Napoleonic wars movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant napoleonic wars movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, captivating and atmospheric films and TV shows about / with napoleonic wars, french revolution, napoleonic era, sword fight, war, military, heroes, battles, military life and escapades plots mostly in Drama, War and Adventure genres shot in UK, France, USA and other countries.
napoleonic wars
TOP 10 movies tagged as napoleonic wars: Sharpe: The Legend (1997), Hornblower: Mutiny (2001), Sharpe's Siege (1996), Horatio Hornblower: The Duel (1998), Damn the Defiant! (1962), Napoleon (2002), Sharpe's Rifles (1993), Sharpe's Waterloo (1997), Waterloo (1970), Horatio Hornblower 3 (2003).
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List of napoleonic wars movies
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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 ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, french revolution, battlefield, french, british, army, sword fight, french soldier, french army, pub, military officer, infantry ...
Time:
19th century
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The Hornblower series is based on C.S. Forester's classic maritime adventures - the story of one young man's struggle to become a leader of men. Set against the back drop of the 18th century Anglo-French wars, the bloodiest time in British ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, ship, british navy, military, heroes, leadership, navy, war, military life, naval battle, rebel, rebelliousness ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century
Place:
west indies, jamaica
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story:
Sharpe, with his new commanding officer, is sent to capture a castle when news comes of locals who will rise against Bonaparte. However, he is somewhat distracted by thoughts of his wife whom he was forced to leave while stricken with fever.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, battles, castle, british soldier, heroes, siege, military life, military, war, heroic mission, woman in danger, isolation ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
france
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ...
Style:
exciting, tense, epic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ship, napoleonic wars, navy, battles, sea battle, heroic mission, leadership, naval battle, sailboat, friendship, military, royal navy ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, regency period, edwardian era, georgian era
Place:
england, france, brazil, europe, pacific ocean ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The Hornblower series is based on C.S. Forester's classic maritime adventures - the story of one young man's struggle to become a leader of men. Set against the back drop of the 18th century Anglo-French wars, the bloodiest time in British ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, feel good, road movie
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
napoleonic wars, ship, british navy, adventurer, navy, military, bully, heroes, duel, battles, sea, french revolution ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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, ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ship, napoleonic wars, pirate, navy, british navy, sea, mutiny, royal navy, courage, french revolution, boat, napoleonic era ...
Time:
18th century, 1790s
Place:
europe, england
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: France, Germany, Italy, Canada, USA, UK, Hungary, Spain, Czech Republic
Duration: 380 min.
TV show
Story:
The year is 1816, and NAPOLEON, held prisoner by the British on the island of St. Helena, is telling the young English girl BETSY his life story.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, exciting, epic ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, napoleon bonaparte, battles, rise and fall, imperial russia, conquering, megalomaniac, rise to the top, ambition, leadership, politics, military ...
Time:
19th century, regency period, 18th century, 1810s, 1790s ...
Place:
europe, france, prussia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
TV show
Story:
During the Peninsular War in Spain against the French, Sergeant Richard Sharpe saves the life of Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington and is promoted to Lieutenant. In order to pay the troops Wellesley needs a money draft from the banker ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
napoleonic wars, war, military, wartime life, escapades, british army, spanish history, napoleon bonaparte, french revolution, world history, napoleonic era, royal family ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
iberian peninsula, portugal
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Based on the novel by Bernard Cornwell, "Sharpe's Waterloo" brings maverick British officer Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe to his last fight against the French, in June of 1815.
Style:
exciting, captivating, realistic, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, lone wolves, french revolution, historical event, napoleonic era, battles, heroes, military, british army, war hero, couples, battle zone ...
Time:
19th century, 1810s
Place:
belgium, europe
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Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of ...
Style:
epic, serious, exciting, emotional, stylized ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, napoleon bonaparte, battles, british army, military, war, destiny, state affairs, politics, military life, napoleon, betrayal ...
Time:
19th century, regency period, victorian era, 1810s
Place:
europe, belgium, england, france, new zealand ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Hornblower is given a dangerous mission to deliver an emigre French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, british navy, sea battle, military, espionage, war hero, rebellion, military life, sword fight, ship, escapades, heroes ...
Time:
19th century, georgian era
Place:
france, europe, english channel
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a decade, they engage in a series of duels amidst larger conflicts, including ...
Style:
visually appealing, realistic, stylized, colourful, enigmatic ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, sword duel, fencing, swordsman, sword fight, military, nude, napoleonic era, medieval, cossack, adaptation, existentialism ...
Time:
19th century, regency period, 1810s, 18th century
Place:
france, canada, europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story:
Spain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from Sharpe's past uses a beautiful woman revenge himself on Sharpe, now the father of her child. Sharpe has reason to be happy, he holds his daughter for the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, napoleonic era, british soldier, royal family, napoleon bonaparte, spanish history, french revolution, siege, heroes, military, soldier, war hero ...
Time:
19th century, regency period, 1810s
Place:
spain, europe
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and possible execution for their actions in relieving their unstable captain.
Style:
exciting, captivating, suspenseful, rough, feel good ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, sea battle, sailboat, military, rebellion, war hero, military life, rivalry, army investigation, war, ship, boat ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
west indies, jamaica
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
TV show
Story:
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 ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
napoleonic wars, british soldier, royal family, napoleonic era, spanish history, french revolution, napoleon bonaparte, battles, heroes, soldier, military, behind enemy lines ...
Time:
19th century, 1810s
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
1808. The Napoleonic Army suffers its first defeat at the hands of a single man: a drummer boy who used the Montserrat mountains to echo his drums and send the enemy troops into a panicked retreat. When the news reaches Napoleon, he furiously orders ...
Style:
tense, serious, exciting, perverse, realistic ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, soldier, military, on the run, rebellion, vengeance, escapades, rebelliousness, folk hero, rivalry, war crime, suspense ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
catalonia, spain, europe
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal in Valeria Sarmiento’s intimate epic.
Style:
serious, stylized, exciting, realistic, epic ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, troops, soldier, rebellion, invasion, battle zone, wartime life, life is a bitch, on the run, military, war, royalty ...
Time:
19th century, georgian era
Place:
portugal, europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story:
Told his battalion is to be split up due to lack of recruits at home, Sharpe and Harper return to England to investigate. What should have been a simple query turns politically explosive as they come nearer to exposing profiteering on the home front ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, exciting, sincere ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, napoleonic era, french revolution, napoleon bonaparte, spanish history, soldier, heroes, military, war hero, british army, cavalry, tough heroes ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
TV show
Story:
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.
Style:
captivating, exciting, realistic, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, british soldier, british empire, napoleonic era, french revolution, napoleon bonaparte, spanish history, battles, adventurer, military, soldier, heroes ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
spain, europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
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 ...
Style:
captivating, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
Plot:
napoleonic wars, military, british soldier, heroes, soldier, confined, war, daring rescue, kidnapping, captivity, heroic mission, tough heroes ...
Time:
19th century, 1810s
Place:
portugal, europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
TV show
Story:
Sharpe is framed as the thief who stole Napolean's gold, and he must clear his name to avoid execution. Meanwhile his wife Jane - urged on by a friend - makes some questionable choices.
Plot:
napoleonic wars, napoleonic era, french revolution, framed for a crime, british soldier, sword fight
Time:
19th century
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story:
Sharpe is teamed with a Colonel he helped promote and they are tasked to destroy a powder magazine, but an alliance with the French may threaten their success. Meanwhile, Jane is wearying of the army life and Harper and Ramona are at odds.
Plot:
napoleonic wars, napoleonic era, spanish history, napoleon bonaparte, french revolution, british army, british soldier, traitor, scout, disfigured face, journalist, sword fight ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
france
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
TV show
Story:
Sharpe is tasked to protect the most important spy in Lord Wellington's network, but domestic issues, a traumatized young girl, and possible French spies all threaten his success
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
napoleonic wars, napoleonic era, french revolution, age difference, british empire, military, heroes, espionage, rebellion, escapades, war, mute or deaf ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
spain, europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story:
When Sharpe is ordered to whip the King of Spain's Irish Royal Brigade into shape, he faces dissent from the men who believe the British are slaughtering their relatives in Ireland and a spy from within.
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, captivating, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
napoleonic wars, napoleonic era, napoleon bonaparte, spanish history, french revolution, military, tough heroes, battles, vengeance, heroes, soldier, state affairs ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
europe, spain
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The Hornblower series is based on C.S. Forester's classic maritime adventures - the story of one young man's struggle to become a leader of men. Set against the back drop of the 18th century Anglo-French wars, the bloodiest time in British ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, feel good ...
Plot:
ship, napoleonic wars, ship captain, sea battle, military, battles, military life, couples, rescue, treason, heroes, sea ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
switzerland, europe
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 380 min.
TV show
Story:
Sumptuous BBC mini-series following the fortunes and the rise and fall of five aristocratic families in the waning days of imperial Russia.
Style:
epic, captivating, stylized, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
imperial russia, society, napoleonic wars, inheritance, love story, tragic love, wartime life, illegitimate son, courage, aristocracy, love and romance, fall in love ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, georgian era
Place:
russia
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Horatio Homblower, now promoted to Acting Lieutenant, captures the French ship Le Reve off the Spanish coast. The Captain of the French ship is furious that such a youngster has pulled off such a coup. But far more daunting is Hornblower's ...
Style:
feel good, serious, exciting
Plot:
ship, napoleonic wars, sea battle, heroes, pirate, sea, sailing, courage, boat, friendship, french revolution, seafaring ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The Hornblower series is based on C.S. Forester's classic maritime adventures - the story of one young man's struggle to become a leader of men. Set against the back drop of the 18th century Anglo-French wars, the bloodiest time in British ...
Style:
exciting, serious, feel good
Plot:
ship, napoleonic wars, navy, heroes, battles, french revolution, sea, sailing, success, courage, boat, pirate ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century
Place:
north africa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story:
Sharpe is a Captain saddled with the South Essex, a battalion run by incompetents and filled with soldiers who have never been in battle. When the South Essex loses its colours (its regimental flag), Sharpe vows to save the honor of the regiment by ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, realistic, serious, factual ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
napoleonic wars, military, battles, state affairs, war, soldier, escapades, heroes, rebellion, military life, royal family, napoleonic era ...
Time:
19th century
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Genre: Adventure, Crime, History, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Crime thriller about Francois Vidocq, a real-life ex-convict who became a police detective during Napoleon’s reign.
Style:
serious, captivating, atmospheric, witty
Plot:
french history, napoleonic wars, baroness, prison, historical figure, criminal underworld, master criminal, prison escape, national security, police, criminal, fighting crime ...
Time:
19th century, georgian era
Place:
paris france, france
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