Napoleon Collector's Edition
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- DVD Release Date: 04/29/2003
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Features
Behind the scenes featurette; 2 hour bonus program from A&E: Napoleon and Wellington; Napoleon Bonaparte: The Glory of France Episode of A&E's award-winning series biography; Cast biographies and filmographies; Interactive menus; Scene selection
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Disc #1 -- Napoleon
1. Opening Credits [2:24]
2. St. Helena Island, 1818 [7:28]
3. Napoleon's Appointment [7:15]
4. A New Husband [7:49]
5. Army On the March [9:52]
6. Modest Ambitions [4:26]
7. Egypt, 1798 [6:40]
8. Die With Happiness [8:28]
9. Bonaparte's Return [7:23]
10. Coup d'Etat [4:05]
11. Long Live Bonaparte [4:15]
12. Politics [9:46]
13. Christmas Eve [9:09]
14. End Credits [1:10]
1. Opening Credits [2:23]
2. The Providence [7:22]
3. A Lynching [6:40]
4. Sire [5:43]
5. Before God [8:44]
6. Boulogne, August 1805 [7:57]
7. Love In a Coach [4:56]
8. Plateau [9:03]
9. Peace [8:14]
10. Chess [6:36]
11. Iéna, October 1806 [7:04]
12. Poland, 1806 [7:33]
13. The Countess [7:34]
14. End Credits [1:01]
Disc #2 -- Napoleon
1. Opening Credits [2:23]
2. Eylau [4:00]
3. You Can't Reform Everything [9:41]
4. Direct Descendant [7:41]
5. King Of Spain [6:57]
6. The Road To Erfurt [8:59]
7. Betrayal [8:13]
8. War [5:36]
9. Austria [10:11]
10. Farewell, Josephine [6:26]
11. A Child Is Born [7:28]
12. Implore and Defy [5:40]
13. Pile Of Ashes [6:28]
14. End Credits [1:10]
1. Opening Credits [2:23]
2. Peace To the World [5:41]
3. Mortal Danger [7:30]
4. Defending the Capital [6:41]
5. Exiled [6:16]
6. Love Of Liberty [6:01]
7. A Triumphant Return [13:27]
8. Preparing For War [6:05]
9. Protect and Retreat [4:49]
10. A Sacrifice [8:27]
11. A Parting Gift [8:00]
12. Bad Dreams [7:54]
13. 5:49 [5:34]
14. End Credits [1:00]
Editorial Reviews
The truly spectacular rise and fall of one of history's most charismatic and controversial figures takes on epic-miniseries proportions in Napoleon, an eight-hour made-for-television extravaganza produced by A&E together with French, German, and English partners. The saga follows the Corsican-born soldier (Christian Clavier) from his career as a general in 1790s Republican France through his reign as self-crowned emperor to his defeat at Waterloo in 1815 and ultimate exile to St. Helena. It's a comprehensive account, delving deeply into Napoleon's military campaigns and political machinations while still finding time to explore his personal life, including his marriage to Josephine (Isabella Rossellini). While this Napoleon is certainly no monster, he is not precisely heroic, either. Instead, Clavier's somewhat straightforward performance gives him a human face. This may disappoint those who hope to bask in the larger-than-life Napoleonic legend, and those expecting insights into one of history's most famed romances will find that this pair emits surprisingly few sparks. But this down-to-earth Napoleon works beautifully in extensive scenes of his political maneuverings and clashes, particularly those with his security chief, Fouché (Gerard Depardieu) and the diplomat Talleyrand (John Malkovich). Malkovich is the standout here: His Talleyrand is clever and duplicitous beneath a blithely disinterested façade. Ultimately, even eight hours is not nearly enough time to portray a life lived on this scale, that of a man whose successes and failures gave birth to our modern world. But the scope of Napoleon and the magnificence of its locations, costumes, and battle scenes stand up to the weight of the history being portrayed. It's a grand epic about one of the world's last great men. Gregory Baird, Barnes & Noble
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