The Charge of the Light Brigade

Year: 1968

Runtime: 139 mins

Language: English

Director: Tony Richardson

HistoryWarDramaEpic history and literatureWar and historical adventure

Set amid the Crimean War of the 1850s, a British light cavalry unit under the domineering Lord Cardigan receives a misguided order and rides into a disastrous assault on a well‑positioned Russian artillery battery. The reckless charge results in heavy losses and has become synonymous with blind obedience to faulty commands.

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