Various Polish films were shot in the village, including Satan from the Seventh Grade, At Full Gallop, With Fire and Sword, as well as the 1960s TV series Stawka większa niż życie.

[3] According to the 1921 census, the village with the adjacent manor farm had a population of 312, entirely Polish by nationality and 99.0% Roman Catholic by confession.

[4] During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), the forest of Łąck was the site of large massacres, in which over 200 Poles were murdered as part of the Intelligenzaktion.

Around 200 Poles, previously imprisoned in Płock, among them teachers, activists, shopowners, notaries, local officials, pharmacists, directors and members of the Polish Military Organisation, were murdered in Łąck between October 1939 and February 1940, and another 10 Poles were murdered in March 1940.

[5] In Łąck, Germans established a transit camp for Poles expelled from nearby villages to the so-called General Government or deported as forced labour to Germany, and many Polish families from Łąck were expelled in May 1942.