Films about the Age of the Revolutionary Wars
This collection provides information on selected movies, TV productions and documentaries on the themes of gender, military and war in the period covered by the Oxford Handbook.
The most important wars included for this period are:
- American Revolutionary Wars (1775–83)
- French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars War (1792–15)
- Latin American Wars of Independence (1810–30)
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Beginning with the American Revolution, this program explores the U.S. law of 1807 that abolished the transatlantic slave trade. Meet the people who were involved in or influenced by this pivotal legislation: the slaves, plantation owners, slave...
This two-part documentary by Ken Burns focuses on Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), the American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and one of the so-called “Founding Fathers” of the United States. Jefferson also served as the...
In 1780, the Inca leader José Gabriel Tupac Amaru (1738-1781) led workers, slaves and Indians into South America's first full-scale revolt against Spanish colonialism. This powerful, handsomely mounted biographical film depicts the failed...
This eight-hour epic in four parts is based on the 1869 novel by Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910). Two main story-lines are complex and intertwined. One is the love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov, who is unhappy in his...
War and Peace was a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), published first serially and then in its entirety in 1869. It describes Napoleon's Russian campaign of 1812 from the Russian perspective. This American movie,...
A fascinating documentary on the early military education of George Washington from the French and Indian War to the American Revolutionary War. Early failures reveal how Washington learned military strategies and became one of the foremost...
This epic war drama by Soviet director Sergei Bondarchuk focuses on the Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815 and Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821), played by Rod Steiger. After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of...
This introductory film for the Colonial Williamsburg Visitor Center relates the spirit of the American Revolution through a fictional character. John Fry, a planter-politician, abandons his loyalty to the British crown through his relationships...