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Magnificent Doll
Pennsylvania Virginia The 1810s The 1800sThey spoke her name in whispers — While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne Madison thinks back on her childhood, her first marriage, and later romances with two very different politicians, Aaron Burr and his good friend James Madison. She plays each against the other, not only for romantic reasons, but also to influence the shaping of the young country. By manipulating Burr's affections, she helps Thomas Jefferson win the presidency, and eventually she becomes First Lady of the land herself.
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The Curse of the Wraydons
The 1800sTod Slaughter goes about the countryside strangling everybody. His evil scheme is to destroy the family who wronged him. He secret lab is complete with a torture chamber, featured in the films climax. Probably the most maniacal portrayal Tod ever gave.
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Kolberg
🇦🇹 Austria The 1800s The 1810sThe fortified town of Kolberg, the last town in Pomerania still held by Prussian forces, holds out against a siege of French troops during the Napoleonic Wars. A Nazi propaganda piece intended to encourage Germans to resist the coming Allied forces.
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Forever and a Day
England The 1940s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1800s The 1840sThe Picture With a $1,000,000 Cast — In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
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Colonel Chabert
🇫🇷 France The 1810s The 1800sThe story of a French officer who is assumed dead during the Napoleonic Wars, but returns ten years later to a very different France, both on a political and personal level. The film is based on the novel Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac.
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The Young Mr. Pitt
England 🇫🇷 France The 1800s The 18th CenturyThis biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
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That Hamilton Woman
England 🇮🇹 Italy 🇫🇷 France The 1800s The 1810s The 18th CenturyThe Year's Most Exciting Team of Screen Lovers! — The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Little Old New York
New York The 1800sA spirited belle of the brawling waterfront, fighting for the heart of handsome Robert Fulton — Inventor Robert Fulton (Richard Greene) receives support from a tavern owner (Alice Faye) and a shipyard worker (Fred MacMurray) to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.
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Der Feuerteufel
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The Rothschilds
England 🇫🇷 France 🇪🇸 Spain 🇩🇪 Germany The 1800s The 1810sNazi biography of the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.
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Schneider Wibbel
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Old Louisiana
Louisiana The 1800sThe Louisiana Purchase is imminent and Gilmore is smuggling guns into St. Louis so his men can make him Governor of the new Louisiana Territory. But John Colfax fights to defeat Gilmore.
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Anthony Adverse
🇨🇺 Cuba 🇫🇷 France 🇮🇹 Italy Africa - General The 1800sThe thrill of thrills the world could not forget! — Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.
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Lloyd's of London
England 🇫🇷 France The 1800s The 18th CenturyNorfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, they must separate their paths. The former will head his footsteps to London and bound his destiny to Lloyd's, a thriving insurance company; the latter will eventually become one of the greatest heroes in the history of the British Empire.
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Hearts Divided
Maryland The 1800sIT'S GAY! GRAND! GLORIOUS! — Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, visiting the United States, falls madly in love with a young woman he meets in Baltimore.
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Beethoven's Great Love
🇦🇹 Austria The 1800s The 1810s The 1820sLyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.
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Die Nacht mit dem Kaiser
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Midshipman Easy
England 🇮🇹 Italy 🇫🇷 France The 1800s The 18th CenturySet during the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic War, Mr Midshipman Easy has just joined the Royal Navy. He is very keen to do well but luckily he has an understanding captain to pull him out of the various adventures he seems to get involved in.
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Invitation To The Waltz
England 🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇹 Italy The 1800sAs the threat of Napoleonic invasion looms ever closer, a German duke and potential ally of England falls for a pretty ballerina.
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Lieutenant Kizhe
🇷🇺 Russia The 1800s The 18th CenturyA copying error by a military scribe turns the Russian words for "the lieutenants, however" into what looks like "lieutenant Kizhe". The Tsar reads the error, and wants to meet this (non-existent) lieutenant. The fiction turns out to be all too convenient for his courtiers, and Lieutenant Kizhe gets himself exiled to Siberia, recalled from exile, promoted and married.
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Krazy's Waterloo
🇫🇷 France 🇷🇺 Russia The 1800sKrazy plays Napoleon in this savvy spoof of the war of 1812. Enlivened by two original songs.
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So Ended a Great Love
The 1800sThe political advisor to the French emperor Napoleon, and the Austrian emperor Franz I, arrange a marriage between Napoleon and the Austrian archduchess Marie-Luise in order to prevent another war.
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The Iron Duke
England 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇫🇷 France 🇦🇹 Austria The 1800s The 1810sThe life and times of the Duke of Wellington
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The Judas of Tyrol
The 1800sIn the year 1810, the Tyrol is suffering under French occupation. A servant, who believes himself oppressed and disenfranchised by the peasants, dreams of being allowed to play Christ in the yearly Passion Play. Instead, he is forced to play Judas and soon the lines of reality blur: he betrays the location of Andreas Hofer, hidden by the farmers, breaks under the weight of his guilt and suffers Judas' fate.
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The Rebel
🇦🇹 Austria The 1800sA young medical student returns to his Tyrolean home to find out that Napoleon's troops have taken over the area and that his mother and sister have been murdered.
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The Black Hussar
🇩🇪 Germany The 1810s The 1800sIn 1812, during the French period, large parts of Germany are occupied by the troops of Napoleon. Several paramilitary Freikorps units battle the French forces, among them the Black Brunswickers led by the 'Black Duke' Frederick William of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After the War of the Fifth Coalition, the Black Hussars are pursued by Napoleon throughout the country, but frequently take refuge with the noble-minded German people.
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Marschall Vorwärts
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The Last Company
The 1800s13 German soldiers have to fight off a French regiment.
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Eternal Love
🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1800sIn the Swiss Alps of the early 19th century, a couple forced into loveless marriages struggle to find happiness with one another.
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The Divine Lady
England 🇮🇹 Italy The 1800s The 1810s The 18th CenturyLady Hamilton's love affair with Admiral Horatio Nelson rocks the British Empire.
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Waterloo
The 1810s The 1800sThis presentation of 'Waterloo', a film by Karl Grune about the last hurrah of Napoleon, is a fascinating companion to the Abel Gance epic 'Napoleon'. 'Waterloo' presents a tale of several people involved in the final battle. Napoleon and Wellington, of course, but also the Austrian general Blutcher (who is seen as a ladies' man - his scene with a flirty Countess about halfway through the film is priceless; as are his touching scenes with his plain wife (who he imagines to be a young and nubile girl when they get romantic) and some people within his regiment. Not simply a film of war, 'Waterloo' is a story of people, of lovers, of lost opportunities.
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Andreas Hofer
🇦🇹 Austria The 1800s The 1810sA film based on the story of the Tyrolean innkeeper and patriot Andreas Hofer who led an Austrian uprising against Bavarian and French troops during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Rosen blühen auf dem Heidegrab
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The Patriot
🇷🇺 Russia The 1800sThese characters will fascinate you! — In 18th-Century Russia, the Czar, Paul, is surrounded by murderous plots and trusts only Count Pahlen. Pahlen wishes to protect his friend, the mad king, but because of the horror of the king's acts, he feels that he must remove him from the throne.
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Glorious Betsy
Maryland The 1800sTHE GLAMOUROUS ROMANCE OF THE BELLE OF BALTIMORE AND NAPOLEON'S BROTHER — Vitaphone production reels #2471-2478; third Warner Bros. feature film - the first being The Jazz Singer and the second Tenderloin - to include talking sequences, along with the by now usual Vitaphone musical score and sound effects. A copy of this film survives at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., but the sound disks are lost.
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Bolibar
🇪🇸 Spain The 1800sHessian officers' flirtations with an artist's daughter accidentally give signals to the attacking English.
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Napoleon
🇫🇷 France 🇮🇹 Italy The 18th Century The 1800sA massive 5 1/2 hour biopic of Napoleon, tracing his career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign), his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797 (the film stops there because it was intended to be part one of six, but director Abel Gance never raised the money to make the other five). The film's legendary reputation is due to the astonishing range of techniques that Gance uses to tell his story, culminating in the final twenty-minute triptych sequence, which alternates widescreen panoramas with complex multiple- image montages projected simultaneously on three screens.
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The Fighting Eagle
The 1800sThe exploits of Brigadier Gerard who helps expose Foreign Minister Talleyrand as a traitor to Napoleon.
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The Cat's Bridge
The 1800sIn 1807 Prussia, Napoleon supporter Baron von Schranden forces his maid Regine to lead the French enemy across “Cat’s Bridge”, up behind a corps of Prussian volunteers who the French then decimate. In retaliation for this betrayal, the people of Schranden set the lord’s castle on fire. When the baron’s son Boleslav returns to the village a Prussian war hero in 1813, he is faced with a self-righteous village community that has denied his late father a decent burial. Regine is Boleslav’s only ally, and Boleslav is Regine’s only ally. The conflict escalates, and the villagers set up an ambush for him at Cat’s Bridge …
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The Love Mart
Louisiana The 1800sShe was his slave---bought and paid for---and now he was protecting her with his life. Would she ever understand why? — Victor, an adventurous young swashbuckler in 19th-century New Orleans, takes possession of a barber shop as the result of winning a duel, and decides to settle down to a life as a barber. He meets a beautiful young woman and pursues her, but she dismisses his attentions because she thinks he is just a barber. Also pursuing the woman is the evil Capt. Remy, whom she also brushes off. He, however, doesn't take rejection so lightly, and forges papers "proving" that the girl is a "quadroon"--part black, which means that she can be sold as a slave. She is sold to Capt. Remy, and when Victor hears of it, he determines to rescue her.
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