Charge of Beersheba - LIGHTHORSEMEN AUSTRALIAN CLASSIC WW1 MOVIE - TRAILER
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TRAILER OF THE MOVIE THE LIGHTHORSEMEN DEPICTS THE AUSTRALIAN LIGHT HORSE CHARGE AT GAZA AND BEERSHEBA. BASED ON THE TRUE EVENTS OF THE OPERATIONS OF THE 4TH AUSTRALIAN LIGHT HORSE REGIMENT.
Absolutely so bloody proud to stand up and say my great uncle of the 12th Light Horse rode in this phenomenal charge.
@Jamon Hartzer @roseanne74, thanks to both of your relatives, I am able to live in Beersheba today.
Stand proud, they were magnificent!
The first time that I ever saw this movie, it gave me chills. The bravery shown in that charge is amongst the greatest ever. Mad respect to those men.
Yes. Love for ya horsemen i watching the Lighthorsemen now it’s great movie but the charge is awesome
southroncross my grandfather’s brother was there, in Sqn B.
lest we forget
kalyb ash
Me and my Australian lover remembered on the 102nd Anniversary and I went horse riding I did my first horse charge on the day
less we forget u unit how r u
You have to be a special breed of man to do what they did. Thank you Australia.
Indeed we are
"If I had to conquer Hell, I would use the Australians to take it, and the New Zealanders to hold it!"
- Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (who fought AGAINST them in North Africa so he knew what he was talking about)
@@Grubnar indeed
no stupid guys !! not more
kick the leader in the ass.. and leave with your mates the line. and look for a beer bar
@@Grubnar Rommel was a loser and please supply your. Source for that quote.
The greatest depiction of a cavalry charge ever in the history of cinema
The idea of the light horse men was were just to use the horses as transport. That’s what threw the Turks off at the start, they were waiting for them to dismount.
Battle of Vienna, Polish Hussares charges against overwhelming Turkish Odds. And won, and saved Europe
@John K. Tudek Sr. You can’t forget the rest of the Holy Alliance forces that charged with the winged hussars
That's because they were not cavalry, you dill !
Let us never forget the brave actions of the soldiers at this battle in the desert sands. We must also never forget the magnificent animals that made it possible by carrying soldiers over the very long distance of the charge.
Australia sent around 130.000 horses to the war effort, many of which were Walers. I understand just a handful returned due to a Government that would not fund their return.
Two horses, Bill the Bastard and Midnight are immortalised in Australian books and the former achieved great recognition when the 2018 Jericho Cup was run 100 years after the original race.
Details of the now annual event can be found with a search for the Jericho Cup.
I'm from Beer sheva ( biblical traslate: the seventh well), and we do have a local park called the park of the australian soldier
I was involved in the centenary commemorations of the Battle of Beersheba. I'll never forget playing Waltzing Matilda multiple times in my marching band during the parade through the city. I never got the chance to visit the Park of the Australian Soldier, but it was a great tour.
@@crazygrainger2006yeah, if im not wrong every year an expedition from the aussie embassy come to portrait the battle that occure in ber-sheva dressing in uniforms and stuff.
On behalf of my great uncle, who was in the charge 103 years ago this week, thank you for remembering them ❤️
@@roseanne74
My lovers grandfathers were also there and survivors
Tomorrow’s going to be hard for him definitely but I’m there 24/7
I was in tears watching he charge. The cream of Australia. To think the horses could not come back home to Aussie.
Cpl Bruiser, some of us will never forget the 'Walers'. One was sold to an officer and did survive. When he couldn't bring bring his horse back to Australia so sold him to an Indian Officer, also serving. The Waler was taken to India. It was a thoroughbred and became a champion racehorse there.
Cpl Bruiser
I was when I found out that my lovers grandfathers were part of the Charge
I’ll never forget the story my Australian lover told me
We were depressed for a week
The fact those horses went without water for almost three days and still managed to charge at full gallop across three miles of open field in the desert heat without dropping dead is a testament to their determination. Its nothing short of a miracle.
Samurai Momo it’s amazing. There is a legend that as they were charging, the men noticed that the horses ran faster and harder than they had ever run before. The believed that the horses were so dehydrated and desperate, they could smell the water in the town.
@@boe9917 That's entirely possible. I heard that even the British and Australian troopers outside of Beersheba could smell the water in the wells.
They went there with only the supplies they had and very little water. It was a desperate gamble. Taking the town was literally do or die for them.
Correct they can smell water for miles and that's why they had to take the town - Grant said his greatest fear was that the men couldn't stay on their mount's
I was a Second Lieutenant in a Light Horse Regiment as a young man.
1st/15th Royal NSW Regiment, the old Sydney Light Horse.
We had Centurion Main Battle Tanks by then though.
movies like this makes me feel PROUD To BE AN AUSSIE 🤘🤘
I live in the uk but I love Aussies
I get a chill down my spine EVERY TIME I see him tighten the reins and hear the Officer scream "CHARGE!!"
I have always wondered why this charge isn't better known, it should be up there with the Light Brigade.
Because we were looked down as being common and expendable as we did not kiss the British asses, but our solders made up for what ever they lacked with their fighting, and they always have.
the light brigade failed, the light horse did not. really though it's because by this point the middle east was a side show and the offensive in march 1918 pretty much put a stamp on most of this. My Great Grandfather was RSM of the South Nott's Hussars, Allenby's headquarters troops, but they would be shipped back to europe in a couple of months to ass to the mobile reserve there while allenby, at the battle of Meggidio in Oct 1918 would invent blitzkrieg by having his mounted forced punch a hole in turkish lines and spread chaos in the rear causing the line to break so infantry could roll them up.
The charge of the Light Brigade is remembered by the words "into the valley of death rode the 600", I'm rather glad that the Australian Light Horse are not remembered for the same type of total waste of life.
@@paulbaker9277 That is a gross misrepresentation, High ranking officials in WW1 (both Allied and Axis) regarded all common soldiers as cannon fodder, most, when going over the top, were scared to death, but never backed down, they didn't fight for the king their country or the commonwealth, they fought for their comrades and friends to the left and right of them, as do most soldiers sailors airmen etc do to this very day!!!!!!!!!!!
@@GravesRWFiA Yes it was the first Blitzkrieg, planes were also used in the attack
As a former special forces soldier of the Viet Nam era, I salute the courage and bravery of this men and their magnificent horses
Charge over open ground “can’t be done”.... Australian Lighthorse...... hold my beer.... Isreal.... your welcome!
Love your comment 😂👍 but just a friendly reminder that you forgot New Zealand 🇳🇿 . Australia 🇦🇺 & New Zealand charged together.
@@titandragon753 my apologies, can never forget New Zealand!
It was the English, Germans and Turks who said it couldn’t be done - Israel didn’t exist until after WWII. Beersheba belonged to Palestine.
A great Aussie movie.
aussiewomen yeah my Aussie friends requested horsemen to me unexpected time and I got in December
What's the movie called
George January
The Light horsemen
Nothing would stop our Aussie Family from getting a Beer,Good on ya Cobbers. ;-)
The significance of this charge cannot be overstated. Not only was it a decisive victory for the allies, but it signalled the end of the Ottoman Empire and led indirectly to the creation of the nation state of Israel. It astonishes me that every Australian school child knows of the defeat at Gallipoli (which has become Australia's national day - ANZAC Day) yet almost no one knows of this magnificent achievement. Australia must be the only nation which celebrates its defeats rather than its victories.
Rod Pratt
What the? I remember the victory charge every year since 2018
Rod Pratt
I charged on my horse in remembrance of them
@Superdude70 When I hear the word ANZAC, I visualise our two countries bonded as one. I knew the NZ mounted division took Tel el Saba (spelling?) which was pivotal.
Yet for telling a story like this, it focused on one small part of this operation. Without the thousands involved and the complexity, there would be no story as such.
Yet, I understand what you are saying - we get pissed when the British neglect to mention Australia's/ANZAC's contribution to campaigns -or when the US umm 'rewrites' their own history on WW1.
In ways, we should know better not to exclude/forget to mention NZ. The sad part is that smaller countries often get overlooked in the story of WW1, including our own.
But, I think there are a lot more people who understand and recognise our 2 countries' bond of being ANZAC's than the handful of comments we read on these threads. Love Aust xxx
@Superdude70 Perhaps I had misinterpreted your original comment, so apologise. From what I have long read and understood, the term Anzac arose while in Egypt to 'join' our countries forces before the landing. News of the landing on Gallipoli and the events that followed had a profound impact on Australians and New Zealanders at home. The 25th of April soon became the day on which Aust & NZ's remember the heavy sacrifice of those who had died in the war - and has continued to be the significant date of remembrance in our countries.
"We are going to get beer at well forgot the name but it is straight ahead!" 1 hour later:"Why did those a..holes shoot at us? There is only bloody water here!"
A remarkable bit of filming.
Dust isn't from hooves, it's from the steel balls dragging on the ground.
unbeliveable level of courage and Bravery
... 60,000 cavalry failed to take it how will 800 horseman take it ... They were Chockos.🇦🇺
You know what was so amazing about this charge, it was a charge that ended up saving the British Empire forces.
we would soon see the Iron Horses of war take to the field, the tank.
Yes. If it wasn’t for the Australian Light Horse we could’ve died if thrust easily and not won the war without the horses
It wasn’t just Australian LH not was it just Aussie that made that happen, huge respect ANZACS, for those ignorant it mean Australia and New Zealand Army Corps!
Many of the Australian and New Zealand forces were miss used by the British in WW1 it’s well documented a key reason both New Zealand and Australia refused to serve under British officers ever again and never did from WW2. a much is glamorised in film and where and who is making it from which country.
This may come as a surprise to Aussies and many British!
The capture of Beersheba (Be’er Sheva in modern Israel) was a turning point in the struggle between the British and Ottoman Empires in the Middle East in the First World War. The New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade played a key part in the capture of the town.
Twice in 1917 the British-led Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) had failed to take Gaza, the gateway to Palestine. Its third attempt focused on Beersheba, on the eastern (inland) flank of the Ottomans’ defensive line. While three British infantry divisions attacked the main Ottoman defences on the outskirts of Beersheba, the Australian and Anzac Mounted Divisions rode in a wide arc to the east to attack the town from the rear.
On the morning of 31 October 1917 men of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade attacked Tel el Saba, a fortified hill 3.2 kms north-east of Beersheba. After six hours of hard fighting the New Zealanders captured the hill. The way was now clear to attack Beersheba itself, but daylight would soon fade. In a daring action, the 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade charged in from the south-east with bayonets drawn, taking the Ottoman defenders by surprise. The town and its important wells were soon secured and the enemy retreated. By the end of the day at least eight New Zealanders had been killed and 26 wounded.
The EEF now sought to trap the main Ottoman forces defending Gaza, but lack of water and skilful rearguard actions allowed most of the enemy troops to escape. Within a week, the Ottomans had abandoned Gaza.
Maverick224
The Australian Light Horse charged in Gaza on April 1917
Then Beersheba October 31st 1917
What a bloody war
One of the books from the series Australians At War gives one whole book to this attack
Chuavel had been standing on a small hillock just far enough away from sniper's that he couldn't be hit after seeing him standing there for several minutes his ASM ( Armament Sgt Major ) was a rank that existed when the military was basically artillery and infantry the rank no longer exists in the Australian Army
He walked up to chauvel and stood beside him for a few mintues when chauvel noticed him beside him
Chauvel - ASM the guns
ASM - Sir
Chauvel - The guns ASM
ASM - Yes sir what about them
Chauvel - How fast
ASM - Sir what do you mean how fast
Chauvel - The guns ASM how fast can they lay the guns
ASM - Your not thinking of charging them are you
Chauvel - Damn right I am
ASM - Your frigging mad sir
Chauvel - We'll see soon enough Sgt Major
love you anzacs ! when the fight is on youve got the biggest balls.
Haha, I also remembered that Charge on April 25th
Great to see the Victors being in their prized land.(Palestine)
A group of Aussie Larrikans who refused to let their mates down. All for the lack of something we take for granted H2o. These heroes charged with bayonets waving & hooting / hollering as they rode in. RIP Steve Blake (was injured in the making).
Do you mean Jon Blake? He was driving home drunk on the last day of the shooting and hit a parked car on the side of the highway.
@@Mav_F He became a vegetable didn't he if I remember correctly which is why he was never seen again in acting. Bloody shame, this movie would have made his career. Fantastic actor.
@@gothamgoon4237 yes he did. Plus he should have known that drink driving is a problem, but he choose to drive. Just like people know drugs can kill but they still take them. I do feel sorry that it happened to him, he was a great actor better than Mel Gibson and some of the actors today.
My great grandfather Thomas Joseph canny was a lighthorseman at Beersheba in the first world war
thanks Brother ; ) us 'real' Australians in Two World wars lost heavily dying in our Hundreds of Thousands Fighting for others that had been invaded or exterminated. Now in 2020 our little Culture and Nation are nearly gone. No good turn goes without punishment. Lest We Forget
Yes sadly you are correct 'times are a changin'
hello Digger we are blessed not as bad as back then !Mine where 471/14thBat ,AIF, 'Jackas' Mob .What was yours ?
Hi, I had no relatives in the 14TH battalion - they were members of the 5th ALH and 9TH battalion.
Thanks Digger, saw a Picture of Pop many years ago at a Wooden Wagon they would take the Dead and Wounded in from the Battle Field in France. When I got a closer look with some glasses ,I was in shock as it was my Face, exactly ! Changed my life. A couple of years later my Wife went psycho leaving me, burning all my Family stuff and throwing his Medals away. Never seeing my Children again all proudly indorsed by ourbritshit Government.Been helping other poor buggers since but now thinking of leaving this place for another Country. I call this place Mc oziebritshit muck
@@thelastaustralian7583
Hi Aussie, I’ll remember tomorrow for you all in Australia it’s going to be hard as heck and it was for my lover last year
Awesome
Love this movie
3mile ride to hell takes guts
This is true AUS history, i wonder when the yanks will claim this as their battle.
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A lot of the riders used in the charge scene were actually women in men's uniforms.
Light horse never charge. Unless some typical Australian lunatic has a bright idea....
grl8862
They charged in Beersheba though
Nicole Lawless Indeed. It was the first and last time of the Light Horse charge.
My grandmothers uncle was in the South Australian 9th Light Horse and he died in the battle before this battle. Romani. Grave, but no body recovered.
Not just ANZAC one of the best!
Lighthorsemen were
A day for wrath and ruin.
Warriors that do our colonial brothers proud. God bless
And in my death so shall rise the fallen Australian light horse men and my auntie lena
This is a great "trailer" but the movie itself is rather forgettable EXCEPT for the Charge scenes. What's alluded to in the early part of the trailer is somewhat wrong historically - the actual impetus for the charge was necessity: the nearest water to the wells at Beersheba was around 50km away and the horses (as correctly described) hadn't had ANY water for 2+ days - if they didn't get water (and a lot of it) right away, they all would have died of thirst - THAT was the pitch made to the British Commander by the Austrailian commander - essentially, we've got nothing to lose.
The movie comemmerates the last successful cavalry charge in history and it's a doozy - the Lighthorsemen start to gallop several miles from the fort and then go into a full sprint around 2.5km (I don't know if this is historically accurate); The German Commander has ASSUMED (incorrectly and diastrously) that the Lighthorsemen will gallop towards the fort and then dismount and try to fight their way on foot - which ain't the plan. The Germans and Turks respond initially with cannon, but after every round, the officers have to call out a new range to re-set the range elevation angles of the artillery and the horses are moving so quickly that they aren't effective - there's a brief moment/scene where the British command officers are watching this unfold and one of them looks through his binoculars and announces matter-of-factly that "they're under the guns", meaning the artillery no longer works at all. At that point, soldiers in the trenches take over but they are depending on re-setting the range dials on their rifles as the Austrailians get closer and closer and CLOSER - the machine guns are no longer effective and the Turkish soldiers in the trenches start to flee to save themselves.
The Aussie horse 'The Waler', was a breed of its own and possibly the toughest war horse in the world. It could out perform a camel when it came to water rationing as experienced by the soldiers themselves.
WHAT A CHARGE !!!
This and other cavalry charges in the 20th century were a waste of men and animals ,the pokes did in 1939or 40against germans wiped out ,good on the Aussies but the glory days of charges were done by ww1bit not the dying weapons just too strong but that being said never heard of this one glad I found it
Well, this charge took place in the 20th century, during WWI and the total reported losses were 35 killed and 39 wounded; they captured over 700 men. The reported losses by British troops in the fighting before the charge took place are reported at 171. So this charge was very different from many other charges during the war, but not alone as Aqaba was also taken by cavalry/camel charges in 1917, but not in the way shown in the film Lawrence of Arabia.
The Bravery of the Australian Lighthorse is uncontested. Beersheba was the only source of water, the Turks knew it, the British knew it and the Walers sniffed it! The Turks knew of the likely, coming attack by the Australian Lighthorse. They set their artillery at an angle to counter to expected attack where the Lighthorse charges to the area and dismounts to fight on foot. Only they didn't!
The Australian Lighthorse rode right over the Turkish defensive lines to the Beersheba Wells and broke the Turkish control of Palestine and the Middle East.
I hope this was an interesting summary?
Alec Ohare The British inept use of the Lighthorse prior to this was almost unbelievable. Making them dismount and attack on foot misused both their riding ability and their great horses, not to mention the sheer terror a mounted cavalry charge creates for defenders. Almost as bad was the British refusal to allow these heroic horses to be shipped back to Australia after the war. They were heroes and the British allowed them to be sold to be turned into pet food.
Roxy Tiger The Aussies should have shot the British officers who told them they couldn’t take their horses home.
@@michaelbrourman3194 As someone said: They found the money to ship the horses over, but couldn't find the money to ship them back. So wrong...those horses were more than heroes, they were the soldiers mates.
the sadst thing abut thos that evey one of them wallers was shot atthe end of the war 20.000 of them most of them wood come home
Sorry I still don't know any difference of cav and litehorse.
The last mounted infantry charge, Beersheba, October 31, 1917 The capture of the town was strategically crucial in the Allies march to the Mediterranean port city of Gaza. But of more importance was the seizure of the wells. Around 50-60,000 men were marching across the desert towards Beersheba and unless the Allies could find water quickly their cause against the Turks, the eastern allies of imperial Germany, would be doomed. The need for water for both men and horses was critical. As was the case 4,000 years before the only wells for miles in any direction were at Beersheba. According to the Book of Genesis, Abraham and his son Isaac each made pacts with other men over the water at this place ‘Well of Oath’. Babylonians, Assyrians and Philistines had all fought for water here over the centuries. This day it was no different. In the late afternoon of October 31, 1917 around 800 men of the 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade looked from a ridge down across six kilometres of sloping ground towards Beersheba. Behind them were thousands of troops desperate for water and a never-ending desert, in front of them, the heavily fortified town of Beersheba. They were about to take part in what is now remembered as history’s last great cavalry charge, a charge of mounted infantry. The Australian Light horse was to be used purely as mounted infantry for the first time and although they were not equipped with cavalry sabres, the Turks who faced the Australian’s long bayonets didn’t see much difference between a cavalry charge and a charge by mounted infantry. The assault on Beersheba began at dawn with the infantry divisions of the British XX Corps attacking from the south and south-west. Despite artillery and air support, neither the infantry attacks from the south, or the Anzac Mounted Division’s attack from the east had succeeded in capturing Beersheba by mid-afternoon. With time running out for the Australians to capture Beersheba and its wells before dark, Lieutenant General Harry Chauvel, the Australian commander of the Desert Mounted Corps, ordered Brigadier General William Grant, commanding the 4th Light Horse Brigade, to make a mounted attack directly towards the town. Chauvel knew, from aerial photographs, that the Turkish trenches in front of the town were not protected by barbed wire. However, German bombing had forced the 4th Brigade into a scattered formation and it was not until 4.50 pm that they were in position. The Brigade assembled behind rising ground 6 kilometres south-east of Beersheba with the 4th Light Horse Regiment on the right, the 12th Light Horse Regiment on the left and the 11th Light Horse Regiment in reserve. The Australian Light Horse was to be used purely as cavalry for the first time. Although they were not equipped with cavalry sabres. The Light Horse moved off at the trot, and almost at once quickened to a gallop. As they came over the top of the ridge and looked down the long, gentle open slope to Beersheba, they were seen by the Turkish gunners, who opened fire with shrapnel. But the pace was too fast for the gunners, The horses (whalers) had smelt the wells and after three days without water they were charging towards it. After three kilometres Turkish machine-guns opened fire from the flank, but they were detected and silenced by British artillery. The rifle fire from the Turkish trenches was wild and high as the Light Horse approached. The front trench and the main trench were jumped and some men dismounted and then attacked the Turks with rifle and bayonet from the rear. Some galloped ahead to seize the rear trenches, while other squadrons galloped straight into Beersheba. Nearly all the wells of Beersheba were intact and further water was available from a storm that had filled the pools. The 4th and 12th Light Horse casualties were thirty-one killed and thirty-six wounded; they captured over 700 men. The capture of Beersheba meant that the Gaza-Beersheba line was turned. Gaza fell a week later and on 9 December 1917, the British troops entered Jerusalem. The last great mounted charge by the 4th Australian Light Horse changed the course of the war in the middle east. In their desperate attack to seize the town before dark it has been written that “They rode for victory and they rode for Australia.”
Como se yama la película que no me acuerdo del título
anyone know if theres upload of the full movie
cassius harry Yeah
cassius harry yeah if you pay for it.
roseanne74
It’s on UA-cam on Now playing’s channel
It was blocked 2 months ago but I got the dvd anyways
If you Google you might get lucky. A Torrent or somebody putting it up illegally.
I found a copy a few years ago of the full movie. Not much chance on UA-cam. It has become a Classic.
The owners guard there rights well.
Delikanlılıkta dayakta yenebilir dayakta atılabilir.Olduğu yerde bitmeli bu gibi şeyler.Uzatmanın kimseye faydası olmaz.Bu dunya kimseye kalmaz.
The Turkish people are strong, kind, compassionate, and great friends to the Australian people. Please don't be too upset about historical movies. We took Beersheeba, you kept Gallipoli, but we have been good friends for the last 100 years. We respect you. Salam Elecum my friend.
Interesting, I didn't know the Ottomans spoke perfect english. /sarcasm
they were to pissweak to play a role in a movie where they loose.
5:21 SUSUME
A slight historical inacuracey is that many troopers were Kiwis.
Not just them mostly Aussies
Al Strider
Yeah, when I go to Australia I want to learn how to charge like them
Al Strider
Aussies won 10 wars
Not in the charge on Beersheba.
We did the charge when they were exhausted because were to scared to attack the Ottomans in full force.
kennedy072 yah any idiots disrespecting Australians they’ll be charged by me and my friends in Australia
Wayne Haile
Nah, not getting involved in crazy comments like that anymore. My Aussies got away with it
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