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Series
[Sharpe's DVD series] volume 3
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
British Officer Sharpe discovers that he is a father. He desperately attempts to rescue his Spanish lover Teresa and their daughter before the French troops storm the city of Badajoz.
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
It is 1944 and thirteen year-old Tolly Oldknow is sent to spend Christmas with his grandmother, whilst his mother searches for news of his father in wartime London. In the old house, he becomes a witness to events during the Napoleonic wars and finds himself slowly drawn into participating in the drama. Invisible to most people in the past, he begins to unravel the mystery which has bewildered his family for two centuries. The solution to the puzzle...
Series
[Sharpe's DVD series] volume 1
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a maverick British officer who fights behind French lines in Spain and Portugal during the Napoleonic wars.
Series
[Sharpe's DVD series] volume 9
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
It is June 1813. After the victory at Vitoria, Wellington is preparing the troops for the invasion of France.
Series
[Sharpe's DVD series] volume 4
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a maverick British officer who fights behind French lines in Spain and Portugal during the Napoleonic wars.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Sensational film about the Spanish War of Independence (1810). After Napoleon's invasion of Spain, a group of guerillas (led by Sinatra) attempt to transport what was in those days the biggest cannon in the world, across Spain to Avila, where they intend to counterattack against the French army headquartered there. But a British Navy captain (Grant) is trying to locate the cannon for the British to use against Napoleon. Adding romance to the plot...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Salty saga of the bravest skipper ever to sail the seas- Captain Horatio Hornblower. The English Captain sailed during the Napoleonic era, and outthought, outmaneuvered and outfought his rivals, but was more than a little at sea when faced with a beautiful woman!
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
During the Napoleonic Wars, a British frigate, the HMS Surprise, and the larger French warship, Acheron, stalk each other off the coast of South America. Lucky Jack, as he is referred to by his crew, is well regarded by his men, who trust him implicitly, even after the first devastating battle and an apparent personal vendetta against the French captain. The ship's surgeon balances the violence of his chosen life with the quiet demeanor of the scientist....
13) Eternal love
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
During the War of 1806, French soldiers occupy a Swiss hamlet and order the villagers to surrender their rifles. Everyone but Marcus, a hunter in the mountains, complies. Marcus and Ciglia, the minister's niece, are deeply in love. But Pia, a wild mountain girl, vows to win him for herself.
15) Love and death
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Cowardly scholar Boris Grushenko has the hots for the beautiful Sonja, but cold feet for the Napoleonic Wars. Devastated by news of Sonja's plans to wed a foul-smelling herring merchant, Boris enlists in the army, only to return a penniless hero. Finally agreeing to marry him, Sonja settles down with poor Boris, to a rich life of philosophy, celibacy and meals of snow. But when the French troops invade Russia and Sonja hatches a zany scheme to assassinate...
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A man there was (1917): During the Napoleonic Wars, a fisherman tries to break through a British blockade to feed his starving family.
Ingeborg Holm (1913): A reflection on Sweden's harsh poor laws, a young widowed mother, Ingeborg Holm, is sent to a workhouse and her children are taken away. After she learns that her daughter is gravely ill, Ingeborg tries to see her and goes mad with grief when she dies.
Series
Criterion collection volume 487
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Middle-aged widower Sir William Hamilton marries Emma Hart, a beautiful dance hall girl, and introduces her to society leading to her scandalous affair with English Navy officer, Horatio Nelson.
18) War & peace
Publisher
Koch Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
Television adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's timeless masterpiece of love and loss, focusing on the consequences faced by three Russian families during the Napoleonic Wars.
20) Waterloo
Publisher
Mosfilm Studio
Pub. Date
[2005?]
Language
English
Description
Napoleon Bonaparte, inspiring his people with his military and political genius as well as his revolutionary fervor, becomes, within a few brief years, Emperor of France and master of Europe. After 15 years of victory, in 1812 he meets with disaster in his Russian Campaign. In 1813, defeated by the combined forces of Austria, Russia, Prussia and England at Leipzig, Napoleon is driven to the very gates of Paris where he awaits his destiny. In March...
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