Abel Gance's Napoleon
Abel Gance's Napoleon
The story of Napoleon's elife

Napoleon (1927)

08 May, 1927
A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.

Napoléon Bonaparte (1935)

05 November, 1935
A second version of Gance's Napoléon, with sound.

The Battle of Austerlitz (1960)

17 June, 1960
Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.

Bonaparte et la révolution (1972)

24 November, 1972
Abel Gance's 1971 sound edition of his epic 1927 'Napoleon', which contains much of the silent original, with new material shot and added in both 1965 and 1971, and with sound synchronization from both the 1932 reissue and this version.