Napoleon Bonaparte’s rise to power and eventual downfall seems perfect for the big screen, but Louis Sarkozy is still waiting for that film to be made. Filmmaker Ridley Scott has attempted to take on ...

Joaquin Phoenix is making history. The 47-year-old Oscar winner was photographed Tuesday in costume as French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte on the London set of his upcoming movie directed by Ridley ...

Joaquin Phoenix is reuniting with his Gladiator director Ridley Scott in a new film about Napoleon Bonaparte Joaquin Phoenix has booked a new gig since becoming a father. The Oscar-winning actor is ...

On December 2, 1804, the great and good of Paris gathered in Notre-Dame Cathedral to witness the coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte and the birth of the French Empire. It’s a moment immortalized (and ...

James Quinn’s lucid, authoritative and brilliantly concise study of the 1798 Rebellion contains a passage that answers ...

On the bicentennial anniversary of Napoleon Bonaparte’s death early in May, the commemoration of his passing received minimal attention outside of France. Many Americans may not be aware that at the ...

For his actions, Napoleon Bonaparte dubbed him the "Horatius Cocles of the Tyrol." ...

When Russia resumed trading with England, Napoleon prepared to invade Russia. Napoleon amassed an army of 600,000, the largest army Europe had ever seen. After a failed invasion of Moscow, the French ...

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Joaquin Phoenix plays Napoleon Bonaparte opposite Vanessa Kirby as his wife Josephine in the film, directed by Ridley Scott Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies team at PEOPLE. He has ...