Bonaparte, Napoleon - Biography

Napoleon was a Corsican who became Emperor of France. What was his background? How did he achieve greatness?

This video clip addresses some of the issues motivating this complicated leader.

Credits

Clip from "Napoleon," a four-hour series by David Grubin.  The mini-series, produced by David Grubin Productions in association with Devillier Donegan Enterprises, originally aired on PBS during November of 2000 as part of the series on Empires.

Written and Directed by David Grubin

Produced by David Grubin and Allyson Luchak

Edited by Seth Bomse and Susan Fanshel

Cinematography by James Callanan

Music by Michael Bacon

Narrated by David McCullough

The entire program runs 240 minutes.