The Battle of Waterloo (1914)

Directed by

Charles Weston

Genre

drama film, silent film, historical film, war film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 15m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This silent film dramatizes the famous 1815 battle of Waterloo. It was made in 1913 to mark the battle's centenary and was a big success at the time. Today only about half of the original film survives.

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What happens

The Battle of Waterloo is a 1913 feature film created by British and Colonial Films to dramatize the eponymous battle ahead of its centenary. The Battle of Waterloo was much longer and more costly than contemporary films but went on to great commercial and critical success. Though the film was shown in theaters around the world, all copies were thought lost until 2002, when about 22 minutes of the hour-and-a-half production were rediscovered at the British Film Institute archives. Since then, two reels and a fragment have been compiled, representing about half the completed film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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