# 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) |
| Argonautica (3rd century BC), Apollonius Rhodius | The Giants of Thessaly (1960) |
| Argonautica (3rd century BC), Apollonius Rhodius | 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) |
| Ballad of Mulan (386–535 CE) | Mulan (2020) |
| Banović Strahinja (Serbian Cyrillic: Бановић Страхиња) | The Falcon (1981) |
| Banović Strahinja (Serbian Cyrillic: Бановић Страхиња) | As Far as I Can Walk (2021) |
| Beowulf (c. 700–1000 AD) | Grendel Grendel Grendel (1981) |
| Beowulf (c. 700–1000 AD) | Beowulf (1999) |
| Beowulf (c. 700–1000 AD) | Beowulf & Grendel (2005) |
| Beowulf (c. 700–1000 AD) | Grendel (2007) |
| Beowulf (c. 700–1000 AD) | 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: A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888" (1888), Ernest Thayer | Casey at the Bat (1927) |
| "Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888" (1888), Ernest Thayer | Make Mine Music (1946) |
| "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1854), Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Balaclava (1928) |
| "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1854), Alfred, Lord Tennyson | The Charge of the Light Brigade (1912) |
| "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1854), Alfred, Lord Tennyson | The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) |
| "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1854), Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 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) |
| Cilappatikāram (Tamil: சிலப்பதிகாரம், Malayalam: ചിലപ്പതികാരം, IPA: ʧiləppət̪ikɑːrəm, lit. "the Tale of an Anklet"), Ilango Adigal | Poompuhar (1962) |
| Cilappatikāram (Tamil: சிலப்பதிகாரம், Malayalam: ചിലപ്പതികാരം, IPA: ʧiləppət̪ikɑːrəm, lit. "the Tale of an Anklet"), Ilango Adigal | Kodungallooramma (1968) |
| Cilappatikāram (Tamil: சிலப்பதிகாரம், Malayalam: ചിലപ്പതികാരം, IPA: ʧiləppət̪ikɑːrəm, lit. "the Tale of an Anklet"), Ilango Adigal | 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) |
| Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina Commedia) (1321), Dante Alighieri | Dante's Inferno (1924) |
| Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina Commedia) (1321), Dante Alighieri | Dante's Inferno (1935) |
| Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina Commedia) (1321), Dante Alighieri | The Deep and Dreamless Sleep (2006) |
| Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina Commedia) (1321), Dante Alighieri | 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) |
| Enoch Arden (1864), Alfred, Lord Tennyson | The Bushwhackers (1925) |
| Enoch Arden (1864), Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Nirmon (1966) |
| Enoch Arden (1864), Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Taqdeer (1967) |
| Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie (1847), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Evangeline (1914) |
| Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie (1847), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Evangeline (1919) |
| Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie (1847), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Evangeline (1929) |

## G

| Poem | Film(s) |
| Gunga Din (1890), Rudyard Kipling | Gunga Din (1939) |

## H

| Poem | Film(s) |
| Heer Ranjha (Punjabi: ہیر رانجھا (Shahmukhi), ਹੀਰ ਰਾਂਝਾ (Gurmukhi)) (17th century), Waris Shah | Heer Ranjha (1932) |
| Heer Ranjha (Punjabi: ہیر رانجھا (Shahmukhi), ਹੀਰ ਰਾਂਝਾ (Gurmukhi)) (17th century), Waris Shah | Heer Sial (1938) |
| Heer Ranjha (Punjabi: ہیر رانجھا (Shahmukhi), ਹੀਰ ਰਾਂਝਾ (Gurmukhi)) (17th century), Waris Shah | Heer Raanjha (1970) |
| Heer Ranjha (Punjabi: ہیر رانجھا (Shahmukhi), ਹੀਰ ਰਾਂਝਾ (Gurmukhi)) (17th century), Waris Shah | Heer Ranjha (1992) |
| The Highwayman (1906), Alfred Noyes | The Highwayman (1951) |
| The Song of Hiawatha (1855), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Hiawatha (1913) |
| The Song of Hiawatha (1855), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Hiawatha (1952) |
| Howl (1956), Allen Ginsberg | Howl (2010) |

## I

| Poem | Film(s) |
| Iliad (c. 8th century BC), Homer | Helena (1924) |
| Iliad (c. 8th century BC), Homer | Helen of Troy (1956) |
| Iliad (c. 8th century BC), Homer | The Fury of Achilles (Italian: L'ira di Achille) (1962) |
| Iliad (c. 8th century BC), Homer | Hector the Mighty (Italian: Ettore lo fusto) (1972) |
| Iliad (c. 8th century BC), Homer | Troy (2004) |
| "Invitation to the Voyage" (French: L'Invitation au voyage) (1857), Charles Baudelaire | L'Invitation au voyage [fr] (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) |
| Jerusalem Delivered (Italian: La Gerusalemme liberata) (1581), Torquato Tasso | 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 (Russian: Конёк-Горбуно́к, romanized: Konyok-Gorbunok) (1834), Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov | The Little Humpbacked Horse (1947) |
| The Little Humpbacked Horse (Russian: Конёк-Горбуно́к, romanized: Konyok-Gorbunok) (1834), Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov | The Little Humpbacked Horse (1975) |
| The Little Humpbacked Horse (Russian: Конёк-Горбуно́к, romanized: Konyok-Gorbunok) (1834), Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov | 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 (1890), Banjo Paterson | The Man from Snowy River (1982) |
| The Man from Snowy River (1890), Banjo Paterson | 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 (Hungarian: Lúdas Matyi) (1817), Mihály Fazekas | 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) |
| Nibelungenlied (c. 1200) | The Dragon's Blood (Italian: Sigfrido) (1957) |
| Nibelungenlied (c. 1200) | Die Nibelungen (1966–67) |
| Nibelungenlied (c. 1200) | Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King (2004) |

## O

| Poem | Film(s) |
| Odyssey (8th century BC), Homer | The Odyssey (Italian: L'Odissea) (1911) |
| Odyssey (8th century BC), Homer | Ulysses (1955) |
| Odyssey (8th century BC), Homer | The Odyssey (1987) |
| Odyssey (8th century BC), Homer | Nostos: The Return (Italian: Nostos: Il ritorno) (1989) |
| Odyssey (8th century BC), Homer | Ulysses' Gaze (Greek: Το βλέμμα του Οδυσσέα, To Vlemma tou Odyssea) (1995) |
| Odyssey (8th century BC), Homer | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) |
| Odyssey (8th century BC), Homer | 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 to the Poorhouse (1872), Will Carleton | 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 (1834), Adam Mickiewicz | 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) |
| Phra Aphai Mani (Thai: พระอภัยมณี) (1870), Sunthorn Phu | 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) |
| Shahnameh (1010), Ferdowsi | Shirin Farhad (1956) |
| Shahnameh (1010), Ferdowsi | Rustam Sohrab (1963) |
| Shahnameh (1010), Ferdowsi | 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" (1907), Robert W. Service | 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) |
| Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (late 14th century), Gawain Poet (anonymous) | Sword of the Valiant (1984) |
| Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (late 14th century), Gawain Poet (anonymous) | 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" (1907), Robert W. Service | 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, 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 (1984) |
| Terje Vigen (1862), Henrik Ibsen | A Man There Was (Swedish: Terje Vigen) (1917) |
| Terje Vigen (1862), Henrik Ibsen | 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

| Poem | Film(s) |
| Under Milk Wood (1954), Dylan Thomas | Under Milk Wood (1972) |
| Under Milk Wood (1954), Dylan Thomas | Under Milk Wood (2015) |

## V

| Poem | Film(s) |
| Valayapathi (Tamil: வளையாபதி) | Valayapathi (1952) |
| The Vampire (1897), Rudyard Kipling | The Vampire (1913) |
| The Village Blacksmith (1840), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Village Blacksmith (1917) |
| The Village Blacksmith (1840), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Village Blacksmith (1922) |
| A Visit from St. Nicholas (1823), Clement Clarke Moore | The Night Before Christmas (1994) |

## W

| Poem | Film(s) |
| The White Cliffs (1940), Alice Duer Miller | The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) |
| A Bouquet of Folk Legends (Czech: Kytice z pověstí národních) (1853), Karel Jaromír Erben | Wild Flowers (Czech: Kytice) (2000) |
| The Wild Party (1926), Joseph Moncure March | The Wild Party (1975) |
| The Wind Will Carry Us (Persian: باد ما را خواهد برد, Bād mā rā khāhad bord) (1964), Forough Farrokhzad | The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) |
| Winter Days (冬の日, Fuyu no Hi) (1684), Matsuo Bashō | Winter Days (2003) |
| The Wreck of the Hesperus (1842), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Wreck of the Hesperus (1927) |
| The Wreck of the Hesperus (1842), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Wreck of the Hesperus (1948) |