The Last Hundred Days of Napoleon (History, Action film) Full Movie

Waterloo. The battle that changed the face of the world.
The Men, the Battle, The Glory, The World Will Remember Forever

[alfonsorodriguez]

Best Napoleon interpretation and depiction of Waterloo ever. Saw it back in 1970 and since then it has not been found anywhere, not even in streaming services until now. Once again, You Tube to the rescue.

[richardfitoussi]

Rod Steiger is probably the best actor interpreting the character of Napoleon i have ever seen in my 76 years of life. I have seen many times Waterloo the movie and compared it with several historical recorded memoires. It is the closest to reality you are going to get!
Christopher Plummer did also embraced very well the character of Wellington.

[Oldeagle]

A must for film school students and todays directors. I have a hard time finding new movies I can watch more than 5 mins.

[sinisterminister]

As many times I've watched this over the years that has always been my favourite scene, " This man knows how to defend a hopeless postion. Raise him to Corporal. ! "

[Pranderx]

Somebody should have showed this to Ridley Scott. It took liberties with history and had flaws, but it's a freakin' masterpiece compared to stinker he made.

[afuciphaga]

This is movie making on a grand scale. Excellent video and audio quality, and NO CGI! Thanks for uploading!😊

[wayneeldonludvicksonii]

Waterloo is the definitive film on this period. The acting is superb. The scenery and armies are not computer-generated. Much of the dialogue was lifted from diaries and accounts of the time. Although one may criticize certain details such as the probably pace of a heavy cavalry charge or wanting to see Wellington as mobile as he really was ... I do not believe this film can be surpassed, not in my lifetime at least. Not anymore.

[Gwaithmir]

Rod Steiger's finest role. He should have won an Oscar.

[hollingsworth_hound]

That's a real test of greatness: after 55 years, even though this movie has been available on several YouTube channels for over a decade, this upload has 1.1 million views in a month. That's a film with staying power. Ridley's Napoleon movie, on the other hand, has been all but forgotten (and rightfully so) after a mere few months.

[cato]

Thank you for posting. I've been obsessed with the French Revolution in the last 12 months. Love this flick!!!

[MCK]

Merci, premier fois que je vois ce film avec une telle qualité de résolution, l'avoir mis en 4k c'est vraiment cool.

[jost-toedtli]

Immer noch einer der besten Filme zu Napoleon.

[gruntforever]

When you look at the pathetic CGI films of today, and then look at this, it is an indictment of Hollywood.

[juliabordeianu]

Rod Steiger - un de ses meilleurs rôles !
Quant à Sergueï Bondarchuk...
Merci d'avoir existé dans le Monde du 7ème Art !
Chapeau, Réalisateur de Guerre et Paix - inoubliable !
Mille mercis à votre chaîne pour la diffusion de toutes ses perles d'un cinéma du temps jadis, le Vrai !

[robertreynolds]

An epic film depicting the brilliance, sadness and futility of this period. What is little shown is the strategic genius shown by Napoleon...and his decline. Davout, in his memoirs, referred to the conduct of Napoleon as a tragedy. The man at Waterloo was considerably different to the man who made his name in Italy. It becomes the ultimate folly, in that of human nature....and we never learn.

[davidhouston]

Rod Steiger played many important parts, But his portrayal of Napoleon is outstanding, you can feel the power and the passion.

[volvo]

Rod Steiger’s portrayal of Napoleon has the same quality standard as Bruno Ganz’s portrayal of Adolf Hitler. had to of required immense study of both men and their mannerisms.

[StephenLuke]

When filming Napoleon's abdication speech, producer Dino De Laurentiis ordered the cameraman not to load a new reel of film to save costs. The film ran out before Rod Steiger had finished delivering this highly emotional speech. The actor was not pleased.

This historical war epic film was, at the time it was made, one of the most expensive pictures ever made.

Soldiers of the Red Army were used as extras to portray the British army. They panicked repeatedly and scattered during the filming of some of the cavalry charges. Attempts to reassure them by marking the closest approach of the horses with white tape similarly failed, and the scene was cut.

General Sir Thomas Picton (Jack Hawkins) is correctly shown dressed in a civilian coat and a top hat. He had traveled in haste to reach the army and had arrived ahead of most of his luggage - including his uniforms.

It was joked at the time that the director was in charge of the seventh-largest army in the world.

Actor Terence Alexander, who played Lord Uxbridge, has said that the Russian intelligence organization the KGB was monitoring non-Russian cast members throughout the production.

This was the only English-language film directed by Sergey Bondarchuk.

When Louis XVIII first appears on screen, he is reading "Le Moniteur Universel", the leading French newspaper from the time of the Revolution. It was founded in 1789 and ceased publication in 1868. In 1799 Napoleon seized control of the paper, which became the state propaganda organ of Imperial France. The paper still exists in a different form, under a different title, as the official state publication of the French Republic.

When the British offered to surrender to the Old Guard, Vicomte De Cambronne supposedly said, "The Old Guard dies and does not surrender." A rumor was started that after British General Colville insisted they surrender Cambronne replied "Merde". However, it is widely understood that Cambronne was captured before he could respond. Cambronne himself denies both quotes, which seems to point to his capture before a response. "The Old Guard dies and does not surrender" was later found to be most likely said by General Claude-Etienne Michel.

The Soviet army planted 5000 trees as well as crops of barley, rye, and wildflowers. They also installed six miles of underground piping to facilitate the creation of mud.

Jack Hawkins's larynx had been surgically removed four years earlier due to cancer. All of his lines are dubbed by another actor.

John Savident was badly injured when he fell off his horse during filming.

Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer didn't have a scene together in this film.

A personal favorite of Peter Jackson.

Before the charge of the Union Brigade, Ponsonby recounts the story of his father's death who he alleges was killed by the French. "His horse got bogged in a plowed field and the brute just gave up. Seven damn lancers had him like a tiger in a pit. (...) bad luck, he had 400 better horses in his stables at Hatton." That tale is pure fiction included only to foreshadow Ponsonby's impending death scene which is depicted in the same manner. In reality, Ponsonby's father, William Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby, was not killed by the French. He died in Seymour Street, London, on November 5, 1806, and was buried in Ireland. Ponsonby himself was given the chance to surrender at Waterloo by the French lancers who had recognized his rank and worth as a prisoner. However, Ponsonby failed to understand them, and when a group of his own Union Brigade spotted him and rode to his rescue, the French lancers had no option but to kill him.

The smoke from the battlefield kept getting inside Jack Hawkins' stoma.

Though third billed in the film's credits and on movie posters and promo materials, actor Orson Welles only appears in the picture very briefly, in a pre-credits sequence.

Christopher Plummer would later reprise his role as the Duke of Wellington in The Duke of Wellington (1974).

Filming took place over more than six months in 1969, the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's birth. Eagle in a Cage (1972) and The Adventures of Gerard (1970), two other films about Napoleon, were made in the same year. All three were box-office failures.

Russian director Sergey Bondarchuk was hired based on the strength of his four Russian "War and Peace" epic pictures he had directed during the mid-1960s but Bondarchuk had not directed the English language War and Peace (1956) movie.

Sixteen days of the production shoot were lost with most of the delays due to inclement weather.

Footage of the film's depiction of the Battle of Waterloo would later be used in The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1981), which was presented and narrated by Orson Welles (King Louis XVIII).

Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer would later appear in Jesus of Nazareth (1977).

Principal photography took about 28 weeks.

Rod Steiger's marriage to Claire Bloom ended after she left him for the man he entrusted to look after her while he was away making this film.

Opening credits: Napoleon Bonaparte, inspiring his people with his military and political genius and his revolutionary fervor, became, within a few brief years, Emperor of the French and master of all Europe.

In 1812, after 15 years of victory, Napoleon met with disaster in the Russian Campaign. By 1813, defeated by the combined forces of Austria, Russia, Prussia, and England at Leipzig, Napoleon was driven to the very gates of Paris - there to await his destiny.

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he was a man, with no mercy in his wars, and yet he cried, cried for his country, for his people, what a legend, my heart broke up in this scene, this made me tear up.

[bohdan]

The Most Magnificent Film on Napoleon ever made. It's Immense Scope and Scenery and Soul is Unrivalled. A Lesson in Film Making for ALL Producers & Directors !