Books & Plays Captured on Film

(A selected list of DVDs released 2006 and earlier)

All Creatures Great and Small  DVD ALL
The James Herriot book was published in 1972

All Quiet on the Western Front  DVD ALL
Based on the 1929 English translation of the novel by Erich Maria Remarque

Amadeus  DVD AMA
From Peter Shaffer’s play by the same name, first published in the U. S. in 1981

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman  J DVD AUT
Ernest J. Gaines’ 1971 novel inspired this movie produced for television

Beloved  DVD BEL
Based on Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel

Blade Runner: The Director’s Cut  DVD BLA
Inspired by Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Born on the Fourth of July  DVD BOR
Based on Ron Kovic’s 1976 reflections on the Vietnam War

Breakfast at Tiffany’s  DVD BRE
Capote’s short novel was published in 1958

Brideshead Revisited  DVD BRI
Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 novel inspired the Masterpiece Theatre mini-series

The Bridge of San Luis Rey  DVD BRI
Based on Thornton Wilder’s 1927 historical novel

A Clockwork Orange  DVD CLO
Anthony Burgess published the novel in 1962

Cold Mountain  DVD COL
The novel by Charles Frazier was published in 1997

The Color Purple  DVD COL
1982 was the original publication date for this Alice Walker novel

Deliverance  DVD DEL
James Dickey’s novel was published in 1970

Doctor Zhivago  DVD DOC
The translation of the novel by Boris L. Pasternak was published in 1958

Driving Miss Daisy  DVD DRI
Alfred Uhry published the play in 1987

The English Patient  DVD ENG
Michael Ondaatje’s World War II novel was published in 1992

The Exorcist  DVD EXO
Published by William Peter Blatty in 1971

Field of Dreams DVD FIE
Based on the 1982 novel Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella

Forrest Gump  DVD FOR
Winston Groom’s novel was first published in 1986

From Here to Eternity  DVD FRO
This James Jones novel was published in 1951

Goldfinger  DVD GOL
Ian Fleming published this James Bond novel in 1959

Gone With the Wind  DVD GON
Margaret Mitchell published her novel in 1936

The Grapes of Wrath  DVD GRA
The novel by John Steinbeck was published in 1939

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy  DVD HIT
Douglas Adams published this classic in 1979

I, Claudius  DVD I
Published by Robert Graves in 1934

Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood  DVD IN
The book was published in 1966

Essential Art House. Lord of the Flies  DVD ESS
William Golding’s novel was published in 1954

Lolita  DVD LOL
1955 was the year this Vladimir Nabokov novel was published

The Long, Hot Summer  DVD LON
Based on William Faulkner’s novel The Hamlet, published in 1940

The Maltese Falcon  DVD MAL
1930 was the year for this Dashiell Hammett novel

The Man in the Iron Mask DVD
Alexandre Dumas wrote this final adventure for the Three Musketeers c. 1847

A Man for All Seasons  DVD MAN
Robert Bolt wrote the play in 1962

The Man With the Golden Arm  DVD MAN
Nelson Algren published his novel in 1940

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil  DVD MID
John Berendt’s Savannah crime chronicle was published in 1994

The Miracle Worker  DVD MIR
William Gibson wrote the play for television in 1957

Misery DVD MIS
Stephen King’s horror novel was published in 1987

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest  DVD ONE
Ken Kesey’s novel was published in 1962

The Outsiders  DVD OUT
Inspired by S.E. Hinton’s 1967 novel for young adults

Possession  DVD POS
The A.S. Byatt’s novel was published in 1990

The Prince and the Pauper  DVD PRI
Mark Twain published this in 1909

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio DVD PRI
Based on the 2001 memoir by Terry Ryan

Ragtime  DVD RAG
E.L. Doctorow published his novel in 1975

The Remains of the Day  DVD REM
Published in 1989 by Kazuo Ishiguro

Roots  DVD ROO
Alex Haley’s family chronicle was first published in 1976

Schindler’s List  DVD SCH
Thomas Kenneally published his novel in 1982

The Silence of the Lambs  DVD SIL
First published by Thomas Harris in 1988

Sophie’s Choice  DVD SOP
Inspired by William Styron’s 1979 novel

Steel Magnolias  DVD STE
Inspired by a play by Robert Harling

A Streetcar Named Desire  DVD STR
This play by Tennessee Williams was first published in 1951

The Talented Mr. Ripley  DVD TAL
Patricia Highsmith started the Ripley series with this novel in 1955

The 39 Steps  DVD THI
John Buchan wrote this novel in 1915

The Thorn Birds  DVD THO
Colleen McCullough published this saga in 1977

The Winds of War  DVD WIN
Herman Wouk’s World War II saga was published in 1971

An Unfinished Life  DVD UNF
Mark Spragg’s novel was published in 2004

White Fang  J DVD DIS
Published by Jack London in 1906

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