This detailed documentary digs into the private life of the nineteenth century's most extraordinary character - Napoleon Bonaparte. Comprehensive and authoritative but above all entertaining, the documentary provides a compelling portrait of the man and the legend from the early years of his life, through the glorious Imperial years, to the misery of defeat at Waterloo and exile on Elba.

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