In 1800, France's new First Consul - Napoleon Bonaparte - faces a precarious military situation, with huge Austrian armies poised to strike against the French Republic. But Napoleon will not wither in the face of such a crisis. Instead, he embarks on one of the most famous and daring strategic manoeuvres in history - a march across the Alps - to turn the tables on France's enemies
The remote island of St. Helena, a British possession located in the south Atlantic, is perhaps best...
Charles Louis Schulmeister (1770-1853) was a smuggler and a revolutionary, but also a chief of polic...
It was during this siege that young Napoleon Bonaparte first won fame and promotion when his plan, i...
Napoleon brings his war against Russia and Prussia to an end with victory at Friedland, leading to t...
May 5, 1821. Napoleon Bonaparte, deposed emperor exiled on the island of St. Helena, is about to tak...
In 1804 Napoleon created 18 'Marshals of the Empire', to serve as the senior officers of the Grande ...
In David Grubin's NAPOLEON watch Napoleon's rise from obscurity to victories that made him a hero to...
It was to be Napoleon Bonaparte's greatest adventure; an invasion of Russia with an army of more tha...
The documentary tells how Bonaparte's passion - sometimes Bonaparte's obsession - for art and knowle...
The pride of Napoleon's victories, the Arc de Triomphe, whose first stone was laid in 1806 at the to...
This film gives an overview of Napoleons return to France in 1815 before covering in detail the Batt...
This final part takes us through the dramatic events when Wellington’s Anglo-Dutch Army aided by Blu...
First engagement of the War of the Third Coalition and one of Napoleon’s greatest victories at Auste...
Documentary by Real Time History chronicling Napoleon’s defeat in the 1813 campaign which ended the ...
However impressive the site is, however bossy the guides are, the visitors of the Musée Napoléon lis...
Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrest...