Jack London's novel has been adapted for motion pictures:
- The Sea Wolf (1913), a silent motion picture starring Hobart Bosworth, with author Jack London appearing as an unnamed sailor
- The Sea Wolf (1920), a silent motion picture starring Noah Beery (Larsen) and Tom Forman (Van Weyden)
- The Sea Wolf (1926), a silent motion picture starring Ralph Ince and Claire Adams (Maud)
- The Sea Wolf (1930), starring Milton Sills and the former USRC Bear as the sealer Macedonia
- The Sea Wolf (1941), starring Edward G. Robinson (Larsen), Ida Lupino (Ruth), and John Garfield
- Wolf Larsen (1958), starring Barry Sullivan and Peter Graves
- Der Seewolf (Germany, 1971, TV, 4 part miniseries), starring Raimund Harmstorf and Edward Meeks
- Legend of the Sea Wolf (Italy, 1975), starring Chuck Connors and Giuseppe Pambieri
- Morskoj volk (USSR, 1990, TV), starring Liubomiras Lauciavicius and Andrei Rudensky
- The Sea Wolf (1993, TV), starring Christopher Reeve and Charles Bronson
- The Sea Wolf (1997), starring Stacy Keach
- The Sea Wolf (ProSieben, Germany, 2008), starring Thomas Kretschmann[13]
- Sea Wolf (ZDF, Canada/Germany, 2009), starring Sebastian Koch, Stephen Campbell Moore, Neve Campbell and Tim Roth. Produced by TeleMünchen[14]