Poland through movies: With Fire and Sword (English subtitles)

With Fire and Sword is a historical fiction novel, set in the 17th century in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Khmelnytsky Uprising.

Written by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1884. It is the first volume of a series known to Poles as The Trilogy, followed by The Deluge (Potop, 1886) and Fire in the Steppe (originally published under the Polish title Pan Wołodyjowski, which translates to Colonel Wolodyjowski). The novel has been adapted as a film several times, most recently in 1999. Read more on wikipedia.

You can find it on youtube HERE in HD 1080 and with english subtitles.

SPOILERS: Kindly try not to laugh at the artificial dead horse corpse 2:46:20

And for all the gamers out there if you enjoy the movie you will enjoy a game called Mount & Blade: With Fire And Sword.

For you reference: The badass wingled cavalry is called HUSARIA. The Polish Hussars or Winged Hussars, were one of the main types of the cavalry in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland between the 16th and 18th centuries.