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