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Burning Hearts (1945)
, 1h50Directed by Veit Harlan
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Kristina Söderbaum, Heinrich George, Paul Wegener, Gustav Diessl, Horst Caspar, Claus Clausen
The film begins in 1813 after the phase of the Napoleonic Wars known in German as the Befreiungskriege (War of Liberation). The opening scenes show Prussian Landwehr and volunteers marching down the streets of Breslau through enthusiastic crowds. This is followed by a dialogue between King Frederick William III of Prussia and Count August von Gneisenau, in which Gneisenau explains that the siege of Kolberg taught the importance of citizen armies. Ending with the admonition that kings who cannot lead must abdicate, the scene switches to Vienna in 1806 to show the abdication of the last Holy Roman Emperor, Francis II of Austria, whom the script has Gneisenau call "an Emperor who abandoned the German people in their hour of need".
1812 (1943)
Directed by Vladimir Petrov
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films
Actors Aleksei Dikij, Sergo Zakariadze, Boris Chirkov
The Firefly (1937)
, 2h11Directed by Robert Z. Leonard, Joseph M. Newman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Political films, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films, Operetta films
Actors Jeanette MacDonald, Allan Jones, Warren William, Billy Gilbert, Douglass Dumbrille, Henry Daniell
Secret agent Nina Maria Azara (Jeanette MacDonald) is working undercover for the King of Spain (Tom Rutherford) as a singer known as the "Mosca del Fuego" or "Firefly." Despite her love for Captain Andre (Allan Jones), she tricks him so that his general will change the French defensive positions, thus allowing the Duke of Wellington to win the Battle of Vitoria. In the end Nina and Andre leave together for a new life in peace.
The Rebel (1932)
, 1h22Directed by Luis Trenker, Curtis Bernhardt, Reinhart Steinbicker
Origin German
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Sports films, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Luis Trenker, Luise Ullrich, Victor Varconi, Ludwig Stössel, Olga Engl, Fritz Kampers
1809, alors que le Tyrol est occupé par la Bavière. Quand Severin Anderlan retourne après avoir fait ses études dans son pays natal, il découvre que les Français alliés de la Bavière ont détruit sa village et tué sa famille. Anderlan tire sur des soldats français et fuit avec l'uniforme d'un Hauptmann dragon bavarois. Il apprend dans un bal de cour à Innsbruck que les troupes de Napoléon envahiront bientôt, et organise la résistance armée de ses compatriotes.
The Hostage of Europe (1989)
, 2h4Directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films
Actors Roland Blanche, Vernon Dobtcheff, Didier Flamand, François Berléand, Ronald Guttman, Isabelle Petit-Jacques
Chronique de la détention de Napoléon sur l'ile de Sainte-Hélène, ses relations avec son entourage et ses affrontements avec Hudson Lowe, le gouverneur britannique.
Sea Devils (1953)
, 1h31Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films
Actors Rock Hudson, Yvonne De Carlo, Bryan Forbes, Maxwell Reed, Gérard Oury, Denis O'Dea
The year is 1800, and Britain and France have been at war since 1798, in what later was to be known as the War of the Second Coalition. Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman, Drouchette, to the French coast. She tells him she hopes to rescue her brother from a French prison. Gilliatt finds himself falling in love and so feels betrayed when he later learns that Drouchette is a countess helping Napoleon plan an invasion of Britain. In reality, however, Drouchette is a British agent working to thwart this invasion. When Gilliatt learns this, he returns to France to rescue her, just as her true purpose has been discovered by the French.
That Hamilton Woman (1941)
, 2h8Directed by Alexander Korda
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Sara Allgood, Gladys Cooper, Henry Wilcoxon, Heather Angel
The story begins with an ageing, alcoholic woman (Vivien Leigh) being clapped into debtors' prison in the slums of Calais. In a husky, despairing, whiskey-soaked voice, the former Lady Hamilton narrates the story of her life to her skeptical fellow inmates. In one of the early scenes that launches the flashback, Emma, well past her prime, looks into a mirror and remembers "the face I knew before," the face of the young, lovely girl who captured the imagination of artists - most notably George Romney and Joshua Reynolds.
Colonel Chabert (1994)
, 1h50Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes French war films, Political films, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Fabrice Luchini, Éric Elmosnino, André Dussollier, Daniel Prévost
Paris, février 1817, trois ans après la chute de l'Empire, l'avoué Derville reçoit la visite d'un vieillard misérablement vêtu. Il assure être le colonel Chabert, laissé pour mort, à la bataille d'Eylau en 1807. Il avait alors contribué à la victoire en conduisant une charge de cavalerie devenue célèbre.
Caroline and the Rebels (1955)
, 1h48Directed by Claude Sautet
Origin France
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Jean-Claude Pascal, Sophie Desmarets, Brigitte Bardot, Odile Versois, Jacques Dacqmine, Magali Noël
Pendant l'occupation de l'Espagne par les troupes napoléoniennes, le beau Juan d'Aranda (Jean-Claude Pascal) se distingue par sa bravoure et aussi par ses succès féminins. Ignorant ses origines françaises, il combattra tout d'abord auprès des guérilléros puis sous les ordres du général Gaston de Sallanches qui se révèlera être son père. Plusieurs femmes le tireront de situations critiques : Térésa (Magali Noël), une jeune paysanne, la duchesse d'Albuquerque (Sophie Desmarets), séduite par sa prestance, mais son cœur appartiendra à la mignonne Pilar (Brigitte Bardot).
The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
, 1h58Directed by Carol Reed
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Children's films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films
Actors Robert Donat, Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert, John Mills, Jean Cadell, Raymond Lovell
1783. Le Parlement est conduit par une coalition entre Charles James Fox et Lord Frederick North. Le roi George III, qui ne les aime guère, est satisfait lorsqu'ils commencent à perdre de leur influence et décide de nommer Premier ministre William Pitt le Jeune. Pitt, dont le père, le comte de Chatham, était un important homme d'état, a seulement 24 ans et il a du mal à être pris au sérieux par les autres hommes politiques. Néanmoins, Pitt est déterminé à lutter contre la corruption et à redonner à l'Angleterre une place importante. Il décide de dissoudre le Parlement et, après qu'il a gagné largement les élections, il s'installe au 10 Downing Street et travaille à plusieurs réformes, y compris le renforcement de la Royal Navy.
The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)
, 3h2Directed by Wojciech Has
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Historical
Themes Ghost films, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Iga Cembrzyńska, Kazimierz Opaliński, Elżbieta Czyżewska, Jan Machulski, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Gustaw Holoubek
During a battle in the Aragonese town of Saragossa (Zaragoza) during the Napoleonic Wars, an officer retreats to the second floor of an inn. He finds a large book with drawings of two men hanging on a gallows and two women in a bed. An enemy officer tries to arrest him but ends up translating the book for him; the second officer recognizes its author as his own grandfather, who was a captain in the Walloon Guard.
Lloyd's of London (1937)
, 1h52Directed by Henry King, Robert D. Webb
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films, Children's films, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Freddie Bartholomew, Madeleine Carroll, Guy Standing, Tyrone Power, George Sanders, C. Aubrey Smith
On the last day of 1770, youngster Jonathan Blake (Freddie Bartholomew) overhears two sailors discussing something suspicious in his aunt's ale-house in a Norfolk fishing village. He persuades his more respectable best friend, Horatio Nelson (Douglas Scott), to sneak aboard the sailors' ship with him. They overhear a plot involving insurance fraud. When Jonathan decides to warn the insurers, Horatio cannot accompany him, because that same day he is invited to join the Royal Navy as a midshipman. Jonathan walks all the way to London to Lloyd's Coffee House, where the insurers conduct their business. Mr. Angerstein (Guy Standing), the head of one of the syndicates that make up Lloyd's of London, listens to him. Instead of a monetary reward, Jonathan asks to work at Lloyd's as a waiter. Angerstein teaches him that news, "honestly acquired and honestly shared," is the lifeblood of the insurance industry.
Return of the Hero (2018)
, 1h30Directed by Laurent Tirard
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Historical
Themes Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films
Actors Jean Dujardin, Mélanie Laurent, Noémie Merlant, Fabienne Galula, Féodor Atkine, Christian Bujeau
En 1809, pendant la période du Premier Empire. Le capitaine Charles-Grégoire Neuville, fringant hussard, demande la main de Pauline Beaugrand, une jeune fille de bonne famille habitant un château dans une petite ville de Bourgogne, et reçoit un accord enthousiaste des parents. Mais alors que tout le monde se réjouit, il reçoit soudain l'ordre de partir immédiatement au combat, l'offensive contre les Autrichiens a commencé. Sur le point de partir, du haut de son cheval, il promet à Pauline de lui écrire une lettre tous les jours.
The Adventures of Gerard (1970)
, 1h31Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure
Themes Political films, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Peter McEnery, Claudia Cardinale, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins, Mark Burns, John Neville
Vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier, serves during the Napoleonic Wars. He thinks he's the best soldier and lover that ever lived and intends to prove it.
The Buccaneer (1958)
, 2hDirected by Anthony Quinn, Cecil B. DeMille
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films
Actors Yul Brynner, Charles Boyer, Charlton Heston, Claire Bloom, Inger Stevens, Henry Hull
Installé à La Nouvelle-Orléans, le pirate français Jean Laffite contrôle toute la région, et tente de rester neutre dans le conflit qui oppose Américains et Britanniques. Mais son amour pour la fille du gouverneur Clairborne va l'obliger à prendre parti et à s'engager au côté du général américain Andrew Jackson...