Here's a clip from I movie I hear is great. It's a czeck movie from 1955 entitled "Jan Zizka". The director, Otakar Vávra, has made a "Hussite" trilogy which includes this, "Jan Huus" and a third movie of which I don't know the title. The movie includes a few interesting peasant weapons including war scythes and flail.
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Jan Zizka - Battle of Sudomer 2
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Re: Jan Zizka - Battle of Sudomer 2
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Re: Jan Zizka - Battle of Sudomer 2
Wow, I was just studying Zizka last week and recognized that battle in the second clip. I had been wondering if anyone had ever made movies showing wagenburg and military flails. Turns out it was done half a century ago!
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Re: Jan Zizka - Battle of Sudomer 2
I got all three. Haven't seen them all yet but so far they are among the best medieval movies ever produced, The mistakes are probably fewer in there movies than the details that's right in most modern ones. Also a very nice depiction for some peasants fighting with flails etc.
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Re: Jan Zizka - Battle of Sudomer 2
I believe that those battles are pretty accurate to what a medevial battlefield really would be like (unlike mostt Hollywood-produced movies).