In Film
- The film The Edge Of Love (2008) is based on part of Thomas' life in Swansea during World War II. He is portrayed by actor Matthew Rhys.
- In the 80's comedic film Back To School, Rodney Dangerfield performs a silly, melodramatic reading of the poem "Do not go gentle into that good night."
- In the 2002 film Solaris, Chris Kelvin (George Clooney) reads the first stanza of "And death shall have no dominion".
- In the 1994 film Before Sunrise, Ethan Hawke's character mimics Dylan Thomas's voice, reading a fragment from the well-known poem "As I Walked Out One Evening" written by W. H. Auden.
- The Ethan Hawke-directed film Chelsea Walls has a Dylan Thomas poem written on a hotel room wall.
- Under Milk Wood is a 1972 British drama film directed by Andrew Sinclair and based on the play for voices Under Milk Wood. It starred Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and Peter O'Toole. Like the book it portrays the inhabitants of the fictiinal small Welsh village Llareggub.
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