

Forty Thousand Horsemen
THRILLING! BATTLING! LOVING!
Charles Chauvel's 1940 cinematic tribute to the mounted troops of the Australian Light Horse regiments is a rousing call to arms, giving life to the heroic tales of mateship during the Great War.
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- Released
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- Language
- Arabic
- australia
- world war i
- anzac
- wartime propaganda
- australian light horse
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United StatesUS
- Theatrical14 Aug 1941
AustraliaAU
- Theatrical26 Dec 1940
CanadaCA
- Theatrical14A26 Dec 1940
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Forty Thousand Horsemen was released on 26 December 1940.
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CinemaSerf
3/26/2025
This is quite a poignant take on a story of three young Australian lads who joined the Allied forces during the Great War and ended up serving in a Middle East replete with Bosch, scheming and plotting locals and a British high command that sadly wasn’t as sharp as their lances. Yep, they were horse soldiers in a signals corp who actually still used signals. It’s “Red” (Grant Taylor) who leads this band of irreverent…
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