An American war re-enactor earned the job of Napoleon for the 210th anniversary of the battle, despite his accent.

The first trailer for director Ridley Scott’s new movie “Napoleon” is here. Joaquin Phoenix plays famous leader Napoleon Bonaparte, starting with the French Revolution. Vanessa Kirby plays ...

Explore how a rainstorm may have ended the reign of one of history's most famous military generals, Napoleon Bonaparte.

Joaquin Phoenix plays the French emperor Napoleon in a military/romantic epic that’s a mash-up of Leo Tolstoy, Edward Albee and Wikipedia.

While Bonaparte’s reign as emperor had some differences from the monarchy (I leave it up to historians to dispute those in further detail), some key elements, shall we say, were borrowed from it.

Vanessa Kirby plays Joséphine to Joaquin Phoenix's Napoleon Bonaparte in this latest historical epic from director Ridley Scott.

If Ridley Scott’s aim is to make a mockery of Napoleon Bonaparte, then Joaquin Phoenix is 100% in on the joke.

Magnificent ‘Napoleon’ depicts leader as brilliant general, ambitious statesman and sniveling little weasel Joaquin Phoenix riveting in the title role of director Ridley Scott’s violent ...

The tedium begins in 1794 when Robespierre’s reign of terror, symbolized by gambling and guillotines, ignited the French Revolution and war hero Napoleon Bonaparte was promoted to brigadier ...

Joaquin Phoenix stars in the epic about a horny little tyrant with an unfaithful wife who would rather conquer the world than go to therapy.

Napoleon opens with the public execution of Marie-Antoinette, months after that of her husband, King Louis XVI. France then descends into the Reign of Terror—the period during which alleged ...