List of films based on civics books

A list of films that are based on books about common topics and issues in social science and political science.

Addiction

Alcoholism

Mexico

♠ The subject is the British consul in a Mexican town.

Drug addiction

Germany

♠ The German book title translates literally as Christiane F. – We Children from the Zoo Station.

Civil rights

United States

For slave revolts, see List of films based on war books — 1775–1898.

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	Basis
Boycott *	2001	Clark Johnson	USA	Daybreak of Freedom: the Montgomery Bus Boycott	Stewart Burns	1997 ^¤	Non-fiction	Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Rosa Parks
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan *	1975	Marvin J. Chomsky	USA	Attack on Terror: The F.B.I. Against the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi	Don Whitehead	1970	Non-fiction	Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman

* TV movie.
** TV miniseries.

Journalism

Reporters

♠ A television reporter broadcasts live from the 1746 Battle of Culloden.
* TV movie.

Publishers

♠ Mrs. Graham is often mentioned but not dramatized.

Labour

United States

Manufacturing

* TV movie.

Sports

♠ The hockey players in the wage dispute are Canadian; the club owners are American.
* TV movie.

Mental disorder

19th century

Canada

;20th century

Native issues

United States

♠ The story of Ira Hayes was also told in Flags of Our Fathers.

Penology

United Kingdom

♠ The earliest editions of the novel did not contain a glossary, or any indication that the slang was based on Russian.

United States

Capital punishment

* TV movie.

Political prisoners

Greece

♠ The film concerns torture during the period of the colonels.

Poverty

United States

Urban

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type	Basis
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn	1945	Elia Kazan	USA	A Tree Grows In Brooklyn	Betty Smith	1943	Novel	Brooklyn
Last Exit to Brooklyn	1989	Uli Edel	USA, UK, West Germany	Last Exit to Brooklyn	Hubert Selby Jr.	1964	Novel	Brooklyn