Editing Cavalry (section)

==On film==
Some sense of the noise and power of a cavalry charge can be gained from the 1970 film ''[[Waterloo (1970 film)|Waterloo]]'', which featured some 2,000 cavalrymen,<ref>{{citation |last=Corrigan |first=Major J. G. H. |url=http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/t-z/waterloo.html |title=Waterloo (review) |publisher=[[Channel 4]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327224105/http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/t-z/waterloo.html |archive-date=27 March 2009}}</ref> some of them Cossacks. It included detailed displays of the horsemanship required to manage animal and weapons in large numbers at the gallop (unlike the real [[battle of Waterloo]], where deep mud significantly slowed the horses).<ref>[http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/t-z/waterloo.html ''Waterloo''] Film review by Major J. G. H. Corrigan. Accessed 2008-02-07.</ref> The [[Gary Cooper]] movie ''[[They Came to Cordura]]'' contains a scene of a cavalry regiment deploying from march to battle line formation. A smaller-scale cavalry charge can be seen in ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'' (2003); although the finished scene has substantial [[computer-generated imagery]], raw footage and reactions of the riders are shown in the Extended Version DVD Appendices.

Other films that show cavalry actions include:
* ''[[The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968 film)|The Charge of the Light Brigade]]'', about the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War
* ''[[Forty Thousand Horsemen|40,000 Horsemen]]'', about the Australian Light Horse during the [[Sinai and Palestine campaign]] of World War I
* ''[[The Lighthorsemen (film)|The Lighthorsemen]]'', about the [[Battle of Beersheba (1917)|Battle of Beersheba]], 1917
* ''[[War Horse (film)|War Horse]]'', about the British cavalry in Europe during World War I
* ''[[Hubal (film)|Hubal]]'', about the last months (September 1939 – April 1940) of Poland's first World War II guerrilla, Major [[Henryk Dobrzański]], "Hubal"
* ''[[The Patriot (2000 film)|The Patriot]]'' includes light cavalry usage.
* ''[[And Quiet Flows the Don]]'' depicts Don Cossacks during World War I
* ''[[Kingdom of Heaven (film)|Kingdom of Heaven]]'' includes a cavalry charge during the [[Siege of Kerak]]
* [[The Last Samurai]] – a US army veteran, is hired by the Japanese emperor to train his army in the modern warfare techniques
* ''[[Napoleon (2023 film)|Napoleon]]'', cavalry units play a role in several battles. The scene of the [[Battle of Waterloo#The French cavalry attack|Battle of Waterloo]] includes the British use of infantry squares to defend against cavalry attacks.

[[File:Hakkapeliitta-1940.jpg|thumb|upright=0.85|A cavalryman of [[Hakkapeliitta]], the Finnish cavalry of [[Thirty Years' War]], featured on a 1940 Finnish stamp]]