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Great line. "Who do you think is coming to wipe you out, the Grenadier guard"?

When I served many, many years ago we were going through basic training. Weeks had gone by without a good night's sleep. One evening we were called into the hall and told to get ready for bayonet training. We were exhausted and confused why we were still training late into the evening when usually we had been dismissed to clean our kit and barracks. Then in the hall they rolled down the projector and played ZULU for us... a rare evening off work.

"I rather fancy he's nobody's son and heir now!" I love that line.

One of the great things about this movie is that anytime anyone insults or degrades the Africans there's always someone there to put them in their place. Here when the native levies are referred to as "cowardly blacks" someone else rightfully points out they died fighting for the British.

Dalton is made to look like an effete woose. He was the most experienced serviceman at the station, and was instrumental in both organising and managing the defence. Highly undervalued in the popular histories.

This movie is a Masterpiece!!! Never get tired of watching it. Only wish I could have seen it on the BIG Screen!

Michael Caine almost got fired because the big wigs back in London viewing the rushes didnt like Cain walking around innitialy with his hands behind his back. When asked to explain why he used to that characteristic, Caine said he saw then Queen Elizabeth's husband Prince Phillip do it, it represented authority and respect!

Dalton was actually the mastermind of the defensive scheme.

The movie is great but John Barry's music makes it truly magical

I love the tension building before the battle. I love how they create tensions in the British camp as well between the Natal natives and British; between Chard and Bromhead.

I admire that Michael Caine is willing to embody a man who has real backbone and is an ugly racist at the same time. The fact that these attributes can exist in the same person - makes him more than a one-dimensional character. He did something similar in The Man Who Would Be King.

Later, Caine appeared in the fine film, 'The Ipcress File', whose music was written by John Barry.

Running soldier trips at 0:19 :P

3:02 Probably the most accurate line about officers of the British Army before reforms were implemented.

Ironically, Bromhead was right - their own levies did run at the first sign of trouble,

Commissary Dalton is like a union steward!

dalton was far from the effete pen pusher seen here.i by the way think this is one of the best movies ever so intend no complaint.his part was like many others simplified to fit the script and running time.he was in fact a retired csm and veteran of many a scrap and was in reality the only man at the drift with real combat experience.bromhead had been abandoned when the major commanding ran away ostensibly to warn hepmakaar! neither he or chard had any real idea how to organise the defence.it was dalton who organised the barricades and when the native levies fled realised the perimeter was too big to defend so erected a wall of biscuit boxes across half of it then built the final redoubt! he was then wounded in action but continued to distribute ammunition under heavy fire! the courage of the men at the drift cannot be overstated.the major who fled told the relief column at helpmakaar that they were all dead as did the remants of durnfords horse and other survivors.obviously to cover up why they abandoned them.chelmsford and his column also assumed the men were dead or as good as.they all wondered why the fit men didnt just run.chard and bromheads decision to fight was with the full knowledge it was probably hopeless but they refused to leave the sick in the hospital.to try and move them would have made them easy targets on the road to helpmakaar.in fact a fairly timourous relief was attempted but the troops seeing the fires from the burning hospital assumed the men had lost and were dead so ran back to helpmakaar where the town was in a state of terror cowering behind barricades expecting the zulu army any second!

0:33 Savage Chard🤣

I love this film I do hope to get a copy someday before dvds go extinct.

Damn. That’s some smooth video play for this epic movie.

Spectacular Countryside too.

I would love to have the Zulu chants translated into English.

Gotta say, seeing this in 1080p60 looks soo amazing.

good show

Interesting how Commissary Dalton was initially portrayed in the film. Dalton won a Victoria Cross and was the real hero and brains behind the defense at Rorke's Drift.

Love the British movies of this era.

Great movie

Great scene, awesome movie!

Wow 720p and the picture quality is fucking amazing!

the HD visual on this seems to have the dreaded " soap opera tv" effect, the cinematic quality seems to be missing. Great clip but not quite how I remember it.

I'm not a fan of the soap opera effect. But wow this stands out especially looking at the detail of the grass

Excellent script positively crackles with 60s liberalism - favourite line? Hook: "What am I doing here? Did I ever see a Zulu walk down the King's Road?"

Cowardly blacks? Who do you think is about to wipe out your command? I love it 🤣🤣 the script was perfect

It's great how they mix soup and isanddanwa.

Gotta love the reply from Bromhead to Ardendorf, ...its your country... isnt it ?

I could watch Zulu and Zulu Dawn and Zulu clips all day, as long as they dont include de Witt and his daughter at Rorkes Drift. (that was a waste of good film stock)

for a movie made in the worst time of the apartheid era it really is a wonder how they never indulge in racism. it would have been far too easy to depict the Zulus as ravaging savages and the british as the stout and heroic defenders... but instead every insult is corrected, the Zulu are shown as warriors, not animals, and in the end the british soldiers are dirtied and show fear and panic. thats what makes a movie really great to watch!!

Uk 🇬🇧 getting the message, eh! Now act and respond, eh!! No open door

I rather fancy it's time to get the hell out of Dodge.

And during WWI German general von Lettow-Vorbeck stymied a much larger force British and S. African regulars for most of war almost entirely with native “askari” troops. Later he became (in)famous for literally telling Hitler to “f*ck off” in the mid-30s. Apparently after his Africa experience wasn’t on board the “Aryan superiority” train.

Anyone else click on this because they thought that was Elvis in the thumbnail?

Think I'd sooner take on the Zulu, mighty ferocious fighters that they are, than the Grenadier Guards who have gatlings, cannon, mortars, Martini-Henry's and rockets. Not to mention scads of infantry to man and deliver the munitions on target. Also regarding who gave the order to stand their ground. Heir today, toast tomorrow. Just saying.

60fps doesn't do it.

Was that same cook in Zulu dawn & was killed?

These clips always bring the supremacists out. Usually men who've never had a fight, lwt alone faced combat. Armchair warriors.

good god the sped up 60fps looks like garbage, just play it as it was released, this looks cheap as shit

Gotta love the British. "Let's wear bright red uniforms against lush green hills and see what happens in battle."

I wouldn’t have wasted the soup. Those soldiers still need to eat. They could’ve doused the fires with water from that nearby river.

The British class system is quite dramatic here. But the capitalists changed it with money being the most respected score card as we see with Russian and Middle Eastern oligarchs who have corrupted the GOP even more than the corporate capital managers.

The great mistake is Dalton. He had been an officer. He played a much more important role in the planning and organisation of the defence

The boar fella ran off before the battle started.