Topic: Napoleonic Wars

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Albert Dieudonné · Gina Manès · Edmond Van Daële · Antonin Artaud

Plot A biopic of Napoleon which spans approximately 16 years. It covers Napoleon's childhood, his first strategic victory (a schoolyard snowball fight), his rise through the ranks after the Revolution and...

Direction Peter Ustinov

Cast Robert Ryan · Peter Ustinov · Terence Stamp · Melvyn Douglas

Plot H.M.S. Avenger is headed into battle against the French fleet during the Napoleonic Wars, and the dark shadow of two recent mutinies in the English fleet concern Captain Vere. He...

Direction Sergei Bondarchuk

Cast Lyudmila Savelyeva · Vyacheslav Tikhonov · Gennadi Ivanov · Anatoli Ktorov

Plot War and Peace (1968) is an eight-hour epic film based on the eponymous book by Leo Tolstoy. Two main story-lines are complex and intertwined. One is the love story of...

Direction Andrew Grieve

Cast Ioan Gruffudd · Robert Lindsay · David Warner · Nicholas Jones

Plot Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and possible execution for their actions in relieving their unstable captain.

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Woody Allen · Diane Keaton · Olga Georges-Picot · James Tolkan

Plot Early 19th Century. Boris Grushenko lives in a small Russian village obsessed with death and his cousin Sonia, who is about to marry a herring trader. Obliged by his family,...

Direction Andrew Grieve

Cast Ioan Gruffudd · Robert Lindsay · David Warner · Nicholas Jones

Plot Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but obviously mentally unstable captain and eventually must mutiny.

Direction King Vidor

Cast Audrey Hepburn · Henry Fonda · Mel Ferrer · Vittorio Gassman

Plot Set against the backdrop of Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia, King Vidor's adaptation of the Tolstoy sprawling classic stars Henry Fonda as Pierre Bezhukov. Despite the vast scope of the...

Direction Andrew Grieve

Cast Ioan Gruffudd · Dorian Healy · Robert Lindsay · Robert Bathurst

Plot Midshipman Horatio Hornblower joins the British fleet just as the French Revolution is about to change European history. But he has worries closer to home as he incurs the wrath...

Direction Ridley Scott

Cast Keith Carradine · Harvey Keitel · Edward Fox · Albert Finney

Plot During the era of the Napoleonic wars, a conflict arises between two of the emperor's cavalry officers when one of them, the aristocratic Lt. D'Hubert (Keith Carradine), is sent by...

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Gregory Peck · Virginia Mayo · Robert Beatty · James Robertson Justice

Plot This swashbuckling high-seas drama, set in the early 1800s, finds its hero caught up in the shifting political tensions between Spain and England and in his own growing relationship with...

Direction Tom Harper

Cast Lily James · Paul Dano · James Norton · Aneurin Barnard

Plot TV Miniseries (2016). 6 Episodes. A story that revolves around five aristocratic families, set during the reign of Alexander I, and centered on the love triangle between Natasha Rostova, Pierre...

Direction Andrew Grieve

Cast Ioan Gruffudd · Robert Lindsay · Antony Sher · John Shrapnel

Plot Lt. Hornblower and his mates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.

Direction Andrew Grieve

Cast Ioan Gruffudd · Robert Lindsay · Denis Lawson · Ian McNeice

Plot While Lt. Hornblower studies for his promotion exam, he is distracted by the serious supply problems that face his crew.

Direction Victor Sjöström

Cast Victor Sjöström · Edith Erastoff · August Falck · Bergliot Husberg

Plot Based on an epic poem by Henrik Ibsen, A MAN THERE WAS (Terje Vigen) is commonly cited as the film that launched Sweden's first golden age of filmmaking. Set during...

Direction Andrew Grieve

Cast Ioan Gruffudd · Robert Lindsay · Paul McGann · Lorcan Cranitch

Plot Hornblower is given a dangerous mission to deliver an emigre French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.

Direction John Davies

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Morag Hood · Alan Dobie · Rupert Davies

Direction Andrew Grieve

Cast Ioan Gruffudd · Robert Lindsay · Cherie Lunghi · Christopher Fulford

Plot Lt. Hornblower and his crew are captured by the enemy while escorting a Duchess who has secrets of her own.

Direction Peter Weir

Cast Russell Crowe · Paul Bettany · James D'Arcy · Max Pirkis

Plot During the Napoleonic Wars, Lucky Jack Aubrey captains the crew of the H.M.S. Surprise. When the ship is suddenly attacked by a superior enemy, it is badly damaged and much...

Direction Andrew Grieve

Cast Ioan Gruffudd · Robert Lindsay · Paul McGann · Lorcan Cranitch

Plot Admiral Pellew interrupts Hornblower's wedding reception and tasks him to locate a British ship which has disappeared off the French coast, where Napoleon's troops are engaged in covert activities.

Direction Sergei Bondarchuk

Cast Rod Steiger · Christopher Plummer · Orson Welles · Jack Hawkins

Plot The film begins with Napoleon's forced abdication in 1814, after the battle of Leipzig. As the British contribution there was confined to one rocket artillery battery, to say (as the...