Československý filmový týdeník 4/1969
A newsreel episode broadcast in January 1969 reflects the dramatic events from a journalistic perspective.
Československý filmový týdeník 5/1969
A newsreel episode broadcast in January 1969 reflects the dramatic events from a journalistic perspective.
Jan 69 (Stanislav Milota, 1969)
A film essay capturing Jan Palach’s funeral that was held on 25 January 1969.
Ticho (Milan Peer, 1969)
Contemporary footage with Bohdan Mikolášek’s song of the same name playing in the background. The documentary reflects the atmosphere in society after Jan Palach’s act.
Tryzna (Vlado Kubenko, 1969)
The documentary captures the commemorative gatherings held in January 1969 on the occasion of Jan Palach’s death in Prague and Bratislava.
Příběh Palachova hrobu (Dobroslav Zborník, 1996)
A documentary about the removal of Jan Palach’s grave from the Olšany cemetery in 1973.
Poselství Jana Palacha (Kristiny Vlachové, 2008)
This part of the “Jan Palach’s Legacy” documentary offers contemporary footage of addresses and comments made a few days after Jan Palach’s self-immolation by Václav Havel, the Charles University Student Union representatives Vlado Púčik and Zuzana Blühová, as well as Josef Platz, who talks about filming Jan Palach’s funeral with Dobroslav Zborník.p>
The University of Economics Students in the Soviet Union (Jiří Bystřičan, 1967)
This video was filmed by one of the students during a 1967 summer job of the University of Economics students in the Soviet Union with Jan Palach. This is the only video recording of Jan Palach before his self-immolation.
The protest of Ryszard Siwiec (8 September 1968)
StB members recorded the self-immolation of Ryszard Siwiec at the Dziesięciolecia Stadium in Warsaw. The recording was not known until 2003 when it was discovered in the Polish Institute of National Remembrance.
Tomáš Halík’s sermon (16 January 2009)
Prof. Tomáš Halík’s sermon at the St Salvator Church on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Jan Palach’s self-immolation.