Stephen the Great ruled for 47 years — longer than any other medieval ruler in Romanian history. During that time, he fought 36 battles and won 34. He defeated Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, who was wounded by three arrows in the back. He crushed Suleiman Pasha, the Beylerbey of Rumelia, with 120,000 men. He stopped Mehmed II — the conqueror of Constantinople — who came in person with the entire power of the Ottoman Empire and returned without a single city conquered. He slaughtered John Albert of Poland in the forests of Cosmin.
In this documentary, we follow the life of Stephen the Great chronologically, battle by battle — from the first fight of a 19-year-old young man coming to take back his throne, to the last campaign of a sick old man who refused to cede a piece of land without trial.
Main source: Nicolae Iorga, History of Stephen the Great (1904).
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:00 1451: Reuseni
05:11 1457: Doljești
06:27 1457: Orbic
07:10 Stephen's Coronation
08:12 1457-1459: Incursions into Poland
10:50 1461: Szekler Lands
11:45 1462: Chilia
13:56 1465: Chilia
16:20 1467: Baia
24:31 1469: Petru Aron
25:18 1469: Lipnic
30:00 Putna Monastery
31:25 1470-1473: Radu cel Frumos
38:22 1475: Vaslui
47:00 1476: Războieni
57:30 The Covenant with Vlad the Impaler
59:00 1477: Laiotă Basarab
1:00:00 1481: Râmnic
1:01:55 1481: Crăciuna
1:02:34 Years of Silence
1:03:43 1484: The Loss of the Cellar and the White Fortress
1:07:31 1485: Cătlăbuga
1:10:11 1486: Șcheia
1:12:23 1497: Codrii Cosminului
1:18:00 1502: Pocuția
1:20:00 The Last Years
1:23:00 Epilogue
Stephen the Great ruled for 47 years — longer than any other medieval ruler in Romanian history. During that time, he fought 36 battles and won 34. He defeated Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, who was wounded by three arrows in the back. He crushed Suleiman Pasha, the Beylerbey of Rumelia, with 120,000 men. He stopped Mehmed II — the conqueror of Constantinople — who came in person with the entire power of the Ottoman Empire and returned without a single city conquered. He slaughtered John Albert of Poland in the forests of Cosmin.
In this documentary, we follow the life of Stephen the Great chronologically, battle by battle — from the first fight of a 19-year-old young man coming to take back his throne, to the last campaign of a sick old man who refused to cede a piece of land without trial.
Main source: Nicolae Iorga, History of Stephen the Great (1904).
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:00 1451: Reuseni
05:11 1457: Doljești
06:27 1457: Orbic
07:10 Stephen's Coronation
08:12 1457-1459: Incursions into Poland
10:50 1461: Szekler Lands
11:45 1462: Chilia
13:56 1465: Chilia
16:20 1467: Baia
24:31 1469: Petru Aron
25:18 1469: Lipnic
30:00 Putna Monastery
31:25 1470-1473: Radu cel Frumos
38:22 1475: Vaslui
47:00 1476: Războieni
57:30 The Covenant with Vlad the Impaler
59:00 1477: Laiotă Basarab
1:00:00 1481: Râmnic
1:01:55 1481: Crăciuna
1:02:34 Years of Silence
1:03:43 1484: The Loss of the Cellar and the White Fortress
1:07:31 1485: Cătlăbuga
1:10:11 1486: Șcheia
1:12:23 1497: Codrii Cosminului
1:18:00 1502: Pocuția
1:20:00 The Last Years
1:23:00 Epilogue