All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Phil Alden Robinson, ranked

36-year old Ray Kinsella lives with his wife Annie and daughter Karin on their Iowa corn farm. He is troubled by the relationship with his late father, John Kinsella, a devoted baseball fan, and constantly fears growing old without ever achieving anything. Walking through his cornfield one evening, he hears a voice whispering, ‘If you build it, he will come’. Ray believes if he builds a baseball field, Shoeless Joe, whom his father idolized, can play baseball again.

In 1973, during the Yom Kippur War, an Israeli warplane carrying a nuclear bomb is shot down. In 2002, a Syrian scrap collector uncovers a large unexploded bomb buried in a field in the Golan Heights. He sells it to a South African black market arms trafficker named Olson, who recognizes it as the nuclear bomb that was lost during that war.