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The Charge of the Light Brigade
1968 · Film · 139 min
Directed by Tony Richardson
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.
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I like Bret Devereaux's acoup but I think he misinterpreted "get a life" as a denial of a-historicity. I really do think Scott just meant he doesn't care. His claims to historical accuracy are layman not expert level, promotional. It's puff.
0ne of my grandfathers was a military historian and walked out of the 1970s charge of the light brigade film because the wrong cavalry carbine and snaffle bit was being used. I get pedantry in these cases, but it's still an entertaining film (and like Napoleon a stellar cast)