The Hussite Trilogy on DVDs (Jan Hus, Jan Zizka, Against All)

DVD Jan Hus

The movie was shot in 1954. The main hero is the most important 15th-century Czech religious Reformer, Jan Hus, whose work was transitional between the medieval and the Reformation periods and anticipated the Lutheran Reformation by a full century. He was embroiled in the bitter controversy of the Western Schism (1378–1417) for his entire career, and he was convicted of heresy at the Council of Constance and burned at the stake.

Subtitles: English, Czech
Aspect Ratio 4:3 PAL
Audio Dolby Digital 2.0

DVD Jan Zizka

The second part of the Hussite series is about military commander and national hero of Bohemia Jan Zizka who led the victorious Hussite armies against the German king Sigismund, foreshadowing the revolution of military tactics two centuries later in his introduction of mobile artillery.

Subtitles: English, Czech
Aspect Ratio 4:3 PAL
Audio Dolby Digital 2.0

DVD Against All

The last part of the Hussite trilogy starts on 14th July 1420. The crusade army undertook an attack on the hussite fortress on the hill Vitkov east of Prague that assured food supply to the besieged city. The hill is defended by a troop of taborites under the lead of Jan Zizka. When the fortress of the hussites is almost conquered by the flood of iron knights, a troop of Taborite flailers leaves the city gates and attacks the crusaders through vineyards on the southern side of the hill. The knights are pressed to the northern steep side of the hill and subsequently flee in panic.

Subtitles: English, Czech
Aspect Ratio 4:3 PAL
Audio Dolby Digital 2.0