I det historiske drama 'Napoleon' kan man opleve Oscar-vinderen Joaquin Phoenix i rollen som den magtsyge kejser, Napoleon Bonaparte. Igennem 6 krige skildrer filmen Napoleons ubarmhjertige rejse til rollen som kejser af Frankrig, samt hans komplicerede og nærmest sygelige forhold til hans hustru, Joséphine.

I Terry Gilliam fantastiske rejse gennem tid og rum, deltager en drenge i et rumfærd med en flok tidsrejsende dværge. På deres rejse besøger de Napoleon (Ian Holm), Robin Hood (John Cleese) og kong Agamemnon (Sean Connery). Det er et hektisk eventyr, en revisionistisk historietime og en satire på teknologi der går galt - alle pakket ind i et eventyr.

Den kække søofficer Edmund Dantes har livet foran sig og planlægger at gifte sig med den dejlige Mercedes. Desværre bliver han forrådt af sin bedste ven og dømt til fængsel på livstid på en fjernt beliggende fængselsø. I fængslet møder Dantes Faria, der lærer ham at fægte og fortæller om en skjult skat. Efter årevis i fængsel flygter Dantes og genopstår som Greven af Monte Cristo for at hævne sig.

De tumpede teenagere Bill og Ted skal bestå en historieeksamen for at klare gymnasiet. Det ser sort ud, indtil de to drengerøve bliver kontaktet af Rufus, der fortæller at hele verdens fremtid afhænger af succes i den kommende eksamen. Han låner gutterne en tidsmaskine, så de kan skippe bøger og opleve historien ved selvsyn.

Oplev Napoleons tilfangetagelse og eksil på Elba. Hans dramatiske flugt, genforeningen med hans loyale tropper og generaler. Hans sidste, desperate stræben efter overherredømmet og æren, en nådesløs kamp, der bliver afgjort på Waterloos blodige marker.

In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall. Josephine Beauharnais, a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France, but is then cast aside by her spouse when she proves unable to produce an heir to the throne.

Den ultimative filmudgave af Leo Tolstoys murstensroman "Krig og fred" må siges at være Sergei Bondarchuks 7 timer lange filmatisering fra 1968, men er man mere til Hollywoods "magic touch" (og engelsk dialog), er Paramounts episke version fra 1956 på "kun" godt 3½ time nok mere overkommelig. Skønne Audrey Hepburn ses i hovedrollen som Natasha Rostov, og Henry Fonda og Mel Ferrer spiller hhv. Pierre Bezukhov og prins Andrei Bolkonsky.

Inkvisitionens magtfulde mænd er betænkelige ved, at Broder Lorenzo (Javier Bardem) får sit portræt malet af den kontroversielle maler Goya. De arresterer malerens underskønne muse Ines (Natalie Portman) for kætteri og kaster hende i fængsel. Goya, der har magtfulde forbindelser sætter alt ind på at hjælpe Ines. Den dobbelte Oscar-vinder Milos Forman (Gøgereden, Amadeus) har skabt en dramatisk og farverig storfilm om kampen for overlevelse under den spanske inkvisition.

Den kujonagtige Boris Grushenko bliver tvunget til at melde sig til den russiske hær, da Napoleon med den franske hær i ryggen invaderer Rusland. Højst uventet får Boris succes i hæren, da han tilfangetager en gruppe franske officerer. Det sætter dog ikke en stopper for krigen, og snart har den franske hær indtaget Moskva. Boris ånder lettet op i håbet om, at krigen er overstået, men Boris’ hustru Sonja har planer om at slå Napoleon ihjel.

Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.

Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man finds himself serving as librarian to the Great Emperor in exile, whom he deeply hates, yet soon begins recording Napoleon's memoirs, getting to know and learning to value the man behind the myth. Among seductions and affairs, expectations and fears, he will craft a precise portrait that nevertheless will not manage to hide a final, inevitable, disappointment.

Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.

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.

This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effect on a typical Egyptian family. Michel Piccoli leads the cast as a general in Napoleon's army who tentatively befriends a local poet.

The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.

During Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreating Prussian forces. The population of Kolberg refuses to capitulate and organizes the resistance against the French army, which immediately submits the city to massive bombardments.

The romanticized gallant adventures of Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister. First "engaged" to the Conventionnel Fréron, then separated from him by her brother for political reasons, Pauline joined Napoleon in the Italian army, where she fell in love with the comté de Canouville. But the First Consul married her to his friend, General Leclerc, whom she followed on the expedition to Saint-Domingue. Unconcerned about fidelity, she began to love her husband just as he was about to die of yellow fever. Back in France, she was soon consoled by other gallants. Napoleon, now emperor, hastened to marry her off to Prince Borghese, but he was unable to make her love him. She soon returned to Paris to lead the life of a gallant woman, incognito, and again met Canouville, whom the emperor tried in vain to separate from her. But soon the Russian campaign begins, and her lover is killed. All that remains for Pauline, this time disconsolate, is to reconcile with her brother on the road to exile.

Efter nogle grådige mænd har fået Edmound Dantes uretmæssigt fængslet i 20 år for uskyldigt at have leveret et brev, der er betroet ham, flygter han for at hævne sig på dem.

This film covers the last years of the Emperor's life, imprisoned by the British on St Helena, a remote island off the west coast of Africa. Napoleon retains a loyal entourage of officers who help him plot his escape and evade the attentions of the island's overzealous governor, Sir Hudson Lowe.

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.