A 1970 installment of The Wednesday Play titled Mad Jack based on Sassoon's wartime experiences and their aftermath leading to his renunciation of his Military Cross starred Michael Jayston as Sassoon.
The novel Regeneration by Pat Barker is a fictionalized account of this period in Sassoon's life, and was made into a film starring James Wilby as Sassoon and Jonathan Pryce as W. H. R. Rivers, the psychiatrist responsible for Sassoon's treatment. Rivers became a kind of surrogate father to the troubled young man, and his sudden death in 1922 was a major blow to Sassoon.
In 2014, John Hurt played the older Sassoon and Morgan Watkins the young Sassoon in The Pity of War, a BBC dramatized documentary.[63]
A film titled The Burying Party (released August 2018) depicts Wilfred Owen's final year from Craiglockhart Hospital to the Battle of the Sambre (1918), including his meeting with Sassoon at the hospital. Matthew Staite stars as Owen and Sid Phoenix as Sassoon. [64][65]
Peter Capaldi and Jack Lowden portrayed Sassoon in Terence Davies' 2021 film Benediction.[66]
Timothy Renouf portrayed Sassoon in The Laureate, a 2021 biographical film about Robert Graves.[67]
Stevan Rimkus portrayed Sassoon in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles episode Somme, Early August 1916.[68]
