Topic: Napoleonic Wars

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Daniel Olbrychski · Boguslaw Kierc · Piotr Wysocki · Beata Tyszkiewicz

Direction Yves Simoneau

Cast Christian Clavier · Isabella Rossellini · Gérard Depardieu · John Malkovich

Plot The year is 1816, and NAPOLEON, held prisoner by the British on the island of St. Helena, is telling the young English girl BETSY his life story. His meteoric rise...

Direction Tom Clegg

Cast Sean Bean · Pete Postlethwaite · Daragh O'Malley · Hugh Fraser

Plot Spain 1812. After Ciudad Rodrigo, Teresa tells Sharpe that they have a baby daughter. In Badajoz, the next siege target. Meanwhile, a new commander has taken over the South Essex,...

Direction Robert Dornhelm · Brendan Donnison

Cast Brenda Blethyn · Malcolm McDowell · Clémence Poésy · Alexander Beyer

Plot Leo Tolstoy's epic historical novel comes to life in this sumptuous remaking of this timeless tale of self-sacrifice and self-indulgence, set against the background of Russian social life during the...

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Alec Guinness · Dirk Bogarde · Anthony Quayle · Tom Bell

Plot The crew of a British sailing ship threatens mutiny during the Napoleonic wars.

Direction Antoine de Caunes

Cast Philippe Torreton · Richard E. Grant · Jay Rodan · Elsa Zylberstein

Plot A historical mystery thriller about Napoleon Bonaparte. Sir Hudson Lowe (Richard E. Grant) is assigned to guard Napoleon (Philippe Torreton) while the latter is in exile in Saint Helena. A...

Direction David Attwood

Cast Benedict Cumberbatch · Victoria Hamilton · Sam Neill · Jared Harris

Plot It's 1812 and Edmund Talbot is travelling on board a decrepit wooden warship. He is on his way to Australia to take up a Government post secured for him by...

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Marlon Brando · Jean Simmons · Merle Oberon · Michael Rennie

Plot In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins...

Direction Tom Clegg

Cast Sean Bean · Brian Cox · Daragh O'Malley · Assumpta Serna

Plot During the Peninsular War in Spain against the French Sergeant Richard Sharpe saves the life of Arthur Wellesley,the future Duke of Wellington and is promoted to Lieutenant. In order to...

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Claudia Cardinale · Jack Palance · Orson Welles · Rossano Brazzi

Plot Thirty-three years after his epic "Napoleon," director Abel Gance returned to the life of the Little Corporal with this look at the decisive 1805 conflict between French forces and the...

Direction Veit Harlan

Cast Heinrich George · Kristina Söderbaum · Paul Wegener · Horst Caspar

Plot During Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreating Prussian forces. The population of Kolberg refuses to capitulate and organizes the resistance against the...

Direction Ridley Scott

Cast Joaquin Phoenix · Vanessa Kirby · Rupert Everett · Edouard Philipponnat

Plot A look at Napoleon Bonaparte's origins and his swift, ruthless climb to emperor, viewed through the prism of his addictive and often volatile relationship with his wife and one true...

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Boguslaw Linda · Daniel Olbrychski · Andrzej Seweryn · Grazyna Szapolowska

Plot Based around a 19th century poem by Adam Mickiewicz, PAN TADEUSZ is set in Lithuania, and details an epic feud between two families. Directed by Andrzej Wajda (HUNTING FLIES) the...

Direction Sacha Guitry

Cast Raymond Pellegrin · Daniel Gélin · Orson Welles · Jean Gabin

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Gina Lollobrigida · Raymond Pellegrin · Micheline Presle · Liana Del Balzo

Plot The life of Pauline, the favourite sister of Napoléon Bonaparte, is one of sacrifice and thwarted romance. Her first engagement was broken by her brother for political reasons. Then, whilst...

Direction Christian-Jaque

Cast Sophia Loren · Robert Hossein · Julien Bertheau · Renaud Mary

Plot Catherine, an out-spoken Parisian laundress follows Napoleon's army to the battlefront to be near her Sergeant Lefevre. The couple perform a deed of heroism which abets Napoleon's victory, so that...

Direction Daniel Benmayor

Cast Juan José Ballesta · Vincent Pérez · Astrid Bergès-Frisbey · Nicolas Giraud

Plot Spain. 1808. The 6th of June, 1808, the Napoleonic Army suffers its first defeat at the hands of a single man: a drummer boy who used the Montserrat mountains to...

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast Tony Curtis · Colleen Miller · Gene Barry · Dan O'Herlihy

Plot France, 1803: 11 years after the Revolution, a royalist underground is led by a new 'Scarlet Pimpernel', the Purple Mask, who rescues nobles in distress and kidnaps Napoleon's officials for...

Direction Valeria Sarmiento

Cast Nuno Lopes · Soraia Chaves · Marisa Paredes · John Malkovich

Plot After the attempts of Junot and Soult, in 1807 and 1809, Napoleon Bonaparte sent a powerful army, commanded by Marshal Massena, to invade Portugal in 1810. The French easily reached...

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Hughie Green · Margaret Lockwood · Harry Tate · Robert Adams

Plot Set during the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic War, Mr Midshipman Easy has just joined the Royal Navy. He is very keen to do well (some would say too keen)...