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 ...

The new movie from Ridley Scott, “Napoleon,” with Joaquin Phoenix in the title role, runs for two hours and thirty-eight minutes. That’s almost as long as Napoleon’s coronation, at Notre-Dame de Paris ...

Mr. Mazower is a professor of history at Columbia. “History,” the essayist Thomas Carlyle wrote in 1840, “is the biography of great men” — and of these Napoleon, whom Carlyle described as “our chief ...

The historical action epic, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby, now has 48 minutes of never-before-seen footage focused on the dramatic rise and demise of the French military commander. By ...

An American war re-enactor earned the job of Napoleon for the 210th anniversary of the battle, despite his accent. Mark Schneider secured the job as Napoleon partly because of his ability to command ...