Movies and TvShows featuring "year-1797" theme.

During the Napoleonic Wars, a British naval captain aboard the H.M.S. Defiant tries to maintain order and discipline among his crew, but faces a mutiny led by a sadistic man. The captain must battle for control of the ship and deal with the consequences of his actions.

In the year 1797, a British naval officer navigates through battles, invasions, and revolutions, while dealing with war violence and tough situations. Along the way, he encounters young love and experiences the complexities of war.

Billy Budd, a young sailor, joins the British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. He experiences a hostile environment and finds himself at odds with the ship's Master-at-Arms, John Claggart. Billy is known for his purity and innocence, which makes him a target for Claggart's envy and hatred. When tensions rise and events spiral out of control, Billy is faced with a court-martial and a fight for justice.

The romanticized gallant adventures of Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister. First "engaged" to the Conventionnel Fréron, then separated from him by her brother for political reasons, Pauline joined Napoleon in the Italian army, where she fell in love with the comté de Canouville. But the First Consul married her to his friend, General Leclerc, whom she followed on the expedition to Saint-Domingue. Unconcerned about fidelity, she began to love her husband just as he was about to die of yellow fever. Back in France, she was soon consoled by other gallants. Napoleon, now emperor, hastened to marry her off to Prince Borghese, but he was unable to make her love him. She soon returned to Paris to lead the life of a gallant woman, incognito, and again met Canouville, whom the emperor tried in vain to separate from her. But soon the Russian campaign begins, and her lover is killed. All that remains for Pauline, this time disconsolate, is to reconcile with her brother on the road to exile.

La Guerre Dans le Haut Pays is a period piece set in the winter of 1797-98, during the six days leading up to the fall of Bern and the victory of Napoleon's army, when the Bern government is faced with mixed loyalties from its subjects. The population of the lower valley is divided, but the upper region remains loyal, since they have been given special autonomy and a favorable system of taxation. David, a postman, works between the two regions. His father, who is a hard-line conservative, does not approve of his relationship with Julie, who is from the lower part of the valley. Julie's father, on the other hand, is more open to the new ideas of liberation. As a result of his work, David is exposed to new ideas and becomes a believer in equality and justice.

An 18th-century true story about a rebel and his lover's attempt to overthrow the Italian monarchy.

This tragic love story relates ten decisive years in the life of the great Romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin, played by a young Ulrich Mühe.