World War II
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| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work |
Author | Date | Type | TV | Date | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Lady Vanishes & | 1938 | Alfred Hitchcock | UK | The Wheel Spins | Ethel Lina White | 1936 | Novel | - | - | - |
| 2 | They Met in the Dark | 1943 | Carl Lamac | UK | The Vanished Corpse | Anthony Gilbert (author) | ? | Novel | - | - | - |
| 3 | Above Suspicion | 1943 | Richard Thorpe | USA | Above Suspicion (novel) | Helen Clark MacInnes | 1939 | Novel | - | - | - |
| 4 | Decision Before Dawn | 1951 | Anatole Litvak | USA | Call It Treason | George Howe | 1949 | Novel | - | - | - |
| 5 | Carve Her Name with Pride | 1958 | Lewis Gilbert | UK | Carve Her Name with Pride (novel) | R.J. Minney | ? | Novel | - | - | - |
| 6 | The Counterfeit Traitor | 1962 | George Seaton | USA | The Counterfeit Traitor (novel) | Alexander Klein | ? | Novel | - | - | - |
| 7 | Eye of the Needle | 1981 | Richard Marquand | UK | Eye of the Needle | Ken Follett | 1978 | Novel | - | - | - |
| 8 | Fortunes of War * | 1987 | James Cellan Jones | UK | Fortunes of War | Olivia Manning | 1960 & 1962 | Novels | - | - | - |
| 9 | Shining Through | 1992 | David Seltzer | USA | Shining Through (novel) | Susan Isaacs | 1978 | Novel | - | - | - |
| 10 | Fall from Grace * | 1994 | Waris Hussein | UK | Fall from Grace (novel) | Larry Collins | 1985 | Novel | - | - | - |
| 11 | Enigma | 2001 | Michael Apted | USA, UK, Germany, & Netherlands | Enigma (novel) | Robert Harris | 1995 | Novel | - | - | - |
| 12 | Charlotte Gray | 2001 | Gillian Armstrong | UK | Charlotte Gray | Sebastian Faulks | ? | Novel | - | - | - |
- * BBC mini-series.
- & pre-WWII
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