For a figure whose onscreen presence is nearly as old as cinema itself, it’s a weird twist of fate that the Napoleon movies that never materialized often overshadow the ones that did. Stanley ...

Ridley Scott's latest historic epic, Napoleon, is raising eyebrows from French historians — but should taking creative liberties really matter? (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Getty Images) ...

Ultimately what we learn in Napoleon says far more about the director than it does about Napoleon. Ridley Scott could not have picked a more exciting period in modern history to make a movie about.

Memoires du General Rapp, Aide de Camp de Napoleon. London, 1823. Pontecoulant, Louis Gustave comte de. Souvenirs historiques et parlementaires du comte de Pontecoulant. 4 vols, Paris, 1861-1865.

In the first act of Ridley Scott’s newest film, “Napoleon,” the French general does something strangely anti-historical: fire a cannon at the tip of the Great Pyramids. In the next scene, he stands on ...

Defending his Napoleon from grumbles caused by early rumors of historical inaccuracy, director Ridley Scott snapped that “when I have issues with historians, I ask: ‘Excuse me, mate, were you there?

The ancient Egyptians believed that mummifying the king’s body enabled his ascension to the realm of the gods. According to this belief, the preserved body, known as the Ach — a luminous spirit — was ...