for his biographical novels of famous historical personalities, including Lust for Life, a biographical novel about the life of Vincent van Gogh, and The Agony and the Ecstasy, a biographical novel about Michelangelo.-Biography:In...
  
   - The Agony and the Ecstasy
  The Agony and the Ecstasy (film)
  The Agony and the Ecstasy is a 1965 film directed by Carol Reed, starring Charlton Heston as Michelangelo and Rex Harrison as Pope Julius II. The film was partly based on Irving Stone's biographical novel of the same name. This film deals with the conflicts of Michelangelo and Pope Julius II...
  
  , 1965
• Aimée & Jaguar, Erica Fischer - Aimée & Jaguar
  Aimée & Jaguar
  Aimée & Jaguar is a 1999 German drama film set in Berlin during World War II. It was written and directed by Max Färberböck, based upon Erica Fischer's book, chronicling the actual lives of Lilly Wust and Felice Schragenheim during that time period. The book was based on the work of the American...
  
  , 1999
• Angela's Ashes
  Angela's Ashes
  Angela's Ashes is a 1996 memoir by the Irish-American author Frank McCourt. The memoir consists of various anecdotes and stories of Frank McCourt's impoverished childhood and early adulthood in Brooklyn, New York and Limerick, Ireland, as well as McCourt's struggles with poverty, his father's...
  
  , Frank McCourt
  Frank McCourt
  Francis "Frank" McCourt was an Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, best known as the author of Angela’s Ashes, an award-winning, tragicomic memoir of the misery and squalor of his childhood....
  
   - Angela's Ashes
  Angela's Ashes (film)
  Angela's Ashes is a 1999 Irish-American drama film based on the memoir of the same title by Frank McCourt. It was directed by Alan Parker and starred Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens, and Michael Legge .-Plot:Angela's Ashes tells the story of Frank McCourt and his childhood...
  
  , 1999
• Before Night Falls
  Before Night Falls
  Before Night Falls is the 1992 autobiography of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, describing his life in Cuba, his time in prison, and his ultimate escape to the United States. It was on The New York Times list of the ten best books of the year 1993...
  
  , Reinaldo Arenas
  Reinaldo Arenas
  Reinaldo Arenas was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright who despite his early sympathy for the 1959 revolution, grew critical of and then rebelled against the Cuban government.- Life :...
  
   - Before Night Falls
  Before Night Falls (film)
  Before Night Falls is a 2000 film directed by Julian Schnabel. The screenplay is based on the autobiography of the same name of Reinaldo Arenas, which was published in English in 1993. The screenplay was written by Schnabel, Cunningham O'Keefe, and Lázaro Gómez Carriles...
  
  , 2000
• Blow: How a Small- Town Boy Made $100 Million With the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All, Bruce Porter
  Bruce Porter
  Bruce Porter was an American painter, sculptor, stained-glass designer, writer, muralist, landscape designer and art critic.-Biography:...
  
   - Blow
  Blow (film)
  Blow is a 2001 biopic about the American cocaine smuggler George Jung, directed by Ted Demme. David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes adapted Bruce Porter's 1993 book Blow: How a Small Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellín Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All for the screenplay. It is based on the real...
  
  , 2001
• Bound for Glory
  Bound for Glory (book)
  Bound for Glory is the partially fictionalized autobiography of folk singer and songwriter Woody Guthrie. The book describes Guthrie's childhood, his travels across the United States as a hobo on the railroad, and towards the end his beginning to get recognition as a singer...
  
  , Woody Guthrie
  Woody Guthrie
  Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his...
  
   - Bound for Glory, 1976
• Camille Claudel, Reine-Marie Paris - Camille Claudel
  Camille Claudel (film)
  Camille Claudel is a 1988 French film about the life of the 19th century female sculptor Camille Claudel. The movie was based on the book by Reine-Marie Paris, granddaughter of Camille's brother, the poet and diplomat Paul Claudel. It was directed by Bruno Nuytten, co-produced by Isabelle Adjani,...
  
  , 1988
• Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career, George Plimpton
  George Plimpton
  George Ames Plimpton was an American journalist, writer, editor, and actor. He is widely known for his sports writing and for helping to found The Paris Review.-Early life:...
  
   - Infamous
  Infamous (film)
  Infamous is a 2006 American drama film, based on the 1997 book by George Plimpton, Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career....
  
  , 2006
• Carve Her Name with Pride, R. J. Minney - Carve Her Name with Pride
  Carve Her Name with Pride
  Carve Her Name with Pride is a 1958 British drama film based on the book of the same name by R.J. Minney. Set during World War II, the film is based on the true story of the heroism of Special Operations Executive agent Violette Szabo, with Virginia McKenna in the lead role.The film includes the...
  
  , 1958
• Cash: The Autobiography
  Cash: The Autobiography
  Cash: The Autobiography is a 1997 autobiography of Johnny Cash, country musician, written twenty years after his first autobiography, Man in Black. Cash co-wrote this book with Patrick Carr. Cash's autobiographies were the basis for the award-winning biopic Walk the Line in 2005....
  
  , Johnny Cash
  Johnny Cash
  John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
  
   - Walk the Line
  Walk the Line
  Walk the Line is a 2005 American biographical drama film directed by James Mangold and based on the early life and career of country music artist Johnny Cash...
  
  , 2005
• Castaway
  Castaway (book)
  Castaway, a 1983 autobiographical book by Lucy Irvine about her year on the Australian tropical island of , having answered a want ad from writer Gerald Kingsland seeking a "wife" for a year in 1982. It was published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. Irvine stated she longed for a “major personal challenge”...
  
  , Lucy Irvine - Castaway
  Castaway (film)
  Castaway is a 1986 film starring Amanda Donohoe and Oliver Reed, and directed by Nicolas Roeg. It was adapted from the 1984 book of the same name by Lucy Irvine, telling of her experiences of staying for a year with writer Gerald Kingsland on the isolated island of Tuin, between New Guinea and...
  
  , 1986
• Catch Me If You Can, Frank Abagnale
  Frank Abagnale
  Frank William Abagnale, Jr. is an American security consultant known for his history as a former confidence trickster, check forger, impostor, and escape artist...
  
   - Catch Me If You Can
  Catch Me If You Can
  Catch Me If You Can is a 2002 American biographical comedy-drama film based on the life of Frank Abagnale Jr., who, before his 19th birthday, successfully performed cons worth millions of dollars by posing as a Pan American World Airways pilot, a Georgia doctor, and a Louisiana parish prosecutor...
  
  , 2002
• Chaplin: His Life and Art
  Chaplin: His Life and Art
  Chaplin: His Life and Art is a 1985 book by film critic David Robinson which examines the life and works of film legend Charlie Chaplin. Along with My Autobiography, it was used as source material for the 1992 film Chaplin....
  
  , David Robinson
  David Robinson (film critic and author)
  David Robinson is a British film critic and author. He started writing for Sight and Sound and the Monthly Film Bulletin in the 1950s, becoming Assistant Editor of Sight and Sound and Editor of the Monthly Film Bulletin in 1957-1958...
  
   - Chaplin, 1992
• Cheaper by the Dozen
  Cheaper by the Dozen
  Cheaper by the Dozen is a biographical book written by Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey that tells the story of time and motion study and efficiency experts Frank Bunker Gilbreth and Lillian Moller Gilbreth, and their twelve children. The book focuses on the many years the...
  
  , Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey - Cheaper by the Dozen, 1950
• Crazy, Benjamin Lebert
  Benjamin Lebert
  Benjamin Lebert is a German author. He was born in Freiburg. His first novel Crazy, was published when Lebert was only 16 years old...
  
   - Crazy, 2000
• Diarios de motocicleta
  The Motorcycle Diaries
  The Motorcycle Diaries is a memoir that traces the early travels of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, then a 23-year-old medical student, and his friend Alberto Granado, a 29-year-old biochemist...
  
  , Che Guevara
  Che Guevara
  Ernesto "Che" Guevara , commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist...
  
   - The Motorcycle Diaries
  The Motorcycle Diaries (film)
  At the end of the film, after his sojourn at the leper colony, Guevara confirms his nascent egalitarian, anti-authority impulses, while making a birthday toast, which is also his first political speech. In it he evokes a pan-Latin American identity that transcends both the arbitrary boundaries of...
  
  , 2004
• Elegy for Iris
  Elegy for Iris
  Elegy for Iris is a 1999 memoir by John Bayley, about his marriage to fellow author Iris Murdoch, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease in her last years. Bayley also wrote two more books about his life with Murdoch, Iris and Her Friends and Widower's Houses.In 2001, the film Iris was based on...
  
  , John Bayley - Iris, 2001
• Finding Fish
  Finding Fish
  Finding Fish is a 2001 autobiographical book by Antwone Fisher.Fisher was born in prison to an incarcerated mother and a father who had been shot by a girlfriend. After being placed in foster care, Fisher was treated brutally and blamed for his own misfortunes. He was also sexually abused by a...
  
  , Antwone Quenton Fisher - Antwone Fisher
  Antwone Fisher
  Antwone Quenton Fisher is an American director, screenwriter, author and film producer. His 2001 autobiographical book Finding Fish is a New York Times Best Seller...
  
  , 2002
• Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo, Hayden Herrera - Frida
  Frida
  Frida is a 2002 biographical film which depicts the professional and private life of the surrealist Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. It stars Salma Hayek in her Academy Award nominated portrayal as Kahlo and Alfred Molina as her husband, Diego Rivera....
  
  , 2002
• The General, Paul Williams - The General
  The General (1998 film)
  The General is a British-Irish crime film directed by John Boorman about Dublin crime boss Martin Cahill, who pulled off several daring heists in the early 1980s, and attracted the attention of the Gardaí, PIRA, and UVF. The film was shot in 1997 and released in 1998...
  
  , 1998
• Girl, Interrupted
  Girl, Interrupted
  Girl, Interrupted is a best-selling 1993 memoir by American author Susanna Kaysen, relating her experiences as a young woman in a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder...
  
  , Susanna Kaysen
  Susanna Kaysen
  -Life:Susanna Kaysen was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the daughter of economist Carl Kaysen, a professor at MIT and former advisor to President John F. Kennedy, and his wife Annette Neutra Kaysen. Kaysen has one sister and is divorced...
  
   - Girl, Interrupted
  Girl, Interrupted (film)
  Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 drama film about a teenager's 18-month stay at a mental institution, starring Winona Ryder, Brittany Murphy, Angelina Jolie, Whoopi Goldberg and Vanessa Redgrave, with Jolie winning an Academy Award for her performance....
  
  , 1999
• Gorillas in the Mist, Dian Fossey
  Dian Fossey
  Dian Fossey was an American zoologist who undertook an extensive study of gorilla groups over a period of 18 years. She studied them daily in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work there by famous anthropologist Louis Leakey...
  
  
• The Great Impostor, Robert Crichton
  Robert Crichton
  -Biography:Crichton was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and grew up in Bronxville, New York. He served in the infantry during World War II, and was wounded during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944. Before returning to the States, he ran an ice cream factory on the outskirts of Paris; it was, he...
  
   - The Great Impostor
  The Great Impostor
  The Great Impostor is a 1961 movie based on the true story of an impostor named Ferdinand Waldo Demara.Loosely based on Robert Crichton's 1959 biography of the same name, it stars Tony Curtis in the title role, directed by Robert Mulligan....
  
  , 1961
• Gypsy: A Memoir
  Gypsy: A Memoir
  Gypsy: A Memoir is a 1957 book written by striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, which inspired the Broadway musical Gypsy: A Musical Fable.The first edition was published by Harper in 1957. It is now available in a 1999 paperback reprint....
  
  , Gypsy Rose Lee
  Gypsy Rose Lee
  Gypsy Rose Lee was an American burlesque entertainer famous for her striptease act. She was also an actress, author, and playwright whose 1957 memoir was made into the stage musical and film Gypsy.-Early life:...
  
   - Gypsy, 1962
  Gypsy (1962 film)
  Gypsy is a 1962 American musical film produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Leonard Spigelgass is based on the book of the 1959 stage musical Gypsy: A Musical Fable by Arthur Laurents, which was adapted from Gypsy: A Memoir by Gypsy Rose Lee.Stephen Sondheim wrote the lyrics for...
  
  , 1993
• Hideous Kinky
  Hideous Kinky
  Hideous Kinky is an autobiographical novel by Esther Freud, daughter of British painter Lucian Freud and great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud. In 1998, a film adaptation was produced. It depicts her hippy childhood in Morocco with her elder sister, Bella....
  
  , Esther Freud - Hideous Kinky
  Hideous Kinky (film)
  Hideous Kinky is a 1998 film based on a novel about a young English mother who moves from London to Morocco with her two young daughters. It was directed by Gillies MacKinnon. The soundtrack included music by Canned Heat, Richie Havens and the Incredible String Band. The film was marketed with...
  
  , 1998
• The Honest Courtesan
  The Honest Courtesan
  The Honest Courtesan is a 1992 biographical book by Margaret Rosenthal about a 16th century Venetian courtesan named Veronica Franco.-Description:...
  
  , Margaret Rosenthal - Dangerous Beauty
  Dangerous Beauty
  Dangerous Beauty is a biographical drama film directed by Marshall Herskovitz. It is adapted from the non-fiction book The Honest Courtesan, by Margaret Rosenthal, , about the life of Veronica Franco , a courtesan in 16th century Venice.A stage musical version of the film premiered on July 25,...
  
  , 1998
• I, Tina
  I, Tina
  I, Tina is a 1986 autobiography by rock singer Tina Turner, co-written by MTV news correspondent and music critic Kurt Loder. It described Turner's story from a girl born and raised in Nutbush, Tennessee , to her initial rise to fame under the leadership of famed blues musician Ike Turner and her...
  
  , Tina Turner
  Tina Turner
  Tina Turner is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have led many to call her the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll".Turner started out her music career with husband Ike Turner as a member of the...
  
   - What's Love Got to Do with It, 1993
• I Was Cicero, Elyesa Bazna
  Elyesa Bazna
  Elyesa Bazna was a famous World War II secret agent. An Albanian from Kosovo who spied for the Germans during the Second World War, and was widely known by his code name Cicero...
  
   - 5 Fingers
  5 Fingers
  5 Fingers, known also as Five Fingers, is a 1952 American 20th Century Fox spy film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by Otto Lang. The screenplay by Michael Wilson and Mankiewicz was based on Operation Cicero by L.C...
  
  , 1952
• Ich war Hitlerjunge Salomon (I Was Hitler Youth Salomon), Solomon Perel
  Solomon Perel
  Solomon Perel is an author and motivational speaker. He was born 21 April, 1925 in Peine, Lower Saxony, Germany to a German Jewish family. He escaped persecution by the Nazis by masquerading as an ethnic German...
  
   - Europa Europa
  Europa Europa
  Europa Europa is a 1990 German language film directed by Agnieszka Holland. Its original German title is Hitlerjunge Salomon, i.e. "Hitler Youth Salomon". It is based on the 1989 autobiography of Solomon Perel, a German Jewish boy who escaped The Holocaust by masquerading not just as a non-Jew, but...
  
  , 1990
• In Search of Captain Zero, Allan Weisbecker
  Allan Weisbecker
  Allan C. Weisbecker is a novelist, screenwriter, memoirist and surfer. He is the author of the "cheerfully immoral novel" Cosmic Banditos, the memoir In Search of Captain Zero and Can't You Get Along With Anyone? A Writer's Memoir and a Tale of a Lost Surfer's Paradise.Allan has also written for...
  
   - In Search of Captain Zero (future)
• Inside Hitler's Bunker
  Inside Hitler's Bunker
  Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich is a book by historian Joachim Fest about the last days of the life of Adolf Hitler, in his Führerbunker in 1945....
  
  , Joachim Fest
  Joachim Fest
  Joachim Clemens Fest was a German historian, journalist, critic and editor, best known for his writings and public commentary on Nazi Germany, including an important biography of Adolf Hitler and books about Albert Speer and the German Resistance...
  
   - Der Untergang (Downfall), 2004
• Iron & Silk, Mark Salzman
  Mark Salzman
  Mark Joseph Salzman is an American writer. Salzman is best known for his 1986 memoir Iron & Silk, which describes his experiences living in China as an English teacher in the early 1980s....
  
   - Iron & Silk
  Iron & Silk (1990 film)
  Iron & Silk is a 1990 movie based on the eponymous book by American writer Mark Salzman. It details his journey to China after college to study Chinese wu shu, better known in the west as kung fu, and to teach English. Though not trained as an actor, Salzman starred as himself, as did Pan...
  
  , 1990
• Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
  Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
  Jackson Pollock: An American Saga is a 1989 biography of expressionist painter Jackson Pollock by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith. It was considered "well-researched" by Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, and inspired Ed Harris to adapt it to film as Pollock in 2000. It was awarded the...
  
  , Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith - Pollock
  Pollock (film)
  Pollock is a 2000 biographical drama film which tells the life story of painter Jackson Pollock. It stars Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Robert Knott, Bud Cort, Molly Regan, Marcia Gay Harden and Sada Thompson.-Plot:...
  
  , 2000
• Joe Gould's Secret
  Joe Gould's Secret
  __FORCETOC__Joe Gould's Secret is a 1965 book by Joseph Mitchell, based upon his two New Yorker profiles, "Professor Seagull", and "Joe Gould's Secret", . Mitchell's work details the true story of the eponymous Joe Gould, a writer who lived on the streets of Greenwich Village in the first half of...
  
  , Joseph Mitchell
  Joseph Mitchell
  Joseph Mitchell was an American writer best known for the work he published in The New Yorker. He is known for his carefully written portraits of eccentrics and people on the fringes of society, especially in and around New York City.Mitchell was born on his maternal grandparents' farm near...
  
   - Joe Gould's Secret
  Joe Gould's Secret (film)
  Joe Gould's Secret is a 2000 American drama film directed by Stanley Tucci. The screenplay by Howard A. Rodman is based on the magazine article Professor Sea Gull and the book Joe Gould's Secret by Joseph Mitchell.-Plot:...
  
  , 2000
• The Learning Tree, Gordon Parks
  Gordon Parks
  Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was a groundbreaking American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist and film director...
  
   - The Learning Tree
  The Learning Tree
  The Learning Tree is a 1969 drama film which tells the story of a young African American growing up in rural Kansas during the late 1920s and early 1930s, when racial discrimination was a social norm, legally sanctioned in parts of the United States. Written and directed by Gordon Parks, the film...
  
  , 1969
• Leaving Las Vegas, John O'Brien
  John O'Brien (novelist)
  John O'Brien was an American author. His first novel Leaving Las Vegas was published in 1990 by Watermark Press and made into a film of the same name in 1995.-Life and career:...
  
   - Leaving Las Vegas
  Leaving Las Vegas
  Leaving Las Vegas is a 1995 romantic drama film directed and written by Mike Figgis, based on a semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by John O'Brien. Nicolas Cage stars as a suicidal alcoholic who has ended his personal and professional life to drink himself to death in Las Vegas...
  
  , 1995
• Life Is Not a Fairy Tale
  Life Is Not a Fairy Tale
  Life Is Not a Fairy Tale is a book describing the life of American Idol winner, Fantasia Barrino, and her rise to national prominence...
  
  , Fantasia Barrino
  Fantasia Barrino
  Fantasia Monique Barrino commonly known as Fantasia, is an American R&B singer, Broadway and television actress who rose to fame as the winner of the third season of the reality television series American Idol in 2004. Following her victory, she released her debut single, "I Believe", which...
  
   - The Fantasia Barrino Story, 2006
• Man in Black: His Own Story in His Own Words, Johnny Cash - Walk the Line
  Walk the Line
  Walk the Line is a 2005 American biographical drama film directed by James Mangold and based on the early life and career of country music artist Johnny Cash...
  
  , 2005
• The Man Who Was Peter Pan (play), Allan Knee
  Allan Knee
  -Stage:*Little Women *The Man Who was Peter Pan -Stage:*Little Women (Broadway musical) (2005)*The Man Who was Peter Pan -Stage:*Little Women (Broadway musical) (2005)*The Man Who was Peter Pan (42nd Street Workshop 'Off-Broadway. (March 1998)*Late Nite Comic (Broadway) (1987)-Film/TV:*Esther's...
  
   - Finding Neverland
  Finding Neverland
  Finding Neverland is a 2004 semi-biographical film about playwright J. M. Barrie and his relationship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan, directed by Marc Forster. The screenplay by David Magee is based on the play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee...
  
  , 2004
• Marie Antoinette: The Journey
  Marie Antoinette: The Journey
  Marie Antoinette: The Journey is a sympathetic 2001 biography of Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France by Lady Antonia Fraser. It is the basis for the 2006 Sofia Coppola film Marie Antoinette....
  
  , Antonia Fraser
  Antonia Fraser
  Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, DBE , née Pakenham, is an Anglo-Irish author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction, best known as Antonia Fraser...
  
   - Marie-Antoinette, 2006
• Midnight Express
  Midnight Express (book)
  Midnight Express is a 1977 book by Billy Hayes and William Hoffer about Billy's experience as a young American who was sent to a Turkish prison for trying to smuggle hashish out of Turkey to the US. An adaptation of the book was made into an American film of the same name directed by Alan Parker in...
  
  , Billy Hayes
  Billy Hayes (smuggler)
  William "Billy" Hayes is an American writer, actor, convicted drug smuggler and director. He is best known for his autobiographical book Midnight Express, about his experiences in and escape from a Turkish prison after being convicted of smuggling hashish. He was one of hundreds of U.S...
  
   - Midnight Express
  Midnight Express (film)
  Released on October 6, 1978, the soundtrack to Midnight Express was composed by Italian synth-pioneer Giorgio Moroder. The score won the Academy Award for Best Original Score of 1978.Side A:#Chase – Giorgio Moroder...
  
  , 1978
• A Mighty Heart
  A Mighty Heart
  A Mighty Heart is a memoir by Mariane Pearl, the widow of the slain American journalist Daniel Pearl.The book has been reviewed by, among others, The Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Sun-Times, The Spectator and The New York Review of Books.A Mighty Heart has been made into a film, A Mighty...
  
  , Mariane Pearl
  Mariane Pearl
  Mariane van Neyenhoff Pearl is a French freelance journalist and a reporter and columnist for Glamour magazine. She is the widow of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in early 2002.-Life and career:Pearl was born in Clichy,...
  
   - A Mighty Heart
  A Mighty Heart (film)
  A Mighty Heart is a 2007 drama film directed by Michael Winterbottom; It is an adaptation of Mariane Pearl's memoir, A Mighty Heart. Although initially a financial failure, A Mighty Heart was met with relatively positive reviews from both critics and viewers alike.The film was screened out of...
  
  , 2007
• Mommie Dearest
  Mommie Dearest
  Mommie Dearest is a memoir and exposé written by Christina Crawford, the adopted daughter of actress Joan Crawford. The book, which depicts Christina's childhood and her relationship with her mother, was published in 1978.-Christina Crawford's claims:...
  
  , Christina Crawford
  Christina Crawford
  Christina Crawford is an American writer and actress, best known as the author of Mommie Dearest, an exposé of alleged child abuse by her mother, actress Joan Crawford.-Early life and education:...
  
   - Mommie Dearest
  Mommie Dearest (film)
  Mommie Dearest is a 1981 American biographical drama film about Joan Crawford, starring Faye Dunaway. The film was directed by Frank Perry. The story was adapted for the screen by Robert Getchell, Tracy Hotchner, Frank Perry, and Frank Yablans, based on the 1978 autobiography of the same name by...
  
  , 1981
• My Autobiography
  My Autobiography (Chaplin)
  My Autobiography is the title of a book by screen legend Charlie Chaplin, first published by Simon & Schuster in 1964. Along with Chaplin: His Life and Art, it provided the source material for the 1992 feature film Chaplin. It is a revealing work into the life of a 20th century celebrity....
  
  , Charlie Chaplin
  Charlie Chaplin
  Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...
  
   - Chaplin, 1992
• My Early Life
  My Early Life
  My Early Life: A Roving Commission is a 1930 book by Winston Churchill. It is an autobiography from birth in 1874 up to approximately 1902....
  
  : A Roving Commission, Winston Churchill
  Winston Churchill
  Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice...
  
   - Young Winston
  Young Winston
  Young Winston is a 1972 British film based on the early years of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.The film was based on the book My Early Life: A Roving Commission by Winston Churchill. The first part of the film covers Churchill's unhappy schooldays, up to the death of his father...
  
  , 1972
• My Father and Myself, J. R. Ackerley
  J. R. Ackerley
  J. R. Ackerley was arts editor of The Listener, the weekly magazine of the BBC...
  
   - Secret Orchards
  Secret Orchards
  Secret Orchards is a 1979 made for TV movie directed by Richard Loncraine. The film is partially based on the memoir My Father and Myself by J. R. Ackerley....
  
  , 1979
• My Left Foot
  My Left Foot (book)
  My Left Foot is the 1954 autobiography of Christy Brown, who was born with cerebral palsy on June 5, 1932 in Dublin, Ireland. As one of 13 surviving children, Brown went on to be an author, painter and poet.-Childhood:...
  
  , Christy Brown
  Christy Brown
  Christy Brown was an Irish author, painter and poet who had cerebral palsy. He is most famous for his autobiography My Left Foot, which was later made into an Academy Award-winning film of the same name....
  
   - My Left Foot
  My Left Foot (film)
  My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown is a 1989 drama film directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Daniel Day-Lewis. It tells the true story of Christy Brown, an Irishman born with cerebral palsy, who could control only his left foot. Christy Brown grew up in a poor, working class family, and...
  
  , 1989
• My Posse Don't Do Homework, Louanne Johnson - Dangerous Minds
  Dangerous Minds
  Dangerous Minds is an American drama film based on the autobiography My Posse Don't Do Homework by former U.S. Marine LouAnne Johnson, who took up a teaching position at Carlmont High School in Belmont, California, where most of her students were African-American and Hispanic teenagers from East...
  
  , 1995
• Nine and a Half Weeks: a memoir of a love affair, Elizabeth McNeill - 9½ Weeks
  9½ Weeks
  ‎9½ Weeks is a 1986 erotic drama film directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger. It is based on the novel of the same name by Elizabeth McNeill....
  
  , 1986
• One Who Walked Alone
  One Who Walked Alone
  One Who Walked Alone: Robert E. Howard, The Final Years is a memoir of Robert E. Howard by Novalyne Price Ellis. Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. published the book in 1986 with an edition of 800 copies. The book was adapted into the film The Whole Wide World in 1996. Grant has reprinted the book...
  
  and Day of the Stranger, Novalyne Price Ellis
  Novalyne Price Ellis
  Novalyne Price Ellis was a Texas-born schoolteacher and writer who became close friends with and occasionally dated famed pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard....
  
   - The Whole Wide World
  The Whole Wide World
  The Whole Wide World is a 1996 American film depicting the relationship between pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard and schoolteacher Novalyne Price Ellis ....
  
  , 1996
• Our Cancer Year
  Our Cancer Year
  Our Cancer Year is a graphic novel written by Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner and illustrated by Frank Stack.-Overview:Published in 1994 by the New York Press publisher Four Walls Eight Windows, Our Cancer Year relates the story of Harvey's struggle to overcome cancer, as well as serving as a social...
  
  , Harvey Pekar
  Harvey Pekar
  Harvey Lawrence Pekar was an American underground comic book writer, music critic and media personality, best known for his autobiographical American Splendor comic series. In 2003, the series inspired a critically acclaimed film adaptation of the same name.Pekar described American Splendor as "an...
  
   and Joyce Brabner
  Joyce Brabner
  Joyce Brabner is a writer of political comics and a sometime collaborator with her late husband Harvey Pekar. Brabner is also a liberal social activist, most recently championing Coventry Village in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, the neighborhood in which she resides, with a series of imaginative...
  
   - American Splendor
  American Splendor (film)
  American Splendor is a 2003 American biographical comedy-drama film about Harvey Pekar, the author of the American Splendor comic book series. The film is also in part an adaptation of the comics, which dramatize Pekar's life...
  
  , 2003
• Our Sunshine
  Our Sunshine
  Our Sunshine is a 1991 novel based on the life of Ned Kelly, a 19th-century Irish-Australian bushranger. The novel was written by Robert Drewe and was the basis for the 2003 film Ned Kelly.-First edition:...
  
  , Robert Drewe
  Robert Drewe
  Robert Duncan Drewe is an Australian journalist, novelist and short story writer.-Biography:Drewe was born in Melbourne, but moved with his family to Perth, Western Australia at the age of six. He was educated at Hale School, and in his final year was appointed School Captain...
  
   - Ned Kelly
  Ned Kelly (2003 film)
  Ned Kelly is an Australian drama film directed by Gregor Jordan. The film portrays the life of Ned Kelly — a legendary bushranger in northeast Victoria. Ned Kelly, his brother Dan, and two other men — Steve Hart and Joe Byrne — formed a gang of Irish Australians in response to Irish and...
  
  , 2003
• Out of Africa
  Out of Africa
  Out of Africa is a 1985 romantic drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack, and starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. The film is based loosely on the autobiographical book Out of Africa written by Isak Dinesen , which was published in 1937, with additional material from Dinesen's book...
  
  , Karen Blixen
  Karen Blixen
  Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke , , née Karen Christenze Dinesen, was a Danish author also known by her pen name Isak Dinesen. She also wrote under the pen names Osceola and Pierre Andrézel...
  
   - Out of Africa, 1985
• Papillon
  Papillon (autobiography)
  Papillon is a memoir by convicted felon and fugitive Henri Charrière, first published in France in 1969. It became an instant bestseller. It was translated into English from the original French by June P. Wilson and Walter B. Michaels for a 1970 edition, and by author Patrick O'Brian...
  
  , Henri Charrière
  Henri Charrière
  Henri Charrière was a convicted murderer chiefly known as the author of Papillon, a hugely successful memoir of his incarceration in and escape from a penal colony in French Guiana....
  
   - Papillon, 1973
• The Pianist
  The Pianist (memoir)
  The Pianist is a memoir of the Polish musician of Jewish origins Władysław Szpilman, written and elaborated by a Polish author Jerzy Waldorff, who met Szpilman in 1938 in Krynica and became a friend of him...
  
  , Władysław Szpilman - The Pianist, 2002
• Please Don't Eat the Daisies
  Please Don't Eat The Daisies
  Please Don't Eat the Daisies is a best-selling collection of humorous essays by American humorist and playwright Jean Kerr about suburban living and raising four boys. The essays do not have a plot or through-storyline, but the book sold so well it was later adapted into a film starring Doris Day...
  
  , Jean Kerr
  Jean Kerr
  Jean Kerr was an American author and playwright born in Scranton, Pennsylvania and best known for her humorous bestseller, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, and the plays King of Hearts and Mary, Mary...
  
   - Please Don't Eat the Daisies
  Please Don't Eat the Daisies (film)
  Please Don't Eat the Daisies is a comedy film starring Doris Day and David Niven, made by Euterpe Inc., and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
  
  , 1960
• Prisoners are People, Kenyon J. Scudder - Unchained
  Unchained (film)
  Unchained is a 1955 prison film based on the non-fiction book Prisoners are People by Kenyon J. Scudder. The film is most remembered for its theme song, "Unchained Melody", which was a #1 R&B hit for both Al Hibbler & Roy Hamilton in 1955, with Hibbler's version also reaching #3 on the Billboard...
  
  , 1955
• Private Parts
  Private Parts (book)
  Private Parts is the first autobiography of American radio presenter Howard Stern. Released on October 7, 1993 by Simon & Schuster, it is the fastest-selling book in the company's history. It was later adapted into a film in 1997 starring Stern and his radio show staff as themselves...
  
  , Howard Stern
  Howard Stern
  Howard Allan Stern is an American radio personality, television host, author, and actor best known for his radio show, which was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2005. He gained wide recognition in the 1990s where he was labeled a "shock jock" for his outspoken and sometimes controversial style...
  
   - Private Parts
  Private Parts
  Private Parts may refer to:*Intimate parts, such as the human sex organs*Private Parts , a 1993 autobiography by radio personality Howard Stern*Private Parts , a 1997 film based on Howard Stern's autobiography of the same name...
  
  , 1997
• Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel
  Elizabeth Wurtzel
  Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel is an American corporate attorney, writer and journalist, known for her work in the confessional memoir genre. She is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School.-Early life:...
  
   - Prozac Nation
  Prozac Nation (film)
  Prozac Nation is a 2001 American drama film directed by Erik Skjoldbjærg, starring Christina Ricci, Jason Biggs and Anne Heche. . It is based on an autobiography of the same name by Elizabeth Wurtzel, which describes Wurtzel's experiences with major depression...
  
  , 2001
• Raging Bull: My Story
  Raging Bull: My Story
  Raging Bull: My Story is a 1970 memoir by middleweight boxer Jake LaMotta. In 1980, the book was adapted into the well known film Raging Bull, by Martin Scorsese....
  
  , Jake LaMotta
  Jake LaMotta
  Giacobbe LaMotta , better known as Jake LaMotta, nicknamed "The Bronx Bull" and "The Raging Bull", is a former American world middleweight champion boxer...
  
   - Raging Bull
  Raging Bull (film)
  Raging Bull is a 1980 American biographical sports drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, and adapted by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin from the Jake La Motta memoir Raging Bull: My Story. It stars Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta, a middleweight boxer whose sadomasochistic rage, sexual jealousy,...
  
  , 1980
• Riding in Cars with Boys, Beverly D'Onofrio
  Beverly D'Onofrio
  Beverly Donofrio is an author most noted for writing Riding in Cars with Boys, her autobiography. The book was made into a movie with the same title and starred Drew Barrymore as Donofrio...
  
   - Riding in Cars with Boys
  Riding in Cars with Boys
  Riding in Cars with Boys is a 2001 film based on the autobiography of the same name by Beverly Donofrio, about a woman who overcame difficulties including being a teen mother to earning a master's degree from the span of 1961 to 1986. It stars Drew Barrymore, Steve Zahn, Brittany Murphy, and James...
  
  , 2001
• Rocket Boys
  Rocket Boys
  Rocket Boys is the first memoir in a series of three, by Homer Hickam, Jr. It is a story of growing up in a mining town, and a boy's pursuit of amateur rocketry in a coal mining town. It won the in 1998, the year of its release. Today, it is one of the most often picked community/library reads in...
  
  , Homer Hickam
  Homer Hickam
  Homer Hadley Hickam, Jr. is an American author, Vietnam veteran, and a former NASA engineer. His autobiographical novel Rocket Boys: A Memoir, was a #1 New York Times Best Seller, is studied in many American and international school systems, and was the basis for the popular film October Sky...
  
   - October Sky
  October Sky
  October Sky is a 1999 American biographical film directed by Joe Johnston, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper and Laura Dern. It is based on the true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the launch of Sputnik 1 to take up rocketry against his father's wishes, and who...
  
  , 1999
• A Rumor of War
  A Rumor of War
  A Rumor of War is a 1977 autobiography/ war memoir by Philip Caputo about his service in the United States Marine Corps in the early years of American involvement in the Vietnam War.-Summary:...
  
  , Philip Caputo
  Philip Caputo
  Philip Caputo is an American author and journalist. He is best-known for A Rumor of War, a best-selling memoir of his experiences during the Vietnam War....
  
   - A Rumor of War
  A Rumor of War (miniseries)
  A Rumor of War is a 1980 television miniseries, based on the 1977 autobiography by Philip Caputo about his service in the United States Marine Corps in the early years of American involvement in the Vietnam War...
  
  , 1980
• Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
  Augusten Burroughs
  Augusten Xon Burroughs is an American writer known for his New York Times bestselling memoir Running with Scissors .- Life :...
  
   - Running with Scissors
  Running with Scissors (film)
  Running with Scissors is a 2006 American comedy-drama film based on Augusten Burroughs' 2002 memoir of the same name, written and directed by Ryan Murphy, and starring Joseph Cross, Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Alec Baldwin, Jill Clayburgh, and Gwyneth Paltrow with...
  
  , 2006
• Savage Messiah, H. S. Ede - Savage Messiah
  Savage Messiah
  Savage Messiah is a 1972 British biographical film of the life of French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, made by Russ-Arts and distributed by MGM. It was directed and produced by Ken Russell with Harry Benn as associate producer, from a screenplay by Christopher Logue, based on the book Savage...
  
  , 1972
• Seabiscuit: An American Legend
  Seabiscuit: An American Legend
  Seabiscuit: An American Legend is a non-fiction book written by Laura Hillenbrand published in 2001 about the thoroughbred race horse, Seabiscuit. It won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year and was made into a feature film in 2003. It has also been published under the title: Seabiscuit - The...
  
  , Laura Hillenbrand
  Laura Hillenbrand
  Laura Hillenbrand is an American author of books and magazine articles.Born in Fairfax, Virginia, Hillenbrand spent much of her childhood riding bareback "screaming over the hills" of her father's Sharpsburg, Maryland, farm. A favorite of hers was Come On Seabiscuit, a 1963 kiddie book. "I read...
  
   - Seabiscuit
  Seabiscuit (film)
  Seabiscuit is a 2003 American biographical film based on the best-selling non-fiction book Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand...
  
  , 2003
• The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T. E. Lawrence
  T. E. Lawrence
  Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO , known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916–18...
  
   - Lawrence of Arabia
  Lawrence of Arabia (film)
  Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 British film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Sam Spiegel through his British company, Horizon Pictures, with the screenplay by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson. The film stars Peter O'Toole in the title role. It is widely...
  
  , 1962 ; A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
  A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
  A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia is a made-for-TV movie depicting the experiences of T. E. Lawrence and Emir Feisal of the Hejaz at the Paris Peace Conference after the end of World War I. One of the conference's many concerns was determining the fates of territories formerly under the rule...
  
  , 1990
• Seven Years in Tibet
  Seven Years in Tibet
  Seven Years in Tibet is an autobiographical travel book written by Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer based on his real life experiences in Tibet between 1944 and 1951 during the Second World War and the interim period before the Communist Chinese People's Liberation Army invaded Tibet in...
  
  , Heinrich Harrer
  Heinrich Harrer
  Heinrich Harrer was an Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer, and author.He is best known for his books Seven Years in Tibet and The White Spider .-Athletics:...
  
   - Seven Years in Tibet
  Seven Years in Tibet (1997 film)
  Seven Years in Tibet is a 1997 film based on the book of the same name written by Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer on his experiences in Tibet between 1944 and 1951 during the Second World War, the interim period, and the Chinese People's Liberation Army's invasion of Tibet in 1950. The film...
  
  , 1997
• Śmierć Miasta (Death of a City), Władysław Szpilman - The Pianist
  The Pianist (2002 film)
  The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war film directed by Roman Polanski, starring Adrien Brody. It is an adaptation of the autobiography of the same name by Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman...
  
  , 2002
• The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
  The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
  The Story of the Trapp Family Singers is a memoir written by Maria Augusta von Trapp, whose life was fictionalized in the musical The Sound of Music. The book was published in 1949 by J. B...
  
  , Maria von Trapp
  Maria von Trapp
  Maria Augusta von Trapp , also known as Baroness Maria von Trapp, was the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers...
  
   - The Sound of Music
  The Sound of Music (film)
  Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The film is based on the Broadway musical The Sound of Music, with songs written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and with the musical...
  
  , 1965
• Stung, Gary Ross - Owning Mahowny
  Owning Mahowny
  Owning Mahowny is a 2003 movie about gambling addiction with a cast that includes Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, Maury Chaykin and John Hurt.-Plot:...
  
  , 2003
• To America with Love
  To America with Love
  To America with Love: Letters from the Underground is a 1976 book by Anita and Abbie Hoffman. It was part of the basis for the film Steal This Movie! in 2000.-Editions:...
  
  , Abbie Hoffman
  Abbie Hoffman
  Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman was a political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party ....
  
   - Steal This Movie!
  Steal This Movie!
  Steal This Movie is a 2000 American biographical film of 1960s radical figure Abbie Hoffman. It was directed by Robert Greenwald and the screenplay was written by Bruce Graham...
  
  , 2000
• The True Story of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero, Maxwell Anderson
  Maxwell Anderson
  James Maxwell Anderson was an American playwright, author, poet, journalist and lyricist.-Early years:Anderson was born in Atlantic, Pennsylvania, the second of eight children to William Lincoln "Link" Anderson, a Baptist minister, and Charlotte Perrimela Stephenson, both of Scots and Irish descent...
  
   - The Wrong Man
  The Wrong Man
  The Wrong Man is a 1956 film by Alfred Hitchcock which stars Henry Fonda and Vera Miles. The film is based on a true story of an innocent man charged for a crime he did not commit...
  
  , 1956
• Truman, David McCullough
  David McCullough
  David Gaub McCullough is an American author, narrator, historian, and lecturer. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award....
  
   - Truman
  Truman (film)
  Truman is a 1995 HBO movie based on David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Truman. Starring Gary Sinise as Harry S. Truman, the film centers on Truman's rise to the presidency from humble beginnings, World War II, and his decision to use the first atomic bomb. The film's tagline is "It...
  
  , 1995
• Tuesdays With Morrie
  Tuesdays With Morrie
  Tuesdays with Morrie is a 1997 non-fiction novel by American writer Mitch Albom. The story was later adapted by Thomas Rickman into a TV movie of the same name directed by Mick Jackson, which aired on 5 December 1999 and starred Jack Lemmon and Hank Azaria...
  
  , Mitch Albom
  Mitch Albom
  Mitchell David "Mitch" Albom is an American best-selling author, journalist, screenwriter, dramatist, radio and television broadcaster and musician. His books have sold over 30 million copies worldwide...
  
   - Tuesdays With Morrie, 1999
• UFO Crash at Roswell
  UFO Crash at Roswell
  UFO Crash at Roswell, published in 1991, is a book written by Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt about the alleged crash of an alien spacecraft near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. The book was the result of interviews with over 200 people who claimed to have witnessed either the crash or some...
  
  , Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt - Roswell
  Roswell (1994 film)
  Roswell is a 1994 television movie based on the alleged true story from the testimony of hundreds of witnesses about the U.S. military capture of a flying saucer and its alien crew following a crash near the town of Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947....
  
  , 1994
• Various articles, Leon G. Turrou - Confessions of a Nazi Spy
  Confessions of a Nazi Spy
  Confessions of a Nazi Spy is a 1939 American spy thriller film and the first blatantly anti-Nazi film produced by a major Hollywood studio prior to World War II. The film stars Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders, and a large cast of German actors, including some who had emigrated...
  
  , 1939
• Various works, Mark Brandon Read - Chopper
  Chopper (film)
  Chopper is a 2000 Australian film, written and directed by New Zealand film-maker Andrew Dominik and based on the semi-autobiographical books by Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read. The film stars Eric Bana as the title character, and co-stars Vince Colosimo, Simon Lyndon, Bill Young and David Field...
  
  , 2000
• Viva Villa!
  Viva Villa! (book)
  Viva Villa! A recovery of the real Pancho Villa, peon, bandit, soldier, patriot is a 1933 biography of Pancho Villa, written by Edgecumb Pinchon and researched by O. B. Stade. It was the basis for the film Viva Villa! the following year, in which Wallace Beery played Villa for the second...
  
  , Edgecumb Pinchon & Odo B. Stade - Viva Villa!
  Viva Villa!
  Viva Villa! is a 1934 American film starring Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa and was written by Ben Hecht, adapted from a biography by Edgecumb Pinchon and Odo B. Stade. The picture was directed by Jack Conway. There was special, uncredited help with the script by Howard Hawks, James Kevin...
  
  , 1934
• Wallace : The Classic Portrait of Alabama Governor George Wallace, Marshall Frady - George Wallace, 1997
• The Walton Experience, Travis Walton - Fire in the Sky
  Fire in the Sky
  Fire in the Sky is a 1993 film based on an alleged extraterrestrial encounter, directed by Robert Lieberman, and written by Tracy Tormé based on Travis Walton's book The Walton Experience. The film stars Robert Patrick in the leading role as Walton's best friend and future brother-in-law, Mike...
  
  , 1993
• The Wild Boy of Aveyron, Jean Itard - L'Enfant Sauvage (Wild Child
  Wild Child
  "Wild Child" is a 2001 single by Irish singer Enya. The song "Midnight Blue" has only been released on this single. The single was only available on CD in Germany, Japan and Korea. It was available on cassette in the UK...
  
  ), 1970
• Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi, Bob Woodward - Wired
  Wired (film)
  Wired is a 1989 film biography of John Belushi directed by Larry Peerce, adapted from the book Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi . It starred Michael Chiklis as Belushi. Wired was both a critical and a commercial failure...
  
  , 1989
• Wise Guy, Nicholas Pileggi
  Nicholas Pileggi
  Nicholas Pileggi is an Italian-American author and screenwriter.-Career:Pileggi is best known for writing the book Wiseguy, which he adapted into the movie Goodfellas, and for writing the book and screenplay Casino. The movie versions of both were co-written and directed by Martin Scorsese...
  
   - Goodfellas
  Goodfellas
  Goodfellas is a 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is a film adaptation of the 1986 non-fiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scorsese...
  
  , 1990
• Young Man with a Horn, Dorothy Baker
  Dorothy Baker
  -Early life:She was born Dorothy Dodds on April 21, 1907 in Missoula, Montana and raised in California. Baker attended Whittier College, then transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles, from which she graduated in 1929...
  
   - Young Man with a Horn
  Young Man with a Horn (film)
  Young Man with a Horn is a 1950 drama film based on a biographical novel of the same name aboutBix Beiderbecke, the legendary jazz cornetist...
  
  , 1950

Essays and articles

• "Adventures in the Ransom Trade", William Prochnau, Vanity Fair - Proof of Life
  Proof of Life
  Proof of Life is a 2000 American film, directed by Taylor Hackford. The title refers to a phrase commonly used to indicate proof that a kidnap victim is still alive...
  
  , 2000
• "The Allman Brothers Story", Cameron Crowe
  Cameron Crowe
  Cameron Bruce Crowe is an American screenwriter and film director. Before moving into the film industry, Crowe was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine, for which he still frequently writes....
  
   and Faybeth Diamond, Rolling Stone
  Rolling Stone
  Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...
  
  magazine, December 6, 1973 - Almost Famous
  Almost Famous
  Almost Famous is a 2000 musical comedy-drama film written and directed by Cameron Crowe and telling the fictional story of a teenage journalist writing for Rolling Stone magazine while covering the fictitious rock band Stillwater , and his efforts to get his first cover story published...
  
  , 2000
• "The Ballad of the Urban Cowboy: America's Search for True Grit", Aaron Latham
  Aaron Latham
  Aaron Latham is a journalist who wrote the article that inspired the movie Urban Cowboy and co-wrote its script with director James Bridges. He also co-wrote the book for the short-lived 2003 Broadway musical version....
  
  , Esquire, 1978 - Urban Cowboy
  Urban Cowboy
  Released as a 2× vinyl record album, re-released on CD in 1995.Side A:#Hello Texas – Jimmy Buffett #All Night Long – Joe Walsh #Times Like These – Dan Fogelberg #Nine Tonight – Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band...
  
  , 1980
• "Biker Boyz", article by Michael Gougis, New Times Los Angeles, [2000?] - Biker Boyz
  Biker Boyz
  Biker Boyz is a 2003 film about a group of underground motorcycle drag racers. It stars Laurence Fishburne, Djimon Hounsou, Derek Luke, Meagan Good, and Larenz Tate and is written and directed by Reggie Rock Bythewood...
  
  , 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
  P. F. Kluge
  Paul Frederick Kluge , commonly known as P. F. Kluge, is a novelist living in Gambier, Ohio.Kluge was raised in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. He graduated from Kenyon College in Gambier in 1964 and teaches creative writing there now...
  
   and Thomas Moore in Life
  Life (magazine)
  Life generally refers to three American magazines:*A humor and general interest magazine published from 1883 to 1936. Time founder Henry Luce bought the magazine in 1936 solely so that he could acquire the rights to its name....
  
  magazine (September 22, 1972) - Dog Day Afternoon
  Dog Day Afternoon
  Dog Day Afternoon is a 1975 drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, written by Frank Pierson, and produced by Martin Bregman. The film stars Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, Chris Sarandon, Penny Allen, James Broderick, and Carol Kane. The title refers to the "dog days of summer".The film was...
  
  , 1975
• "The Death and Life of Dith Pran", Sydney Schanberg
  Sydney Schanberg
  Sydney Hillel Schanberg is an American journalist who is best known for his coverage of the war in Cambodia.-Life:Schanberg joined The New York Times as a journalist in 1959. He spent much of the early 1970s in Southeast Asia as a correspondent for the Times...
  
   - The Killing Fields
  The Killing Fields (film)
  The Killing Fields is a 1984 British drama film about the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, which is based on the experiences of two journalists: Cambodian Dith Pran and American Sydney Schanberg. The film, which won three Academy Awards, was directed by Roland Joffé and stars Sam Waterston as...
  
  , 1984
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
  Hunter S. Thompson
  Hunter Stockton Thompson was an American journalist and author who wrote The Rum Diary , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 .He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting where reporters involve themselves in the action to...
  
  , based on two-part series in Rolling Stone, 1971 - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (film)
  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a 1998 American drama film directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Johnny Depp as Raoul Duke and Benicio del Toro as Dr. Gonzo. It was adapted from Hunter S. Thompson's 1971 novel of the same name....
  
  
• "Life's Swell", Susan Orlean, Women Outside
  Outside (magazine)
  Outside is an American magazine focused on the outdoors. The first issue debuted in September 1977 with its mission statement declaring that the publication was "dedicated to covering the people, sports and activities, politics, art, literature, and hardware of the outdoors..."Its founders were...
  
  magazine, 1998 - Blue Crush
  Blue Crush
  Blue Crush is a 2002 surfer film directed by John Stockwell and based on the Outside magazine article "Life's Swell" by Susan Orlean. Starring Kate Bosworth, Michelle Rodriguez, Sanoe Lake, and Mika Boorem, it tells the story of three friends who have one passion: living the ultimate dream of...
  
  , 2002
• "The Man Who Knew Too Much
  The Man Who Knew Too Much (article)
  The Man Who Knew Too Much was an influential article on the tobacco industry "whistleblower" Jeffrey Wigand, written by journalist Marie Brenner for the May 1996 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. The article was subsequently adapted into the 1999 film The Insider, starring Russell Crowe.-External...
  
  ", Marie Brenner
  Marie Brenner
  Marie Brenner is an American author, investigative journalist and writer-at-large for Vanity Fair. She has also written for New York, The New Yorker and the Boston Herald and has taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism...
  
  , Vanity Fair, 1996 - The Insider
  The Insider (film)
  The Insider is a 1999 film based on the true story of a 60 Minutes television series segment, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand. The 60 Minutes story originally aired in November 1995 in an altered form because of objections by CBS’ then-owner, Laurence Tisch, who...
  
  , 1999
• "Mark of a murderer", article by Mike McAlary
  Mike McAlary
  Mike McAlary was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and columnist who worked at the New York Daily News for 12 years, beginning with the police beat....
  
  , Esquire
  Esquire (magazine)
  Esquire is a men's magazine, published in the U.S. by the Hearst Corporation. Founded in 1932, it flourished during the Great Depression under the guidance of founder and editor Arnold Gingrich.-History:...
  
  , 1997 - City by the Sea
  City by the Sea
  City by the Sea is a 2002 film starring Robert De Niro, James Franco, Eliza Dushku, Frances McDormand and William Forsythe. It deals with a family problems of wayward youth and set against a man trying to break free of his past. It was directed by Michael Caton-Jones...
  
  , 2002
• "The Muse of the Coyote Ugly", article by Elizabeth Gilbert, GQ Magazine, March 1997 - Coyote Ugly
  Coyote Ugly (film)
  Coyote Ugly is a 2000 romantic comedy/drama based on the actual Coyote Ugly Saloon, set in New York City. The film stars Piper Perabo and Adam Garcia...
  
  , 2000
• "Racer X", Ken Li, Vibe magazine - The Fast and the Furious
  The Fast and the Furious (2001 film)
  The Fast and the Furious is a 2001 street racing action film starring Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster. Directed by Rob Cohen, The Fast and the Furious was the first mainstream film to feature the Asian automotive import scene in North America. It is the first film...
  
  , 2001
• "Shattered Glass" by Buzz Bissinger
  H. G. Bissinger
  Harry Gerard Bissinger III, also known as H. G. Bissinger and Buzz Bissinger , is an American journalist and author, best known for his non-fiction book Friday Night Lights.-Early life and education:...
  
  , Vanity Fair, 1998 - Shattered Glass, 2003
• "Someone to Lean On" by Gary Smith
  Gary Smith (sportswriter)
  Gary Smith is an American sportswriter. He is best known for his lengthy human interest stories in Sports Illustrated, where he has worked since 1983.-Career: :)...
  
  , Sports Illustrated
  Sports Illustrated
  Sports Illustrated is an American sports media company owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. Its self titled magazine has over 3.5 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the...
  
  , December 16, 1996 - Radio, 2003
• "Something's Got To Give", Darcy Frey
  Darcy Frey
  Darcy Frey is an American writer from New York. Best known for his 1994 book The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams, Frey has published articles in The American Lawyer, Rolling Stone, Harper's, and The New York Times Magazine...
  
  , The New York Times Magazine
  The New York Times Magazine
  The New York Times Magazine is a Sunday magazine supplement included with the Sunday edition of The New York Times. It is host to feature articles longer than those typically in the newspaper and has attracted many notable contributors...
  
  - Pushing Tin
  Pushing Tin
  Pushing Tin is a 1999 comedy-drama film directed by Mike Newell. It centers on a cocky air traffic controller who quarrels over proving "who's more of a man" with fellow employee Bell...
  
  , 1999
• "To See and Not See"http://www.newyorker.com/archive/content/articles/060619fr_archive01, Oliver Sacks
  Oliver Sacks
  Oliver Wolf Sacks, CBE , is a British neurologist and psychologist residing in New York City. He is a professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University, where he also holds the position of Columbia Artist...
  
   - At First Sight
  At First Sight
  At First Sight is a 1999 American film starring Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino, based on the essay To See and Not to See in neurologist Oliver Sacks' book An Anthropologist on Mars and inspired by the true life story of Shirl Jennings.-Plot:...
  
  , 1999
• "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night
  Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night
  "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night" was the title of a 1976 New York Magazine article by British rock journalist Nik Cohn. It was the basis for the plot and characters in the movie Saturday Night Fever....
  
  ", New York - Nik Cohn
  Nik Cohn
  Nik Cohn is a British rock journalist, born in London in 1946. He was brought up in Derry, in the North of Ireland, the son of historian Norman Cohn and Russian writer Vera Broido...
  
   - Saturday Night Fever
  Saturday Night Fever
  Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 drama film directed by John Badham and starring: John Travolta as Tony Manero, an immature young man whose weekends are spent visiting a local Brooklyn discothèque; Karen Lynn Gorney as his dance partner and eventual friend; and Donna Pescow as Tony's former dance...
  
  , 1977

See also

• Film adaptation
  Film adaptation
  Film adaptation is the transfer of a written work to a feature film. It is a type of derivative work.A common form of film adaptation is the use of a novel as the basis of a feature film, but film adaptation includes the use of non-fiction , autobiography, comic book, scripture, plays, and even...
  
  
• Films based on the Bible
• List of fiction works made into feature films
• Lists of film source material