@@davecrupel2817,hear, hear!!!

Great background about this Movie!

I never knew actual zulus watched this movie

@@johnsementa9844 They acted in it, why wouldn't they see it?

@@Gazmus Consider it was shot in South Africa when Apartheid was the law of the land...

This is bascially Waterloo - re-enactment filmed, not movie :D

Not only that, but their chief was portrayed by their chief....Mangosuthu Buthelezi

I’ve thought that for 50 years,my god what a beautifully filmed film,it’s a classic....

And Michael Caine was portrayed by Michael Caine. He is Michael Caine in every film he has made!!!

@@kernowarty Not a lot of people know that. 😉

Although it did rather suggest the Zulus were especially noble. Leaving the fight out of respect for fellow braves rather than self interest.

Contrast this with say, Black Hawk Down, whilst it's got excellent combat scenes and some great characters, the way it treats the Somali's whoever they are is awful.

@@markmatthews7202 I saw Black Hawk Down. Great movie. Excellent combat scenes like you said. I agree 100%

Sadly it never happened in real life.

Gg no re

😂

now today it's all ez trash git gud kid

@@EthanJaye all said by ignorant little 9 year olds who fortnite dance when they think they get a question right in school

thats actually a myth, they were paid (according to wikipedia equivalent of nine shillings per day each).

@@michalsafarik929 Possible, but Wikipedia is far from accurate on many things too, so I wouldn't like to comment either way. It's a nice little anecdote if it is true though, and if not, hey, they got paid...

@@nikkirazelli3250 in 2006 maybe, but wikipedia these days is accurate, you can't edit anything without someone else's approval and the users throughly researches etc.

Part of the pay was the wristwatches that you can see some of the warriors wearing in the film.

@@michalsafarik929 id becareful with wikipedia bud. They have been rewriti g facts on eikipedia to make white people liok bad on a daily. A regular book written by the ajthors of those who fought the war and those who participated in the movie making is a better source than wikipedia.

My guess would be, that the actors of the Zulu didn't get paid too much.

@@gehtdianschasau8372 they were not actors they were Zulu descendants from the tribes 100 miles from where it was filmed. The king of the zulus was actully played by his grandson.

@@davidmiller636 Very interresting. i will look that up, if i remember. Then they propably got paid even less, than i assumed. Money is overrated anyways.

@@gehtdianschasau8372 not saying they weren't paid much. But it was better to have true zulus and think of the time in south Africa its was actually a big step to hire them. With the partide in full swing and all that.

@@davidmiller636 It shure was better to have them. I was also sincere about money being overrated. Can't buy yourself love, or child laughter

Very well said mate and a good observation

Watched the movie dozens of times and that always raises the hairs on my arms. Those 10 minutes are some of the best scenes shot ever.

The singing scene never happened, brill film but full of mistakes.

Yeah, I was sad when I found out they didn’t sing like that irl, but it makes for such a great scene that that little inaccuracy is totally worth it

@@ottovonbearsmark8876 And it wasn't a Welsh Regiment either.

@@thebrothers3971 correct, 24th were the 2nd Warwickshire’s. So would have more likely sung, “Shit on the Villa!” Than Men of Harlech.

Whites played by actual whites but the horses were goats in coats

@@jakobkell7212 lol

@AvariceNntied @Jakob kell @jakob kell Lool both of you got a point, kinda a catch 22.

@@mariobadia4553 how df do you tag bloodclat

Chief Buthelezi was Cetewayos' great grandson

Ryan Hook in the film was a great character, it's too bad they dragged someone through the mud when they could have just invented the antihero.

Fun fact Mangosuthu Buthelezi is his name is the long time leader of the IFP (Inkhata Freedom Party) A Zulu nationalist party who have declined politically but still gain significant support in the heart of rural KwaZulu-Natal. During aparthied he was appointed leader of the KwaZulu bantustan. Bantustans were "independent" tribal homelands set up as a last ditch effort by the Aparthied government to satisfy the international and local movements but the ANC rejected this. In the 90s South africa was extremely close to civil war as there were many conflicts towards the end of aparthied and groups were fighting for power. Mangosuthu Buthelezi wanted an independent Zulu Empire but the ANC rejected this so a civil war in the province of modern day KwaZulu-Natal took place between IFP and ANC eventually Mangosuthu Buthelezi negotiated peace and took part in the 1994 election.

he looks like a fat corrupt asshole, was he??

That could be argued because his Inkata Freedom Party was against the democratic elections of 1994, they killed a lot of people who were ANC, PAC etc and lastly they were keen on joining up with AWB so KZN would be country on its own. Political force, me thinks not for there is nothing he has contributed such as Bantu Biko, Chris Hani, Mangaliso Sobukwe, Solomon Mahlangu and many more

@@athikoloto5886 He later agreed to the election and played a major role post 1994 but during apartheid he was a major force as he had a whole Zulu nation behind him

Great movies, all you mentioned. Watch El Cid, you won't be disappointed.

Brad Schaeffer that’s sad to hear

Not saying your wrong but with a movie having so much connected with direct history one might say he gained it through means that the British saw as a noble soldier but from a different light or others who were there can only prove it and if people told me my ancestor was a drunkard I'd prolly walk out too I'm just saying there's no way knowing the actual truth

Sadly even brilliant filmmaker who are devoted to historical accuracy seem to feel entitled to smear an individuals legacy forever if it makes for a more compelling story. Remember the character or Mr Ismay from Titanic? The coward who first caused the distaster by pressuring the captain to go faster to generate publicity by beating a record and then he sneaked onto a lifeboat among women and children to save himself? Well, that is bullshit. There is no historical record that Ismay told the captain to race for a record and no objective reason why he would want that. And as far as his conduct during the disaster itself goes, this is what the official inquiry found: "Mr. Ismay, after rendering assistance to many passengers, found "C" collapsible, the last boat on the starboard side, actually being lowered. No other people were there at the time. There was room for him and he jumped in. Had he not jumped in he would merely have added one more life, namely, his own, to the number of those lost."

@@JohnSmith-li6mn I love this movie, one of my favorites, so not trying to tear it down. But there is no evidence to my knowledge that shows Pvt. Henry Hook as being anything but a model soldier and tea-totaler. I think they needed to make some colorful characters to spice up the script and few military characters appeal to an audience so much as the misfit who rises to the occasion and shows his mettle--think the Black Sheep squadron (another misrepresented group), the Maine soldiers under arrest who end up saving Chamberlain's life in "Gettysburg" when the fight starts, etc. So they unfortunately picked out Hook for reasons only Enfield and Baker really know. It would have been better to have a fictional character, but then you can't show a fictional character winning the V.C. so that wasn't possible. I could be wrong, but I believe I am accurate here, barring evidence I have not seen.

John Smith yes there is. He was a Methodist. He wouldn’t be allowed in the Church if he was a drunk.

"Even spears made us think twice. The people we prefered to fight were two feet tall and armed with dry grass"

@@lavrentivs9891 but what about Mboto Gorge?

@@hallamhal "Ten thousand Watutsi warriors armed to the teeth with kiwi fruit and dry guava halves."

"I smell penny's" - probably Edmund Blackadder IV

@Britannia the zulus had rifles too? Lmao they most certainly did not, and you sounded so confident too

Is that the one about Islandwana

@@Kaiserboo1871 Yes exactly, and the strategic and diplomatic blunders that led up to it.

Yes. :)

Thanks for the recommendation

Zulu Dawn is an underappreciated gem.

Fun Fact : Michael Caine auditioned to play Hook, but they didn't think he looked like a Cockney :-) ! So they said "Can you do a posh accent ?" , he said yes and the rest is history.

@@maggiesmith856 Fun fact, it was an English regiment at RD.

@@dulls8475 The Welsh Borderers ? They were part of the British army, true.

@@maggiesmith856 It was not the Welsh Borderers at RD. Zulu was a film and not real life. It was the Warwickshire regiment at RD.

Also, Colour Sergeant Frank Bourne, was only 23 years old at the time of the battle and was 5'6" tall. He is portrayed in the movie by Nigel Green, who was 40 years old and 6' 4" tall.

+Brandon M Haha, and after it gains freedom, civil war!

+lomax343 Okay, sorry. Colonised.

+lomax343 thanks for that I'll use it against the Canadians and Americans I work with

If it were British, it would colonise your computer, massively upgrade it, advance its technological, social and political standards about 100 years into the future, leave a few pissed off ill informed people and lots of directly related positively impacted and grateful people.

+MKRM27 After watching this video, I actually upgraded my computer tenfold.

Funny you say that, just saw Zulu for the first time on Staff Duty

Sanibonani laphaya

Rorke's drift buster!

Uhh then how the heck did you get an iPad?

I'm glad to hear from a Zulu - keep the proud tradition!

@@slooeverysunday7065 He bought it with German sliced off ears.

👍

@Megalodon Unlocked You can't deny that Lawrence of Arabia was a fierce warrior

That's why I respect lawrence of arabia

The middle east would be a better place if the British government had listend to him

One man spreads his wings

Holy shit, that’s awesome

@plushman3685 yeah I think so as well

​@@darthrevan-if it's ok to ask what was in the journal

@@catlover-db1rj his time in the army,how much he wanted to go home and many other things

@@darthrevan- interesting. I'm surprised these things are still in good condition

The extras were men from the 5th south african infantry so no beards Or other victorian fads

also im not to sure if correct but the regimental badge on their piff helmets would have been taken off during a campaign or in the field but do you think they would have been taken off a roksdrift seeming they didnt expect to fight at first

@@angloaust1575 I was actually referring to the named cast members, though of course the extras would have had to match.

True. Moustaches were mandatory until 1916. Soldiers needed special permission not to have one.

I doubt if any of them wore the amount of mascara and eyeliner Michael Caine was wearing either!

😂

Are you sure? I think I may have seen some mark C Assegais in the middle of the battle ;) :D

Those werent real Zulu warriors anyway. Real Zulu warriors are seven feet tall and shoot fireballs out of their ass while killing englishmen in the hundrets.

I'm pretty sure we're missing the Type 43 Assault Club that the Zulu's deployed during Rorkes Drift.

I thought the Type 43 wasn't issued until later that year.

@A Moye He's talking about History Buffs not being biased and siding with either side but viewing both sides as equally bad and siding with neither

@@Hypnopotimus27 It wasn't their idea to leave home in the first place.

@A Moye respect would be the Zulu not invading their neighbors and slaughtering them

@A Moye Cry a river bitch.

@@maggiesmith2600 Ignoring the fact african warlords on the coast sold the blacks into slavery

Indeed and Nigel told me a lot about the Zulu filming. I was an extra in the 1965 film: The Face Of Fu Manchu (Dir: Don Sharp) and he plays Nayland- Smith therein, in my scene. I'm all of 2 secs as a young boy dead on a bike, killed by Fu Manchu (Christopher Lee)..in the fictional Essex coastal town of Fleetwick, with deadly poison gas.

​@@davidlally592Superb work, David. Never seen a better casualty of war

The real colour Sergeant was actually just 5ft 6ins tall, but built like a brick out house.

I saw the movie roughly 2 weeks ago, why do they want it taken down? It didn't show any racism or discrimination towards Zulu's in my opinion.

@@meowterrolszo6727 "It didn't show any racism or discrimination towards Zulu's in my opinion" exactly - it provided no explanation of why the Zulus would wish to wage war on the welshmen and englishmen - while at the same time portraying the welshmen and englishmen as real characters and heroes and the zulus as nothing more than cannon fodder..

Andi Pandi Yeah I agree the zulu where essentially cannon fodder, but I guess that's because it was represented through the British perspective and not the Zulu one. I thought the movie did well though in explaining Zulu tactics and portraying them as fearsome warriors unafraid of death.

@@meowterrolszo6727 "I thought the movie did well though in explaining Zulu tactics and portraying them as fearsome warriors unafraid of death" so worked well on all levels as an infantile advert for war - rather than exploring all of the richness of the human condition or more effectively challenging the futile and corrupt nature of that game.

Andi Pandi What? How and why is it the a 1964 films job to do that? Also it's a movie focused on a battle why does it need to "explore the richness of human condition"?

Yes, and the British used the light from the hospital burning so they could target the charging Impis by firelight.

Realize that Wikipedia in itself is not 100-percent accurate

@@CoachChef Of course. On the other hand, neither is any encyclopedia. In this case though, I'll lean towards Wikipedia barring clear evidence against them.

Yes - and he was known to have amazing rapport with his men which is how he became a colour sergeant so young. IIRC he was offered the choice of a VC or a commission and chose the latter.

I hate the fact that he died A. on VE day and B. that he died in general. I love that character do much.

@@paulcollins2995 Take comfort in the fact that he died peacefully in his sleep in his 90th decade, quite likely after just finding out that the Allies had won the war. Not a bad way to go!

@@PointlessSillyName Maybe the Victory of the British during the Second world war relieved his soul and he was ready to go. He got to live long enough to see his nation overcome the Axis powers and the Triple Alliance. His life must have been incredible.

@@PointlessSillyName 90th decade?!He lived to be over 900 years old,he did really well!

And then the Brits proceed to sing hella low themselves 🤣

Karim QK I thought he was talking about the welsh when he said that?

@@Aron-ru5zk he was

@@Aron-ru5zk thank god someone knows it was the welsh

I loved when the same guy was earlier told "I have work for baritones as well as tenors" (while building the bridge)

Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead: "Sixty! We got at least sixty, wouldn't you say" ? Ardendorff: "That leaves only 3,940".

The British army didn't suffer truly horrible disasters in WW2 the same level as the battle of the somme

@@jonataspereira1691 The evacuation of Dunkirk was a disaster, though not in casualty terms.

who does?

@@gribwitch Really? Try telling the Royal & Merchant Navies that it was a disaster. They were sent to lift 40,000 men, and actually lifted 338,000, Some disaster.

Gloucester. born raised died and buried in Churcham, just over the river from Gloucester.

Ayy I'm from Gloucester, it's a proper shithole here.

The Hidden so am i. not that bad

Alistair Shaw Depends which bit you're from haha

The Hidden My Girlfriend comes from coney hill. and we live in the east of london currently Gloucester isnt that bad

"Hitch. You're alive. I saw you." 😂

Ryan EXACTLY.... Also they were given all the animals used in producing this film because they couldn't be paid the same way as the white actors because they were filming in South Africa during Apartheid. In addition the guy who plays the Zulu chieftain is a direct descendant of him

American Indians were defending their homes. Zulus did not.

Oversimplification. Pequot were probably highly territorial/expansionist tribe who simply would not believe in peace or diplomacy. As for Seven Years War - Indians were not playing games - they were fighting, they understood the most fundamental rule of war - destroy the enemy. As for Fort William Henry - French insulted indians with some of their gestures along without giving them gifts, so Indians too their prize from the british leaving the fort. As for scalping - it's normal ( for Indians of the time ) to take a scalp. It was a trophy. It didn't matter if the victim was dead or alive. But it's still nothing compared to Zulus modern or past.

@ There were also Tribes that didn't kill enemies in the hope of capturing them and forcing them into their own tribes. Kinda like how the Romans conquered

This film actually respects the Zulus-it is shot so that both sides feel very similar. They're both empires, they're both made of ordinary men fighting for their crown, no matter how bad the cause, they're warriors, they're here because it's their job, not because one nation is better than the other. It's very WW1.

@@npcimknot958 American politics? They don't appear once in the movie.

i hope you see it and report Back here . And we must remember it ( movies ) are an art trying to imitate Life .

@@kilpta4746 I think you confused his comment

@@dylanroemmele906 Oh damn. Didn't realize he meant that no one's really bothered by racism if you're not American. Oh well. Thankfully his views aren't reflected by the rest of the world.

That setting, with the Amphitheatre in the background is geographically inaccurate. Every time I see that, I am reminded that my wife and I have sat on the rim of that escarpment by the Tugela falls.

Basically the modern Rorke's Drift

i bet it sucked to be the guy named Will though.

tgNn Nn

It's a very soldierly piece of humour. From what I've read the British Army is renowned for it, even under dire circumstances.

Which sentence?

Jonathan Hodgson - "Looks bad in the newspapers and upsets civilians at their breakfast."

Jolly good sentence chap-*british person gets punched* NO PLAID CYMRU

Damir Pryce I suppose, what with an adoption of shorter thrusting spears over longer throwing spears, though culture wise they were closer to the Cossack's with their organization.

+KageRyuuUji Wow, it must have been embarrassing being them. I mean, not only were they known pretty much as "The Balls", but they had to sit on their asses and wait until things got hairy or the battle ended.

+KageRyuuUji This post should be on the top.

+KageRyuuUji Sounds like my Groins. :(

Jack Murphy Quite the opposite actually as they were often times brought in to finish the fight much the same way more veteran or elite troops would be, so it's safe to consider the loins to be the "cream of the crop", as oddly sexual as that analogy sounds.

Buck Tarbrush just watch the movie

@@jacksonwhiteside7609 OK. Will do.

It IS a great film.

I know what you mean.

movies free on youtube.

This is one of the historical inaccuracies of the film. The majority of British soldiers at Rorkes Drift were English.

Was he one of the eight Welsh men there

"And a bayonet sir, with a bit of guts behind it". Never go into battle without a Colour Sergeant Bourne.

@@Loosehead My grandfather, who had fought in the Pacific Theatre in WWII, always had a preference for CS Borune. Apparently he is the only character using a bayonet correctly.

@@thrownwithgreatforce3562 the real Colour Sergeant Bourne was only 23, not the ‘Old sweat’ as in the film, he was the youngest of his rank at the time in the army and was known by the troops as the ‘Kid’. He was also the last surviving member of the Rorkes Drift defenders, he died on VE Day 1945.

@@corditekid1 Ahhh that explains why he opted for commission rather than honours. If he had his whole career ahead of him then it's a no-brainer. Thanks for the info!

A Colour Sergeant Bourne lurks in every British heart. We do very well when our backs are against the wall.

The_Dusty_ L if I had my way I'd force dianne abbot to watch this film at least once a week just to see her roll her eyes and scrunch her ugly dial up.

I do not know how any war can be dear to someone's heart. War is something to avoid at all reasonable cost.

Though I cannot claim any real understanding of the issues at hand, being two nationalities and continents removed from you and yours experiences in the matter, in your position I would take the very idea of banning this film or any other artwork you believe properly represents the subject as a personal insult. My apologies if my comment, based on such a limited understanding as it is, in any way offends or appears disingenuous as that is not my intent. As an artist, formerly professionally so in fact, I find the banning of creative works by anyone for any reason to border on a personal insult, the kind that gets me in a fighting mood I do not usually experience because frankly getting that angry is physically exhausting and I am rather lazy by nature.

@@GhostBear3067 what will/ would THEY do with The Naked Prey? A Boy 10 Feet Tall? HONDO, for f#$%s sake?

Don't worry Dusty . It will not be suppressed . English nationalism is on the increase . Sick of pandering to blacks .

Fair play...the part was taken by a CRAP actor......

Agreed. If they wanted an anti hero that redeems himself during the battle, they should have chosen Corporal William Allen. William Allen was actually a Sergeant before being demoted due to his habit of drinking whilst on duty. Although his attitude was not as bad as the Hook potrayed in the film, Allen was certainly bitter about his demotion. It is safe to say that both characters were completely mixed up when the script was written.

I know! I keep rewatching it

ikr

+Badjoke Maker what is the intro song.

+sam cockings I know, right? I can't find it anywhere but I've heard it everywhere!

+Badjoke Maker It really is fantastic. Definitely TV quality.

because people want to repeate the worst atrocities in it again. we keep history to learn from it beware those that seek to erase it for ANY reason.

Pol Pot, The Khmer Revolution, Year Zero... Tearing down historical statues and symbols, denouncing the ideas of founding fathers, banning “objective” literature, denigrating and silencing all opposing viewpoints via state sponsored media and the threat of violence. Does that sound at all familiar?

That's right, in fact, many of the atrocities of WW2 are so real that you go to jail if you question or investigate them!

Unfortunately, there are people who think that if you censor the unpleasant bits in history they'll go away as if they never happened. This is exactly the wrong way to think.

@ShiRen Mao yes because conservatives never tried to ban gays, lesbians, and interracial relationships on TV and film did they. Also remember the south didn't succeed from the union because of slavery it was because of state rights. You know the state's rights to own slaves.

I thought you were claiming your Dad and Grandad were AT the battle. Really confused me for a sec.

heh, sorry for the confusion. might raise a couple eyebrows if i claimed that! :D

That Reference Guy yeah relatives of the guys that took part were invited to the premiere. Did ur dad go?

the regiment that fought here was the south wales borderers. my grandfather also served in this regiment. i am too young to have known him well. other historical inaccuracies not mentioned here and which do not matter include the sergeant's stripes which should be on the right arm and not the left and the white helmets which should be pale brown by being dyed with tea. private hook went on to become an RSM and his portrayal as an alcoholic bum so upset his descendants that they walked out of the film. i love those sexy zulu ladies. apparently the white actors and crew were forbidden under apartheid to even look at them. 2nd lt chard was 3 years senior to 2nd lt bromhead and not 3 months. well spotted the 303 rifles. i cannot. maybe some of them have a bolt action. all in all both zulu and zulu dawn are great movies.

Shame it was the 2nd battalion the Warwick's only became S.W.B two years after this battle look it up...in fact go to Monmouth museum its all there taffy

Charge of the Scots Greys at Waterloo

Zulus attack

@@admiralyawn3106 Fight back to back

@@nickdafreak9141 Show them no mercy and Fire at will!

Jaime Fookin' Lannister Facing, awaiting a hostile spear!

Jaime Fookin' Lannister the end is near! there's no surrender!

I had this song stuck in my head during a test in school:/ BUT THE SONG IS FIRE!!

Such a good song

Demitrium long live salaton

Demitrium Your a poet and don't even know it!

Demitrium Sabaton!! such a great song!!!

That was a learned and cultured analogy you used. Bravo

That was a learned and cultured analogy you used. Bravo

@Life By The Numbers voortrekker means "travel before" directly, they were closer to pioneers than settlers, also on the colonizing fact, the boers only fought the zulus after the retief delegation massacre, before that negotiations were being made for peaceful boundaries for the natal colony. Also hi from south africa

It simplifies things in terms of the Europeans and the Africans.

The problem with that is that while zulus are congoid and khoisan capoid the british and boers are both caucasioid. Not only that but unlike zulus who completely speak different languages of families the boers and british speak both germanic languages. Oh and they are both christian.

I had read that Hook's family had attended the premiere in London, but walked out when they found out how he was portrayed in the movie, and have criticized the movie since.

+Ray Medrano Correct.

I know. It is very odd. If they felt they needed an anti-hero in the midst of the battle, why not just make up a name? No one would ever take umbrage to the inclusion of another fictional character in the film, especially in light of the various other liberties and fictional characters. * Spoiler * Perhaps they felt that the character's redemption and bravery at the end ultimately surmounted the portrayed negative aspects and therefore gave him a hero's role, but still... It was a real man with real living relatives that they were charging with all sorts of false villainous traits. Not only was he not a drunk, he actually did not drink at all!

Good point. I missed that when I commented about the Reverend. Hook is another character that was treated poorly. Also Chard and Bromhead had no dispute about rank as Maj Spalding who commanded the regiment departed and specifically put Chard in command.

OOOOooooops. I also forgot to mention the treatment of Commissary Dalton. He was the most combat experienced member of the unit and greatly assisted in the defense planning.

It’s not Possible, unless he was your great or grandfather, unless you are like *really* old which I doubt.

@@dukekevy6650 what? The Angolan Bush war was between 1966 and 1990 Paul here could very well be younger than you

*1866 and 1890 please go back to school, if they were still alive they would be in their hundreds

@@dukekevy6650 what? What are you talking about? If this is supposed to be a joke its not funny

The Zulu wars was in the 1800s not the *1900s*, or else we'd be using Machine Guns and Automatic Rifles

Well said. Spoils of war applies to all conflicts, whether its between a family feud in some remote jungle in the middle of ancient Peru, or between two vast Empires spanning half the world.

Dan Cole British are worse! The Zulus were just black.

@@dozhadeville444 XD

The Zulu nation was not very nice to the tribes it conquered, killed and enslaved. The Zulu's formed the backbone of the police and army of the White South African regime as most other black tribes of Southern Africa hated them for their history.

Perfect Dan Cole! I was the publicity stills photographer on this film, and there was no racism amoung the cast and crew also the 250 Zulu extras who were used and edited into separate sequences (to indicate 4000 warriors!)

Adrian Rosenlund-Hudson There is a reason Hook is seen as dishonorable. Either he disagreed with the European ways or he was gay.

And Color Sgt. bourne was only 26 years old. He was a Battalion CO in WW1

What's a tee-totaller?

@@Serjo777 A tee-totaler is someone who never drinks alcohol.

@@seshe7Wouldn't that be a Tea Totaller.

It's called the bantu expansion. It's how the bantu moved from a tiny region in west africa to all most every part of africa.

Yes, and the English didn't rule England until the 5th century or so. I fail to see how this justifies British imperialism

@@Tareltonlives It's not to justify British atrocities and imperialism but to understand that this war wasn't between a colonial power and a local innocent tribes but between two assholes

No, They we're from Swaziland and a bit of north-western from South Africa.

@@zeight80 Who are you talking about ? the Zulu ? they aren't natives to south Africa or Swaziland the natives are Khoi-san who were almost wiped out by Zulu at least 84%

your favourite film of ALL time?????

I watched this a thousand times in my youth too, I was entranced by the Zulus their great chants, war cries and song. I am currently working on a piece of music which tries to incorporate an element of Zulu chanting similar to how they were used in the Zulu film. It's early days yet but it'll be interesting to see how it comes together and ends up sounding

Mine too. Seen it a hundred times. I'm 44.

One of my favorites to and I am 55. I own it on DVD.

One of mine too, and I’m 80. Also Night of the Generals, The Lion in Winter, Lawrence of Arabia, and the original Blade Runner! Have to watch them at least once a year.

Granddaughters

@@chrisguy1790 Not sure. Articles say elderly daughters. Hook was born in 1850 died 1905. The film was 1964. 114 years after his birth. So lets say he had a kid when he was 30 she would be 84 at the film's premier . Certainly could have been either daughters or grand daughters but they were described as elderly

I can help with the doubts expressed after this remark. My Auntie went to school with one of Henry Hook's granddaughters. The school was The Royal Soldiers Daughter's School in Hampstead, and the year would have been around 1935. In 1964 (when the film came out) my auntie was 44 years old, and her mother, my grandmother, was 68 years old. So, it could have been Hook's daughters or granddaughters who walked out of the premier - they would all have been young enough to attend and show their disapproval.

As a boy my school was opposite the church where John William's VC is buried. I ended up an officer in 24th. The respect still shown to the Zulu immense. I have been to Rorke,s Drift and I amazed B coy survived that day. A tremendous story for both sides. The views expressed were also those of generation who had seen the horrors of WW2. My fathers and uncles new the horrors

The old ladies were on Blue Peter show as guests if I remember correctly, watched it on tv at the time , I was 6 years old , they weren't impressed, my dad took me to see the movie at the time 1964. The film wasn't accurate anyway

@Abel Castro I sure as heck was 16 when I saw that movie. What wasn't clear to you?

And be honest Timothy...The Americans DIDN'T win in Vietnam EITHER.......

I too as worried about being sent to Viet Nam in those days. The real british heroes were not the two officers, but service corps men supplying ammunition. I hate war, but it fascinates young men. Tragically. Goaded on by young women even more tragic.

@@johnconlon9652 The goading by women is absoutely true. Encoded in evolution if that's the right verb.

Been to his grave and Hook's

One of my favorite films....Sir Chard deserved the VC

@Sean Kean I can only say that you have missed out on one of the best films EVER. Very few make my "watch again" list, this one is at the top. Must have watched it at least 20 times.

Damn you Chard !!!! Damn all you butchers !!!!

one of the VC winners lived local to myself, few miles down the road.

Should be viewed on a theater screen. Beautiful scenery.