CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE Daybill Movie poster 1966 Trevor Howard Vanessa Redgrave

The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)

Directed by Tony Richardson.

With Trevor Howard, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, Harry Andrews

A chronicle of events that led to the British involvement in the Crimean War against Russia and which led to the siege of Sevastopol and the fierce Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854 which climaxed with the heroic, but near-disastrous cavalry charge made by the British Light Brigade against a Russian artillery battery in a small valley which resulted in the near-destruction of the brigade due to error of judgment and rash planning on part by the inept British commanders.