20 Désirée, 1954

In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte but winds up wedding General Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor’s downfall. Joséphine de Beauharnais, a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France, but is then cast aside by her spouse when she proves unable to produce an heir to the throne.

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19 The Battle of Austerlitz (Austerlitz), 1960

Another of Napoleon’s adventures in this epic reconstruction of the battle of Austerlitz, where he had the greatest victory of his career, over the Russians.

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18 Napoleon, 2023

An epic that details the chequered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.

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17 General Suvorov (Суворов), 1940

Primarily a biographical documentary about the military career of Alexander Vasilvich Suvorov, who was Field Marshal of the armies of Catherine the Great and Czar Paul I. After many military successes during the reign of Catherine, General Suvorov broke with her successor, Paul I, the Mad Emperor, over questions regarding army policy. He went into retirement and wrote “The Science of Victory,” containing maxims such as “Swiftness of movement accompanies victory,” and “the real general is he who defeats the enemy before reaching him.” The czar recalled Suvorov to become the leader of the joint armies of Rissia and Austria against Napoleon.

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16 The Emperor’s New Clothes, 2001

In this re-imagining of the final years of Napoleon, loyalists hire a look-a-like to swap places with the deposed Emperor during his exile. While the impostor wallows in luxury on the island of St. Helena, the real Napoleon returns to Paris.

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15 Damn the Defiant! (H.M.S. Defiant), 1962

On the H.M.S. Defiant, during the French Revolutionary War, fair Captain Crawford is locked in a battle of wills against his cruel second-in-command Lieutenant Scott-Padget, whose heavy-handed command style pushes the crew to mutiny.

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14 Persuasion, 1995

Eight years ago, Anne Elliot rejected Frederick Wentworth, the man she loved, out of a sense of duty and obedience. Now an ignored and faded spinster, she follows her financially stricken family from their home, only to be reintroduced to the now successful and wealthy Captain Frederick Wentworth. With their roles reversed and Captain Wentworth the eligible and wealthy bachelor, Anne navigates the scheming society that still tries to keep them apart.

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13 Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N., 1951

In 1807, unflappable Capt. Hornblower of the British Navy is sent on a secret mission to divert Napoleon’s Spanish allies by sponsoring a megalomaniac’s Central American revolution. After a hard voyage, unexpected complications force Hornblower to revise his plans…and play reluctant host to the beautiful sister of the Duke of Wellington. Sea-battles, remarkable adventures, and a star-crossed romantic interlude follow.

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12 Colonel Chabert (Le colonel Chabert), 1994

Colonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory, he goes back to Paris, where his “widow”, Anne has married the Count Ferraud and is financing his rise to power using Chabert’s money. Chabert hires a lawyer to help him get back his money and his honor.

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11 Eskadron gusar letuchikh (Эскадрон гусар летучих), 1980

About the events of the Patriotic War of 1812, its impact on the worldview, life and work of the hussar and poet, general-lieutenant Denis Davydov.At the beginning of the war, Davydov was a lieutenant colonel in the Akhtyr hussar regiment and was in the vanguard troops of General I.V. Vasilchikov. On August 21, 1812, in the sight of the village of Borodino, where he grew up and where his parental house was hurriedly dismantled for fortifications, five days before the great battle, Denis Vasilievich offered Kutuzov the idea of his own partisan detachment, which became a model of courage and courage in battles with an insidious invader.

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