Disc 1
- Commentary by Director Zack Snyder, Writer Kurt Johnstad and Director of
Photography Larry Fong

Disc 2
- The 300 - Fact or Fiction
- Who Where The Spartans? : The Warriors of 300
- Frank Miller Tapes
- Making of 300
- Making 300 in Images
- Deleted Scenes With Intorduction by Director Zack Snyder
- Webisode :
Production Design
Wardrobe
Stunt Work
Lena Headey
Adapting the Graphic Novel
Gerard Butler
Rodrigo Santoro
Training the Actors
Culture of the Sparta City / State
A Glimpse from the Set : Making 300 The Movie
Scene Studies from 300
Fantastic Characters of 300

-Easter Egg - Preparing for Battle : The Original

It is spring, 480 BC Persian King Xerxes, continuing his fathers, Darius,
master plan to conquer the Hellenic city-states, arrives in Hellas. The
previous Persian invasion and diplomatic attempts have already turned most
northern Hellas tribes and states to the Persian side. But the people of
Athens and Sparta, the largest Hellenic powers at the time, feel quite insulted
by the Persian emissaries requesting their surrender to Xerxes and slay
them. In Sparta, King Leonidas consults the local oracle, which gives two
options: either a spartan king will have to be sacrificed or Sparta will be
burned to the ground. A year earlier (481, BC) a panhellenic consortium of all
southern city-states have already recognized the superiority of the spartan
army (the best organized and trained army at the time) and have announced
King Leonidas supreme commander of the combined Hellenic army. It is
then decided that a small force should block Xerxes` way to southern Hellas
in the Thermopylae passage.This passage was at that time 12 meters
wide.The great historian Herodotus, possibly exaggerating, states that there
were 1700000 Persians (their true number could be anywhere around 100000
and 1000000) against 7000 Hellenic hoplites and slaves, including the 300
men of the spartan king elite guard. King Xerxes waited for 4 days for the
Hellenes to be frightened and eventually surrender and was quite astonished
by his opponents complete apathy who were following their daily program
practicing and making their hair! After that Xerxes tried to convince Leonidas
to drop weapons, give up his position, kneel before him and live on as a
local governor under Xerxes. King Leonidas replied `molon lave`, which
means "Come and get them`. Then the 3 days battle begun with the 300
Spartans, and 700 thespians (the other Hellenes where sent by Leonidas to
protect passages to their flanks) slaying thousands of Persians with minimal
losses. The whole Persian campaign would have fail if there wasn`t Efialtes
who showed Xerxes a secret passage to the Hellenic flanks. After a final
battle lead by king Xerxes himself the Hellenic force was completely slain
and their heroism and glory was written forever in history. From the
beginning of the battle the Hellenes buried their dead in the spot they fell
dead. After the battle signs where made for the dead of each Hellenic faction.
For the pelloponisians generally (including the 300 Spartans) the sign reads
(free translation) `In this place 4000 thousand pelloponisians fought 30
millions), for the 300 Spartans(lakaedaemonians) especially the sign reads
(free translation) `Oh foreigner tell the lakaedaemonians that we are buried
here obeying their laws` meaning that they never hesitated and never
retreated from the enemy. The impact of the battle was enormous for both
sides. The Persians` morale dropped to zero and the Hellenes lost their fear
for the Persian conqueror and organized their defense. After several
successful battles the Hellenes ultimately defeated the Persian army and
repelled their invasion in the Battle of plataea in 479 BC.