All 4 original episodes of A&E`s popular Horatio Hornblower adaptations are included in this collection of tales about C.S. Forester`s Napoleonic war hero. Ioan Gruffudd (TITANIC) stars as Hornblower, an intellectual young midshipman who enters Her Majesty`s Navy as a bullied recruit but quickly rises through the ranks to take command of his first ship. Set against the backdrop of the 18th-century Anglo-French wars, he becomes a hero of the seas. The series was filmed on location in Turkey, the Crimea, and the Black Sea from the same team who produced the Emmy-winning JANE AUSTEN`S EMMA. Includes the episodes The Duel, The Fire Ships, The Duchess and the Devil, and The Wrong War. See individual titles for plot synopses.