The Most Realistic Cavalry Charge You'll Ever See (VIDEO)

[AGENT-tqnm]

The horse was like, f-yeah good old times

[ccityplanner]

I think this stunt was deliberate, seeing as the infantry here are quite lightly armed but very heavily armoured.
The silliest thing is what the cavalry do afterwards, which is to stop & engage the infantry in a mêlée while outnumbered. As cavalry, you're practically invincible as long as you keep moving. A stationary cavalryman is no better than an infantryman with blind spots & no left hand (although in this case there's a chance they might survive given how lightly-armed the infantry are; they don't have any of the most effective weapons for use against cavalry, such as a poleaxe). The horse just gets in the way when it's not being used. If you've smashed up the infantry's formation, great, you can get through & get to whatever it is on the other side that the infantry are defending from you (although there are times when it is dangerous to do this, such as when only a few horsemen are able to get through & there are a lot of enemy troops on the other side). If you cannot get through the line, you go back & charge again, to make sure the infantry's really broken, elsewise you go & find something useful to do. You do not stop stock & make yourself a sitting target.

As a few others have pointed out, this is from the filming of The King, & depicts Agincourt. The English fought that battle with an army half the size of the French, & won because they could not have picked a better battlefield. The battlefield at Agincourt is hemmed in between two forests (since cut down to create farmland), & is 6 furlongs in width at its widest, reducing to 4 at the narrowest. In the film, this quality was heavily exaggerated: they practically scoured all of Hungary for the narrowest field between two forests they could find, & the one they used has a width of only about 1 furlong, but still, by military standards, Agincourt was fought in a corridor. The English army was sufficient to fill the entire width of the battlefield, which nullified the French numbers advantage.

The French at Agincourt did exactly what the English wanted them to do, which was to try to overwhelm the English using brute force (disadvantageous when the total amount of force that can be deployed is limited by the terrain). What I don't understand is why, at Agincourt, the French didn't send their right wing* cavalry under Rambures round the back of Agincourt village to raid the English baggage train & attack from behind. They wouldn't have known that the baggage train was there, being as there was a forest in the way, in which case why not just send a scout?

*Right wing means cavalry deployed towards the end of a battle line on the right-hand side of a commander. The strategy of dividing cavalry into two wings placed at the end of a battle line & placing infantry in the middle was originally developed by Philip of Macedon (Alexander the Great's father), & its benefit is in controlling the edges of the battlefield & making maximum use of the cavalry's chief advantage, which is its ability to exit the battlefield & re-enter from another direction. The term entered politics because in the French parliament in the 18th century, the Estates-General, the clergy, who tended to be conservative, sat on the right-hand side of the speaker, while the representatives of the common people sat on the left-hand side of the speaker, analogous to the wings of a battle arrangement being to the left & to the right of the commander.

[harryy]

I watched it on netflix and it was a really good movie. When I saw this scene I was shocked. I was thinking was that real or critical coz it looked very realistic. This fighting scene is the best I've seen so far so realistic it makes you feel like you're there 👍🏻

[Sum_Guy]

I think it was supposed to happen like that since they didn't even give him a sword because that would likely hurt the horse if it's supposed to plough through him

[Fliim]

His armor looks bigger than everyone else’s. Likely extra padding inside and braces inside to prevent back/neck breakage. Still looks like it knocked him out though.

[Sebastian_]

These horses are the descendants of real medieval horses that were bred to do this. Maybe the instincts took over.

[StaffordGrayman]

Everyone's tough until a horse hits them in the face.

[Cosmecch]

The clip is from the movie "The King" with Timothée Chalamet. The film is on Netflix

[monsterous]

More realistic would be the cavalry charging right through, disrupting their lines, with a proper melee line right up behind the horses to take advantage of the broken lines...

[Sheridantank]

You can see he (?) braces for impact from the beginning. So definitely planned.

As others noted, no weapon, different armor indicate the same.

[sicknsaneofficial]

He was pretending to hold something so that it can be added later with cg. Instead of risking harming the horse.

[bruceyung]

Special effects sword could be what he was acting as holding prior to getting savagely mowed down by the horse.

[SnyToprano]

Realistic charge? Who’s to say. Realistic to the Battle of Agincourt? Absolutely laughable. So many historical inaccuracies but it’s a damn good movie.

[EyesOfByes]

It seems like he's ready, like a true stuntman

[degrengolada]

Not related to anything that is happening in the news btw

[_______]

I like how lew low key snuck this is in as a parallel to the Calgary, I meant Ottoman, sorry Ottawa protest where the 8 horse stomped over an old lady in red in a wheel chair.

[DjGen]

What's the name of the outro song?

[hanzo]

Damn the horses tranpled the formation easily XD

[fatguy]

The Canadian police do the same thing with their horses

[Crelotus]

Don’t you have time to talk about hitler ?
I believe that our Prime Minister has now taken his narcissism to criminal extremism justin trudeau