Biopic about Napoleon's sister Paulette.
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.
Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic Wars. He thinks he's the best soldier and lover that ever lived and intends to prove it.
Revolution in Spain, around the events of 2 May 1808, when the people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occupation.
Set before the Battle of Trafalgar, this is the story of relationship between Admiral Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton during the Napoleonic Wars.
1800年。フランスのストラスブール。軽騎兵のフェロー中尉(ハーヴェイ・カイテル)が町の有力者の甥を決闘で傷つけた。“名誉のため”という名目だったが、軍の命令はフェローに厳しかった。その命令を単に伝える使命でフェローのもとを訪れた軽騎兵デュベール中尉(キース・キャラダイン)は、理由もなくフェローに決闘を申し込まれ、名誉のために受けてたち、彼に傷を与えた。この日から二人の宿命的な対決の人生がはじまった。フェローはデュベールとの決闘に執念を燃やし、彼の行く先々に姿を現わした。二度目の対決は、デュベールがアウグスブルグに駐屯していた時だった。決闘で負傷したデュベールに、将軍はこれ以上決闘を続ければ除隊させると告げた。しかし、1806年、リューべックではデュベールがフェローを傷つけて終わるが、1812年ロシア遠征では、奇妙な友情のような感情が芽ばえだし、凍るような寒さの中で互いに手をさしのべあうのだった。そして1814年、ルイ18世が即位したフランス。デュベールは、姉のすすめでアデル(クリスティーナ・レインズ)と結婚し、しあわせで平穏な生活を送っていた。そこにまたしてもフェローが現われ、決闘を申し込んだ。最後の決闘はピストルで行なわれることになった。廃虚に銃声が轟いた。しかし、優勢に立ったデュベールは、フェローから的をはずして発砲し、その場を去っていた。
Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but mentally unstable captain and are forced to mutiny in order to save their ship, the HMS Renown.
Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, is persuaded to break her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young sea captain of meager means. Years later, money troubles force Anne's father to rent out the family estate to Admiral Croft, and Anne is again thrown into company with Frederick -- who is now rich, successful, and perhaps still in love with Anne.
Portsmouth, 1794. Under thundery skies and in lashing rain, 17-year-old midshipman Horatio Hornblower takes the first tentative steps of his naval career, but a feud with a shipmate causes complications.
Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.
During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order to help the British defeat the French. A British officer is there to accompany the Spanish and along the way, he falls in love with the leader's girl.
In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.
In 1812, during the French period, large parts of Germany are occupied by the troops of Napoleon. Several paramilitary Freikorps units battle the French forces, among them the Black Brunswickers led by the 'Black Duke' Frederick William of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After the War of the Fifth Coalition, the Black Hussars are pursued by Napoleon throughout the country, but frequently take refuge with the noble-minded German people.
Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn reminiscing about the brave and determined officer who took him to hell and back. The narrator is Rifleman Cooper, and the officer whose fame he recalls is the legendary Richard Sharpe.
トルストイの同名小説を基にした戦争大河ドラマ。19世紀の帝政ロシアの末期、ロシアを巻き込んだ戦争を背景に、貴族の私生児ピエール(H・フォンダ)と伯爵令嬢ナターシャ(A・ヘプバーン)の恋愛劇を描く。
19世紀、帝政ロシア末期のモスクワ。フランス軍の侵攻がささやかれる中、貴族の私生児ピエールはロストフ伯爵の令嬢ナターシャに想いを寄せていた。そんなある日、親友アンドレイ公爵から知らせを受け、危篤の父を看取るピエール。やがて彼は、亡くなった父の莫大な財産を相続し、それを目当てに接近してきた貴族令嬢ヘレーネと結婚することに。一方、アンドレイは妊娠した妻を残して戦地へ赴くも敗戦の憂き目に遭い、負傷帰還兵となってしまう。そんな彼は、いつしかナターシャと愛し合うようになる
The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first officer makes this difficult, and when the captain is disabled, the chance for violence increases.
Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe's old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have captured two women, one the wife of a high-ranking English officer, and are holding them hostage for ransom. Sharpe is given the 60th Rifles and a Rocket troop, as well as his majority to rescue the women. But while Sharpe may be able to deal with his old enemy, he has yet to face a newer threat, the French Major Pierre Ducos.
1813. Major Sharpe's old enemy, Major Ducos manipulates a beautiful young marquesa into falsely accusing Sharpe of rape. Her husband calls Sharpe out in a duel. But when the husband is found dead the next morning, Sharpe is arrested and brought before a court martial, and it seems not even Patrick Harper and the Chosen Men can save Sharpe from a hanging, or rescue his honour
Sharpe is sent on a mission to exchange rifles for deserters with a strange band of Spanish guerillas. He also has to chaperone two women looking for their missing husband.