The Charge of the Light Brigade

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Theirs is not to reason why...

1968 · 139 min · ★ 6.2 · Drama, History, War

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.

Directed by Tony Richardson · Written by John Osborne

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