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Napoleon

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  • 2000-2000
  • 1 Season
  • PBS Home Video
  • Documentary, Action & Adventure
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Born in 1769 to a poor but aristocratic Corsican patriot family, 6 year old Napolon Bonaparte is enrolled in a French academy, where his military career begins. His capabilities are amply demonstrated with a series of dazzling victories in Revolutionary France's Italian campaign. He becomes obsessed with and marries Josephine, a widow, and begins a meteoric rise to power. He gradually compromises his egalitarian ideals and crowns himself emperor in 1804. After he establishes himself as master of Europe with victories in battles like Austerlitz and diplomatic alliances, he embarks on a series of decisions that mark his decline and fall: an ill-advised occupation of Spain, his divorce of Josephine and marriage into the Hapsburg family, and his disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812. After a failed attempt to return to power culminating in final defeat at Waterloo in 1815, he spends his remaining years defining his legacy with his memoirs.

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David McCullough
Self - Narrator
Ferdinand I of Austria
Self
Leopold II
Self

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Episode 1

To Destiny

Wed, Nov 8, 200060 mins

Napoleon: Episode 1 talks about his upbringing on the island of Corisica. It talks about his struggles being forced to go school in France. It talks about the impact the French Revolution had on the young Napoleon. After graduating from the Royal Military College he returns to Corsica to help establish himself them but instead gets exiled from his own country by it's leaders. Talks about his involvement tin the battle of Toulon and his defeat of the English there. Talks about is courtship with Josephine and their marriage. Talks about how he was promoted to Brig. General after disrupting the civil riots in Paris in 1795. It ends with his defeat of the Austrians and the Piedmonts at the Battle of Lodi.

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Awards

  • 2001 - C.A.S. Award - Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Television - Non-Fiction, Variety or Music Series or Specials - nominated
  • 2001 - Peabody Award - - winner
  • 2001 - Certificate of Merit - Television - History - winner
  • 2001 - Banff Rockie Award - Best History and Biography Program - winner

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