This is a list of films based on poems.
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| The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace (1488), Blind Harry
| Braveheart (1995)
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| Aeneid (29–19 BC), Publius Vergilius Maro
| The Avenger (1962)
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| "Annabel Lee" (1850), Edgar Allan Poe
| The Avenging Conscience (1914)
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| rowspan="3" | Argonautica (3rd century BC), Apollonius Rhodius
| Hercules () (1958)
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| The Giants of Thessaly (1960)
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| Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
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| Aniara () (1956), Harry Martinson
| Aniara (2018)
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| "Ashik Kerib" () (1837), Mikhail Lermontov
| Ashik Kerib (1988)
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B
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| rowspan="2" | Ballad of Mulan (386–535 CE)
| Mulan (1998)
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| Mulan (2020)
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| rowspan="2" | Banović Strahinja ()
| The Falcon (1981)
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| As Far as I Can Walk (2021)
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| rowspan="5" | Beowulf (c. 700–1000 AD)
| Grendel Grendel Grendel (1981)
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| Beowulf (1999)
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| Beowulf & Grendel (2005)
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| Grendel (2007)
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| Beowulf (2007)
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| "Bright Star" (1838), John Keats
| Bright Star (2009)
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C
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| rowspan="3" | "Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888" (1888), Ernest Thayer
| Casey at the Bat (1916)
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| Casey at the Bat (1927)
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| Make Mine Music (1946)
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| rowspan="4" | "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1854), Alfred, Lord Tennyson
| Balaclava (1928)
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| The Charge of the Light Brigade (1912)
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| The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
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| The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
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| "The City in the Sea" (1845), Edgar Allan Poe
| City Under the Sea (1965)
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| rowspan="4" | Cilappatikāram (, , IPA: ʧiləppət̪ikɑːrəm, lit. "the Tale of an Anklet"), Ilango Adigal
| Kannagi (1942)
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| Poompuhar (1962)
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| Kodungallooramma (1968)
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| Paththini (2016)
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| The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
| The Courtship of Miles Standish (1923)
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| De reditu suo (5th century), Rutilius Claudius Namatianus
| The Voyage Home (; ) (2004)
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| rowspan="5" | Divine Comedy () (1321), Dante Alighieri
| L'Inferno (1911)
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| Dante's Inferno (1924)
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| Dante's Inferno (1935)
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| The Deep and Dreamless Sleep (2006)
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| Dante's Inferno (2007)
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| Don Juan (1819–24), Lord Byron
| Don Juan (1926)
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| "Dui Bigha Jomi", Rabindranath Tagore
| Do Bigha Zamin (1953)
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E
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| rowspan="4" | Enoch Arden (1864), Alfred, Lord Tennyson
| Enoch Arden (1914)
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| The Bushwhackers (1925)
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| Nirmon (1966)
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| Taqdeer (1967)
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| rowspan="3" | Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie (1847), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
| Evangeline (1914)
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| Evangeline (1919)
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| Evangeline (1929)
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| Gunga Din (1890), Rudyard Kipling
| Gunga Din (1939)
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| rowspan="4" | Heer Ranjha ( , ਹੀਰ ਰਾਂਝਾ ) (17th century), Waris Shah
| Heer Ranjha (1932)
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| Heer Sial (1938)
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| Heer Raanjha (1970)
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| Heer Ranjha (1992)
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| The Highwayman (1906), Alfred Noyes
| The Highwayman (1951)
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| rowspan="2" | The Song of Hiawatha (1855), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
| Hiawatha (1913)
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| Hiawatha (1952)
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| Howl (1956), Allen Ginsberg
| Howl (2010)
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| rowspan="5" | Iliad (c. 8th century BC), Homer
| Helena (1924)
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| Helen of Troy (1956)
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| The Fury of Achilles () (1962)
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| Hector the Mighty () (1972)
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| Troy (2004)
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| "Invitation to the Voyage" () (1857), Charles Baudelaire
| ' (1927)
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J
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| "Jabberwocky" (1871), Lewis Carroll
| Jabberwocky (1977)
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| John the Valiant () (1844), Sándor Petőfi
| Johnny Corncob () (1973)
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| rowspan="2" | Jerusalem Delivered () (1581), Torquato Tasso
| The Crusaders (1918)
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| The Mighty Crusaders (1957)
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K
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| Kaliyachan (1959), P. Kunhiraman Nair
| Kaliyachan (2015)
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| Kein Hüsung (1858), Fritz Reuter
| Kein Hüsung (1954)
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| Kumārasambhava (, "The Birth of Kumāra"), Kālidāsa
| Kumara Sambhavam (1969)
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| Kundalakesi ( Kuṇṭalakēci, lit. "woman with curly hair")
| Manthiri Kumari (1950)
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| Lady Clare (1842), Alfred, Lord Tennyson
| The Lady Clare (1919)
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| The Lady of the Lake (1810), Sir Walter Scott
| The Lady of the Lake (1928)
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| Lalla Rookh (1817), Thomas Moore
| Lala Rookh (1958)
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| "The Law of the Yukon" (1907), Robert W. Service
| The Law of the Yukon (1920)
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| The Light of Asia (1879), Edwin Arnold
| Prem Sanyas (1925)
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| rowspan="4" | The Little Humpbacked Horse () (1834), Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov
| The Little Humpbacked Horse (1941)
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| The Little Humpbacked Horse (1947)
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| The Little Humpbacked Horse (1975)
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| Upon the Magic Roads (2021)
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| "Little Orphant Annie" (1885), James Whitcomb Riley
| Little Orphant Annie (1918)
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| "Lützow's Wild Hunt" (), Theodor Körner
| Lützow's Wild Hunt (1927)
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| rowspan="3" | The Man from Snowy River (1890), Banjo Paterson
| The Man from Snowy River (1920)
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| The Man from Snowy River (1982)
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| The Man from Snowy River II (1988)
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| Martín Fierro (1872), José Hernández
| Fierro (2007)
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| rowspan="2" | Mattie the Goose-boy () (1817), Mihály Fazekas
| Mattie the Goose-boy (1950)
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| Mattie the Goose-boy (1977)
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| "Maud" (1855), Alfred, Lord Tennyson
| Naked Hearts (1916)
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| The Monkey's Mask (1994), Dorothy Porter
| The Monkey's Mask (2000)
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| "My Madonna" (1907), Robert W. Service
| My Madonna (1915)
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| Mysooru Mallige (1942), K. S. Narasimhaswamy
| Mysore Mallige (1992)
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| rowspan="4" | Nibelungenlied (c. 1200)
| Die Nibelungen (1924)
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| The Dragon's Blood () (1957)
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| Die Nibelungen (1966–67)
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| Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King (2004)
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| rowspan="8" | Odyssey (8th century BC), Homer
| The Odyssey () (1911)
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| Ulysses (1955)
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| The Odyssey (1987)
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| Nostos: The Return () (1989)
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| Ulysses' Gaze (, To Vlemma tou Odyssea) (1995)
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| O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
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| Odysseus and the Isle of the Mists (2007)
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|The Odyssey (2026)
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| The Old Swimmin' Hole (1883), James Whitcomb Riley
| The Old Swimmin' Hole (1921)
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| Orlando Furioso (1516), Ludovico Ariosto
| Hearts and Armour () (1983)
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| rowspan="2" | Over the Hill to the Poorhouse (1872), Will Carleton
| Over the Hill to the Poorhouse (1920)
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| Over the Hill (1931)
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| Padmavat (1540), Malik Muhammad Jayasi
| Padmaavat (2018)
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| rowspan="2" | Pan Tadeusz (1834), Adam Mickiewicz
| Pan Tadeusz (1928)
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| Pan Tadeusz (1999)
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| Paterson (1946–58), William Carlos Williams
| Paterson (2016)
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| Perceval, the Story of the Grail () (1182–90), Chrétien de Troyes
| Perceval le Gallois (1978)
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| rowspan="2" | Phra Aphai Mani () (1870), Sunthorn Phu
| The Adventure of Sudsakorn (1979)
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| Legend of Sudsakorn () (2006)
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| "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" (1842), Robert Browning
| The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957)
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| Poema de Fernán González (1250–66)
| The Castilian (1963)
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| Prithviraj Raso, Chand Bardai
| Samrat Prithviraj (2022)
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| The Prophet (1923), Kahlil Gibran
| The Prophet (2014)
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| Pumpkinhead, Ed Justin
| Pumpkinhead (1988)
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| Ramanan (Malayalam: രമണന്) (1936), Changampuzha Krishna Pillai
| Ramanan (1967)
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| "The Raven" (1845), Edgar Allan Poe
| The Raven (1963)
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| "A Revery in the Station House" (1916), Ella Wheeler Wilcox
| The Beautiful Lie (1917)
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| The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), Samuel Taylor Coleridge
| The Ancient Mariner (1925)
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| The Set-Up (1928), Joseph Moncure March
| The Set-Up (1949)
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| rowspan="4" | Shahnameh (1010), Ferdowsi
| Shirin Farhad (1931)
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| Shirin Farhad (1956)
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| Rustam Sohrab (1963)
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| Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi (2012)
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| rowspan="2" | "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" (1907), Robert W. Service
| The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1915)
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| The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1924)
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| "The Sick Stockrider" (1870), Adam Lindsay Gordon
| The Sick Stockrider (1913)
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| rowspan="3" | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (late 14th century), Gawain Poet (anonymous)
| Gawain and the Green Knight (1973)
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| Sword of the Valiant (1984)
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| The Green Knight (2021)
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| Song of Songs (; ; )
| The Song (2014)
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| "The Song of the Wage-Slave" (1907), Robert W. Service
| The Song of the Wage Slave (1915)
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| The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke (1915), C. J. Dennis
| The Sentimental Bloke (1919)
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| rowspan="2" | "The Spell of the Yukon" (1907), Robert W. Service
| The Lure of Heart's Desire (1916)
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| The Spell of the Yukon (1916)
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| "Sweet and Low" (1849), Alfred, Lord Tennyson
| Sweet and Low (1914)
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| "The Tale of the Priest and of his Workman Balda" () (1830), Alexander Pushkin
| The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda (1933–36)
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| rowspan="2" | The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of His Son the Renowned and Mighty Bogatyr Prince Gvidon Saltanovich, and of the Beautiful Princess-Swan () (1831), Aleksandr Pushkin
| The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1966)
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| The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1984)
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| rowspan="2" | Terje Vigen (1862), Henrik Ibsen
| A Man There Was () (1917)
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| The Lake Calls () (1933)
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| "Trees" (1913), Joyce Kilmer
| Melody Time (1948)
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| Typhoid Sufferers (Serbo-Croatian: Tifusari) (1950), Jure Kaštelan
| Typhoid Sufferers (1963)
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| rowspan="2" | Under Milk Wood (1954), Dylan Thomas
| Under Milk Wood (1972)
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| Under Milk Wood (2015)
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| Valayapathi ()
| Valayapathi (1952)
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| The Vampire (1897), Rudyard Kipling
| The Vampire (1913)
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| rowspan="2" | The Village Blacksmith (1840), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
| The Village Blacksmith (1917)
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| The Village Blacksmith (1922)
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| A Visit from St. Nicholas (1823), Clement Clarke Moore
| The Night Before Christmas (1994)
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| The White Cliffs (1940), Alice Duer Miller
| The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
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| A Bouquet of Folk Legends () (1853), Karel Jaromír Erben
| Wild Flowers () (2000)
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| The Wild Party (1926), Joseph Moncure March
| The Wild Party (1975)
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| The Wind Will Carry Us (, Bād mā rā khāhad bord) (1964), Forough Farrokhzad
| The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
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| (1684), Matsuo Bashō
| Winter Days (2003)
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| rowspan="2" | The Wreck of the Hesperus (1842), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
| The Wreck of the Hesperus (1927)
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| The Wreck of the Hesperus (1948)
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Notes
See also
- Lists of film source material
- List of films based on Greco-Roman mythology