This article contains spoilers for Ridley Scott’s Napoleon. Even in the first trailer, it is an immensely chilly spectacle. On a frozen field in central Europe, Napoleon Bonaparte, the supreme general ...

At brief, introspective moments in Ridley Scott's pyrotechnics-heavy biopic Napoleon, a simple melody emerges from the delicate sound of an old piano. It's more than 200 years old and once belonged to ...

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When it comes to battle tactics, Napoleon Bonaparte (as played by Joaquin Phoenix) is very gun forward. There are few conflicts he marches into that don’t involve the firing of many cannons, an ...

Two versions of Napoleon Bonaparte crop up on screen. The first is a titan of history who marches vast armies across Europe, forging his own destiny and the continent’s. This is the figure with whom ...

If you don’t know the story of Napoleon Bonaparte beyond pop culture standards of his short stature, big ego, and ABBA-recognized surrender at Waterloo, Scott won’t be much help. Napoleon's script, ...

Apple Original Films announced today that Napoleon: The Director’s Cut, a new version of Ridley Scott‘s historical epic featuring 48 minutes of never-before-seen footage, is now available to stream ...

The life and times of Napoleon Bonaparte do not seem like a laughing matter. Watching director Ridley Scott’s new historical epic about the infamous Frenchman, though, frequent snickering or the ...

Inside the creation of one emperor’s famous headwear, as worn by Joaquin Phoenix in Ridley Scott’s film. By Esther Zuckerman Joaquin Phoenix, and his hats, in “Napoleon.”Credit...Aidan Monaghan/Apple ...

There have been a lot of films about Napoleon, but the most famous one of all is also the hardest to see. Abel Gance's Napoleon premiered 85 years ago, a silent epic about the childhood and early ...

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The last Napoleon felted-beaver bicorne to have come under the hammer, pictured above before its auction in Paris in 2014, went for $2.2 million to a South Korean collector. Now on display in Bonhams’ ...