Le neveu de Rameau (1980)

Actors: Claude Santelli (director), Pierre Fresnay (writer), Teddy Bilis (actor), Michel Bouquet (actor), Laurence Masliah (actress), Smaïl Mekki (actor), Yves Charoy (editor), Denis Diderot (writer), Jacques-Henry Duval (writer), Gisèle Tanalias (costume designer), Catherine Gabrielidis (editor), André Auguet (actor), Lucette Andréi (miscellaneous crew), Christophe Nollier (actor), Claude Wilder (actor),

Les chemins de l'exil ou Les dernières années de Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1978)

Actors: Monique Mélinand (actress), Claude Goretta (writer), Vania Vilers (actor), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Gabriel Cattand (actor), Hélène Vincent (actress), Dominique Labourier (actress), Michel Berto (actor), Roland Bertin (actor), Gabriel Gobin (actor), Didier Haudepin (actor), Maurice Jacquemont (actor), Pierre Londiche (actor), Claude Goretta (director), Michel Ruhl (actor),

Le siècle des lumières (1976)

Actors: Bernard Alane (actor), Henri Crémieux (actor), Claude Dauphin (actor), Michel Duchaussoy (actor), Guy Grosso (actor), Bernard Lavalette (actor), Denis Manuel (actor), Francis Perrin (actor), Jean-François Poron (actor), Laurent Malet (actor), Michel Thomass (actor), François Villiers (miscellaneous crew), Christian Bujeau (actor), Micheline Boudet (actress), Claude Brulé (writer),

Si Paris nous était conté (1956)

Actors: André Chanu (actor), Henri Bosc (actor), Julien Carette (actor), Georges Bever (actor), René Blancard (actor), Georges Bever (actor), Alain Bouvette (actor), Edmond Beauchamp (actor), Andrex (actor), Louis Arbessier (actor), Amédée (actor), Georges Bever (actor), Antoine Balpêtré (actor), Aimé Clariond (actor), René Berthier (actor),

Plot: A witty journey through the history of Paris told to a group of students by Sacha Guitry, from its foundation at the time of Caesar to 1955. Among others you will meet King Charles VII making Agnès Sorel his mistress; you will witness the creation of printing spurred on by King Louis XI; share the life in the Louvres Palace at the time of King François Ier; spend the last night before St Bartholomew's massacre; be horrified by the murder of Henri III by a fanatical monk, watch the abjuration of protestantism by King Henri IV; try to resolve the Man in the Iron Mask enigma; take part in the storming of the Bastille, be present at the execution of King Louis XVI and at the trial of Queen Marie-Antoinette; participate in the Paris Commune, take sides in the Dreyfus affair.

Si Versailles m'était conté (1954)

Actors: Gino Cervi (actor), Christian Brocard (actor), Louis Arbessier (actor), Jean-Pierre Aumont (actor), Jean-Louis Allibert (actor), Bourvil (actor), Charles Bayard (actor), Michel Auclair (actor), Jacques Berthier (actor), René Berthier (actor), Georges Bever (actor), Paul Azaïs (actor), Michel Bouquet (actor), Jean-Louis Barrault (actor), Georges Chamarat (actor),

Plot: Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.

Napoléon (1927)

Actors: Henry Krauss (actor), Ernest Maupain (actor), Edmond T. Gréville (actor), Abel Gance (actor), Nicolas Koline (actor), Léon Larive (actor), Armand Bernard (actor), Jean Dréville (actor), Robert Arnoux (actor), Jean d'Yd (actor), Paul Amiot (actor), Pierre Ferval (actor), Joë Hamman (actor), Daniel Mendaille (actor), Max Maxudian (actor),

Plot: A massive six-hour biopic of Napoleon, tracing his career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign), his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797 (the film stops there because it was intended to be part one of six, but director Abel Gance never raised the money to make the other five). The film's legendary reputation is due to the astonishing range of techniques that Gance uses to tell his story, culminating in the final twenty-minute triptych sequence, which alternates widescreen panoramas with complex multiple- image montages projected simultaneously on three screens.