Movies like Sharpe's Waterloo
If Sharpe's Waterloo's mix of napoleonic wars, 19th century and waterloo stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Sharpe's Waterloo's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2003 · Directed by Peter Weir · 138 min7.2
Why you'll like itWith Paul Bettany · Shares: napoleonic wars, 19th century · Also adventure and war
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh…
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Waterloo
1970 · Directed by Sergei Bondarchuk · 134 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: 19th century, waterloo · Also history and war
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him.
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War and Peace
1956 · Directed by King Vidor · 208 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: napoleonic wars, 19th century · Also war and history
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
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Zulu
1964 · Directed by Cy Endfield · 138 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: 19th century · Also history and war
In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.