• Waterloo: The Battle on the Big Screen

  • Dec 10 2023
  • Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
  • Podcast

Waterloo: The Battle on the Big Screen

  • Summary

  • Trenches on the battlefield and the Prussians arriving from the wrong direction are nothing new...


    Professor Tony Pollard joins me to talk about more than a century of the Battle of Waterloo being depicted on the big screen. We talk about common tropes, the way in which portrayals of the battle have developed, and some of the challenges to production.


    Extended version with clips from the various films available on youtube.


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    Cinema and History: The encyclopedia of History Films.

    https://www.hervedumont.ch/page.php?id=fr4


    Napoleon and the Pope (1897)

    https://youtu.be/_jf_lIhWsJk?si=CPT-oxo0s544l7mk

    Napoleon (1909) Library of Congress

    https://www.loc.gov/item/mp73112700/

    Incidents in the Life of Napoleon and Josephine (1909)

    https://youtu.be/zmnHQbrh3KY?si=RtrJ5IhDPrNaTObM

    Waterloo at 24.53

    The Battle of Waterloo (1913)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1SZnKFuvw0

    The Iron Duke (1934) NOT ON YOUTUBE

    Campo Di Maggio (The Hundred Days) 1934/5 NOT ON YOUTUBE (103 min) Dir by Giovachinno Forzano


    Hundert Tage (Hundred Days) Dir Franz Wenzler (1hr 25?)

    The Nazi Napoleon – Waterloo from around 9.36

    21min20 clip https://youtu.be/HfTkNHp0v2k?si=3L2MaeLF-jNrOfmS

    Napoleon (1955)

    https://youtu.be/vRsg9o9tr5s?si=x4SddxtBoPQBCAo4

    Waterloo 1.42

    Austerlitz 1960 Abel Gance

    https://youtu.be/xK_I5IwQLMw?si=3Dlxxdy6cjHTHopK

    Waterloo 1970

    https://youtu.be/3DcWJrzK0wU?si=_ftJ-JwKLapfMVMv

    The Day of the Locust (1975) The Stage collapses

    https://youtu.be/jJ_p_xhMEvU?si=7zIukRCn6-aRdwkl

    Napoleon (French TV series 2002)

    Waterloo 53.38

    https://youtu.be/i_E_TfWu5uU?si=SFAfbemaCDpWU6ru

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