| 1 | * {{Anvilicious}}: The scene of a British soldier who has a breakdown in the middle of the battle, throws down his weapon, and starts screaming, "We've never seen each other! How can we kill one another?! Why do we?! Why?!" seems to serve nothing but to deliver a rather unsubtle "WarIsHell" message. |
| 2 | * BaseBreakingCharacter: Is Creator/RodSteiger's portrayal of Napoleon flamboyant yet nuanced, or embarrassingly hammy? Critics and fans who feel the latter are fairly common. |
| 3 | * SpiritualSuccessor: To 1960's ''Film/{{Austerlitz}}''. Both films focus on a specific battle of UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars (''Austerlitz'' is about UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte's greatest victory, ''Waterloo'' is about his final defeat). Amusingly, Creator/OrsonWelles had a role in both (and in 1955's ''[[Film/Napoleon1955 Napoléon]]'' as well). |
| 4 | * TearJerker: Napoleon bidding adieu to his guard in the court of Fontainbleau. |
| 5 | * ToughActToFollow: The Battle of Waterloo from this film is still considered the best live-action rendition of a battle from UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars to this day. Even with some inaccuracies, it still greatly renders the sheer scale, sequence of events and formations. |
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