 An American film was made in 1943 called "Hitler's Madman" but it contained a number of inaccuracies in the story.A more accurate British film, "Operation Daybreak", starring Timothy Bottoms as Kubiš, Martin Shaw as Čurda and Anthony Andrews as Gabčík, was released in 1975.American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote a book-length verse play on the massacre, "The Murder of Lidice", which was excerpted in the 17 October 1942, edition of "Saturday Review", a larger version of which was published in the 19 October 1942 "Life" magazine, and published in full as a book later that year by Harper.