Zulu - Arrival of the Impi
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- Zulu (1964). In a film packed full of extraordinary scenes, this one, in particular between 1:00 - 1:45, still makes my hair stand on end. The sound, the way the Technicolour pops out at you, the long slow pan to the right to reveal the Zulus - simply fantastic. Imagine how much less impressive it would have been had this been done with CGI. (Not sure of the black border on the bottom - something to do with the widescreen format I have I think.)
It’s one of those epic films you just don’t see anymore. Acting is superb. Filming off the hook. Just all around great
Cinematic perfection. A film of great importance and significance. Far ahead of it's time and remains tragically underrated.
Yes. I have yet to meet anyone who has seen this movie or heard about it. To me, this is one of those rare movies made before 1970 which is truly great. I tend to think almost all movies before 1970 are too simplistic--but I know that's my very subjective conclusion. Zulu is great!
It is a great film although historically incorrect, wrong regiment (it was the 2bn Warwickshire Regiment not Welsh) wrong badges (the collar badges worn are for the Lincolnshire regiment), but otherwise a great film.
@God's Creature 🤣🤣🤣🤣 the Welsh aren't stupid or obese so wouldn't have worked !! Have a nice day yaaaall
Not underrated by us
Never been tragically underrated . Possibly just slipped into the mist of time. Everyone my age has a Zulu memory, and the excitement we had re-enacting as we left the pictures.
Script, direction, acting, photography .... everything superb.
This scene is perfection. When I was 9 or 10, my father put this movie on TV and I was in my room playing with little army men. However, my father decided to turn the speakers up on the TV to full volume for this scene... and needless to say... it caught my attention... which is exactly what he wanted it to. Love you, dad. It got me hooked on the history of the real thing. A masterpiece of a film.
One of the greatest cinematic scenes of all time
A great movie that never ages. Lost count of how many times I have watched this film.
I like this one. My favorite is Zulu Dawn.
@@QuinnLacey I liked it too. The Zulu people are a fascinating culture
@@QuinnLacey A great prequel (rarely do those terms go together). Great actors. I do wish that film had used what Ive read was the real conclusion of the battle (I won't spoil it). Very dramatic.
This is the first real movie I ever saw as a child, it was actually made 5 years before I was born but my dear old late grandmother took me to see it as soon as she thought I was old enough, I can still remember her telling me it was one of the greatest movies ever made and that I should see it, and she was right I remember being absolutely transfixed and amazed, I thought and talked about it for weeks afterwards, thanks Gran.
This movie is a wonderful masterclass that sometimes, silence is terrifying.
Yes. Funnily enough, in real life, most battles don't have a soundtrack :)
@@DieFlabbergast an orchestra no less.
the echo of the command: FIX..... BAYONETS!.... that is damned cool. This is a great movie, they don't make 'em like this any more and it is a damned shame.
When British lips were very stiff and very upper. This epic portrayal ranks as one of the finest works in cinematography. Not done with CGI but done with real flesh and blood under a blazing sun in a cobalt blue sky. The sound, the colour, the action and the drama all blended together to place the viewing audience squarely in the thick of the action. With death staring them in their faces, this band of brothers was surely the epitome of what it means to "stick your courage to the sticking place". It really happened and it is gloriously captured here.
In the early 1980s I was one of several British lads working in a Steelworks an Newcastle just a few miles from the battle site. The old Zulu caretakers was quite a character, but so were our lads. So the local Zulus were challenged to a rematch. This time both sides armed with brush handles. Just enough time for a chorus of Men of Harlech as the Zulu lads gave us one of there songs. Terrifying sight as they ran at the Brits hiding behind the mealy bag defence, and all over in seconds with a few busted ribs etc. Then outcame the fermented white mealy beer and it was drinks all round. Respect to all my old friends.
Ah, busted ribs then beer! Just the sort of sporting spirit I can get into.
John Willetts r
Ex pat from Manchester living in Zambia. That white beer is lethal. 😂
And then you woke up from the dream, right?
Ah the British Empire prostitutes of the untamed world
Love that comment. . ."YOU SLOVENLY SOLDIER." Again, good sergeants are the backbone of any army.
Sarah Jensen this movie illustrates that fact better than any other
True, but that was Corporal Allen. NOT a Sergeant.
Downunder Rob Good NCOs that is
Armies live and die on good NCOs and officers who listen to them.
An absolute classic British film. Iconic.
This action was led by the Zulu king's brother, and he was Specifically told NOT to GO here! "Get the English out in the open and you'll murder them; let them have a defensive position, and they will murder You!" Do Not cross the river, he said, because they'll have set up bases. Brother, full of himself after Islandwana, went anyway. Turned out...the King was correct.
AND yes, this has been one of my favorites since 1964
Indiscipline - they had been the "loins" or reserve at Isandhlwana and were frustrated not to have been part of the battle. It was usual to face the troops in the "loins" away from the fighting because if they actually saw it, adrenalin and bloodlust would make them rush in to join the action, whatever their officers said.
I watched this on tv with my Dad when I was a young kid in the 70’s. Left a big impression on me. Now, my three sons love it too.
i watched it at the movies in 1964 Tamworth UK with the family i was 9 i think..stuck in my head for ever
Absolutely outstanding piece of cinema. Possibly the greatest movie ever made.
Only someone with military training would feel the real emotions behind this beautiful scene.
Death looking at you, sense of being abandoned, brotherly love for your comrades and above all duty and honour.
And the realization that these aren't just some savages, as you may have heard. They arrive in formations with different colored shields for different parts of the army. The Zulu may have had outdated equipment, but they were clearly trained warriors.
@@alltat They were one of the greatest warriors of all times.
I would gladly disagree. What makes this movie so good is that it can convey these emotions to an audience through the cinematography and the acting. The audience can grasp and understand those emotions without needing military training, as you suggest.
@@Gigas0101 yeah that would be like a virgin feeling what truly passionate love making is like after watching a porno.
@@alltat Oh yes indeed. I love the scenes where the Boer explains their tactics and "the horns of the Buffalo". A well trained army and worthy foe. I read that after they destroyed the 1st regiment at Isandlhwana they slit open the soldiers bellies. This was a mark of great respect to allow their souls to escape to the afterlife. Brave men on both sides.
Some of the scenes in this movie are stunning, great flim and cinematography.
It wouldn't be as awe inspiring today. They would use six actors and then CGI the rest. This movie had to use so many actors to film these scenes and get them right . Pretty impressive work.
Exactly, I've often thought the same myself, and that's what really gives this scene such an epic scale to it - you know all of the actors are real.
Fun fact with this scene. They actually didn't have enough Zulu extras to pull off those kind of numbers, so they set up a row of shields connected by a rod with a Zulu on each end to hold. Instant Impi.
Interesting to know!
Damn right.
Yes he is actually the prime minister of the current monarch
Forget about computer Generation movies Hollywood should make more movies like this old school
Not all of those shields had people standing behind them. There is a video on how this movie was made on TH-cam.
@Robert Silva Hollywood does not want to know about this battle, or Isandwhana as Americans were not involved
Except Burt Lancaster of course
@@mariacornwallis1602 Wasn’t that “Zulu Dawn” ? And wasn’t Peter O’Toole in that too? I haven’t watched either of them for ages.
@@joeroganjosh9333 Yes, and both actors were brilliant, and everybody else... and both films were magnificent
The greatest action movie ever!! Slow scan of the Zulu Impi on the hill top has to be the greatest lead in scene of all time!
+Greg C
Have you noticed that the Zulu's didn't attack them in the movie with the full might that was on that hill, there was 4,000 and yet they only came in waves of like 300 or so.
also the sound of the spears beating on the shields was so epic ! When Caine says it sounded like a train !
Have a look at the very similar scene in 1939's epic Stanely and Livingston. Much of the "native" scenes in that film were set up by the remarkable Osa Johnson, filmmaker and explorer and one of the most interesting women in the history of film. Plenty about her on line, including brief footage of her in Kenya interacting with some Maasai.
Side note: second woman to appear on a Wheaties' box.
Definitely an epic reveal. Just to point out, there were 4 Zulu impis at Rorkes Drift. At least 2 of which can be identified in the movie.
OH shit!!!! forget queen and country! here I have a situation!
One of the greatest movies I have ever seen...I now have it on VHS and DVD...awesome
I absolutely LOVE the echo of the "...FIX!.... BAYONET!!!" That echo splendidly accents the formal invitation of "find your courage and prepare for battle". Awesome! :) This is one of my favorite movies of all time.
It also adds weight to the isolation in a very distant place.
JRBL1A1 brexi t
@@ruthlloyd2703 - The Command to Fix bayonets is still used in the same format today, On parades. Battalion will fix bayonets - Fix! - Bayonets - Shun!!!
I can relate to the private dropping the bayonet, although I never dropped mine, I did stab myself with it once and felt foolish for having done so. Only a flesh wound and never even reported it, as I would probably have been charged with a self-inflicted injury.
I brought this movie on dvd because of the magnificent zulu culture captured so brilliantly....amazing chants and dancing...play it loud..👇
Not only that ,the old Zulu warriors get all the young Zulu girls.
When they first notice the Zulu forming up on the hill, I still get goosebumps to this day and I've been watching this film for thirty years!
I can never start watching this movie and not watch it all the way through. Epic and gut wrenching in conveying some sense of what out numbered and surrounded solders must deal with psychologically.
I've been to the site of Isandlwana and Rorke's drift. The farmhouse still stands and it's incredibly eerie to walk on the site of pitched battle.
So have i
Considering they were extras, the Zulus were fantastic.
The very first attack by the Zulu’s still gives me goosebumps.Awesome.👍
They where real Zulus, helped imensly I think.
They we real Zulu warriors FFS.
Yeah they were good eh. Fun fact about the zulus in this film. Because they couldnt pay them as much as theyd like due to Apartheid. They exploited a loophole and gave them all the cattle you see in the stockyard in the movie.
I watched a documentary on the filming of Zulu. Apparently, the weather was horrendous for the first month or so of supposed shooting, so all the warriors and the actors playing the roles of soldiers could do was practice their field maneuvering, indoors, every day. When the weather finally broke and filming could begin, the Zulus and the actors knew each and every movement with the complete precision and accuracy of ballet dancers. People on the set said it was a marvel to watch them.
I first saw this film in 1976 when I was 10. It blew me away. I've been obsessed with Zulu culture/history ever since!
My mother was born in 1928 and raised in North London. Her aunt and uncle had a Zulu shield on the wall.
Good for you - you could be obsessed with worse things! :-)
@@Zebred2001 That's quite an artifact. If your family still has it you should donate it to a museum.
@@lawrencewood289 My Grandmother's uncle Frank Kerslake fought in the Zulu War. He related how the Zulu's would chant Cetshwayo, the name of their king, over and over. I assume the shield came down through him but my mother was a girl at the time and didn't inquire much. Her aunt and uncle's name was Reynolds. There was a surgeon Reynolds at Rorke's Drift but there is no reason to think he was related. My parents emigrated to Canada in the 1950's so I have no idea where that shield might be now.
The war chant is so awe inspiring , it was used in the movie Gladiator, in the battle scene at the start of the movie .
The actor who played Cheyatweto was actually the great grandson of the real guy and later remarked that Stanley Baker was the nicest white man he had ever met. The Zulu just loved him because he treated them like men.
The Zulu people are lovely people. And back then they had so much courage and honor. I'll respect them after the Zulu wars. Would happily die for them nowadays
The "actor" who played Cetswayo was actually Chief Butalesi, King of the Zulus in his own right.
Nope Prince Buthelezi, Zulu ndunankulu, who played King CETSHWAYO!!! Is the great grandson of the then Zulu ndunankulu (prime Minister) of King CETSHWAYO's time
Baker had a great reputation. He wasca gentleman.
@@6timesbabyyy996 They weren't very nice to neighbouring tribes, whom they attacked, killed or enslaved and seized their land.
An excellent movie on many counts, one of which is that it treats the native Africans with dignity and respect.
I love this movie. Saw it in the theaters when it first came out. I have it on DVD. I pull it out and watch it at least once a year.
Ever see ZULU DAWN ? 👍
As a kid riding the subways in NYC , the POSTER for this movie scared the crap outta me !!!!
.... it was a long ride home
that wasn't a poster that was the Bedford Ave stop
I think you musta had guts to ride the NYC subway , unless you had the Warriors with you.
There are a few films that if they are on TV and you just happen to stumble across them as you're flicking through the channels you stop and watch them to the end.
Zulu is one of them.
Damn right it is....."now get up on that hill and sing out if you see any Zulus.......and take your Bandook, you dozy Welshman!!!"
That's how I discovered Zulu, the moment I saw it playing on TCM I knew it was good.
That happened to me when I stumbled upon The Lighthorsemen...
Red Squirrel Ain't that the absolute truth!😒💂🔫🇬🇧🇿🇦
Zulu Dawn also.
This scenes greatness is amazing.Too many military films are "Its all good". Here you see via some semi-subtle gestures and looks "OMG" The setting is amazing. The music is perfect. The acting is very real.No dumb dialog to ruin it.
One of the great films in the history of cinema
Absolutely brilliant cinema. Just terrifying to be confronted with those numbers, Zulus, fowzands of em!
One of my favourite movies of all time. Just simply unforgettable performances from all involved.
Just an amazing and underrated movie just love the Color SGT.
British actor Nigel Green .Colour Sargent Bourne was 24 and was youngest Senior non comissed officer in the British Army at the time. He refused a Victoria Cross but opted for promotion instead after the defense of Rourkes Drift Anglo Zulu war 1879 .
While it's a great film, it's accuracy is sadly lacking. Some of the characters were changed a great deal for the film and it caused a lot of upset from their descendents, some of whom walked out of the film premiere. For example, Colour Sergeant Frank Bourne was not a mutton chopped veteran. He was in fact the youngest Colour Sgt in the British Army and still only 24 at the time of this battle. Private Hook was not a drunk or a malingerer. He was a model soldier who was posted to the hospital to guard it. He had never been in trouble and was eventually awarded a long service and good conduct medal and promoted to Sergeant. There was no 'sing off' and the regiment was actually not Welsh at the time, but was from Warwickshire and contained only a few welsh soldiers. They would not have sung Men Of Harlech as their regimental song, it was The Warwickshire Lad. Conversely Corporal William Allen, potrayed as a model soldier, had in fact been demoted for drunkeness. Also Otto Witt, portrayed by Jack Hawkins was actually a young man and pro Pro British. He certainly wasn't a pacifist and didn't try to prevent soldiers obeying orders.
Timothy Kinnear, you crazy fool you! You can’t just go putting up extensive, well researched, and downright educational stuff in TH-cam comments! we have reppyiutashin to proteck on here as a bast-yin of rabid opinions eggspressed in poor english with littler no punckuashin Shayme on you#
Its a movie. A movie. Documentaries are a different thing.
Keith Carter, sometimes.
Hook earned the VC for this action.
Never heard of the willing suspension of disbelief? 🙄
Crying out for re mastering huge home theater and a Laziboy recliner ! I struggle to take my eyes off the countryside ! Epic !😎👍
A masterpiece of a movie. A top 100 movie of all time, in my opinion. They don't make them like this anymore.
Back in the day this was a big time movie that you would see in a large ornate movie theatre with an organ player playing until the red velvet curtains rose. Cartoons would come on and then the feature. There would be a 10 minute intermission in the middle for everyone to run to take a leak and grab more concession stuff. The sound in those theatres and the technicolor was amazing. A couple tidbits on the real deal, the Zulus were not supposed to attack. The bro in law chief did this all on his own. The vast majority of these warriors were in their 40's and 50's. The bagged walls the British built were about 10 feet tall so the Zulus couldn't get over them. The volleys fired started at 500 yards out and were devastating.
Best war movie ever and I've lost count how may times I've watched it. It looks incredible on Blu-ray dvd.
I think it’s the clearest, sharpest Bluray I have ever seen!
The beauty of real topography vs. CGI in this scene and the impact..
One of the best films ever!
Nicholas Davies and he would know coz he is the one “with all those rough cousins “well he is now
That and The Dam Busters.
I think films made in the 1960s are overall a cut above the rest !
Terrific movie loaded with good actors and realistic action. Unlike modern movies no one actor kills 20 or 30 enemies with 5 bullets! Michael Caine always a great actor and we shouldn't forget the less spoken about Stanley Baker. An established presence in British movies playing policemen, crooks, military figures (historical and otherwise) and a prime mover in the making of this film.
fantastic soundtrack. then the silence, the calm before the storm.
What an amazing scene...literally NO dialogue, except for barked orders at the opening...just VISUAL DRAMA! Perfection.
I remember seeing this at our local Cinema when it was released. The sound track sent shivers up my spine.
Picture it with todays sound systems
“If it's a miracle, Colour Sergeant, it's a short chamber Boxer Henry point 45 caliber miracle.”
“And a bayonet, sir, with some guts behind.”
Guts at both ends.
Exactly what I was looking for thank you.
Favorite line I say myself
My older Brother bought a Henry Rifle online about 12 years ago. He got it for $250 bucks. It was manufactured in 1876 and came in a wooden crate from England. He replaced some parts (apparently there's a lot of these rifles still around and parts are available for enthusiasts) and got it serviceable again. Got some of that "Short Chamber Box" ammo quoted here (it was NOT cheap btw) and we took it to the desert to test fire it. He got the carbine version like they have in the movie so it's heavy and shorter than other versions. It's loud AF and smoky as shit, but it was a lot of fun to shoot such a cool piece of history. These days you can't touch one for less than a grand.
@@The_OneManCrowd i actually had one in 1966 and under a lot of pressure i handed it in to police under a firearms amnesty.The cops were real interested in it.Had to hand it in as penalty was prison just for owning it with no ammo.If i could have hung on to it another 13 years it would have become a antique and i could have kept it .
Love this movie!!! The music is wonderful as well!!
I was taken to see this film at the ABC cinema in my home town of Darlington in 1964, almost sixty years ago now, and this stays in my memory as one of the greatest films of all time,
I was also taken to see the film at the ABC Dunstable in 1964 . I was 9
As a child watching them arrive on horizon it was scary what a film
So when Mexicans come to America illegally it’s called being progressive, but when white men do it they are killed and we say they had it coming
an interesting piece of info was that in this movie, the man that played Zulu King Cateweyo was his direct descendant Zulu King Buthelezi. Extraordinary movie with an exhilirating musical score by John Barry.......
Another interesting note is that in recent times, this movie got accused of racism. He defended the movie basically saying while that "may" be true, it doesn't change the fact that this event happened and accept it for what it is.
King goodwill buthelezi
PRINCE Buthelezi!!!! And he is a direct descendant of King Shaka's sangoma(seer) and also a direct descendant of the Zulu nduna nkulu (prime Minister) of this time
Respect to the brave Zulu fighting fearlessly against the mighty invaders for their home and honor!!!👍
@Ryan The British began the Anglo-Zulu war of 1879. In January 1879 a British force under Lieutenant General Frederick Augustus Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford invaded Zululand, without authorization by the British Government. The exact date of the invasion was 11 January 1879. Chelmsford crossed the Buffalo River at Rorke's Drift, in command of 4,700 men.
No you are the Moron this is South Africa nowhere near London, as usual you would try to give the excuse this was British territory, typical colonist invading scumbags
@John Cornell I am not sure if I could apply the word 'invader', considering the circumstances. Are you an invader if you yourself are responding to an invasion?
Ask your mates the Zulu where the other tribes went and why their lands are now called Zulu lands and they are all dead ?
This wasn't in Zululand. Most of the local tribes hated the Zulu.
an incredible scene for an incredible movie.
One of the great periods of military heroism in the history of the British Empire to be sure. Appx. 150 British soldiers held off 3,000 to 4,000 Zulu warriors. The most Victoria Crosses (11) - the equivalent to our Congressional Medal of Honor - given in any military encounter by the British military at any time. The army unit was the 2/24 Regiment of Foot and was a seasoned British army unit and had been posted in many places for the Empire. It certainly showed as the small force beat back the Zulus numerous times and maintained order and a cohesiveness that only well-trained troops can do when under extreme pressure.
Because discipline was instilled under extreme pressure during those days. Making basic training 'more socially aware' is going to reap a nice body bag count at the worst possible moment.
Unfortunately 1,500 of their colleagues were put to the spear hours before at the mountain slopes of islandwana.
Only B Company, 2nd Battalion, 24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot (2nd/24th) plus 15 colonials and civilians and about 100 from the NNC. Proper way to write it. The whole ''Army unit'' wasn't there, boyo.
@@prof.yurivaldesalvarezarza3998 No, it wasn't! For military people they would know an entire regiment is a little bit more troops than 150, don't you think, bucko? I do! And all the native troops ran off; thereby leaving the count of 150 to be regular British troops including a few others sprinkled in from the local effort. This small group was from one of the larger forces that got wiped out earlier. The Rorke's Drift battle was still a great military feat to this day!!
They were Welsh
I can think about this scene, just think about it, and get the goosebumps...and I'm an american
Yup talk about wetting yourself
It is a scary situation. Surrounded and outnumbered.
Nowhere else to go. Couldn't retreat or withdrawal. Zulus could cover distances the Army couldn't March over. Stay and fight and give them plenty of the cold one.
Well, Cy Enfield, the director, was a Yank.
A wonderful piece of cinema that has touched so many lives.
Also a graphic reminder of the inequalities and brutalities of the imperial and colonial ages....
The extraordinary number of VCs awarded was in part for pure, bloody courage; on part to blur the embarrassment of Isandlwana and in part because of the (relative) novelty of the medal...
Nonetheless, a remarkable piece of cinema about a remarkable action.
Back on the rampart with yout mates - best advice ever.
Greatest movie ever made.
An absolute classic!
140th anniversary of the Battle of Rorke's Drift! Never ever forget these Brave British/Welsh Soldiers!,😢🇬🇧🏴🏴🇿🇦
@John Cornell: Indeed, and it was the mostly the 2nd Battalion of the 24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot. The battalion headquaters may have been moved from Warwickshire (England) to Breconshire (Wales) in 1873 but did not have its name changed to the South Wales Borderers until July 1881, two years and six months after the defence of Rorke's Drift.
@John Cornell the sphinx on tie clip represents us kicking the french out of Egypt in the in 1801 after Napoleon bolted
@John Cornell The Welsh are actually the people that the Romans called the 'British'. and hardly any of them were present at Rorke's Drift. No singing of Men Of Harlech either.
Remember we had to watch this movie as part of our recruiting at Kapooka.1977. Great film.
The British Army still number one.
Yoo hoo, come out to play! Grandad was a WW11 soldier, and watched this film everyday. Good.
Thats unbelievable quality film
this is one of the greatest war films but a most spine tingling films thats a genuine war event that took place ever a fabulous film with great effects and great stars to whom perform so perfectly with brilliance and realism,fantastic film recommended pls watch it ,its all inspiring and engrossing film ive ever watch still watch
After this battle , and the more disastrous one preceding it , the British Army adopted quick release ammunition boxes. As shown in the film , the ammunition boxes had to be unscrewed . This slowed down the issue of ammunition to the firing line.
One would think in preparing for a battle such as this, ammunition boxes would have been made open and readily available…
Aye, fucking big hard men with their guns fighting against men with sticks.
British colonial history is an embarrassment
It's called 'incompetence'.
@@mollykeane2571 Or arrogance..
@@martinbrode7131 every round had to be accounted for, no matter how dire the situation.
Such a great story. Courage on both sides.
What are you talking about? The brits were up against spears and they shouldn’t have been there anyway. Any one of them that got it, deserved it. With interest.
@@donalfinn4205 Another lefty know it all!
@@FrLawRE What’s this? Hiding behind a pseudonym? Afraid? Like most brit army tikes. Don’t I love to see them arriving back in boxes to Aldershot🤭.
@@donalfinn4205 And you expect me to believe that donal finn is your real name? Pull the other one!
Great film . The most interesting fact I learned , as told by Color Sergeant Bourne ( later promoted ) in an interview in 1936 , was that none of the British casualties were killed by Zulu Assagais , and very few injured by that weapon - instead , the captured guns by the Zulus at Isandlwana were the cause of all the British dead at Rorke's Drift .
The relatively short spears were no match in hand to hand fighting against a rifle with a bayonet attached.
The Zulus taking rifles at Isandwala did not not go to Roukes Drift. These Zulus had left the main force before that battle had started.
The Zulus had been buying rifles for a long time before the war started.
1936 was 59 years later. You sure that was him? That's quite a span.
@@lawrencewood289 Yes, definitely him. Sgt Bourne, died, aged 90, on May 9th 1945.
@@ThefightingCelt Yup sorry I posted another comment because I looked up the interview (Thanks for that!). Not sure why but it didn't link to the thread. For anyone interested here is a link.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Bourne
He was the youngest Colour Sergeant in the entire British Army and eventually received a commission. He was much younger and shorter than Nigel Green in the movie. Amazingly he served 35 years then re-entered for a training role in WWI!
No scene in movie history has gone close to the sight of the zulus on the hilltop absolutely terrifying yet exhilarating at the same time
Bill Paxton as a British Soldier. "Game over man!"
Cheers for a very good Aliens reference!
Britain's Alamo. I wish the Alamo would have ended this way. What absolute gallantry!
John T. Wolfbanger ! According to the History Books, it ended just like the Alamo! Hollywood changed the History Books on this Film!
Rorkes Drift wasn't a British victory?
John T. Wolfbanger it was
@@DLVGroup No they didn't. The result is pretty much as shown in the film. You are probably thinking of the battle of Isandhlwana just before Rorke's Drift, which the Zulus won.
The Alamo could have ended this way if the defenders had breech-loading rifles, a reserve of 20,000 rounds of ammunition, and the attackers had no artillery.
Brown trouser time!
That’s why they wore black... to cover the poo 💩
This lot were acting out of their skins in one of the Best Films ever made. If you ever want to try your Luck with some Modern Day Zulus then just come to the Caludon Centre Psychiatric Unit Within A Unit which is absolutely full of very serious, intelligent and very nice ( until they need not to be ) Zulu Warrior Nurses. Thank God that they don't bother taking me down by Brute Force any more after I told them my not so secret flaw, being Ticklish To The Point Of Torture.
My favourite one of them all is called Wiseman Manamela, who was initially offended when I said that he looks like Winnie Mandela, until I pointed out that she was a very pretty Lady.
Hopefully he'll accompany me on a Pilgrimage to Soweto early next year, when I hope to meet the Thousands of Heroic Schoolchildren who put the Shits up the South African Apartheid Army in the 1970s with their Zulu Warrior Dancing and Singing. I'll stick to Milk but I'm definitely putting a large crate of Guinness on Nelson and Winnie Mandelas' Graves.
This movie could not be made today, and the reason is obvious.
@Ted Carruthers It's the JJJJEEEEEWWWWWWWWSSSSSSS!
Shiekyerbooti Unless you were trying to make a documentary film.
@john ferguson That's War for you...
@@bouncekiller6149 Couldn't be made today because there's no superheroes or street racing in it.
They made Blackhawk down not that long ago and that was way less respectful to the Somalis than Zulu is to Zulus. You're talking shit, if is fairly accurate historically, it's fine.
A top film to say the very least.
Remember, in 1879 this was still an English regiment (Welsh since 1881). Their helmets would be stained with tea as bright white made them an easy target, shown in1979 movie "Zulu Dawn" !
Although the mutual respect between the two opposing fighting forces is an important theme in the 1964 movie, there was no "battlefield singing contest" between the British and the Zulus!
Don't know if this was brought up but Cetshwayo never ordered his warriors to cross the river to attack the British. He wanted to fight a defensive war and didn't want to be seen as the aggressor. The attack on Rorke's Drift happened due to several of his generals disobeying his orders.
Great film one of my favourites
As they unwrap the rounds the white cloth with red markers are pull throughs. You tear them off at the red line and it is used to clean the barrel of your rifle.
a brilliant movie
1:48 Michael Caine acting is incredible, he dont have to say nothing to show the fear he just have to hard swallow (look his neck) and thats it.
The feeling when the, zulu came over the hill was the most terrifieing movie I'd ever seen.. Just loved it.. Best movie ever......
It’s amazing how well they kept that huge orchestra hidden. 😂🤣😂
Now that's soldiering.
Superb movie. I remember when I was a teenager, my parents went to the local cinema and saw this. My dad came home and told us what a terrific movie it was. He rarely commented on anything. So I knew it was a good one.
A thrilling film...really impressed by it when I first saw it in 1964. Nowadays disfavoured as not being very PC.
@Kojii Naz Given what the redcoats were up to in most of Africa and India quite a lot of the time...
Having studied the Zulu war at masters level, some elements of the film are slightly economical with the truth (Glorified for Hollywood no doubt) but nevertheless the bulk of the film is not far off what actually happened.
It’s also one of the best films of all time IMO
The hardest thing to capture in film is the Zulu regimental discipline, how they could go from silence to terrifying volumes of rythmic noise by stamping of their feet and whacking their sheilds, that would have been unnerving. However Tommy Atkins acquitted himself with some honour, as did the Afrikaners at Blood river, an even more interesting story in some respects.
How about run 30 miles fuck fight and run home 30 miles.
Brave blokes
@@kevinhorgan2770 By this time! too late to run! fo0rget queen and country! now fighting for your life!... 'cause yer 'er lad!
Best scene is the visual of the British soldiers looking up at the impi
Reminds me of 2 toughest kids looking at each other before the fight
The best film ever.
As A white South African, I was raised by A Zulu women, what A great experience, never got the chance to thank her and her family
One of the best war movies ever !!
I saw this in the Regal in 1964 and nearly shat myself when seeing all these Zulus arrive.
Everybody gangsta till king Shaka play his war theme song
Shaka was dead like 50 years before this
The bravely of these men was unreal... They fought about 4000 Zulus and didn't lose many out of about 120 men
Fun fact none of these scenes were repeated or stocked people together they actually had thousands of people to play as the Zulu and hundreds for the British
The men who played the British soldiers were a company from the south African army
love this film,i always remember being in the cinema with my dad and brother watching it