At least the fact-checkers can’t criticise the music for being historically inaccurate When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Ridley ...

When creating a score to fit the nuanced humanity of the man on a brutal warpath, composer Martin Phipps had quite the challenge. It only became that much more complex when he reached out to director ...

The restoration of Abel Gance's "Napoleon" amounts to a conversation between past and present, an effort to bring this powerful film into the modern era while keeping its essential qualities intact.

Music will become a time machine when the Mercury chamber orchestra relives the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte. A battlefield defeat near Leipzig, Germany, in 1813, two years before the onetime ...

The film-maker Ridley Scott turned 86 just last week but he’s still producing epics. The man who directed Hannibal and Thelma and Louise among others has now brought Napoleon to the big screen.

There have been a lot of films about Napoleon, but the most famous one of all is also the hardest to see. Abel Gance's Napoleon premiered 85 years ago, a silent epic about the childhood and early ...