Movies about Napoleon
 

Been watching a really good documentary about Napoleon on YouTube and I wondered if anyone knows any good movies about the subject, cheers.

Only film I know right off that features Napoleon as a character is The Count of Monte Cristo ( 2002).

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https://youtu.be/6504eRh5h6M


Often hard to find, but this is one of my favorite movies.

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It's six hours long but Napoléon vu par Abel Gance is well worth watching if interested in the man imo.

edit: Captain Terror beat me to it. Used to be available on the Internet Archive, not sure if still there though.

Ridley Scott is releasing a film about Napoleon this year.

Bondarchuk also directed a film about Napoleon, with Rod Steiger as Napoleon himself, in 1970 titled Waterloo.

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Yeah, Abel Gance's Napoleon for the third time.

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Napoleon has a lot of pbs documentaries that are very good.

I'll second this. It's a powerhouse performance from Steiger and an epic film. Really worth checking out.

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It appears as though all of the Napoleon movies are 10+ hours long, so thats one I am very not interested in watching. Lord of the Rings was 10 hours and no matter how good it was, man that was an undertaking and a half. Any good ones no longer than 3 hours?

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I also want to see the 1927 Napoleon but I want to see it in it's original 4.00:1 aspect ratio but every version I can find is cropped down it seems. If the original is out there somewhere?

Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story (1987), starring Armand Assante as Napoleon, and Jacqueline Bisset as Josephine. It may not be the greatest movie in history, but Assante is as usual very interesting inhabiting the character of Napoleon. You get the sense he tapped into some part of his spirit.