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Some small sense of the noise and power of a cavalry charge can be gained from the 1970 film Waterloo, which featured some 2000 cavalrymen, 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 ).

The Gary Cooper movie They Came to Cordura contains an excellent scene of a cavalry regiment deploying from march to battleline 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.