• Additional Details
• Format: Box Set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
• Rating: Not Rated
• Number of Discs: 3
• Run Time: 8 Hours 0 Minutes
• Region: Region 1
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Language: English
• Studio: A&E Home Video
• DVD Release Date: April 1, 2003

In 1795, he was an unpaid general consumed with ambition. In 1816, he was a bitter exile on the remote island of St. Helena. In the years between, he was the most powerful man on earth. Order the original, uncut, 6 hour collector's edition DVD, NAPOLEON today!

"...a compelling portrait of an ambitious man who is more complicated and fascinating than the simple courageous conqueror or megalomaniacal despot many of us know from other version of his story..."
- Los Angeles Times

Order this special extended version of what you watched on A&E®. This version is the original 6-hour production of the show and does not include the narration featured in the TV miniseries. Here's your chance to relive the Napoleon legacy with this fantastic set!

From the campaign that transformed the Corsican outsider into a French hero to his bitter, final defeat at Waterloo, NAPOLEON charts the course of the man who defied centuries of tradition and forced his will upon a continent. Adapted by Didier Decoin (Les Miserables, Jakob the Liar) from Max Gallo's bestselling novel, this epic production explores the private struggles, political intrigues and bloody battles that marked Napoleon's tempestuous rise and rule.

Directed by Yves Simoneau (Nuremburg, Amelia Earhart), NAPOLEON boasts an extraordinary international cast featuring Isabella Rossellini, Gerard Depardieu, John Malkovich and Christian Clavier.

EPISODE 1: 1794
In the aftermath of the French Revolution, a young, unruly and unpaid Corsican general attracts the eye of the glamorous Josephine de Beauharnais (Isabella Rossellini), who has recently escaped the guillotine. They marry, but Napoleon's ambition leads him to Italy and Egypt, where he engineers starting victories for France. Returning a hero, he seizes power from the inept Directoire and installs himself as the leader of a new republic.

EPISODE 2:
Crowned Emperor of the French by the Pope, and with internal dissent stifled, Napoleon turns his attention to enemies beyond France's borders. But a decisive victory against a coalition of Austrian and Russian forces, which should herald peace, only leads to more fighting, and now some of Napoleon's closest allies, jealous of his immense power, begin to turn against him.

EPISODE 3:
In the aftermath of a costly campaign in Spain, Napoleon loses the loyalty of many of those closest to him. While he has defeated the latest alliance arrayed against him, the hard-won peace is fragile and he sees but one chance to preserve it--ally himself with Austria by marrying Marie Louise, the Emperor's daughter. She gives him an heir, but his joy is tempered by news that Russian troops are preparing for war.

EPI 70920 "Grete, the woman she pretended to be, loved Vetter, but Edith never did."
--Angela Schluter, Edith Hahn's Daughter

In 1938, Edith Hahn was a Viennese law student, a "Christmas-tree Jew" with a gentile boyfriend. In 1942, she was living under an assumed name in Munich, married to Werner Vetter, a Nazi party member who was later drafted into the Wehrmacht.

Based on Hahn's acclaimed memoir, THE NAZI OFFICER'S WIFE is the riveting account of how she survived the Holocaust by posing as an Aryan hausfrau. Despite the risks, she kept painstaking records, including real and falsified documents and photos of labor camps. These moving artifacts, along with testimony from Hahn and her daughter, bring this tale of survival, resilience and redemption to life.