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Forty Thousand Horsemen

THRILLING! BATTLING! LOVING!

5.8(8)19401h 40m1

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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Box office
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Language
Arabic
  • australia
  • world war i
  • anzac
  • wartime propaganda
  • australian light horse

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Release dates

  • 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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