A World in Arms

TV Mini Series
2001–
2h 30m

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From the French revolution in 1789 to the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, two great empires battled over land and sea and ideology.From the French revolution in 1789 to the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, two great empires battled over land and sea and ideology.From the French revolution in 1789 to the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, two great empires battled over land and sea and ideology.

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Denis Lawson

Narrator…

• 2002

Simon Chadwick

Sergeant Lawrence

• 2002

Miles Richardson

Captain Coignet

• 2002

Daniel Leatherdale

Captain Francois

• 2002

Nigel Whitmey

Captain Jones

• 2002

Michael Shaeffer

Captain Thomas Cochrane

• 2001

Alan Charlesworth

Lord Barham

• 2001

Christopher Birch

Admiral James Gambier

• 2001

Paul Reynolds

Midshipman Frederick Marryat

• 2001

Francis Kennedy

Vice Admiral Pierre Villeneuve

• 2001

John Sessions

Edmund Burke

• 2002

Joss Ackland

Francois Rene Chateaubriand

• 2002

David Keller

Napoleon Bonaparte

• 2002

Robert Whitelock

William Pitt

Martin Hodgson

Robespierre

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Entertaining, thought provoking and well balanced presentation.

This one of the few treatments of the politics of the French Revolution and its aftermath that I have seen that deals in a balanced way with the philosophy and politics of the historical narrative.

The great battle of ideas presented around the theme of the nature of freedom was seriously handled without being too academic. The irony of the Napoleonic victory over English liberalism through the European Union was not lost on this viewer. Not mentioned was the equally paradoxical victory of liberalism in the US where the French Revolution was originally so influential.

The music was also great.