Directed by Tony Richardson | Starring: Trevor Howard, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, David Hemmings

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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