Disc 1. Introduction and the old regime monarchy ; Privilege: old regime society ; The Enlightenment ; France, global commerce, and colonization ; American revolution and the economic crisis ; The political awakening of 1789 --
Disc 2. July 14th: storming the Bastille ; Peasant revolt and the abolition of feudalism ; The declaration of the rights of man ; Paris commands its king ; Political apprenticeship in democracy ; Religion and the early revolution --
Disc 3. The revolution and the colonies ; Women's rights in the early revolution ; The king's flight ; Foreign reactions: a divided Europe ; The path to war with Europe ; Overthrowing the monarchy --
Disc 4. The king's trial ; The Republic at war ; Revolutionary culture and festivals ; Family and marriage ; Slave revolt and the abolition of slavery ; Counterrevolution and the Vend©♭e --
Disc 5. The pressure cooker of politics ; Revolution in crisis: summer 1793 ; Terror is the order of the day ; The revolution devours her children ; The overthrow of Robespierre ; The Thermidorian reaction --
Disc 6. The Directory: an experimental republic ; Young Napoleon ; The Italian campaign and the sister republics ; Sister republics? France and America ; Bonaparte in Egypt ; Bonaparte seizes power --
Disc 7. Building power: general and first consul ; Napoleon becomes Emperor ; Napoleon's ambitions in the new world ; Taking on the great powers ; Expanding the empire ; France during the empire --
Disc 8. Living under the empire ; The Russian campaign ; Napoleon's fall and the Hundred Days ; Waterloo and beyond ; Emerging political models ; Revolutionary legacies Suzanne M. Desan ; supervising producer Tony Hidenrick ; senior producer James Blandford ; managing writer Nancy Eskridge ; producer Ines I. Perez-Thompson ; directors Jonathan D. Leven, Jim M. Allen