See also: List of video games based on films.
This page is a list of film adaptations of video games. These include local, national, international, direct-to-video and TV releases, and (in certain cases) online releases. They include their scores on Rotten Tomatoes, the region in which they were released, approximate budget, their approximate box office revenue (for theatrical releases), distributor of the film, and the publisher of the original game at the time the film was made (this means that publishers may change between two adaptations of the same game or game series, such as Mortal Kombat). Also included are short films, cutscene films (made up of cutscenes and cinematics from the actual games), documentaries with video games as their subjects and films in which video games play a large part (such as Tron or WarGames).
By original language of the release.
Title | Direction | Release date | Distributor | Original game publisher | ||||
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Sonic the Hedgehog 3[134] | Jeff Fowler | December 20, 2024 | Sega | |||||
Minecraft[135] [136] | April 4, 2025 | Mojang Studios | ||||||
Mortal Kombat 2[137] | Simon McQuoid | October 24, 2025 | Warner Bros. Games | |||||
Five Nights at Freddy's 2[138] [139] | Emma Tammi | December 5, 2025 | ScottGames | |||||
Street Fighter[140] [141] | TBA | March 20, 2026 | Capcom | |||||
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Bendy and the Ink Machine[142] | TBA | TBA | Joey Drew Studios | |||||
Comix Zone[143] [144] | TBA | TBA | Sega | |||||
Untitled Crossfire film[145] | TBA | TBA | Smilegate | |||||
Days Gone[146] | TBA | TBA | Sony Interactive Entertainment | |||||
Death Stranding[147] | TBA | TBA | A24 | |||||
Untitled Dead by Daylight film[148] | TBA | TBA | TBA | Behavior Interactive | ||||
Dredge[149] | TBA | TBA | Story Kitchen | Team 17 | ||||
Untitled Duke Nukem film[150] | TBA | TBA | Apogee Software/3D Realms | |||||
El Paso, Elsewhere[151] | TBA | TBA | TBA | Strange Scaffold | ||||
Eternal Champions[152] | TBA | TBA | Sega | |||||
Untitled Firewatch film[153] | TBA | TBA | TBA | Panic Inc. | ||||
Five Nights at Freddy's 3 | TBA | TBA | ScottGames | |||||
Ghost of Tsushima[154] | TBA | Sony Interactive Entertainment | ||||||
Gravity Rush[155] | TBA | |||||||
Iron Lung[156] | TBA | David Szymanski | ||||||
Jak and Daxter[157] | TBA | Sony Interactive Entertainment | ||||||
Untitled Just Cause film[158] | TBA | Square Enix | ||||||
Untitled Just Dance film[159] | TBA | TBA | ||||||
Untitled The Legend of Zelda film[160] | TBA | Nintendo | ||||||
Untitled Metal Gear film[161] | TBA | TBA | Konami | |||||
Untitled Pac-Man film[162] | TBA | TBA | Bandai Namco Entertainment | |||||
Untitled Pokémon Detective Pikachu sequel[163] | TBA | Warner Bros. Pictures | Nintendo The Pokémon Company | |||||
Poppy Playtime[164] | TBA | TBA | Mob Entertainment | |||||
Untitled Portal film[165] [166] | TBA | TBA | Valve Corporation | |||||
Untitled Rabbids film[167] | TBA | Ubisoft | ||||||
Return to Silent Hill[168] | Christophe Gans | TBA | TBA | Konami | ||||
Ruiner[169] | Wes Ball | TBA | Reikon Games | |||||
Untitled Saints Row film[170] | TBA | TBA | Deep Silver | |||||
Sifu[171] | TBA | TBA | Story Kitchen | Slocap | ||||
The Sims[172] | TBA | TBA | Electronic Arts | |||||
Slime Rancher[173] | TBA | TBA | Story Kitchen | Monomi Park | ||||
Space Channel 5 | TBA | TBA | Sega | |||||
Untitled Space Invaders film[174] | TBA | TBA | Taito | |||||
Untitled Streets of Rage film[175] | TBA | TBA | Sega | |||||
TBA | TBA | TBA | Outfit7 | |||||
Untitled Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon film[176] | TBA | Ubisoft | ||||||
Untitled Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell film[177] | TBA | TBA | Paramount Pictures Warner Bros. Pictures | |||||
Until Dawn[178] | TBA | Sony Interactive Entertainment | ||||||
Watch Dogs[179] | Mathieu Turi | TBA | TBA | Ubisoft | ||||
Untitled Yakuza film[180] | TBA | TBA | TBA | Sega |
Title | Direction | Release date | Worldwide box office | Distributor | Original game publisher | |||
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Hironobu Sakaguchi | $85,131,830[181] | %[182] | /100[183] | Square | ||||
N/A | 50%[184] | N/A | Square Enix Holdings | |||||
Makoto Kamiya | $403,117[185] | % | N/A | Capcom | ||||
$2,325,035[186] | % | N/A | ||||||
Morgan Francis | $2,883,694[187] | % | N/A | Mind Candy | ||||
Heavenly Sword | Gun Ho Jung | N/A[188] | N/A[189] | N/A | Sony Computer Entertainment | |||
Ratchet & Clank | $13,385,737[190] | %[191] | /100[192] | Sony Interactive Entertainment | ||||
The Angry Birds Movie | $352,333,929[193] | %[194] | /100[195] | Rovio Entertainment | ||||
Takanori Tsujimoto | $256,320[196] | % | N/A | Capcom | ||||
The Angry Birds Movie 2 | $147,792,047[197] | %[198] | /100[199] | Rovio Entertainment | ||||
The Super Mario Bros. Movie | $1,361,992,475[200] [201] | %[202] | /100[203] | Nintendo | ||||
$61,511[204] [205] | %[206] | N/A | Capcom |
Title | Director | Release date | Distributor | Original game publisher | |
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2[207] | Aaron Horvath Michael Jelenic | April 3, 2026 | Nintendo | ||
The Angry Birds Movie 3[208] | John Rice | TBA | Rovio Entertainment | Sega Rovio Entertainment | |
Stray[209] | TBA | TBA | Annapurna Interactive |
Title | Direction | Release date | Domestic box office | Original game publisher | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tokimeki Memorial | N/A | Konami | |||
Forbidden Siren | February 9, 2006 | ¥790,000,000[210] | Sony Computer Entertainment | ||
Like a Dragon | ¥32,846,976[211] | Sega | |||
OneChanbara | Yōhei Fukuda | N/A | D3 | ||
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni | ¥200,000,000[212] | 07th Expansion | |||
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Chikai | N/A | 07th Expansion | |||
Ace Attorney | ¥540,000,000[213] | Capcom | |||
Ao Oni | Daisuke Nibayashi | ¥200,000,000[214] | noprops | ||
Gekijōban Zero (Fatal Frame/Project Zero) | ¥120,000,000[215] | Koei Tecmo | |||
Ao Oni ver2.0 | Hideaki Maekawa | N/A | noprops | ||
Corpse Party | Yamada Masafumi | N/A | Kenix Soft | ||
Corpse Party Book of Shadows | N/A | Kenix Soft | |||
House of Neko Atsume | Masatoshi Kurakata | N/A | Hit-Point Co. |
Title | Direction | Release date | Worldwide box office | Distributor | Original game publisher | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(JP) November 12, 1999 (NA) | $172,744,662[216] | %[217] | /100[218] | Nintendo | ||||
Pokémon: The Movie 2000 | (JP) July 21, 2000 (NA) | $133,949,270[219] | %[220] | /100[221] | ||||
(JP) April 6, 2001 (NA) | $68,411,275[222] | %[223] | /100[224] | |||||
Pokémon 4Ever | (JP) October 11, 2002 (NA) | $28,023,563[225] | %[226] | /100[227] | Toho Miramax Films | |||
Pokémon Heroes | (JP) May 16, 2003 (NA) | $20,867,919[228] | %[229] | /100[230] | ||||
Pokémon: Jirachi Wish Maker | ¥4,500,000,000[231] | N/A | N/A | |||||
¥4,380,000,000[232] | N/A | N/A | ||||||
¥4,300,000,000[233] | N/A | N/A | Toho Viz Media | |||||
Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea | ¥3,400,000,000 | N/A | N/A | |||||
¥5,020,000,000 | N/A | N/A | ||||||
Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior | ¥4,800,000,000 | N/A | N/A | |||||
¥4,670,000,000 | N/A | N/A | ||||||
Pokémon: Zoroark: Master of Illusions | $71,143,529[234] | N/A | N/A | |||||
¥4,330,000,000 | N/A | N/A | ||||||
¥3,610,000,000 | N/A | N/A | ||||||
¥3,170,000,000 | N/A | N/A | ||||||
¥2,910,000,000 | N/A | N/A | ||||||
Shigeharu Takahashi Shinji Ushiro | $80,268,947 | %[235] | N/A | Toho | Level-5 | |||
Kunihiko Yuyama | ¥2,610,000,000 | N/A | N/A | Nintendo | ||||
Yo-Kai Watch: Enma Daiō to Itsutsu no Monogatari da Nyan! | Shigeharu Takahashi Shinji Ushiro | $58,850,969 | N/A | N/A | Toho | Level-5 | ||
Takeshi Nozue | (JP) (NA) | $6,550,000[236] [237] | %[238] | /100[239] | Square Enix | |||
Kunihiko Yuyama | ¥2,150,000,000 | N/A | N/A | Nintendo | ||||
(JP) November 5, 2017 (NA) | [240] [241] | %[242] | N/A | |||||
Tomonori Sudō | $19,027,568 | N/A | N/A | Type-Moon | ||||
Tetsuo Yajima | (JP) November 24, 2018 (NA) | $23,740,788[243] | %[244] | N/A | Nintendo | |||
Tomonori Sudō | $19,790,000[245] | N/A | N/A | Type-Moon | ||||
Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution | Kunihiko Yuyama Motonori Sakakibara | ¥2,980,000,000 | N/A | N/A | Nintendo | |||
NiNoKuni | $2,000,000 | N/A | N/A | Bandai Namco Entertainment | ||||
Tomonori Sudō | $19,252,497 | N/A | N/A | Type-Moon | ||||
Tetsuo Yajima | $23,600,000 | N/A | N/A | Nintendo |
Title | Direction | Release date | Domestic box office | Original game publisher | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Masami Hata | N/A | Nintendo | |||
Tameo Kohanawa | N/A | Hudson Soft | |||
Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibōken | Nobutaka Nishizawa | N/A | Toei | ||
Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibōken Tachiagare!! Aban no Shito | Hiroki Shibata | N/A | Toei | ||
Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibōken Buchiya bure!! Shinsei Rokudai Shoguo | Nobutaka Nishizawa | N/A | Toei | ||
N/A | SNK | ||||
$16,000,000[246] | Capcom | ||||
[247] | Sega | ||||
Air | N/A | Key | |||
Animal Crossing | Jōji Shimura | ¥1,700,000,000 | Nintendo | ||
Clannad | Osamu Dezaki | N/A | Key | ||
Makoto Kamiya | ¥43,000,000 | Capcom | |||
Kanta Kamei | ¥84,549,987 | Bandai Namco Games | |||
Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva | Masakazu Hashimoto | ¥610,000,000 | Level-5 | ||
Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works | ¥280,000,000 | Type-Moon | |||
Kazuya Nomura | N/A | Capcom | |||
Yōichi Mōri | N/A | Bandai Namco Games | |||
N/A | Electronic Arts | ||||
Fuminori Kizaki | N/A | Sega | |||
Noriaki Akitaya Tomohisa Taguchi | ¥201,886,754[248] | Atlus | |||
Atsushi Nishigori | ¥772,973,700[249] | Namco Bandai Games | |||
Pretty Rhythm All-Star Selection: Prism Show☆Best Ten | Masakazu Hishida | N/A | Takara Tomy | ||
Tomohisa Taguchi | ¥152,752,386 | Atlus | |||
Aikatsu! The Movie | Ryūichi Kimura Yuichiro Yano | ¥560,000,000[250] | Bandai Namco Games | ||
Masakazu Hishida | ¥100,000,000[251] | Takara Tomy | |||
Keitaro Motonaga | N/A | Atlus | |||
N/A | Broccoli | ||||
Aikatsu! Music Award: Minna de Shō o MoraimaSHOW! | Shin'ya Watada | ¥130,000,000 | Bandai Namco Games | ||
Nobutaka Yoda | N/A | Takara Tomy | |||
King of Prism by Pretty Rhythm | Masakazu Hishida | ¥800,000,000[252] | |||
Tomohisa Taguchi | ¥42,981,563[253] | Atlus | |||
PriPara Minna no Akogare Let's Go PriPari | Makoto Moriwaki Masao Okubo | ¥45,000,000[254] | Takara Tomy | ||
Monster Strike The Movie | Shinpei Ezaki | ¥740,000,000[255] | Mixi | ||
Shigeharu Takahashi Shinji Ushiro Takeshi Yokoi | ¥3,260,000,000[256] | Level-5 | |||
Takanori Tsujimoto | ¥150,000,000[257] | Capcom | |||
Masakazu Hishida | ¥600,000,000[258] | Takara Tomy | |||
¥2,040,000,000 | Level-5 | ||||
Monster Strike The Movie: Sora no Kanata | Hiroshi Nishikiori | ¥364,672,100[259] | Mixi | ||
Shigeru Takahashi | ¥1,250,000,000 | Level-5 | |||
King of Prism: Shiny Seven Stars I: Prologue × Yukinojo × Taiga | Masakazu Hishida | ¥320,000,000 | Takara Tomy | ||
King of Prism: Shiny Seven Stars II: Kakeru × Joji × Minato | |||||
King of Prism: Shiny Seven Stars III: Leo × Yu × Alec | |||||
King of Prism: Shiny Seven Stars IV: Louis × Shin × Unknown | |||||
Takashi Yamazaki Ryuichi Yagi Makoto Hanafusa | ¥1,420,000,000 | Square Enix | |||
Shūhei Matsushita | N/A | Rayark |
Title | Direction | Release date | Domestic box office | Original game publisher | ||||||
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Legend of the Ancient Sword | ¥14,119,000[260] | [261] | ||||||||
Detention | NT$260 million[262] | Red Candle Games | ||||||||
Dynasty Warriors: Destiny of an Emperor | HK$6,440,000 (US$830,000)[263] | Koei Tecmo Games | Upcoming-->< | --This part of the table is for all announced series that have specific release dates announced. Any other series that would fit in this table otherwise, but only has a release year, month or time frame should be included in the table further down the page. Thank you. --> |
Title | Direction | Release date | Original game publisher | |
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SNK | ||||
SNK | ||||
Art of Fighting | Hiroshi Fukutomi | SNK | ||
Hiroshi Ishiodori | SNK | |||
Kunihiko Yuyama Masamitsu Hidaka | (Japan) (North America) | Nintendo | ||
Pokémon: The Legend of Thunder | Norihiro Matsubara Yūko Inoue | (Japan) June 3/10, 2006 (North America) | Nintendo | |
House of the Dead 2 (live-action) | Michael Hurst | Sega | ||
Kunihiko Yuyama Masamitsu Hidaka | (North America) (Japan) | Nintendo | ||
(live-action) | Michael Nankin | THQ | ||
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kaku: Outbreak | Toshifumi Kawase | 07th Expansion | ||
Rabbids Invasion Mission to Mars | Franz Kirchner | Ubisoft |
Title | Direction | Release date | Original game publisher | |
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Untitled Beyond Good & Evil film[286] | TBA | Ubisoft | ||
BioShock[287] | TBA | 2K Games | ||
Gears of War[288] [289] | TBA | TBA | Xbox Game Studios | |
Untitled Carmen Sandiego film[290] | TBA | TBA | Brøderbund | |
Untitled Dragon's Lair film[291] | TBA | Cinematronics | ||
Untitled It Takes Two film[292] | TBA | TBA | Electronic Arts | |
Mega Man[293] [294] | TBA | TBA | Capcom | |
ToeJam & Earl[295] | TBA | TBA | Sega | |
Untitled Tom Clancy's The Division film[296] | TBA | Ubisoft |
Title | Direction | Release date | Original game publisher | |
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Mirai Ninja | 1988 | Namco | ||
Tokimeki Memorial | Hiroshi Sugawara | Konami | ||
Takeshi Miyasaka | Sega | |||
Majesco | ||||
Alone in the Dark II | Infogrames | |||
OneChanbara: The Movie – Vortex | Tsuyoshi Shôji | D3 | ||
The King of Fighters | SNK Playmore | |||
Uwe Boll | Majesco | |||
Microsoft Studios | ||||
Microsoft Studios | ||||
Company of Heroes | THQ | |||
Zombie Massacre | Luca Boni Marco Ristori | 1988 Games | ||
Uwe Boll | Microsoft Studios | |||
Joey Ansah | Capcom | |||
Bandai Namco Games | ||||
Microsoft Studios | ||||
Capcom | ||||
Capcom | ||||
It Came from the Desert | Cinemaware | |||
id Software |
Title | Direction | Release date | Original game publisher | |
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Tengai Makyō Jiraia Oboro Hen | Ouji Hiroi Yoshio Takeuchi | Hudson Soft/Red Entertainment | ||
Ninja Gaiden | Tecmo | |||
Joseph Francis | Midway | |||
Battle Arena Toshinden | Sony | |||
Sonic the Hedgehog | Kazutaka Ikegami | |||
Masami Ōbari | 1997 | SNK | ||
Namco | ||||
Samurai Spirits 2: Asura Zanmaden | Kazuhiro Sasaki | SNK | ||
Shigeyasu Yamauchi | Capcom | |||
Yasunori Urata | Ritual Entertainment | |||
Tetsuya Watanabe | Konami | |||
Nakoruru ~Ano hito kara no okurimono~ | Katsuma Kanazawa | SNK | ||
Welcome to Pia Carrot - Sayaka's Love Story | Yuuji Mutou | Cocktail Soft | ||
Masahiko Maesawa | ASCII | |||
Square Enix | ||||
Ikuo Kuwana | Capcom | |||
Elf Bowling the Movie | NStorm | |||
Electronic Arts | ||||
Capcom | ||||
Mike Disa Shukō Murase Yasuomi Umetsu Victor Cook Jong-Sik Nam Kim Sang-jin Lee Seung-Gyu | Electronic Arts | |||
Halo Legends | Frank O'Connor Joseph Chou | Microsoft Game Studios | ||
Electronic Arts | ||||
Atsushi Takeuchi | Electronic Arts | |||
Ethan Spaulding Jay Oliva | Warner Bros. Interactive | |||
Heavenly Sword | Gun Ho Jung | Sony Computer Entertainment America | ||
Soichi Masui | – | Square Enix | ||
Final Fantasy XV: Episode Ardyn – Prologue | Shinichi Kurita | Square Enix | ||
Ethan Spaulding | [297] | Warner Bros. Interactive | ||
Warner Bros. Interactive | ||||
Injustice | Matt Peters | [298] | Warner Bros. Interactive | |
Rick Morales | Warner Bros. Interactive | |||
Ethan Spaulding | Warner Bros. Interactive | |||
Mortal Kombat Legends: Fall of Edenia | TBA | 2024 | Warner Bros. Interactive |
Listed below are original short films produced, commissioned or licensed from a game publisher.
Title | Direction | Release date | Original game publisher | |
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Shigeyasu Yamauchi | Bandai | |||
Front Mission | Yoshihiko Dai | Squaresoft | ||
Front Mission Series: Gun Hazard | Squaresoft | |||
Abe's Exoddus: The Movie | Oddworld Inhabitants | |||
Grand Theft Auto 2: The Movie | Alex De Rakoff Jamie King | Rockstar Games | ||
Run the Gauntlet (Driv3r) | Sean Mullens | 2004 | Atari | |
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Introduction | Unknown | 2004 | Rockstar Games | |
Crash Bandicoot: No Use Crying (Crash of the Titans) | Jamie Dixon | 2007 | ||
Crash Bandicoot Monster Truck (Crash of the Titans) | 2007 | |||
Crash Bandicoot – Titan Idol (Crash of the Titans) | 2007 | |||
Crash Bandicoot – Have Another (Crash of the Titans) | 2007 | |||
Deep Dive (Kingdom Hearts) | Square Enix | |||
Halo: Landfall | Microsoft Game Studios | |||
Heavenly Sword | Sony Computer Entertainment America | |||
Takashi Nakashima | Sega | |||
Kijujud ayo (Resident Evil 5) | Unknown | 2009 | Capcom | |
Ubisoft | ||||
Bright Falls | Phillip Van | – | Microsoft Game Studios | |
Joey Ansah | Capcom | |||
Red Dead Redemption: The Man from Black Water | Rockstar Games | |||
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment | ||||
Zombrex Dead Rising Sun (Dead Rising 2) | – | Capcom | ||
Yoshihiro Ueda | Bandai Namco Entertainment | |||
(Call of Duty) | Jeff Chan | Activision | ||
Laurent Bernier Ghislain Ouellet | Ubisoft | |||
BioWare | ||||
François Alaux Herve de Crecy | 2012 | Ubisoft | ||
Diablo III - Wrath | ||||
Tekken Tag Tournament 2[299] | Vincent Gatinaud | Bandai Namco Games | ||
Modern Warfare: Sunrise (Call of Duty) | Guillermo de Oliveira Javier Esteban Loring | Activision | ||
Expiration Date (Team Fortress 2) | Valve | |||
Shadow of Mordor | Sam Gorski Niko Pueringer | |||
Payday 2: Hoxton Breakout (Payday 2) | Unknown | Overkill Software | ||
The Night Juicer (Pikmin) | Matsaru Matsuse | Nintendo | ||
Treasure in a Bottle (Pikmin) | Nintendo | |||
Occupational Hazards (Pikmin) | Nintendo | |||
Star Fox Zero: The Battle Begins | Kyoji Asano | Nintendo | ||
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands: War Within the Cartel | Avi Youabian | Ubisoft | ||
The Light Candle[300] | Unknown | Blizzard Entertainment | ||
Papers, Please - The Short Film | Nikita Ordynskiy | Lucas Pope | ||
The Far Cry Experience[301] | Antoine Blossier | Ubisoft | ||
Far Cry 5: Inside Eden's Gate (Far Cry 5) | Barry Battles | Ubisoft | ||
Jos Humphrey | Broderbund | |||
Conviction (Anthem) | Neill Blom kampSam McGlynn | BioWare | ||
PUBG - The Worst Player in the World (PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds) | Ricky Mabe | Bluehole | ||
The Division 2 - Warlords of New York | Olivier Lescot Boddicker |
Title | Direction | Release date | Subject |
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8BIT | Marcin Ramocki Justin Strawhand | 2006 | The intersections of video games, art, and music |
Lincoln Ruchti | 2007 | The golden age of video arcade games | |
The rivalry between Billy Mitchell and Steve Wiebe over the Donkey Kong record high score | |||
Frag | Mike Pasley | 2008 | Professional video gaming |
Second Skin | Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza | Follows seven people through the world of MMORPGs | |
Adam Cornelius | 2011 | A documentary following world-record holding Tetris players as they prepare for the 2010 Championships[302] | |
James Swirsky Lisanne Pajot | 2012 | Documentary about the struggles of independent game developers Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes during the development of Super Meat Boy, Phil Fish during the development of Fez, and also Jonathan Blow, who reflects on the success of Braid. | |
Thank You for Playing | David Osit Malika Zouhali-Worrall | 2015 | Follows the creation of the arthouse video game That Dragon, Cancer[303] |
The Lost Arcade | Kurt Vincent | 2015 | About the influence of the Chinatown Fair arcade on the fighting game community and New York City as a whole.[304] |
Moleman 4 - Longplay | Szilárd Matusik | 2017 | A documentary which recounts the so far little-known story of the beginnings of video game development behind the Iron Curtain. Outfoxed Nintendo, surprised Commodore engineers, The Last Ninja story, a games software outfit that dodged the limelight and led the world. |
Polybius: The Video Game That Doesn't Exist | Stuart Brown | 2017 | About the urban legend of Polybius.[305] |
League of Legends Origins | 2019 | Fans, experts and creators of the League of Legends detail the game's rise from free demo to global esports titan.[306] | |
Uncle Art | Lucy Lowe | 2019 | The story of the man behind some of the most memorable gaming music of the '80s and '90s -- Starglider, Carrier Command, Beneath a Steel Sky, After Burner and more: Dave Lowe.[307] |
Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest | Mads Hedegaard | 2022 | Following the attempts of Kim "Cannon Arm" Kobke to break the world record of arcade game Gyruss.[308] |
Title | Direction | Original air date(s) | Network | Subject | |
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Thumb Candy | James Bobin | 2000 | History of video games | ||
Games Odyssey | Carsten Walter | 2002 | German four-part documentary about the history of video games, simulations, digital adventures and video games as an art form | ||
Game Makers | Various directors | 2002–2005 | Series on video game industry figures | ||
Tetris: From Russia With Love | Magnus Temple | 2004 | BBC Four | History of the 1980s Tetris game phenomenon | |
The Video Game Revolution | Greg Palmer | 2004 | |||
History of Video Games | Unknown | No before than February 2005 | Discovery Asia | ||
Game On!: The Unauthorized History of Videogames | Bob Waldman | 2006 | The story of the video games industry at the Wii and PlayStation 3 console launches | ||
I, VIDEOGAME | Unknown | 2007 | |||
Rise of the Video Game | David Kempner | 2007 | Discovery | [309] | |
Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe | Al Campbell | 2009 | |||
Cyberdreams/Cyberdrømme | Unknown | 2011 | DK4 Denmark | Danish documentary about the national eSports team competing in World Cyber Games | |
How Videogames Changed the World | Graham Proud Marcus Daborn | 2013 | Charlie Brooker explores the history of interactive entertainment and how it is changing how we work, communicate and play | ||
The Gamechangers | 2015 | The story of the controversy caused by Grand Theft Auto, a video game series by Rockstar Games, as various attempts were made to halt the production of the games. |
Title | Direction | Release date | Subject | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games | Nina Huntemann | 2000 | An educational documentary that explores the messages video games send about sex, race, gender, and violence. | |
Once Upon Atari | 2003 | Documentary about the rise and fall of Atari, with behind the scenes input from video game designers and programmers who worked there. | ||
Video Game Invasion: The History of a Global Obsession | David Carr David Comtois | 2004 | Documentary about the history of video games.[310] | |
It's in the Game | Unknown | 2007 | The game industry, technology, and the future of gaming. | |
Beyond the Game | 2008 | About the world of professional video gaming. | ||
Playing Columbine | 2008 | Following the video game Super Columbine Massacre RPG! in which players experience the Columbine High School massacre through the eyes of the murderers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.[311] | ||
Moral Kombat | Spencer Halpin | 2009 | A study of video game violence. | |
Get Lamp | 2010 | Documentary by historian Jason Scott about interactive fiction (text adventures) and Infocom.[312] | ||
King of Chinatown | Jordan Levinson Calvin Theobald | 2010 | Following professional esports player Justin Wong as he and his manager TriForce, attempt to make a career in the competitive Street Fighter IV scene. | |
Level Up - A story about gamers and the games they play | Justin Switzer | 2011 | Exploration of video gaming culture.[313] | |
100 Yen: The Japanese Arcade Experience | Brad Crawford | 2012 | Historical documentary about the evolution of Japanese arcades and the culture surrounding it.[314] | |
Paul Owens | 2012 | Documentary about the history of the company Mojang and its creation, Minecraft.[315] | ||
The Smash Brothers | Travis Beauchamp | 2013 | A documentary series that covers the early years of the Super Smash Bros. Melee competitive scene, focusing on the lives and subsequent story-lines of seven of the game's most dominant players at the time.[316] | |
The Art of the Game | Matthew Davis Walker | 2014 | Documentary that focuses on Academy of Art University students as they compete for a position in the game industry.[317] | |
2014 | Documentary on the Atari video game burial excavation.[318] | |||
Free to Play | 2014 | Documentary by video game developer Valve about the lives of three players competing in a gaming tournament for Dota 2.[319] | ||
From Bedrooms to Billions | Anthony Caulfield Nicola Caulfield | 2014 | Documentary telling the story of the British video games industry from 1979 to the present day.[320] | |
Good Game | Mary Ratliff | 2014 | Nine men pursue careers in competitive video games as members of the Evil Geniuses' StarCraft II division. | |
Gaming in Color | Philip Jones | 2014 | Documentary on the LGBTQ community in video games.[321] | |
The King of Arcades | Sean Tiedeman | 2014 | Following classic arcade collector Richie Knucklez as he opens an arcade business in Flemington, New Jersey. | |
Jeremy Snead | 2014 | Documentary about the history of video games.[322] | ||
GameLoading - Rise of the Indies | Anna Brady Lester Francois | 2015 | Follows several independent game developers, including Davey Wreden (The Stanley Parable), Rami Ismail (Luftrausers) and Zoë Quinn (Depression Quest).[323] | |
GTFO | Shannon Sun-Higginson | 2015 | Documentary about sexism and women in the world of video games.[324] | |
Man vs Snake: The Long and Twisted Tale of Nibbler | Andrew Seklir Tim Kinzy | 2015 | Following players as they try to accumulate a billion points on the 1982 arcade game Nibbler.[325] | |
Nintendo Quest | Rob McCallum | 2015 | Documentary road film about Jay Bartlett and his quest to acquire all 678 licensed Nintendo Entertainment System games within the span of 30 days, without purchasing any games online.[326] | |
Karen Collins | 2016 | Examining the history of game sound design from penny arcades, pinball and video games up to 2015.[327] | ||
FGC: Rise of the Fighting Game Community | Esteban Martinez | 2016 | Documentary about the fighting game community.[328] | |
From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years! | Anthony Caulfield Nicola Caulfield | 2016 | Documentary on the Amiga and how it influenced a generation of game developers. | |
Console Wars | Jonah Tulis Blake J. Harris | 2020 | Documentary about the 1990s console wars between Nintendo and Sega in the 16-bit era and the rise and fall of Sega in the home console market.[329] | |
From Bedrooms to Billions: The PlayStation Revolution | Anthony Caulfield Nicola Caulfield | 2020 | Documentary on the creation of the Sony PlayStation and its successor consoles. | |
Insert Coin | Joshua Y. Tsui | 2020 | Documentary on the history of Midway Games.[330] | |
Metagame | Travis Beauchamp | 2020 | A follow-up to 2013's The Smash Brothers, this documentary series focuses on the events that led up to the rise of the Five Gods of Melee, and their subsequent downfall and defeat at the hands of William "Leffen" Hjelte.[331] | |
Rarity: Retro Video Game Collecting in the Modern Era | Edward Payson | 2021 | Documentary on video game collecting. | |
Power On: The Story of Xbox | Andrew Stephan | 2021 | Documentary of the story of the creation, evolution, challenges and legacy of Microsoft Xbox consoles after 20 years of its original launch, divided on 6 chapters.[332] | |
Stamps Back | Szilárd Matusik | 2022 | The story of how teenagers in Hungary ignited a computing revolution in the 1980s with illegally copied video games from the West, and began the Hungarian demoscene.[333] | |
We Met in Virtual Reality | Joe Hunting | 2022 | Documentary that takes place entirely within the video game VRChat, exploring the social relations developed by users and how their lives were changed by their time on the platform.[334] | |
Running With Speed | Patrick Lope Nicholas Mross | 2023 | Documentary about the speedrunning community narrated by speedrunning historian Summoning Salt.[335] | |
FPS: First Person Shooter | David L. Craddock Christopher Stratton | 2023 | Bringing together the largest ensemble of gaming icons ever assembled on screen, FPS: First Person Shooter takes fans on a nostalgic journey through classics from Doom and Duke Nukem 3D to GoldenEye 007, Halo, and beyond. |
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George A. Romero's Resident Evil | Brandon Salisbury | TBA | About the unrealized film adaptation of the horror video game series Resident Evil, for which filmmaker George A. Romero was considered as a director.[336] | |
Grand Theft Hamlet | Sam Crane Pinny Grylls | TBA | Documentary about a production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet delivered entirely in Grand Theft Auto Online during the COVID-19 lockdown in England in 2020.[337] |