The Campaigns of Napoleon Boxed Set #1
by Chris Gormlie
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Actor: James Fowler, Jeremy Black, Keith Fredericks, Linda Butler, Tim BlanningDirector: Chris Gormlie
Brand: Kultur
Editor: Chris Gormlie
Producer: Audrey Healey
Producer: Bob Carruthers
Producer: Gary Russell
Producer: Gavin Bott
Writer: Malcolm Seymour
Writer: Simon Eales
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 165 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Kultur Video
DVD Reviews of The Campaigns of Napoleon Boxed Set #1
DVD Review: Rapturous battle-followings and stuff
Summary: 5 Stars
There's no copyright year anywhere on the DVD case or box, but the end of the documentaries I think label it as being from 1993 or so, and yet the video quality looks horrifying by today's standards, and by the standards of 1993, it would be considered bad itself. It looks something like the early to mid-70s on a VHS recorded off a TV.
So hold no bias against poorly aged footage not anywhere near digitally enhanced or fixed.
The documentary features are very very engrossing, even featuring some computer-generated map sequences that look surprisingly 2000-ish despite being apparently made in 1993 (or if you judge like I had when first seeing it, 1971), which allow you to keep track of what's occurring across the battlefield, and see army columns moving about where they do and around the field.
The narration is always perfect and precise, even if the script tacks on some stupid cliche's, and there are some acting sequences where some actors dress up (and in one humorously awkward case, stand before a very poorly done background scenery piece) and act out a historical person talking about the battle. The English captain Mercer in Waterloo is kind of awkward in his dull droning, but somehow manages to rapture us with his charisma. Then there's also a gritty-ass French general who looks kind of like Donnie Wahlberg and sounds like a brick grinding against a block of wood, and a Prussian captain with highly fluent, understandable German and a nice sort of ambivalent smugness to him that seems to reflect Prussia's whole "we don't give a s***" attitude to the affairs before Austerlitz when they hadn't joined Napoleon Bonaparte or the Alliance against him.
Then there are the battles, re-enacted on a massive scale with (1970s) style movie filming and directing, and it is very very entertaining.
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Description of The Campaigns of Napoleon Boxed Set #1
This spectacular series tell the stories of the world's greatest military history, and features dramatized reconstructions and re-enactments, stunning excerpts from feature films and "eye-witness" accounts of the battles.1805 THE BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ
A superb record of the Emperor Napoleon?s greatest triumph. As the famous sun of Austerlitz rose through the pale mist on the morning of December 2nd 1805, the stage was set for one of the most decisive battles of the Napoleonic era.
1812 - NAPOLEON?S ROAD TO MOSCOW
It was to be Napoleon Bonaparte?s greatest adventure - an invasion of Russia with an army of more than 650,000 men, the largest the world had yet seen.
1815 THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO
A powerful account of the final defeat of the Emperor Napoleon. It was a battle which would change the face of Europe forever... a day of savage fighting which destroyed the dreams of Napoleon and freed the continent from the threat of his vaulting ambition.
Featuring:large scale Napoleonic battle reconstructions, hundreds of contemporary images and paintings, informative graphics and maps, weapons, strategies and tactics. Narration by Brian Blessed and Robert Powell.
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