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Below is a list of feature films based on DC characters and properties including its various imprints. It includes serials, fan-made films, documentary films, and animated films.

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List of DC Comics live-action movies

Year Film Production studio Notes
1951 Superman and the Mole Men Lippert Pictures Inc. This movie was the pilot for the 1950s Adventures of Superman TV series.
1954 Stamp Day for Superman U.S. Department of the Treasury Short film. Government film in the public domain.
1966 Batman 20th Century Fox Related to the 1960s Batman TV series.
1978 Superman Warner Bros. Won 1 Special Oscar, Nominated for other 3 Oscars
1980 Superman II
1982 Swamp Thing Embassy Pictures
1983 Superman III Warner Bros. Pictures
1984 Supergirl
1987 Superman IV: The Quest for Peace Golan-Globus/Cannon Films/Warner Bros.
1989 The Return of Swamp Thing Millimiter Films
Batman Warner Bros. Won 1 Oscar
1992 Batman Returns
1995 Batman Forever
1997 Steel
Batman & Robin
2004 Catwoman
2005 Batman Begins Warner Bros./Legendary Pictures Reboot; first movie with the new DC Comics logo, nominated for an Oscar
2006 Superman Returns Related to Superman & Superman II movies, nominated for an Oscar
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut Warner Bros. Re-edit film; direct-to-video.
2008 The Dark Knight Warner Bros./Legendary Pictures Won 2 Oscars
2009 Watchmen Warner Bros./Paramount Pictures/Legendary Pictures
Forthcoming
2010 Jonah Hex Warner Bros./Legendary Pictures In post-production.
Announced
2011 The Green Lantern Warner Bros. Pictures Filming.[1]

DC Comics animated films

All the feature films actually produced by Warner Bros. Animation.

Year Film Notes
1993 Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Theatrical release. Related to Batman: The Animated Series.
1998 Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero Direct-to-video. Related to Batman: The Animated Series.
2000 Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker Direct-to-video. Related to the Batman Beyond TV series.
2003 Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman Direct-to-video. Related to The New Batman Adventures TV series.
2005 The Batman vs. Dracula Direct-to-video. Related to The Batman TV series.
2006 Superman: Brainiac Attacks Direct-to-video. NOT related to Superman: The Animated Series in terms of continuity, but with the same production and character design.
2007 Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo Direct-to-video. Related to Teen Titans TV series.
Superman: Doomsday Direct-to-video. NOT related to Superman: The Animated Series. Loosely based on The Death of Superman storyline.
2008 Justice League: The New Frontier Direct-to-video. NOT related to Justice League TV series. Based on DC: The New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke.
Batman: Gotham Knight Direct-to-video. Collection of six shorts. Related to Batman Begins and The Dark Knight movies.
2009 Wonder Woman Direct-to-video. NOT related to the character as portrayed on Justice League TV series.
Tales of the Black Freighter Direct-to-video. Related to Watchmen film.
Green Lantern: First Flight Direct-to-video. NOT related to the character featured on the Justice League TV series.
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies Direct-to-video. NOT related to the characters as portrayed in the DC Animated Universe. Based on Superman/Batman: Public Enemies storyline.
2010 Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths Direct-to-video. Adapted from an unused movie plot meant to bridge Justice League and Justice League Unlimited. The film is NOT set in the DC Animated Universe. Based loosely on JLA: Earth 2.
Forthcoming
2010 Batman: Under the Red Hood Direct-to-video. NOT related to the characters as portrayed in the DC Animated Universe. Based loosely on the Batman: Under the Hood storyline that ran through Batman #635-641.

Short films

Year Short Production studio Collection Notes
1941 Superman Fleischer Studios Superman In public domain
The Mechanical Monsters
1942 Billion Dollar Limited
The Arctic Giant
The Bulleteers
The Magnetic Telescope
Electric Earthquake
Volcano
Terror on the Midway Famous Studios
Japoteurs
Showdown
Eleventh Hour
Destruction, Inc.
1943 The Mummy Strikes
Jungle Drums
The Underground World
Secret Agent
2003 Chase Me Warner Bros. Animation None Silent film
2010 The Spectre DC Showcase

Serials (1941–1952)

Year Serial Production studio Notes
1941 Adventures of Captain Marvel Republic Pictures Published at that time by Fawcett Comics.
1942 Spy Smasher Published at that time by Fawcett Comics.
1943 Batman Columbia Pictures
1946 Hop Harrigan
1947 The Vigilante
1948 Superman
Congo Bill
1949 Batman and Robin
1950 Atom Man vs. Superman
1952 Blackhawk Published at that time by Quality Comics.

Television movies

Year Movie Production studio Notes
1958 The Adventures of Superpup ABC Unaired.
1961 The Adventures of Superboy Unaired.
1967 Batgirl A promotional short to introduce the Batgirl character into the Batman TV Series.
Who's Afraid of Diana Prince? Unaired short.
1974 Wonder Woman
1975 It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman TV adaptation of the 1960s Broadway musical.
1997 Justice League of America CBS
2005 Global Frequency The WB Television Network Unaired.
2006 Aquaman Unaired.

Television commercials

Year Commercial Company Notes
1952 Superman Kellogg's Kellogg's Eight "integrated commercials" starring George Reeves.
1974 Equal Pay Public Service Announcement Women's rights Put out by the U.S. Department of Labor.
1989 Batman Diet Coke Diet Coke
1997 Hawkman Baby Ruth Baby Ruth A tongue in cheek commercial.
2001 Batman OnStar commercials OnStar A series of six television commercials.
2004 The Adventures of Seinfeld & Superman American Express Two short film commercials promoting American Express.
2006 El Palacio de Hierro El Palacio de Hierro A Mexican commercial starring Wonder Woman, Catwoman, and Batgirl.

From other DC Imprints

Year Film Production studio Notes
From Vertigo
2005 Constantine Warner Bros. Based on the Hellblazer character.
V for Vendetta Without credit of its creator, Alan Moore.
2006 The Fountain Graphic novel released before the film.
2007 Stardust Paramount Pictures Storybook by Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess
2010 The Losers Warner Bros. Based on the Vertigo reimagining by Andy Diggle and Jock.
From Paradox Press
2002 Road to Perdition DreamWorks
2005 A History of Violence New Line Cinema The original graphic novel was re-published in Vertigo.
From Wildstorm
1998 Gen¹³ Animated film. Never released in the United States.
2003 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 20th Century Fox Based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore.
2010 Red Summit Entertainment In pre-production. Miniseries by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner.
From the Will Eisner Library
2008 The Spirit Lions Gate Entertainment

Documentary films

Year Documentary Production studio Notes
2006 Look, Up in the Sky: The Amazing Story of Superman Warner Home Video Features interviews with many of the actors, directors, and producers involved with the Superman media.
2009 Under the Hood Detailings the back stories about the characters of the 2009 Watchmen film.

Fan films

Year Film Notes
1964 Batman Dracula By Andy Warhol. It was screened only at his art exhibits.
1966 The Wild World of Batwoman Jerry Warren re-released the film under the title She Was a Hippy Vampire.
1967 Batman Fights Dracula
1993 Alyas Batman en Robin Spoofs the 1960s Batman television series.
2002 Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special Made with a budget of $2,400.
2003 Batman: Dead End Made with a budget of $30,000.
Batman: Revenge (The Batman LEGO Film) Premiered in 2003, nearly three years before LEGO officially announced their Batman product line.
2004 Grayson Original screenplay for a full-length picture is available for download at the Untamed Cinema official website.
Batman: New Times Intended to help sales of the minimates toy line.
2005 Robin's Big Date
2009 Saturday Morning Watchmen An animated parody of Watchmen.

References

  1. ^ Green Lantern Production Begins Today!

See also

External links

DC Comics films
Serials
Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941) • Spy Smasher (1942) • Batman (1943) • The Vigilante (1947) • Hop Harrigan (1946) • Superman (1948) • Congo Bill (1948) • Batman and Robin (1949) • Atom Man vs. Superman (1950) • Blackhawk (1952)
Single films
Superman and the Mole Men (1951) • Batman (1966) • Steel (1997) • Road to Perdition (2002) • Catwoman (2004) • A History of Violence (2005) • Constantine (2005) • V for Vendetta (2005) • Watchmen (2009) • Jonah Hex (2010) • The Losers (2010) • Red (2010) • Green Lantern (2011)
Film series

Batman film series: Batman (1989) • Batman Returns (1992) • Batman Forever (1995) • Batman & Robin (1997) • Batman Begins (2005) • The Dark Knight (2008)

Superman film series: Superman (1978) • Superman II (1980) • Superman III (1983) • Supergirl (1984) • Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) • Superman Returns (2006) • Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006)

Swamp Thing: Swamp Thing (1982) • The Return of Swamp Thing (1989)
DC Comics animated films
Stand-alone films

Superman (1941) • Gen¹³ (1998) • The Batman vs. Dracula (2005) • Superman: Brainiac Attacks (2006) • Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo (2006)
Original Animated Movies

Superman: Doomsday (2007) • Justice League: The New Frontier (2008) • Batman: Gotham Knight (2008) • Wonder Woman (2009) • Green Lantern: First Flight (2009) • Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (2009) • Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (2010) • Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
DC Showcase

The Spectre
Batman: Gotham Knight

Have I Got A Story For You • Crossfire • Field Test • In Darkness Dwells • Working Through Pain • Deadshot
DC animated universe

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993) • Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero (1998) • Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000) • Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman (2003)







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