The complete special issue of the analysis of the treatment of the battles of the Napoleonic era is back online, in their political use, their technical representation and their arrangement of the narrative. A quick analysis of the place of the battles in Ridley Scott's film (Napoleon, 2023) has been added after the credits. How to tell a battle? How to show it in its entirety? By studying the films whose setting is placed in the Napoleonic epic, a period of profound changes in the art of war but also in the comprehensibility of the battles, we will try here to see the answers given to this question by virtue of the means allocated. Thus, we will ask ourselves why these battles were told, which comes down to asking the political question of the narrative. Then we will see the technical aspect of what is shown, by analyzing how the troops appear on the screen, in their clothing, their movement and their maneuvers. Finally, we will look at the story that is told of the battles, the points of view that are offered, to understand what is at work as soon as a story takes a battle as its setting. Sources: -Bataille, Hervé Drévillon -Napoleon - The epic in 1000 films, Hervé Dumont -Le petit X, from biography to history, Sabina Loriga -War and cinema. Logistics of perception, Paul Virilio -La Bataille, Patrick Rimbaud List of films from which you have seen extracts (even tiny ones): Austerlitz (Abel Gance, 1960) Napoléon (Abel Gance, 1927) Adieu Bonaparte (Youssef Chahine, 1985) Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975) War and Peace (BBC, 2016) War and Peace (Serge Bondartchouk, 1966) Napoléon (Yves Simoneau, 2002) Le Colonel Chabert (Yves Angelo, 1994) The Duellists (Ridley Scott, 1977) Désirée (Henry Koster, 1954) Goya's Ghosts (Milos Forman, 2006) Kolberg (Veit Harlan, 1945) Kutuzov (Vladimir Petrov, 1943) The Lines of Wellington (Valéria Sarmiento, 2012) The Patriot (Roland Emmerich, 2000) Young Mr. Pitt (Carol Reed, 1942) Pan Tadeusz, When Napoleon Crossed the Niemen (Andrzej Wajda, 2000) Sharpe (1993-2008) War and Peace (King Vidor, 1956) Waterloo (Karl Grune, 1929) Waterloo (Serge Bondarchuk, 1970) War and Love (Woody Allen, 1975) List of background music: Sonata in A Major, Franz Schubert Soundtrack for War and Peace (Bondarchuk), The Parting Waltz Soundtrack for War and Peace (Vidor), Musical Moment, Andrei and Natasha, the Hunt Alexander Nevsky, Battle on the Ice, Sergei Prokofiev March Military, Franz Schubert Chi Mai, Ennio Morricone Napoleonic Marches, Drums (here: • Napoleonic Marches Drums ) Overture 1812, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Slavic March, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Peer Gynt - Solveig's Song, Edvard Grieg Pictures at an Exhibition - Bydlo, Modest Mussorgsky Notes: -There is a phenomenal amount of films that we could have shown. For the sake of convenience, it was therefore decided to leave out some, either because they were too bad, too unreadable or too difficult to find in good quality. But there are some gems (in both senses). -You will see in the excerpts quite a few extras who do anything. I'll let you have fun, but overall, we have: a soldier who has trouble marching in step, a soldier who walks alone, a soldier who dies and gets up immediately, a drum major who falls, a drummer who dies while persisting in playing your instrument, and so on. -You can imagine that it is impossible to say everything in 40 minutes. Many ideas, details, mistakes, etc., are not developed here. The goal was to have a coherent whole. Channel member of Label Hérodote https://label-herodote.com/ / surlechampdebataille / surlechampfr To support the channel financially: https://www.helloasso.com/association... Original theme music composed by Julien Théron and remixed by Clément BOTZ / Symphony Blacksmith. Logo designed by Camille Sanchez. 0:00 Introduction 3:34 Cinema, War and Politics 11:48 March, Load, Shoot 24:50 The Battle, the General and the Man 30:28 Conclusion 36:41 Credits (from 2019) 37:23 A look back at Ridley Scott's film