Unless you can capture on film the battles of the Napoleonic time ever, Waterloo is the densest, the best movie ever. In addition a fulminater Rod Steiger as Napoleon, who, taken together, more than any other actor Napoleon, this man of genius lends character and credible expression. Waterloo is also one of the last works of the era of the great historical epics such as Cesar and Cleopatra, Spartacus, etc. By contrast, the new ZDF series is a harmless costume spectacle that after the last adjustment stimulates only a thought: "and what's going on tonight !?"