Watch Napoleon

A blacksmith becomes a knight and holds Jerusalem against Saladin; watch the director’s cut, not the release.

One accusation told three ways, ending in the last judicial duel France allowed.

Two Napoleonic officers keep meeting to fight over an insult neither can remember; Scott's first feature.

Columbus crosses, then governs badly; the Vangelis theme outlived the film by decades.

Moses against Ramesses, with the ten plagues staged as natural disasters.

The icon painter through medieval Russia, the Tatar raid and a boy casting a bell.

Fifty years of Yugoslavia in a cellar with a brass band; Kusturica's second Palme d'Or.

Peter O'Toole crosses the Nefud in 70mm; the desert epic every other desert epic quotes.