Catherine Hubscher, who washes the shirts of young Napoleon and other soldiers fighting the Revolution, falls in love with Sergeant Lefebvre. Circumstances bring Lefebvre a noble title and even more -- Napoleon decides to make him the local ruler over a large territorial fiefdom. But trouble brews when Madame Sans-Gene, now elevated to the nobility along with her man -- cannot keep her frank observations under control.
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a ...
During Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreat...
Virtually unseen since its Soviet television broadcast in 1971, the film, Peter Rollberg writes, is ...
Constance, an aristocrat from the Vendée, and François-Denis, a navy officer 10 years her senior, fa...
On July 14, 1789, a mob of angry Parisians stormed the Bastille and seized the King's military store...
During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are...
During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a h...
An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the Fren...
The exciting story of Dr. Manette, who escapes the horrors of the infamous Bastille prison in Paris....
Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi...
18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the ...
This story of the miller Florian, who gave all his money to the war against Napoleon, is loosely bas...
Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which...
Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the...
The TARDIS materialises not far from Paris in 1794 — one of the bloodiest years following the French...
A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry ...
In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleo...
Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the back...