Film and Stage Adaptations of Forster

This is an incomplete list of adaptations of Forster’s works for screen and stage. Please help us complete this list by sending us information about further adaptations (i.e. other film adaptations and published stage adaptations).

    Title     Year     Type     Author/Director Further Info Links
Where Angels Fear to Tread 1965 Screen Adaptation (Film/Movie) Naomi Kapon screenplay: Elisabeth Hart, producer: Cedric Messina (BBC Play of the Month Season 1 Episode 5) IMDB
The Machine Stops 1966 Screen Adaptation (Film/Movie) Philip Saville screenplay: Kenneth Cavander, Clive Donner, , producer: BBC (episode 1 in the 2nd season of the TV series Out of the Unknown) IMDB, Amazon.co.uk
A Passage to India 1984 Screen Adaptation (Film/Movie) David Lean screenplay: David Lean, producer: John Bradbourne, Richard Goodwin IMDB, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com
Maurice 1987 Screen Adaptation (Film/Movie) James Ivory screenplay: Kit Hesketh-Harvey, producer: Ismael Merchant IMDB, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com
A Room with a View 1987 Screen Adaptation (Film/Movie) James Ivory screenplay: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, producer: Ismael Merchant IMDB, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com
Where Angels Fear to Tread 1991 Screen Adaptation (Film/Movie) Charles Sturridge screenplay: Tim Sullivan, producer: Derek Granger IMDB, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com
Howards End 1992 Screen Adaptation (Film/Movie) James Ivory screenplay: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, producer: Ismael Merchant IMDB, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com
A Room with a View 2007 Screen Adaptation (Film/Movie) Nicholas Renton screenplay: Andrew Davies, producer IWC Media IMDB, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com
The Machine Stops 2009 Screen Adaptation (Film/Movie) Adam Freise, Nathan Freise screenplay: Adam Freise, Nathan Freise (10 minutes long short) IMDB, YouTube
The Machine Stops 2010 Screen Adaptation (Film/Movie) Jesse McNeely, Chantelle Sousa producer: Digital Media Studio (20 minutes long animated movie – machinima animation – created by Joseph DeLappe’s Art 343 Imaging and Mixed Media course in the Spring of 2010, through the Digital Media program at the University of Nevada, Reno.) YouTube, YouTube
The Machine Stops 2011 Screen Adaptation (Film/Movie) Alex Vaughan screenplay: Alex Vaughan and Agnes Calka, producer: Gerson Cobaxin (10 minutes long short shot on campus at North Lake College in Irving, Texas) YouTube
Where Angels Fear to Tread: A Play in Two Acts 1963 Stage Adaptation (Play) Elisabeth Hart London: S. French Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com
A Passage to India: A Play 1960 Stage Adaptation (Play) Santha Rama Rau London: Edward Arnold Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com
A Passage to India 2002 Stage Adaptation (Play) Martin Sherman London: Methuen Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com
Howards End 2017 Screen Adaptation (Film/Movie) Hettie MacDonald screenplay: Kenneth Lonergan, producer: Playground Television UK, KippSter Entertainment (original networks: BBC One, Starz) BBC, Amazon.co.uk