Now this is pretty much an average Day in London lol

Muybuena Pelickla los Zulues y el ejercito britanico.

Zulu a brilliant film I love the song Men of Harlech a rousing song I remember going to the cinema with my mother in 1965 to see this film I was 12 years old now I'm 69 this film is fantastic brilliant I love it I still watch it every now and then it's the film that got Michael Caine started on his long career sadly Stanley Baxter is no longer with us I believe he found the battle Rokes Drift in history books and brought it to the big screen a great and a great cast

the french rugby waterloooooooooooooooooooooo ahahahahahhahhahihihihiihihihihi

Dos 5 mil quantos guerreiros zulus que tinham lanças e escudos de couro morreram para derrotar 150 soldados britânicos que tinham canhões e rifles

Likely to be banned mate just a matter of time.

@@bertiewooster3326 i don't think so, this movie shows both sides with respect (at least from my perspective)

@@GeetMonke Sorry it will be banned as it shows superior colonial rule over natives.

@@bertiewooster3326 you are so optimist!

@@bertiewooster3326 Which was historical fact here! At least based on weapons and firepower

its hiliarious how many people don't comprehend why single shot firearms dominated for five hundred years and singled the end of bow and arrow. plus people don't understand why a number of guns had volley sights with a range of 3000 yds that you fired at an arc to hit an area with your bullets falling like rain drops. several hundred to thousands of troops doing it was like hitting an area with an artillery barrage

Now imagine repeating fire arms. At Gettysburg Buford's brigade of dismounted cavalry armed with repeating carbines held up an entire corp until reinforcements arrived and were putting out so much fire that A.P. Hill thought his men were going against at least a division.

@@thomasb1889 Look up a guy named Solomon in ww2 medic who singlehandedly held off an entire japanese unit with a tripod machine gun so they could evacuate the wounded. Found him dead with hundreds of enemy bodies around him

I've seen it demonstrated in real life (with blanks, of course). And yes, it's scary. Fire at will is also scary, if done right; it's like a steady hail.

@@sillypuppy5940 This is really only true with the right leaders which they had there. With the right leadership at Isandlwana that could have also been a great victory with Rorke's Drift being just one more minor victory in the long history of Great Britain. Unfortunately supply sergeants would only give ammo to their own unit forcing those from other units to go off searching for their own supply where at this battle everything was fair game in the defense to the point that a supply depot meant for a division only had 900 rounds left at the end. I has a Minnesotan would love to see a movie or series that followed the First Minnesota through the American Civil War. At First Bull Run them and Ricketts Battery were the only Union units to leave the battle field in good order. I can only imagine the Confederate officers going who the hell is that unit? The Confederates met them many times in the following two years but it was at Gettysburg that the South really found out what they were made of including the only Confederate battle flag taken in battle, the 28th Virginia's which Minnesota refuses to return because it was taken with blood and not taken in surrender as every other Confederate battle flag was taken.

It was much the same during WW2 with many RAF bomber crews, after firebombing German cities knowing they deliberately were killing civilians. The policy of area bombing became *very* controversial. It was increasingly difficult to hit an individual factory, or similar target in an unfamiliar city at night, so the decision was taken to attempt to kill those who worked in the factory or whatever the target was, by hitting the surrounding area. Many airmen suffered from the certainty of knowing they were responsible for the deaths of ordinary people......

Yeah right. The british weyre totally the villains. They conquered the Lands and fought the Zulu down and enslaved them.

@@AntonioHench The Zulu’s we’re an imperialist force and the British had outlawed slavery in the early 19th century 🤣

​@@AntonioHench okay so first I didn’t say there are no “bad guys” at all, obviously the British government can be viewed as the aggressor and bad guy, what I said is the film doesn’t portray the men on the ground, on either side as villains. Secondly if I’m not mistaken the land over which this battle is fought is not Zulu land and so the Zulu’s are actually the invaders. Thirdly the British Empire outlawed the slave trade in 1839 and this war happens in the 1870s so no, the Zulus are not enslaved. Real history is way more complicated than ‘good guys vs bad guys’. The Zulus also had an empire and they got that empire via aggressive territorial expansion.

That’s why i love this film

The singing scenes are fictional.

@@roberthudson1959 - the singing was added for entertainment value, but i think its a nice touch. It's a movie, not a documentary after all.

@@gregabidwalapgwilymgoch956 Movie? That was Real. HAPPENED! And what is "Entertainment" about Killing natives who fight with stones and spears to Defend their Homeland? The "Greatness" of the British Empire was established thanks to the Piracy, the Slavery, the Massacres, the Opium Trade, to the Assassination of Gov't Leaders and the Weakness of many abused sovereign nations. Proud? Of WHAT? The English have provoked with total impunity, 9 Genocides and 12 Massacres in India, Burma, China, Malaysia, Australia, the Middle East, Africa and America. What's so "Proud" about being a nation of Looters and Criminals?

Didn’t happen in the real battle

Just that his men weren't Welsh and didn't sing. Just another imperialist myth.

even if you had a gun, that shit was still terrifying. imagine the horn that the diff tribal confederations used when ambushing the romans in germany/gaul

@@jakub6978 YES that's the Carnyx! imagine hearing that when you have no frame of reference for where it comes from, definitely something terrifying. appreciate it!

To instill fear into the enemy. Im off!

Why did you come to their land? Sticks against guns. Shame on England!!!

@@pocoloco8586 How'd you come to that stupid conclusion?

Invented for this film, but yes, very dramatic. Almost like Welsh propaganda. ;-)

I'm not sure if the 'haka' bit is actually in reaction to the British singing, or just part of the same ritual.

@@markkoetsier6475 that’s New Zealand natives not zulus

@@markkoetsier6475 Also, it could just be because, y'know, they're about to charge. It might not be a reaction to anything.

Yes - Welsh fiction of course.

Thanks for pointing out the irony! I hadn't noticed it in 40 years of watching the film

I just learned about that Welsh song recently. Ironic that they used it to raise their spirits, given its theme.

Correction! Most were English,it was sir Stanley Backer who was Welsh that created the myth,also the Zulu's using spear's only, they had rifles which they had captured from the British,and also bought from the Boer's by trade.

@ Bob Snow. But they were savages Bob, with nothing in their brain but, 'KILL", what else? Bob. New Zealand Army Infantry Veteran Combat Soldier. 82.

@John Campbell I heard the Zulus there didn't capture weapons from the British, it was another force, tho they did have rifles

i loved wathing that is their a name for that.

@@georgestokes5116 Fire by Rank. It was a British tactic and this shows you how devastating it was, used right it was no different to machine gun fire, theres a reason Britain conquered the world.

@@ViDeOMaStErPaUl A foreshadowing of the BEF at Mons

@@ViDeOMaStErPaUl not british tactic, but mainly European tactic. Even some considered it was invented by a Japanese nobleman named Nobunaga Oda in 1575 (precise, in battle of Nagashino) or Prospero Colonna in Europe in 1522 (still doubtful), the English adopted it as early as 1579.

@@novadapurwadi Your comment is full of apparent contradictions, which make it untrustworthy. If the Japanese invented this tactic in 1575, how come the English were using it in 1579, that's very quick for anything to catch on internationally in the C16th, and I don't believe it. Further, you claim that its not a English tactic, but a European one, so, the tactic was invented in Japan in 1575, spread immediately to Europe, and from there to England, all inside 4 years. I definitely don't believe that either. There was no Concorde around then, anymore than there is now......

You get that after the first battle. They then realize after the second what they are up against. Then you get this. It really is masterful directing and acting.

@@Rolley189 yeah it's one of the movies, even if it would be cool to have some modern effects, everything else is pretty much perfect and I wouldn't want it any other way tbh. Another movie about the topic would be cool though

@@TeddyOG I agree. But, Hollywood being Hollywood, they would add some bs love story otherwise it will be perceived as a bunch of white dudes slaughtering minorities despite this taking place literally in Africa.

Discipline in the ranks and respect for your adversaries. Unfortunately lacking in many modern US military endeavours.

No, in fact, they were in disbelief that they had just survived that attack not noting what was next. Fortunately, it was to be the final attack by the Zulu.

But at the end, the British annihilated them. It shows how to win takes more than singing songs. Wake up

Yup, the Brits have modern weapons, but those Zulu are still scary af

I believe that's the intent of the filmmaker. Show the Zulus as beautiful and cultured, and then minutes later show them butchered on the battlefield. That's why the film obscures the enemy casualties until the cease fire is given, because the director wanted to mask the horror until the final reveal of the bodies carpeting the space. It's also why the Brits aren't cheering when they've won.

When they yell Usul...it means death supposedly

@@darkhighwayman1757 they are yelling usuthu! It is the name of king Cetewayos original faction.

I first saw it when on Australian Amy training, in the remote outback, as a lad.

​@@MichaelKingsfordGrayAre u still alive

One of the truly remarkable characteristics of the movie is the humanizing of all the combatants. Zulus fighting off invaders, Brits doing their duty, right or wrong.

@@flagmichael However we learn that the Zulus only had that land because they had conquered and wiped out all the other tribes living there before them.

@@flagmichael The lands the Zulus were fighting in here, had never been Zulu land and was foreign land to them. I believe it is called Natal. They were colonisers and invaders. Why else do you think they invented the weapons they had?

Except it didn't happen. Still, brilliantly done and certainly adds to a great film.

@@adamdorey4208 I think everybody realizes that.

60 fps is not needed for film. In a way it unnecessarily alters it, and the highest resolution you'll ever see is from a original chemical print. It's much higher than blueray

@@johnlocke9383 When an older movie is up-scaled to a much higher resolution the more frames (60fps) helps smooth the final product. (we understand it has mixed reviews) We will be uploading original 24fps 1080p film from the 2014 Blu-ray release of 'Zulu (1964)' so people have the best of both! Due to our authorization from Studiocanal Grupa BB media film & Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures this is how the footage must be processed. :)

The movie is worth saving for the historical aspect of excellence in film making. As for its importance in modern history, one must remember this is a dramatic presentation based on historical events. The roles and importance of some real life people were modified to make the movie more entertaining. If you read the history books you will see that certain roles were recharacterized or not even mentioned in the movie.

@@johnlocke9383 For those who might be interested in the upscale quality, the scene where Chard is with Owen and he casually looks toward the escarpment. (But before the binoculars) In lower resolutions you can see a dark horse vaguely moving across the green hill. Start bumping up the resolutions and replay the scene and watch that horse become clearer and clearer as the resolutions get more defined. In the old VHS or even 480p prints people had to be wondering what he was looking at until the binocs showed it enlarged. FWIW: I have gone horse riding in a valley next door to where this was filmed but still under the Cathedral. The horse trail was exactly like what Bromhead (Caine) was riding on when he arrived at the mission.

FUCK 60FPS, makes it look like TV. This clip isn't 60fps btw. Good thing 60fps isn't catching on.

Fear on British faces with firearms who have invaded foreign lands and are wreaking death and terror. Don't make me laugh.

Must be actors

They are welsh

@@Dinosaurs-Nutshell Welsh are British and there were kore English soldiers in this battle than Welsh. It's a myth that is was a Welsh regiment.

if made today they would ask about diversity no blacks in welsh no whites in Zulus and where are the pronouns !

@@chrissydidit811 Not only that, they would even distort the history behind the Battle of Rorke’s Drift the same way they did with the entire history of the Dahomey Tribe in “The Woman King”, where the Dahomey were portrayed as “anti-colonist”, where the ironic part is that they themselves are a nation that traded slaves with the Europeans. If Zulu was made in 2022, then the entirety of the British will be defeated, and only one side will be biased, with the other being Demonized. Not only that, but the entire history of the Battle of Rorke’s Drift will be distorted to fit a woke narrative.

@@karljensen agree !

it wouldn't be made today. it'd be blasted as racism as white men killed black natives for no reason

They wouldn't dare to make the movie in today's setting. At this point they know how well received the woke-ification of history (or anything really) is and know they'd end up losing money cause they have been doing it for several years now and it's starting to hurt. They'd still do it out of spite.

I'd also add the lengthy trench warfare sequence in the 1930 version of All Quiet on the Western Front.

Not many things get to me Rorkes Drift did soldier blue did n I would agree saving private Ryan is savage there's many more brilliant films but these are my three

Also the battle of Little Big Horn, where Sitting Bull defeated General Custer.

And after Isandlwana too

I have read that some of the Zulu actors in the film were actually descendants of me who fought (on the Zulu side obviously) in the original battle.

The irony is most of the soldiers there were not welsh, dioch

what on earth is "iconic" s james

@@davidmg1925 That's right. Don't forget it.

@@pauladams7341 They were Warwickshire lads.

Ivor Emmanuel - he's Welsh in real life.

Gorffwys mewn hedd

You do realize this is not to be praised in anyway or form. The Brits invaded their land killing and stealing .... Zulus were defending their land....

@@3373_High_PinG cry more

@@3373_High_PinG If you don't know the story of Rorke's Drift or the historical time period it's okay to study up a bit before doing your virtue signaling.

@@3373_High_PinG The Brits weren't stealing anything. They were there at the behest of the local tribes, who were tired of being massacred so that a new bunch of Zulu males could get married. Which was why fifty of the combatants at Rorke's Drift were native troops. Hastily trained by the British Army. They fought as well as the Welshmen, with many of them being awarded medals.

@@3373_High_PinG you do realise that the Zulus enslaved all their neighbouring tribes & were harsh overlords, nah, thought not !

Imagine you were at war in this time period and you had to reload that stuff with all those zulus there,I wouldn’t last long if it were me there

Watch it 10 million times and you'll be sick of it.

It's bad, very bad

haha

No comments and w8 likes? Lemme fix that

Ironically, the song was never sung at the battle. At the time, only about 10% of the Regiment were Welsh. At the time of the real battle, the Regiment were known as the 2nd/24th South Warwickshire (not in Wales). The Warwicshires become the South Wales Borders 2 years after the battle.

@@jeffthomas3707 yep. But that is the version used in movie. I wonder what Zulu guys telling in their War chants.

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@@jeffthomas3707 The Lyrics were only written in 1964, so none of them would have sung it in 1879.

I do hope when it gets remade (we know it'll happen some day) that it's kept gritty and realistic. I'd also like to see a bit of it from the Zulu side too but not 50/50 split... Just part of the story concurrent, have Zulu characters if you will. I do worry in the current wokepocalypse though it would go the other way. The Zulus were brave no doubt but Rourkes Drift is very much about the men behind the sand bags.

Not "just days before," but THE SAME DAY !!

Unlike Chelmsford.

The real hero of Rorkes Drift was Dalton, who persuaded Chard and Bromhead to stay and fight instead of making a run for it.

He was a royal engineer , bit later they made all officers engineer trained still today , they are all blue hats

@KZfaq Censorship You're welcome to go back to living in mud huts if you like.

@KZfaq Censorship Your point about the romans goes completely against the point about the british. Empires conquer, people suffer. But at the end of it, the formerly conquered tend to have become greatly advanced in technology. No use crying over events from hundreds of years ago.

11 VCs the most for any battle in British military history🧐

...and first class tickets to hell

@@youtubecensorship5544 you forgot too that the Zulu's themselves were in a rampant campaign before this encounter destroying other tribes villages, they were a super power in their own way.

@@youtubecensorship5544 Were the Zulus conquers too or not? answer that, I think to different empires got face to face here.

@@youtubecensorship5544 Why are so afraid of knowing the truth? The Zulu Kingdom was also known as the Zulu Empire, not a big as big as the British empire, but they were an empire . en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_Kingdom

General Herbert Kitchener during the Khartoum Campaign in Sudan Saud same thing.

Remember, this is a movie and we can not look at it as historical documentation anymore than Remember the Alamo or sink the Bismarck. Poetic lic. and time constraints to charge. Although it is a great introduction to history that we individual should follow up on.

@KZfaq Censorship and? The weak get beaten by the strong stop crying about it and accept the truth of the world.

@@youtubecensorship5544 It is the nature of man and gods. Poor job he lost family and health just because god and devil had a bet. You can see how we can make anything simplistic. If you want to run arround in a loin cloth go ahead. For me, give me car and club sandwiches. When was last time you slept outside in the elements. Grew up in Sonora desert, NOOO thank you. had to pull bed away from wall each nit because centipedes would crawl down walls and scorpions. cookie sheet with embers to keep us all warm at night. Its sounds fun my friend but it is not. I am grateful for all that we have. I can go on.. The time spent in libraries and floor full of paper from type writers haha. College was tougher not to long ago. There is a progression to civilization, not saying it is perfect by a long shot. but we can fight together to make it better. Small things like, do not throw your trash out of your car into parking lot when you think nobody is watching. Stores, don't sell watermelon when you know it is bad and gamble its not worth it to the buy to bring it back. The small stuff makes a diffrence . Don[t get all up tight about what somebodies ancesters did 500 years ago unless they are still doing it today. yeah.. slavery in middle east and same sex slaves in usa and other western countries.

@KZfaq Censorship So they are not strong but they are smart, is that what you are implying?

Most of the real life soldiers were traumatised after. They are human and Hollywood has forgotten what it means to be human.

Absolutely

It was my late Father's favourite film ever made and the film moves me to tears each time I see it. I remember so vividly my Father being so captivated by the scenery, craftsmanship of the props, everything. He was so complimentary to this film and I can see why it was his favourite film. So beautifully made to this day and this restoration is incredible.

​@@mikeshirleyforevermy old mum saw it at the cinema, she said the zulu chanting scared her

Didn’t need convincing they were ecstatic to be involved in their history

They put on Casablanca in our local cinema a few years ago. That was a real treat.

No, guns won the day.

@@alexojideagu NOPE....DISCIPLINE WON THE DAY AND TRAINING.....BUH BYEEEEE

@@ajreyes9742 100% discipline and flawless training won't win *anybody* a battle without an edge in weaponry. I have little doubt the French knights had enormous discipline and the best training at Agincourt in 1415. Unfortunately the longbow used by the English archers resulted in a very bad day for the French knights. Both the Germans and Japanese had military traditions which centered around discipline and order. Once they ran out of oil and other strategic metals they were doomed - discipline or not.

The Zulus had superb military discipline as well.

@@kungfucow547 The French at Agincourt were brave, but they had very little military discipline. Once the Hundred Years' War was finally over the French monarchy, specifically Charles VIII, took great pains to replace the feudal army used in that war with a force of professional soldiers who fought as true units rather than as a mass of individuals - the military historian Hans Delbruck regarded this as the moment that _cavalry_ replaced knights in European armies.

Napoleon himself commented on the refusal of the British soldier to run away.

@@mrfreeman2911 like waterloo the british win all the time

@@gusgus-yp6qh yes

@@mrfreeman2911 As Marshall Jean-de-Dieu Soult once said: "These men do not know when they're beaten." 💯💪

600 cavalry rode head on into the Russian cannons because of a tactical error. They didn't break rank and suffered terrible casualties. The Russians thought they had been drinking The Charge of the Light Brigade Balaclava October 1854

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@user-be6zk1sj4y ever since I saw this as a kid, I had that exact Idea.

@@Chris-ty7fw But one day you'll run out of bullets... Or food... and you can't eat your bullets...

I love ❤️ the battle of Britain,watched 7 times in one day,getting strange 🤔 looks from my dog 🐕 Sadly he's passed now but what a day,I pointed 👉 out to him about the door bell 🔔 on the house and that it wouldn't have been around then I got such a mad look of confusion 🤣🤣

these are crimes. your crimes. which will remain on your conscience for centuries. And today you are trying to do the same thing, only in a cunning way, with the Russian people. God's punishment for your crimes cannot be avoided

There are also guns that are 34 years too modern. The #1 Mk 3 did not come out until 1913, this battle was in 1879. Look at the 7:30 ish point in the clip to see them, the guns with bolt handles and stocks split at the rear of the action are way way too modern.

@@user-ee9uk3ve6c A war that happened in 1871 is the crime of an individual born at least 80 years after it happened, and a war all the way in Eastern Europe is somehow his fault too? Of all the delusional bullshit...

@@user-ee9uk3ve6c I'd call it flavor

@@user-ee9uk3ve6c Sort of like the entire Russian expansion into East, right? Russia by historical rights should have zero territories beyond the Urals. All the territory east of the Urals was stolen and horrific crimes which still tarnish the Russian soul were committed and continue to be committed by the Russians - you use the people you illegitimately conquered as your cannon fodder in Ukraine so incompetent, weak, sissy Russian boys won't have to take the bullets.

You first watched it at the age of 4?

Yes. It was on tv in the afternoon round about Christmas.

Same for me I'm 43 and remember watching this several times with my old man as a kid, now he's gone I have a strong emotional connection to this film

I'm 30....saw it as early as 7 haha

Used to be on every new years eve first seen it when i was about 8 9 or 10

Anti-war films are cool,as long as you are not the one being attacked .

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Black Panther was such a cool character back in the 70s. You know back when black people actually had something to complain about haha

It was unlikely to get an Oscar as none of this final scene was factual although it made the movie ending exciting. In real life the Zulus appeared briefly at first light and just wandered off.

@@trigger399 I don't understand what sticking to the facts has to do with getting Oscars. Do you really think the Oscar committeee thought, "Oh, in real life the Zulus..." and so decided the film didn't deserve an Oscar?

@@trigger399 it’s a film Not a documentary

Cheesy? Come on, there's no need to bring Peter O'Toole into this.

I’m sorry, but the result of this battle, both in the texts of history and the screens of cinema, prove the English were far superior to the Zulus. At least in terms of warfare. You want to say there was a mutual respect, fine. But sugarcoating the reality is a bit ridiculous

Lord Chelmsford had the opportunity to bring Gatling guns along with his expedition but left them behind because he felt they would only slow the column down.

@@brucetucker4847 Same mistake general Custer made against the Sioux.

Gatling guns were troublesome weapons. They were difficult to transport, and had a very narrow field of fire. They were more like cannons that fired rifle bullets rapidly than modern machine guns.

Actually, at the final Battle of Ulundi on July 4th, 1879, the British deployed two Gatling guns for the first time against an enemy when their troops formed into a huge square.

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Utterly fictional.

@@roberthudson1959 don't care.

I'm going to disagree with that purely because of the amount of horrific things soldiers have done to enemy populations over time. It proves that not all soldiers have honour or deserve honour.

@@jamesleon4883 the moviee......

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Warriors deserve honour.

Stanley Baker actually took the script and scene drawings to the Zulu King to get his blessing (If I remember right, he was Oxford educated) the King was so impressed he volunteered his own warriors to take part in the film and helped out with more facts about how zulus did this or that

Art of War!

Those poor Zulus. Piles and piles of them all dead.

@@reynaldoflores4522 Tbf they piled British bodies up before this in Isandlwana

@@Cplcash87 and still lost

@@MicahNstuff Not in that battle.

If I remember my history lessons of this event, of the 17 dead British, one of the 17 that was killed by a fellow Brit. A British soldier had killed a fellow British soldier for trying to run away and talk other soldiers to escape with him

@@jasondierbeck4392Don't recall anything about deserters but it doesn't surprise me. They had to basically wait to die. No doubt that the officers had to set examples.

If I recall my history, this was part of the main zulu force that just over ran the Brits(Zulu Dawn?). The Zulus depicted here were exhausted and dehydrated from their prior battle and march to the drift. Speculation was that if they'd been up to their full fighting strength this would've been another massacre.

@@AtomHeartMother68 They didn't fight in the battle at Ishandlwana, they was held in reserve and hence saw no action

But the Zulus are fighting for their land, for their people, and the British came to make money on their land, selling them into slavery and forcing them to work on plantations

Do you think I could stand this Slaughter house more than once

It was truly ahead of its time. Did justice in its portrayal of the Zulu. To the point that it was banned by the apartheid government in South Africa and praised by Zulu chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi.

It would've mattered if the Nazis and Communists won. And if China does.

That's a load of shit. It ABSOLUTELY matters whether you win or lose. Are you retarded?

@@liabetmiranda9961 communists did win

I guess most of us will never know what it must be like to have to resign yourself to fight to the death .But I think when that situation happens most guys will accept it and a different attitude takes over.

@@John-ob7dh definitely my friend... I just wish the new uneducated people in Britain would realise