Yes I had thought it might be "Sergei Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky", but Briz31 showed it awhile ago. I don't remember seeing the particular fighting sequence I mentioned, but then I don't remember if I manged to stay awake for the umpteen hours either... :-)


"Lippizaners" that's the one - they may not be big, but they are nice horses. I'm not sure that a war horse had to be huge, the heavy cavalry of medieval times didn't tromp around at full speed for hours like light cavalry (as was discovered in the C13 in the middle east!!!), but were solid boned and hardy.

There was a story that some of the original horses were rescued during the end of WWII - read it in the Reader's Digest, so it must be true!

The Lippizaners are only claimed to be doing many of the original moves, not even descended from them. We had a troupe of them on the Gold Coast a while ago, but I think the owner went bankrupt some years ago. I think the horses are still doing their act around Australia somewhere.