A Matter of Life and Death

A Matter of Life and Death may refer to:

Films

• A Matter of Life and Death (1946 film), starring David Niven
• A Matter of Life and Death, a 1972 film based on a novel by Yannis Maris
• A Matter of Life and Death, a 1981 television film based on the life of Joy Ufema, a nurse and thanatologist
• A Matter of Life and Death (2025 film), a romcom film directed by Anas Ba-Tahaf

Television episodes

• "A Matter of Life and Death", Against the Wind episode 10 (1978)
• "A Matter of Life and Death", Baywatch season 3, episode 12 (1993)
• "A Matter of Life and Death", Climax! season 4, episode 11 (1957)
• "A Matter of Life and Death", Desmond's series 5, episode 12 (1993)
• "A Matter of Life and Death", I Am a Killer season 1, episode 10 (2018)
• "A Matter of Life and Death", Law of the Plainsman episode 3 (1959)
• "A Matter of Life and Death", Norman Corwin Presents episode 22 (1972)
• "A Matter of Life and Death", Secret Army series 2, episode 11 (1978)
• "A Matter of Life and Death", Sisters season 2, episode 17 (1992)
• "A Matter of Life and Death", The Ambassador series 2, episode 5 (1999)
• "A Matter of Life and Death", The Bill series 9, episode 84 (1993)
• "A Matter of Life and Death", The Event episode 4 (2010)
• "A Matter of Life and Death", The Honeymooners episode 5 (1955)
• "A Matter of Life and Death", The Protectors series 1, episode 16 (1973)
• "Matter of Life and Death", Space: 1999 series 1, episode 13 (1975)
• "Matters of Life and Death", All Creatures Great and Small (1978) series 3, episode 12 (1980)
• "Matters of Life and Death", Quincy, M.E. season 3, episode 14 (1978)
• "Matters of Life and Death", Seven Seconds episode 3 (2018)

Literature

Fiction

• A Matter of Death and Life, a 1996 novel by Andrey Kurkov
• A Matter of Life and Death, a 2009 book by Alistair McGowan and Ronni Ancona
• A Matter of Life and Death, a 2016 Doctor Who graphic novel written by George Mann, featuring the Eighth Doctor
• A Matter of Life and Death, a 2021 novel by Phillip Margolin
• A Matter of Life and Death, a 2022 novel by Simon R. Green, the second installment in the Gideon Sable series
• Matters of Life and Death: New American Stories, a 1983 short story anthology edited by Tobias Wolff
• Matters of Life & Death, a 2006 short story collection by Bernard MacLaverty

Non-fiction

• A Matter of Death and Life, a 2021 non-fiction book by Irvin D. Yalom and Marilyn Yalom

Other uses

• A Matter of Life and Death (album), a 2006 album by Iron Maiden
• A Matter of Life and Death (play), a 2007 stage adaptation of the 1946 film

See also

• Life and death (disambiguation)