| Non-fiction work(s) | Film adaptation(s) |
| Across the Wide Missouri (1947), Bernard DeVoto |
Across the Wide Missouri (1951) |
| Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (1974), Piers Paul Read |
Alive: The Miracle of the Andes (1993) |
| All the President's Men (1974), Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein |
All the President's Men (1976) |
| An Anthropologist on Mars (1995), Oliver Sacks |
At First Sight (1999)
The Music Never Stopped (2011) |
| The Anarchist Cookbook, William Powell |
The Anarchist Cookbook (2002) |
| And the Band Played On (1987), Randy Shilts |
And the Band Played On (1993) |
| Awakenings (1973), Oliver Sacks |
Awakenings (1990) |
| The Basketball Diaries (1978), Jim Carroll |
The Basketball Diaries (1995) |
| Black Hawk Down (1999), Mark Bowden |
Black Hawk Down (2001) |
| Bravo Two Zero (1993), Andy McNab |
Bravo Two Zero (1999) |
| A Brief History of Time (1988), Stephen Hawking |
A Brief History in Time (1991) |
| The Broken Seal: "Operation Magic" and the Secret Road to Pearl Harbor (1967), Ladislas Farago |
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) |
| Bully: A True Story of High School Revenge (1998), Jim Schutze |
Bully (2001) |
| Charlie's Wilson's War (2003), George Crile III |
Charlie Wilson's War (2007) |
| A Civil Action (1996), Jonathan Harr |
A Civil Action (1998) |
| Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law (2002), Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler |
North Country (2005) |
| The Conquest of Space (1949), Chesley Bonestell & Willy Ley |
Conquest of Space (1955) |
| The Dam Busters (1951), Paul Brickhill |
The Dam Busters (1954)
Dambusters (TBA 2015) |
| Dead Man Walking (1993), Sister Helen Prejean |
Dead Man Walking (1995) |
| Diamond Jim Brady (1933), Parker Morrell |
Diamond Jim (1935) |
| A Diary of A Demonstrator (A Diary of A Demonstrator) (1983), Soe Hok Gie |
Gie (2005) |
| Dispatches (1977), Michael Herr |
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Full Metal Jacket (1987) |
| Enemy Coast Ahead (1946), Guy Gibson |
The Dam Busters (1954) |
| Escape from Alcatraz (1963), J. Campbell Bruce |
Escape from Alcatraz (1979) |
| Estação Carandiru (Carandiru Station) (2001), Drauzio Varella |
Carandiru, 2003 |
| Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) (1969), David Reuben |
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972) |
| The Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice (1978), Thomas Hauser |
Missing (1982) |
| The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage (1979), Robert Lindsey |
The Falcon and the Snowman (1985) |
| Fast Food Nation (2001), Eric Schlosser |
Fast Food Nation (2006) |
| The Final Days (1976), Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein |
The Final Days (1989) |
| The Flight of Dragons (1979), Peter Dickinson |
The Flight of Dragons (1982) (TV) |
| Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996), Doris Pilkington Garimara |
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) |
| Freeing the Whales (1989), Tom Rose |
Big Miracle (2012) |
| The French Connection (1969), Robin Moore |
The French Connection (1971) |
| Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team and a Dream (1990), H. G. Bissinger |
Friday Night Lights (2004) |
| The Game of Their Lives: The Untold Story of the World Cup's Biggest Upset (1996), Geoffrey Douglas |
The Game of Their Lives (2005) |
| The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld (1928), Herbert Asbury |
Gangs of New York (2002) |
| Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman (2005), Jamie Reidy |
Love and Other Drugs (2010) |
| The Hindenburg (1972), Michael M. Mooney |
The Hindenburg (1975) |
| Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (1991), David Simon |
Homicide: The Movie (2000) (TV) |
| In Cold Blood (1966), Truman Capote |
In Cold Blood (1967) |
| Imperial Life in the Emerald City (2006), Rajiv Chandrasekaran |
Green Zone (2010) |
| Into the Wild (1996), Jon Krakauer |
Into the Wild (2007) |
| J'ai serré la main du diable (Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda) (2003), Roméo Dallaire |
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire (2004)
Shake Hands with the Devil (2007) |
| Jarhead (2003), Anthony Swofford |
Jarhead (2005) |
| The Last Days of Patton (1981), Ladislas Farago |
The Last Days of Patton (1986) (TV) |
| Lazarus and the Hurricane: The Freeing of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (1991), Sam Chaiton and Terry Swinton |
The Hurricane (1999) |
| The Life and Times of Cleopatra (1958), by Charles Marie Franzero |
Cleopatra (1963) |
| Live from Baghdad (1991), Robert Wiener |
Live from Baghdad (2002) |
| The Longest Day (1959), Cornelius Ryan |
The Longest Day (1962) |
| Lost Moon (1994), Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger |
Apollo 13 (1995) |
| Magic Fire: The Story of Wagner's Life and Music (1954), Bertita Harding |
Magic Fire (1954) |
| The Man-eaters of Tsavo (1907), John Henry Patterson |
Bwana Devil (1952)
The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) |
| The Mars Project (1952), Wernher von Braun |
Conquest of Space (1955) |
| The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004), Jon Ronson |
The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) |
| Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1994), John Berendt |
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) |
| The Mountain Road (1958), Theodore H. White |
The Mountain Road (1961) |
| The Mothman Prophecies (1975), John Keel |
The Mothman Prophecies (2002) |
| Murder, Inc. (1951), Burton Turkus |
Murder, Inc. (1960) |
| The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Quentin Crisp |
The Naked Civil Servant (1975) (TV) |
| Never Cry Wolf (1963), Farley Mowat |
Never Cry Wolf (1983) |
| A Night to Remember (1955), Walter Lord |
A Night to Remember (1958) |
| Ondskan (The Evil) (1981), Jan Guillou |
Evil (2003) |
| The One That Got Away (1956), Kendall Burt and James Leasor |
The One That Got Away (1957) |
| Operation Cicero (Der Fall Cicero) (1950), Ludwig Carl Moyzisch |
5 Fingers (1952) |
| The Orchid Thief (1998), Susan Orlean |
Adaptation. (2002) |
| Patton: Ordeal and Triumph (1963), Ladislas Farago |
Patton (1970) |
| The Perfect Storm (1997), Sebastian Junger |
The Perfect Storm (2000) |
| Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Action, Korea, Spring, 1953 (1956), S. L. A. Marshall |
Pork Chop Hill (1959) |
| Prince of the City: The True Story of a Cop Who Knew Too Much (1978), Robert Daley |
Prince of the City (1981) |
| Queen Bees and Wannabes (2002), Rosalind Wiseman |
Mean Girls (2004)
* Mean Girls 2 (2011) (TV) |
| Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow Case (1985), Alan Dershowitz |
Reversal of Fortune (1990) |
| The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist (2009), Matt Baglio |
The Rite (2011) |
| Rogue Trader: How I Brought Down Barings Bank and Shook the Financial World (1995), Nick Leeson |
Rogue Trader (1999) |
| The Saga of Billy the Kid (1925), Walter Noble Burns |
Billy the Kid (1930)
Billy the Kid (1941)
The Outlaw (1943)
The Left Handed Gun (1958)
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid (1989) (TV) |
| The Sea Around Us (1951), Rachel Carson |
The Sea Around Us (1953) |
| A Season on the Brink (1986), John Feinstein |
A Season on the Brink (2002) |
| The Secret Life of Plants (1973), Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird |
The Secret Life of Plants (1979) |
| See No Evil (2003), Robert Baer |
Syriana (2005) |
| The Serpent and the Rainbow (1985), Wade Davis |
The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) |
| The Short-Timers (1979), Gustav Hasford |
Full Metal Jacket (1987) |
| The Smartest Guys in the Room (2003), Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind |
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) |
| The Story of Mankind (1921), Hendrik Willem van Loon |
The Story of Mankind (1957) |
| Storyville, New Orleans (1974), Al Rose |
Pretty Baby (1978) |
| The Strawberry Statement (1969), James Simon Kunen |
The Strawberry Statement (1970) |
| Ten Days that Shook the World (1919), John Reed |
October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928)
Reds (1981)
Red Bells (1982) |
| Ten Rillington Place (1961), Ludovic Kennedy |
10 Rillington Place (1971) |
| The Three Faces of Eve (1957), Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey M. Cleckley |
The Three Faces of Eve (1957) |
| Touching the Void (1988), Joe Simpson |
Touching the Void (2003) |
| True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny (1987), Daniel Topolski |
True Blue (1996) |
| Triumph Over Pain (1940), René Fülöp-Miller |
The Great Moment (1944) |
| The Turning Point (1982), Fritjof Capra |
Mindwalk (1990) |
| Twelve Days of Terror (2001), Richard G. Fernicola |
12 Days of Terror (2004) |
| We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young (1992), Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway |
We Were Soldiers (2002) |
| The White Rabbit (1952), Bruce Marshall |
The White Rabbit (1967) (TV) (mini) |
| Victory Through Air Power (1942), Alexander P. de Seversky |
Victory Through Air Power (1943) |
| Zodiac (1986), Robert Graysmith |
Zodiac (2007) |
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