The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)

Theirs is not to reason why...

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.

Director

Tony Richardson

Writers

John Osborne, Charles Wood

Themesanti warbritish armybritish colonialbritish empirebritish historybritish soldierdisciplineequestrianherohonor