What is your favorite battle scene in a movie with old milsurps in it.

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I can't remember the name of the movie but it had Australians in it on horse back and the were fighting the Turks in WW1 and the Aussies were on horseback charging at them and it was awesome to see the Turks kept having to adjust their sights on the rifles because the Aussie were charging at them so fast. If I remember correctly the Aussie Calvert won that battle horses were jumping the trenches, pretty good action.

If anybody knows the name of that movie let me know. Any other good movie with old lee enfields?
 
in the movie Legionnaire with van damme were they are caught in an ambush in a canyon. lots of old guns there.

 
The Light Horseman about ANZAC mounted infantry in the middle east in WWI...
and Gallipoli is no more a fairy tale than any other war movie andles of one than most...
 
The movie was Gallipoli and it was hardly a fairy tale. I believe, but I could be wrong, that that scene depicted the only successful cavalry charge in WW1. The Aussies got through the Turkish lines and into their rear and ruined their whole day. The movie is excellent but the real thing was one of the biggest wastes of manpower in military history. Once again, the colonials got screwed by their British commanders.
Battle scenes from old movies like Zulu are always interesting because they are banging away with real Martinis. Teh older the war movie the easier it was to get their hands on the correct firearms.
 
In the second Indiana jones movie there was a good scene with Indian troops with the old lee enfields and they covered his a$$ when he was crossing the bridge and they were picking off those guys in black that were shooting arrows and spears at him.
 
Stalingrad ,,,pick a scene any scene
Saving private ryan not bad for the storming of the beach at d day
Enemey at the gates great scene with the initial stalingrad charge
 
"Zulu" is hard to beat, especially when it comes to 19th century British defensive drill, but what about "The Man Who Would Be King" for some close-up Martini-Henry action?

And that movie with the Aussies on horseback, just to clear things up, is supposed to depict (with license of course) the 1917 assault and capture of Beersheba (not Gallipoli, which was fought in 1915 and was much more stationary--the main characters, you may recall, were in the cavalry but had to leave their horses behind in Egypt and ended up in the trenches with everyone else).
 
Cant believe nobody mentioned this.

Opening sequence of Saving Private Ryan.

After that the battle with the germans to defend the bridge crossing near the end of the movie.
 
dudleydoright said:
"Zulu" is hard to beat, especially when it comes to 19th century British defensive drill, but what about "The Man Who Would Be King" for some close-up Martini-Henry action?

And that movie with the Aussies on horseback, just to clear things up, is supposed to depict (with license of course) the 1917 assault and capture of Beersheba (not Gallipoli, which was fought in 1915 and was much more stationary--the main characters, you may recall, were in the cavalry but had to leave their horses behind in Egypt and ended up in the trenches with everyone else).
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not cavalry, mounted infantry, they were supposedto ride the horse to a battle (or near enough) dismount and fight as infantrymen....
 
Nelson84 - with your recent threads asking about bullet wounds and long bayonets, you should watch the scene in "Gandhi" depicting the 1919 massacre at the Jallinwala Garden in Amritsar, India, when a force of Gurkhas under the command of British General Dyer fired over a thousand rounds in 10 minutes into a trapped crowd of several thousand peaceful demonstrators, killing almost 400 and wounding over a thousand.
 
Blackhawk Down

When the two special ops snipers were dropped off to secure a Blackhawk crash site.
CoC did not want them to go but they did not want to leave their brothers alone.
They continued to fight until their very last few rounds before being over run.
 
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