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A star-studded historical record of the events surrounding the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, where Napoleon made his last desperate bid for ultimate power and glory. Read more

Starring Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins
Director Sergei Bondarchuk
Genres Drama

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Waterloo

A star-studded historical record of the events surrounding the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, where Napoleon made his last desperate bid for ultimate power and glory.

Starring Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins, Virginia McKenna, Ian Ogilvy, Dan O'Herlihy, Rupert Davies, Michael Wilding
Director Sergei Bondarchuk
Studio SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK
Run time DVD: 2 hrs 8 mins
Certificate Certificate U
Genres Drama
Language DVD: English
Released Production year: 1970

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DVD: 18 Apr 2005
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    • 1 stars out of 4  

      The battle forms the last hour of this historical charade, and looks both exciting and splendid, though confusion is not avoided. The rest is a mixed blessing.

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    • Rated - 4.0 stars  

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      War it its grimiest

      Waterloo, as the title suggests, retells the famous last battle of Napolean against Wellington. Having been exiled, and returned and gathered an army of his ... read more »

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    • Rated - 3.0 stars  

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      He Met HIs Waterloo

      Expensive war movie that spends more time at the front than in explaining the complexities of Napoleonic Wars politics. Instead, it opts for romantic humanist ... read more »

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    • Rated - 3.0 stars  

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      waterloo

      got this confused with the very reasonable channel 4 version yesterday. to repeat, this is a disastrous film with much spectacle and battle smoke but really ... read more »

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