Napoleon's Waterloo

Napoleon's dreams of enduring empire were finally extinguished in a muddy field in Belgium, an anonymous piece of farmland that we now call Waterloo.

This documentary analyses the significance of Waterloo in the context of Napoleon's life, his personality, his political career, and his military capacity.

It clarifies the facts and the forces that led to the great confrontation between Napoleon and Wellington on Sunday, June 18th, 1815, in the battle that engaged 200,000 combatants in an area less than two miles square, and left 50,000 dead or dying.

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