For the first time ever, Napoleon the man and legend is depicted on screen in all of his facets: as a man of human needs and desires, strengths and weaknesses; as a soldier, politician and visionary who raised himself above his fellow mortals and transformed himself into a myth. Napoleon is shown dealing with and manipulating power; loving, seducing and not infrequently betraying the women in his life; interacting with his tight-knit, highly demanding Corsican family; inspiring his armies to achieve the First Empire's most glorious conquests. "Napoleon" sweeps away the pathos of previous portrayals and presents its subject in all of his complexity and contradictions....