The Hunger Games

I spent a lot of time watching films like 'The Battle of Algiers', 'Reds', 'Nashville', 'Apocalypse Now', a lot of films from the 70s. Also films like 'The Emigrants' and 'The New Land' (two Swedish films, a Bergman movie and an Astrakhan movie, by Jan Troell) which are just about people trying to survive and keep their family together. That kind of thing.

I spent a lot of time watching films like 'The Battle of Algiers', 'Reds', 'Nashville', 'Apocalypse Now', a lot of films from the 70s... films about people trying to survive and keep their family together.

— Gary Ross  ·  Hollywood.com (Interview: Gary Ross Reveals The Influences Behind The Hunger Games)

Films That Influenced The Hunger Games

The Battle of Algiers

1966 · Gillo Pontecorvo

Algeria