The Charge of the Light Brigade

Name: The Charge of the Light Brigade
Director: Tony Richardson
Genre: Drama, History, War
Released: 1968-04-10
Duration: 2 h 19 min
Rating: 6.186
Cast: Trevor Howard, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, Harry Andrews, Jill Bennett

“Theirs is not to reason why...”

1968

2h 19m

Drama History War

Director: Tony Richardson

Writers: John Osborne, Charles Wood

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Overview

During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.