• Director: Tony Richardson
  • Release Year: 1968
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Description

Having worked his way up the ranks, Captain Nolan holds disdain for his aristocratic officers, which involves him in a catastrophic battlefield miscommunication; the Light Brigade, ordered to recover guns being taken off of captured ships, is instead sent by Nolan charging down a narrow valley, directly into a battery of Russian artillery.

Themes

British Empire (1497 – 1997), Russian Empire (1721 – 1917), Ottoman Empire (1299 – 1922), Crimean War (1853 – 1856), Second French Empire (1852 – 1870), Battle of Balaclava (25 October 1854), Class conflicts, Aristocracy, Victorian society, Technology, Literature, Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 – 1892), Casualties of war, Social commentary, Stereotypes, Journalism