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Science against the History Books

Date released

23 Nov 1964

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1851

NoS ID

025762

Story no

3 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Science Against the History Books. DESCRIPTION: In October, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte was a prisoner on the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic. He died there on the 5th of May...

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Napoleon’s Last Battle (1990 Video)

Director

Neil Cameron

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 65 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Although Napoleon Bonaparte is regarded as a charismatic politician and a military genius who laid the foundations of the modern French state, he spent his last years in exile on St Helena deliberately...

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Pope John Paul II’s visit to France (1980)

Genre

News report

Report on the start of the four-day official visit of Pope John Paul II to France and on relations between popes and French governments since incidents involving Pope Pius VI and Napoleon Bonaparte. Singing...

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Napoleon’s Waterloo (2004)

aka: War Against Napoleon - Napoleon’s Waterloo

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £13.99

A documentary examining not only the bloody conflict between the French and Coalition armies at Waterloo in 1815, but also the intense rivalry between Napoleon and his nemesis, Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of...

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Napoleon 1812: The Road to Moscow (1994 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min.

Uses extensively the authentic Russian version of ‘War and Peace’ to tell the story of the march from Moscow which cost the lives of 500,000 men.

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Austerlitz (1994 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min.

Napoleon’s victory at Austerlitz on 2 December 1805, where the combined armies of Austria and Russia were defeated, marking one of the most decisive battles of the Napoleonic area.

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Napoleon (1927)

Director

Abel Gance

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 332 minutes), £34.99

Originally conceived by Gance as the first of six films about Napoleon, this five-and-a-half-hour epic features full-scale historical creations of episodes from his personal and political life, that see...

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Paris in the Nineteenth Century: The Making of a Modern City (1999 Video)

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 57 min., 2001 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Surveys the technological change in Paris under a succession of different regimes. Begins by looking at the dictatorship of Napoleon Bonaparte and his inspirations for, and achievements in, the French...

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Napoleonic Wars, The (1996 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £29.95 (inc. VAT +p&p)

A study of the Napoleonic wars with commentary and analysis by Dr David Chandler, author of ‘The Campaigns of Napoleon’. Includes contemporary images and paintings; maps and graphics; large-scale...

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Napoleonic Wars, The 1 (1999 Multimedia)

Subject

History

Distribution

CD-ROM

An interactive study of the Napoleonic wars with commentary and analysis by David Chandler. Looks at the life of Napoleon and uses contemporary images and paintings, maps and graphics, large-scale...

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