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Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Boris Grushenko, a timid soldier in the Napoleonic Wars, becomes entangled in a plot to assassinate Napoleon and after a hilarious confrontation with the Angel of Death finds himself facing a firing squad.
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set during the grand, sweeping Napoleonic age, an officer in the French army insults another officer and sets off a life-long enmity. The two officers, D'Hubert and Feraud, cross swords time and time again in an attempt to achieve justice and preserve their honor.
3) The rover
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a wide-ranging life of piracy and adventure, Peyrol comes ashore in the port of Toulon during the bloody aftermath of the French Revolution to deliver a message to the Port Commander. Wanted by authorities in nearly every port in the European world, Peyrol barely escapes arrest and flees to an isolated spot near the coast. While searching for a way to return to the open sea, he rescues a deranged girl, Arlette from a mob of revolutionary "blood-drinkers."...
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the Napoleonic Wars, a British frigate, the HMS Surprise, and the larger French warship, Acheron, stalk each other off of the coast of South America. Lucky Jack, as he is referred to by his crew, is well regarded by his men, who trust him implicitly, even after the first devastating battle and an apparent personal vendetta against the French captain. The ship's surgeon balances the violence of his chosen life with the quiet demeanor of the...
Series
Sharpe volume episode 1
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a maverick British officer who fights behind French lines in Spain and Portugal during the Napoleonic wars.
Series
Sharpe volume episode 3
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a maverick British officer who fights behind French lines in Spain and Portugal during the Napoleonic wars.
Series
Sharpe volume episode 2
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the incompetent Sir Henry Simmerson (Cochrane) loses most of his men and his regimental flag during battle, Sharpe (Bean), spurred by the memory of a friend who was recently killed sets out for revenge. He is determined to capture the French mascot, a carved golden eagle which is carried into combat. Sharpe is also looking to a settle a personal score with two arrogant officers who have angered him at their mistreatment of the elegant widow Josefina...
Series
Sharpe volume episode 4
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a maverick British officer who fights behind French lines in Spain and Portugal during the Napoleonic wars.
Series
Sharpe volume episode 6
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hunting for lost Aztec gold, Sharpe runs afoul of a local partisan leader; Wellington's cousin Bess, searching for her lost gold-prospecting husband, shows up with her daughter and gets mixed up in the mess.
10) Sharpe's battle
Series
Sharpe volume episode 7
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
British officer Richard Sharpe is given the task of preparing the hitherto purely ceremonial Royal Irish Company for real battle. The commander's ambitious wife and false rumors of a massacre in Ireland complicate the job.
11) Sharpe's honour
Series
Sharpe volume episode 5
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
British officer Richard Sharpe must disguise himself as a Spanish rebel and slip behind enemy lines to search for the one person who can clear him of allegations of deceit and dishonour.
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Salty saga of the bravest skipper ever to sail the seas- Captain Horatio Hornblower. The English Captain sailed during the Napoleonic era, and outthought, outmaneuvered and outfought his rivals, but was more than a little at sea when faced with a beautiful woman!
13) Sharpe's sword
Series
Sharpe volume episode 8
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sharpe is sent to protect El Mirador, Wellington's best spy, and finds himself a target of Colonel Leroux, a ferocious French swordsman who has been commanded to capture El Mirador. When Sharpe is wounded in battle, a mute French convent girl comes to his aid.
Series
Criterion collection volume 487
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Special edition, full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (13 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars of the late eighteenth century. Emma Hart is a beautiful dance hall girl who is sent by her latest lover to stay with his uncle Sir William Hamilton, the British ambassador to Naples. Sir William considers Emma a rare piece of art he must possess. Sir William introduces Emma to Naples' elite society and she soon marries him. Later, Horatio Nelson, a famous English Naval office arrives. Soon, a scandalous,...
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Several years after the Battle of Waterloo, Rifleman Cooper sits in a London inn reminiscing about the brave and determined officer who took him to hell and back. Made exclusively for video, Sharpe, the legend, recalls the key events of Sharpe's military career.
Series
Sharpe volume episode 9
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In June, 1813, Wellington prepares for the invasion of France. Sharpe goes to England to recruit new soldiers for the South Essex, only to discover corruption in the highest ranks putting them at risk for assassination. The adventures of a maverick British officer who fights behind French lines in Spain and Portugal during the Napoleonic wars.
17) Sharpe's siege
Series
Sharpe volume episode 10
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is the winter of 1813. Wellington is gathering the forces preparing for the final push into France. Sharpe must go on a mission in the Pyrenees, capturing a French castle while Wellington forces a passage through Napoleon's flank.
18) Sharpe's mission
Series
Sharpe volume episode 11
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
British officer Richard Sharpe joins Colonel Brand travelling behind enemy lines to blow up a French gun powder magazine.
Series
Sharpe volume episode 14
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Sharpe hears of Napoleon's return from exile he goes back to the Army. Placed on staff of the incompetent Prince of Orange he reunites with the Chosen Men and organises the defences for the Battle of Waterloo.
20) War & peace
Publisher
KOCH Vision
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (890 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Television adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's timeless masterpiece of love and loss, focusing on the consequences faced by three Russian families during the Napoleonic Wars.
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