List of films based on spy books

A list of spy films that are based on books. If a book has been turned into both a film and a TV series (or TV film), then the TV series is included.

Early USA
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World War I
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World War II

 * * BBC mini-series
 * & pre-WWII

Cold War
* BBC mini-series

In March 2015, shooting wrapped on the film adaptation, Damascus Cover of Howard Kaplan's novel The Damascus Cover set in 1989 at the fall of the Berlin Wall, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, John Hurt, Jurgen Prochnow and Olivia Thirlby.