List of films based on poems

This is a list of films based on poems.

A

Poem	Film(s)
The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace (1488), Blind Harry	Braveheart (1995)
Aeneid (29–19 BC), Publius Vergilius Maro	The Avenger (1962)
"Annabel Lee" (1850), Edgar Allan Poe	The Avenging Conscience (1914)
Argonautica (3rd century BC), Apollonius Rhodius	Hercules (Italian: Le Fatiche di Ercole) (1958)
	The Giants of Thessaly (1960)
	Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
Aniara (Swedish: Aniara: en revy om människan i tid och rum) (1956), Harry Martinson	Aniara (2018)
"Ashik Kerib" (Russian: Ашик Кериб) (1837), Mikhail Lermontov	Ashik Kerib (1988)

B

Poem	Film(s)
Ballad of Mulan (386–535 CE)	Mulan (1998)
	Mulan (2020)
Banović Strahinja (Serbian Cyrillic: Бановић Страхиња)	The Falcon (1981)
	As Far as I Can Walk (2021)
Beowulf (c. 700–1000 AD)	Grendel Grendel Grendel (1981)
	Beowulf (1999)
	Beowulf & Grendel (2005)
	Grendel (2007)
	Beowulf (2007)
"Bright Star" (1838), John Keats	Bright Star (2009)

C

Poem	Film(s)
"Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888" (1888), Ernest Thayer	Casey at the Bat (1916)
	Casey at the Bat (1927)
	Make Mine Music (1946)
"The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1854), Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Balaclava (1928)
	The Charge of the Light Brigade (1912)
	The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
	The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
"The City in the Sea" (1845), Edgar Allan Poe	City Under the Sea (1965)
Cilappatikāram (Tamil: சிலப்பதிகாரம், Malayalam: ചിലപ്പതികാരം, IPA: ʧiləppət̪ikɑːrəm, lit. "the Tale of an Anklet"), Ilango Adigal	Kannagi (1942)
	Poompuhar (1962)
	Kodungallooramma (1968)
	Paththini (2016)
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	The Courtship of Miles Standish (1923)

D

Poem	Film(s)
De reditu suo (5th century), Rutilius Claudius Namatianus	The Voyage Home (Latin: De reditu; Italian: Il ritorno, lit. 'The Return') (2004)
Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina Commedia) (1321), Dante Alighieri	L'Inferno (1911)
	Dante's Inferno (1924)
	Dante's Inferno (1935)
	The Deep and Dreamless Sleep (2006)
	Dante's Inferno (2007)
Don Juan (1819–24), Lord Byron	Don Juan (1926)
"Dui Bigha Jomi", Rabindranath Tagore	Do Bigha Zamin (1953)

E

Poem	Film(s)
Enoch Arden (1864), Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Enoch Arden (1914)
	The Bushwhackers (1925)
	Nirmon (1966)
	Taqdeer (1967)
Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie (1847), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Evangeline (1914)
	Evangeline (1919)
	Evangeline (1929)

G

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Gunga Din	1939	George Stevens	United States	"Gunga Din"	Rudyard Kipling	1890

H

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Heer Ranjha	1932	Abdul Rashid Kardar	British India	Heer Ranjha (Punjabi: ہیر رانجھا (Shahmukhi), ਹੀਰ ਰਾਂਝਾ (Gurmukhi))	Waris Shah	17th century
Heer Ranjha	1992	Harmesh Malhotra	India
Heer Raanjha	1970	Chetan Anand
Heer Sial	1938	Kishan Dev Mehra
The Highwayman	1951	Lesley Selander	United States	"The Highwayman"	Alfred Noyes	1906
Hiawatha	1913	Edgar Lewis	United States	The Song of Hiawatha	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1855	Epic
Hiawatha	1952	Kurt Neumann
Howl	2010	Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman	United States	"Howl"	Allen Ginsberg	1956

I

Poem	Film(s)
Iliad (c. 8th century BC), Homer	Helena (1924)
	Helen of Troy (1956)
	The Fury of Achilles (Italian: L'ira di Achille) (1962)
	Hector the Mighty (Italian: Ettore lo fusto) (1972)
	Troy (2004)
"Invitation to the Voyage" (French: L'Invitation au voyage) (1857), Charles Baudelaire	L'Invitation au voyage (1927)

J

Poem	Film(s)
"Jabberwocky" (1871), Lewis Carroll	Jabberwocky (1977)
John the Valiant (Hungarian: János vitéz) (1844), Sándor Petőfi	Johnny Corncob (Hungarian: Kukorica Jancsi) (1973)
Jerusalem Delivered (Italian: La Gerusalemme liberata) (1581), Torquato Tasso	The Crusaders (1918)
	The Mighty Crusaders (1957)

K

Poem	Film(s)
Kaliyachan (1959), P. Kunhiraman Nair	Kaliyachan (2015)
Kein Hüsung (1858), Fritz Reuter	Kein Hüsung (1954)
Kumārasambhava (Sanskrit: कुमारसम्भवम्, "The Birth of Kumāra"), Kālidāsa	Kumara Sambhavam (1969)
Kundalakesi (Tamil: குண்டலகேசி Kuṇṭalakēci, lit. "woman with curly hair")	Manthiri Kumari (1950)

L

Poem	Film(s)
Lady Clare (1842), Alfred, Lord Tennyson	The Lady Clare (1919)
The Lady of the Lake (1810), Sir Walter Scott	The Lady of the Lake (1928)
Lalla Rookh (1817), Thomas Moore	Lala Rookh (1958)
"The Law of the Yukon" (1907), Robert W. Service	The Law of the Yukon (1920)
The Light of Asia (1879), Edwin Arnold	Prem Sanyas (1925)
The Little Humpbacked Horse (Russian: Конёк-Горбуно́к, romanized: Konyok-Gorbunok) (1834), Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov	The Little Humpbacked Horse (1941)
	The Little Humpbacked Horse (1947)
	The Little Humpbacked Horse (1975)
	Upon the Magic Roads (2021)
"Little Orphant Annie" (1885), James Whitcomb Riley	Little Orphant Annie (1918)
"Lützow's Wild Hunt" (German: Lützows wilde verwegene Jagd), Theodor Körner	Lützow's Wild Hunt (1927)

M

Poem	Film(s)
The Man from Snowy River (1890), Banjo Paterson	The Man from Snowy River (1920)
	The Man from Snowy River (1982)
	The Man from Snowy River II (1988)
Martín Fierro (1872), José Hernández	Fierro (2007)
Mattie the Goose-boy (Hungarian: Lúdas Matyi) (1817), Mihály Fazekas	Mattie the Goose-boy (1950)
	Mattie the Goose-boy (1977)
"Maud" (1855), Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Naked Hearts (1916)
The Monkey's Mask (1994), Dorothy Porter	The Monkey's Mask (2000)
"My Madonna" (1907), Robert W. Service	My Madonna (1915)
Mysooru Mallige (1942), K. S. Narasimhaswamy	Mysore Mallige (1992)

N

Poem	Film(s)
Nibelungenlied (c. 1200)	Die Nibelungen (1924)
	The Dragon's Blood (Italian: Sigfrido) (1957)
	Die Nibelungen (1966–67)
	Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King (2004)

O

Poem	Film(s)
Odyssey (8th century BC), Homer	The Odyssey (Italian: L'Odissea) (1911)
	Ulysses (1955)
	The Odyssey (1987)
	Nostos: The Return (Italian: Nostos: Il ritorno) (1989)
	Ulysses' Gaze (Greek: Το βλέμμα του Οδυσσέα, To Vlemma tou Odyssea) (1995)
	O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
	Odysseus and the Isle of the Mists (2007)
The Old Swimmin' Hole (1883), James Whitcomb Riley	The Old Swimmin' Hole (1921)
Orlando Furioso (1516), Ludovico Ariosto	Hearts and Armour (Italian: I Paladini: Storia d'armi e d'amori) (1983)
Over the Hill to the Poorhouse (1872), Will Carleton	Over the Hill to the Poorhouse (1920)
	Over the Hill (1931)

P

Poem	Film(s)
Padmavat (1540), Malik Muhammad Jayasi	Padmaavat (2018)
Pan Tadeusz (1834), Adam Mickiewicz	Pan Tadeusz (1928)
	Pan Tadeusz (1999)
Paterson (1946–58), William Carlos Williams	Paterson (2016)
Perceval, the Story of the Grail (French: Perceval ou le Conte du Graal) (1182–90), Chrétien de Troyes	Perceval le Gallois (1978)
Phra Aphai Mani (Thai: พระอภัยมณี) (1870), Sunthorn Phu	The Adventure of Sudsakorn (1979)
	Legend of Sudsakorn (Thai: สุดสาคร) (2006)
"The Pied Piper of Hamelin" (1842), Robert Browning	The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957)
Poema de Fernán González (1250–66)	The Castilian (1963)
Prithviraj Raso, Chand Bardai	Samrat Prithviraj (2022)
The Prophet (1923), Kahlil Gibran	The Prophet (2014)
Pumpkinhead, Ed Justin	Pumpkinhead (1988)

R

Poem	Film(s)
Ramanan (Malayalam: രമണന്‍) (1936), Changampuzha Krishna Pillai	Ramanan (1967)
"The Raven" (1845), Edgar Allan Poe	The Raven (1963)
"A Revery in the Station House" (1916), Ella Wheeler Wilcox	The Beautiful Lie (1917)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), Samuel Taylor Coleridge	The Ancient Mariner (1925)

S

Poem	Film(s)
The Set-Up (1928), Joseph Moncure March	The Set-Up (1949)
Shahnameh (1010), Ferdowsi	Shirin Farhad (1931)
	Shirin Farhad (1956)
	Rustam Sohrab (1963)
	Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi (2012)
"The Shooting of Dan McGrew" (1907), Robert W. Service	The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1915)
	The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1924)
"The Sick Stockrider" (1870), Adam Lindsay Gordon	The Sick Stockrider (1913)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (late 14th century), Gawain Poet (anonymous)	Gawain and the Green Knight (1973)
	Sword of the Valiant (1984)
	The Green Knight (2021)
'Song of Songs (Biblical Hebrew: שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים‎, romanized: Šīr hašŠīrīm; Greek: Άσμα Ασμάτων; Latin: Canticum Canticorum)	The Song (2014)
"The Song of the Wage-Slave" (1907), Robert W. Service	The Song of the Wage Slave (1915)
The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke (1915), C. J. Dennis	The Sentimental Bloke (1919)
"The Spell of the Yukon" (1907), Robert W. Service	The Lure of Heart's Desire (1916)
	The Spell of the Yukon (1916)
"Sweet and Low" (1849), Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Sweet and Low (1914)

T

Poem	Film(s)
"The Tale of the Priest and of his Workman Balda" (Russian: Сказка о попе и о работнике его Балде) (1830), Alexander Pushkin	The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda (1933–36)
The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of His Son the Renowned and Mighty Bogatyr Prince Gvidon Saltanovich, and of the Beautiful Princess-Swan (Russian: Сказка о царе Салтане, о сыне его славном и могучем богатыре князе Гвидоне Салтановиче и о прекрасной царевне Лебеди) (1831), Aleksandr Pushkin	The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1966)
	The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1984)
Terje Vigen (1862), Henrik Ibsen	A Man There Was (Swedish: Terje Vigen) (1917)
	The Lake Calls (German: Das Meer ruft) (1933)
"Trees" (1913), Joyce Kilmer	Melody Time (1948)
Typhoid Sufferers (Serbo-Croatian: Tifusari) (1950), Jure Kaštelan	Typhoid Sufferers (1963)

U

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Under Milk Wood	1972	Andrew Sinclair	United Kingdom	Under Milk Wood	Dylan Thomas	1954
Under Milk Wood	2015	Kevin Allen

V

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
Valayapathi	1952	T. R. Sundaram, Masthan	India	Valayapathi (Tamil: வளையாபதி)			Epic
The Vampire	1913	Robert G. Vignola	United States	"The Vampire"	Rudyard Kipling	1897
The Village Blacksmith	1917	Arthur Rooke, A.E. Coleby	United Kingdom	"The Village Blacksmith"	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1840
The Village Blacksmith	1922	John Ford	United States
The Night Before Christmas	1994	Hazel Morgan, Diane Eskenazi (uncredited)	United States	"A Visit from St. Nicholas"	Clement Clarke Moore	1823

W

Film	Date	Director	Country	Source work	Author	Date	Type
The White Cliffs of Dover	1944	Clarence Brown	United States	The White Cliffs	Alice Duer Miller	1940	Verse novel
Wild Flowers (Czech: Kytice)	2000	F. A. Brabec	Czech Republic	A Bouquet of Folk Legends (Czech: Kytice z pověstí národních)	Karel Jaromír Erben	1853
The Wild Party	1975	James Ivory	United States	The Wild Party	Joseph Moncure March	1926	Narrative
The Wind Will Carry Us	1999	Abbas Kiarostami	Iran	The Wind Will Carry Us (Persian: باد ما را خواهد برد, Bād mā rā khāhad bord)	1964	Forough Farrokhzad
Winter Days	2003	Kihachirō Kawamoto	Japan	Winter Days (冬の日, Fuyu no Hi)	1684	Matsuo Bashō	Renku
The Wreck of the Hesperus	1927	Elmer Clifton	United States	"The Wreck of the Hesperus"	1842	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Narrative
The Wreck of the Hesperus	1948	John Hoffman

See also

• Lists of film source material
• List of films based on Greco-Roman mythology