I remember watching this back in the late 90s on cable TV. I miss those days of just turning on the TV and scrolling through Maxximum 32 channels and finding something good to watch
Love that the give the scene time to play out, we get to see the realisation on the British faces as they realise the Zulu army is close by and far larger than expected.
I read somewhere that they interviewed a British Army Veteran of the Zulu campaign in where he said that the Zulus were so well trained that they could jump over a standing man.
That's a waste of training the zulus were legit but way to extra with it rather than getting ahold of some extra gear or learning some new techs they spent extra time drilling the troops on how to do the mambo number 5
Me riding up to the zulu camp: "mmmm, nope". Me riding past the British camp and talking to the officer "Everything is fine, nothing to worry about, I'm just gonna go for a ride, over in the other direction for a little bit".
Love this movie! It didn’t show the Zulu as brain dead victims or the British as soulless evil colonisers making for the greatest depiction of a war between England and a native population which actually happened
@@rhetorist763 No more than the Zulus themselves, of the Mughals, or Dutch, or Spanish, Arabs, Portuguese, French, Americans, Malinke or anyone else in the long sordid unpleasant history of humanity.
@@nigelsheppard625 True, but it doesn't change the horrible racial hierarchy that came as a consequence of these victories, nor the continuing of these racial hierarchies to this very day.
Correct, zulu could indeed run as fast as a horse, and did on many occasions. Look at pre zulu war photographs of zulu warriors, their legs are like tree trunks.
There's a saying "The battle of waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton?", personally, I think it should be followed by "but the battle of Isandhlwana was lost there too."
Funnily enough George Orwell said something similar in 1941: ‘Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.’
I've seen ZULU DAWN and ZULU soooo many times, but as soon as you hear the war chant at 0:50 it's absolutely terrifying! You can't even fathom just a massive force of Zulu warriors just swarming towards you with one objective on their minds, eliminate the enemy!
@@AParticularlyConcernedCitizen they were paid, there was an issue with the SA government at the time, they felt they didn't need to be paid but British producers said they had to be paid.
He didn't say anything 'wrong'. Some of the best action films are both with cgi and without. You, younglings, don't learn reading skills any longer. Pretty sad, really. That through the generations we had to dumb down the education system, so that individuals like yourself could feel 'good' graduating high school in the first try.@@emeraldcrusade5016
@EDD-xr4ub ? Just look at 90% of military history written in English. Waterloo, North Africa Campaign ww2 and Battle of Britain have so many books about them you could stack them up to the space station. Lots Brits "think" they are really great😂😂
@@Kruppt808 does being a bit more advanced technologically than other countries in Asia, Africa, America and going there and enslaving those people count as being 'great'?
@@EDD-xr4ub Slavery was the norm around the world until the British Empire went on a mission to eliminate it. Also a lot of peoples were liberated by the British Empire, many advancements also brought across the world.
@@TheSm1thers are you joking me? are you seriously trying to diminish the fact that the empire destroyed nations and enslaved them? That wasn. t the norm then. Not to the extend that the shitty empire brought it to. Ask the people in Africa or India if they think british coming on their shores was such a blessing. Atleast a good thing is that you. re being ruled by the nations you once enslaved. Getting it all back.
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I haven't seen this movie but I read a bit about this battle and this is exactly how it started - amazingly well done. The British side lost big that day, one of the worse defeats in the British Empire's history.
That’s really only like 500-1000 ppl at most. Really not that many all things considering. Really puts into perspective ancient battles with 50-60,000 ppl.
@@scottstevens2752 In movie called Zulu with Michael Cain the warriors saluted the British at the end calling them fellow braves, if that was true I would be honoured to know even the enemy soldiers recognise courage & bravery.
To anyone thinking the british were evil for fighting the zulu understand that shaka zulu their leader was one of the most bloodthirsty warlords to ever live. He gathered his large army by conquering every settlement he ran across giving them only one choice. Join him or die. His goal was to unify all of africa under his banner. He killed uncounted numbers of his own people and had to be put down. This is why the british ultimately left their empire and gave it all back to the natives. It was unmanageable because you can't uplift basically stone age cultures into industrial revolution cultures. It takes generations of steady cultural evolution to make that leap. They inherently rejected it and thats exactly what happened to the british empire. The peoples they conquered had no taste for technology or western ways so they abandoned it and reverted back to their stone age cultures.
@@nonaurbizniz7440 spare me the fake history, by the time this war was happening king shaka zulu had been dead for 50 years, shaka never even met white people, the boers genocided the khoisan people & sold them to the Portuguese for slavery, & u want to tell me that whites were civilised??? C'mon even u know that's not true, the British didn't give anything to the matives, u guys always make up false history on the spot
That shit if the Zulu around the water hole is amazing. Think I vaguely remember seeing it on TV as a kid and not enjoying it. Seeing this makes me think I should give it another go.
Hits far differently than it did as a child in the 70s. I could only consider the horror and feel for the British troops. Now I see the humanity of the Zulu fighting for their own lands from an invader.
The sound here is a perfect representation of what the zulu army sounded like. Eye witness reports state that the zulu sounded like a giant swarm of angry bees. I think it was younghusbands company on the far left of the british line that first came under attack. They had advanced across the steep slope of isandlwhana and across the ridge, so that their engagement was hidden, except for sporadic shooting, which became more rapid as they gradually gave ground. This would be part of the zulu right horn. The head and chest of the zulu attack is fairly accurately represented As they pour across the plateau and drop down a slope to engage the British line. The zulu left horn temporarily held by durnford, was forced, because of the accurate fire, to swing even further left, this led to durnfords stand being out flanked, he had no support to his right or right rear to check this movement And consequently attempted to retire. As a side note, Simon ward plays verecker, In realty, verecker was the actor David nivens grandfather, he died at isandlwhana.
The anniversary of Custer’s humiliation and mutilation of his corpse is my favorite day of the year. Nothing more joyous than reminiscing on this genocidal egomaniac’s much deserved bloody payback
That's the same feeling you get when you shut your car door and 1 second later realized your keys was still in the ignition and your in the middle of no where
We gonna need to think big. And better. An army that size is nothing compared if you could be tactically smart. Unfortunately, they get overwhelmed and could not think clearly big.
@@MarkEmperor do not advance on sheer power alone. The British certainly learned that lesson. The Zulus adhered more to Sun Tzu’s teachings. I was quoting from Jaws, when they first see the shark in my original post.
@@keithrose6931 sad thing is Keith is that this battle obviously took place during our empire, we were simply murdering hundreds of thousands during the plundering of Africa. This movie is where we badly lost, at rourkes drift just over 160 (I think it's 168) british troops held off 4000 zulu warriors, so you could call that a win (tongue in cheek) but it wasn't, the zulu's simply respected those who fought and literally spared the few left (THATS A FACT). hope your good chap, and trust me when I say I am proud to be a good old englishmen.
@@dr.finnegan3949 Chicago is a shit-hole that I have no desire to live in. The older I get, the more I appreciate the unique gifts of who I am and where I come from. It was stupid for the Brits to stand up to so many Zulus in one battle. Better to win quietly, divide and win.
Every time someone tell me about Avengers or Transformers or another pice of sh*t, I think on this movie. No, you cannot beat it with robots from space coming find a Cube. No... No, sir. This movie is epic.
Very wrong. the job of a Scout is to find the enemy (done) report his size, composition and actions (done) and then engage him to delay his advance. They had superior mobility and firepower, and conducted a fighting withdrawal- extremely well executed. This was deliberate and professional.
@@Garl_Vinland Uh, I'm certain they knew that the clumsy English were there. In reality, the Zulus hat 20,000 men sitting in absolute silence. That's discipline.
@@Garl_Vinland did you watch the same video clip? The Zulu screamed out for a Charge and they all started chanting and charging towards the British BEFORE he ordered his riders to fire.
I liked how that arrogant officer was forced to change his tune when he took in the sight that was before him. And how they basically did a hit and run. The Zulu morale must have been incredible, to keep chasing men fleeing on horseback while they were still on foot, after taking multiple casualties without inflicting any themselves. Edit: Turns out, I misjudged the officer. He was a decent man. Sorry, officer! You're a decent man! You were just taking your man to task about his misdeeds. I mistook it as a case of aloofness to the war situation. I had judged you hastily, and I hope we can start again on a new foot as friends.
The best part of the movie is when the British soldier crosses the river with the British flag into Zulu Land. I want to remind everyone that even though the British lost the battle of Isandlwana. 150 British soldiers defeated an army of 5, 000 Zulus at Rorke's Drift the next day.
my grandfather was very interested in the Anglo Zulu Wars, he had so may books which I read as a kid, didn't have a TV back then, and I must give credit to this film, as it does its best to follow the events of the battle as honestly as possible. there are some historical inaccuracies, minor at that. but this seen is perfectly re-enacted, the Zulu Impi was discovered by accident, and too late.
Well not exactly - it was discovered by a recce patrol commanded by Charlie Raw who was out searching for them.. The Zulus were intending to negotiate, and were discovered by Raw's patrol 24 hours early, by their standards. That is what forced them into an attack at around midday, rather than attack the following day at first light, which was their custom and intention.
"Zulus, thousands of 'em."
Fancy seeing you here🤯🤣🤣
@@aldousbrawndo996 still better than Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas...u noticed I named states while you named cities.🤔
" No problem, mate. We've got guns. They don't. "
@@reynaldoflores4522 ya they probably thought guns would save them. All the way up until they were all killed.
@@reynaldoflores4522 Eishhhh apparently that didn't matter on that battle.
When your Zulu dawn starts out like that you KNOW your Zulu Afternoon and Zulu evening are going to suck
a good thing the riders were all wearing BROWN pants.
You’ll be dead by Zulu nightfall
Good one😆😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣
The Zulu Afternoon and Evening took place at Rorke's Drift, where the British lost 18 men.
Lmfao
You know that feeling in the back of your tummy that tells you this is a VERY bad day, I bet they had that feeling.
1:24 Even the officer's horse soiled itself in the face of that oncoming horde...
(It's weird what catches your eye sometimes 🤔😅)
The kind of feeling of an iklwa plunging into the tummy.
@@liamfoley9614
Not good
now just imagine if he said " I have a bad Feeling about this"
Very much what Custers’ men must have felt when they realized they were going to die horribly and assuredly
I remember watching this back in the late 90s on cable TV. I miss those days of just turning on the TV and scrolling through Maxximum 32 channels and finding something good to watch
Lol... 32 Channels... my childhood had 3 Channels... 4 if you counted PBS.
@@wolfshanze5980 lol....right? I remember only 2 channels came in correctly and on calm days you could get a couple more ,lol
i miss the late 90s
Can’t do that with 136 channels
I had public access, 30+ channels sounds like heaven
No single smartphone in sight, just Zulus enjoying the moment.
By the pool, and the British gate crashed the party.
The noise the zulus made as they began charging made them sound like a terrifying hive of giant bees. Some real intimidating shit.
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@@koopasteve he’s right though
@@Anonymousduck161 im not that stupid, rephrase your bait if you want to actually trick me into an argument outside of this comment.
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Love that the give the scene time to play out, we get to see the realisation on the British faces as they realise the Zulu army is close by and far larger than expected.
20000 Zulus vs 1500 Brits. Poor Lord Chelsom will have to re-arrange his dinner's plates!
I love how Vereker at first fails to see the mass of Zulus in front of him, but then he looks down…
I know....its ridiculous, isn't it.....😐
His face says it all about how he is feeling
He boutta buh 😩
He saw something he didn’t want to see basically
I read somewhere that they interviewed a British Army Veteran of the Zulu campaign in where he said that the Zulus were so well trained that they could jump over a standing man.
I heard that aswell must of been crazy shit hes coming for me ahh wait to just bob 🤣😂
@@Player-unknown93 exactly lol 😂
That's a waste of training the zulus were legit but way to extra with it rather than getting ahold of some extra gear or learning some new techs they spent extra time drilling the troops on how to do the mambo number 5
@@voiceofreason2674physical agility served them well
@@Roddy556 They're gone. So no, it clearly didn't.
That Zulu war chant gave me chills
Well imagine working in Hackney's dole office
Me riding up to the zulu camp: "mmmm, nope".
Me riding past the British camp and talking to the officer "Everything is fine, nothing to worry about, I'm just gonna go for a ride, over in the other direction for a little bit".
This movie in a nutshell:
*BUNCH OF OOGA BOOGA! SCARY BLACK! KILL KILL KILL! WHITE MAN HAVE BIG STICK GO BOOM BOOM! THEN BLOODY MONKEY FALL DOWN*
You must be in the Welsh Guard.
Agreed, I’d be keeping you company too
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Coward!
Saw this as a kid. Fascinating. Almost as amazing the the re-digitized version of the film.
Love this movie! It didn’t show the Zulu as brain dead victims or the British as soulless evil colonisers making for the greatest depiction of a war between England and a native population which actually happened
Zulu was better.
Except the british were.
@@rhetorist763 No more than the Zulus themselves, of the Mughals, or Dutch, or Spanish, Arabs, Portuguese, French, Americans, Malinke or anyone else in the long sordid unpleasant history of humanity.
@@rhetorist763 the zulus were responsible for around 1-2 million indigenous deaths in the areas surrounding zululand. Quit your victim mentality
@@nigelsheppard625 True, but it doesn't change the horrible racial hierarchy that came as a consequence of these victories, nor the continuing of these racial hierarchies to this very day.
That comfort you have thinking:’So glad my horse can outran them! ‘😂
A Zulu warrior could keep pace with a horse across rough ground.
@@therealunclevanya stop
Correct, zulu could indeed run as fast as a horse, and did on many occasions.
Look at pre zulu war photographs of zulu warriors, their legs are like tree trunks.
Ents are well known for their speed
@@caractacusbrittania7442 so you are telling me a human can run as fast as 50km per hour lmao
This movie was great but “Zulu” is gold
Absolutely.
There's a saying "The battle of waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton?", personally, I think it should be followed by "but the battle of Isandhlwana was lost there too."
except Eton did not exist at the time of Waterloo
Er...Eton was founded in 1440, over 350 years before Waterloo.
@@brucenorman8904 Eton was established in 1440 by Henry VI
Funnily enough George Orwell said something similar in 1941: ‘Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.’
@@brucenorman8904 Yeah it did.
I wish I had the Zulu's energy when I got the 'Stand to!' order.. dudes are up and running!
When you take a wrong turn and go Ooooops!!! Run !!!
I like the part where they go “WOOOWOOOOWOOOO”
Zoulo zoulo zoulou
"Uzutu " it means punishment in zulu lenguage
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I was hearing “Usuthu,” too.
"Usuthu." Then it was a war cry. Now it's a football team. You can look it up.
I've seen ZULU DAWN and ZULU soooo many times, but as soon as you hear the war chant at 0:50 it's absolutely terrifying! You can't even fathom just a massive force of Zulu warriors just swarming towards you with one objective on their minds, eliminate the enemy!
The best Films
"Sir""The scouts report Zulu's thousands of them".
No CGI here remarkable movie.
imagine the wage bill for all the extras
@@mclarenrob2 And the food to feed them and the drinking water to keep them hydrated.
They're actual zulus and probably didn't need payed individually.
@@AParticularlyConcernedCitizen perhaps they were paid as a whole with food or something
@@AParticularlyConcernedCitizen they were paid, there was an issue with the SA government at the time, they felt they didn't need to be paid but British producers said they had to be paid.
Some of the best action movies were made decades ago before CGI
Ok Boomer
@@emeraldcrusade5016 You kids think you know everything, yet half of you don't even know what gender you are
Ah, the same old CGI makes everything bad, everything was better in the past trope.
He didn't say anything 'wrong'. Some of the best action films are both with cgi and without. You, younglings, don't learn reading skills any longer. Pretty sad, really. That through the generations we had to dumb down the education system, so that individuals like yourself could feel 'good' graduating high school in the first try.@@emeraldcrusade5016
@@emeraldcrusade5016, lol you really think that someone complaining CGI has to be a Baby Boomer? lol
i love both the legendary zulus and The Great Brits of the past.
there s no such thing as a Great Brit.
@EDD-xr4ub ?
Just look at 90% of military history written in English.
Waterloo, North Africa Campaign ww2 and Battle of Britain have so many books about them you could stack them up to the space station.
Lots Brits "think" they are really great😂😂
@@Kruppt808 does being a bit more advanced technologically than other countries in Asia, Africa, America and going there and enslaving those people count as being 'great'?
@@EDD-xr4ub Slavery was the norm around the world until the British Empire went on a mission to eliminate it. Also a lot of peoples were liberated by the British Empire, many advancements also brought across the world.
@@TheSm1thers are you joking me? are you seriously trying to diminish the fact that the empire destroyed nations and enslaved them? That wasn. t the norm then. Not to the extend that the shitty empire brought it to. Ask the people in Africa or India if they think british coming on their shores was such a blessing. Atleast a good thing is that you. re being ruled by the nations you once enslaved. Getting it all back.
When the Zulus break into the U’suth war cry, it must have terrifying in real life.
I’d be scared to death just as an actor.
I remember watching this movie the first time as a kid. It was on right after the Saturday Morning cartoons.
We're gonna need a bigger army..
I mean not really, they could’ve just made a bigass laager and probably drove them off.
@@jakemocci3953 agreed the British never lost a fight behind barricades.
Or maybe .. try not splitting your army in two
@@rossgeorge245 only becasue the guns
"Sir, when do we get to go home?"
"When all the Gold and all the Diamonds are extracted from the ground here"
And they still haven't left.
More warriors than bullets.
Also said by Stalin
Commandant Quinlan at Jadotville...
Use every bullet twice...
Wow, I’ve never seen so many “youths” and “teens” in one place before 😲
Unaccompanied minors. Now arriving at Dover
Lolol
And mostly peaceful.
Welsh choir boys IMO
A valuable lesson in underestimating your enemy, the Zulu were a diciplined, organised, well led and very brave fighting force.
Thats what they were - not farmers but terrorists!
NO CGI= Awesomeness!!
So was lord of the rings and it had CGI. Go ahead, try to convince anyone LOTR was shit. Stupid mofo.
Just watched this on Tubi…no CGI…all EPIC. Rousing Elmer Bernstein score, too.
What’s the name of the movie
@@Porkchop9998 its literally in the title
I watch this movie anytime I wana watch Zulu Dawn…& the scenes always give me chills like it’s the first time
You watch this movie anytime you wanna watch this movie? Interesting
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Can still see this today. Just go downtown London
White guys killing black people?
Try Hackney dole office
I haven't seen this movie but I read a bit about this battle and this is exactly how it started - amazingly well done. The British side lost big that day, one of the worse defeats in the British Empire's history.
well watch it! It's very good!
Highly recommended movie.
one of the great scenes ever filmed. William Veraker's horse was so scared it took a crap while it was running off
"These are not the Zulus you are looking for."
I love that the horse shat himself as they turned around
It probably knows that an average zulu could catch up to him on foot.
If you ever get the chance, visit Zululand, Isandlwana and Rourke's Drift. The Zulu are a very impressive people.
That’s really only like 500-1000 ppl at most. Really not that many all things considering. Really puts into perspective ancient battles with 50-60,000 ppl.
Notice how the music is a combination of fear and size, like your looking at Godzilla
Yes I think Godzilla would create a similar reaction.
A great scene done without CGI ! just imagine! 👍
0:22 it was at this moment when they realized....they "F" up.
Still love this movie.
Zulus had to be one of the bravest armies ever!
@@scottstevens2752 In movie called Zulu with Michael Cain the warriors saluted the British at the end calling them fellow braves, if that was true I would be honoured to know even the enemy soldiers recognise courage & bravery.
@@clevelandwilliams5922 Agree!
Man The second I catch eye of that Zulu army I’m hightailing at maximum speed in the opposite direction.
To anyone thinking the british were evil for fighting the zulu understand that shaka zulu their leader was one of the most bloodthirsty warlords to ever live. He gathered his large army by conquering every settlement he ran across giving them only one choice. Join him or die. His goal was to unify all of africa under his banner. He killed uncounted numbers of his own people and had to be put down. This is why the british ultimately left their empire and gave it all back to the natives. It was unmanageable because you can't uplift basically stone age cultures into industrial revolution cultures. It takes generations of steady cultural evolution to make that leap. They inherently rejected it and thats exactly what happened to the british empire. The peoples they conquered had no taste for technology or western ways so they abandoned it and reverted back to their stone age cultures.
😂😂😂
@@samanth. Ikr? History is waaaaay different than they teach in school.
@@nonaurbizniz7440 spare me the fake history, by the time this war was happening king shaka zulu had been dead for 50 years, shaka never even met white people, the boers genocided the khoisan people & sold them to the Portuguese for slavery, & u want to tell me that whites were civilised??? C'mon even u know that's not true, the British didn't give anything to the matives, u guys always make up false history on the spot
@@nonaurbizniz7440🤡🤡🤡
Cetshwayo was the king during this battle. Yes he was ruthless but not Shaka level ruthless
That shit if the Zulu around the water hole is amazing. Think I vaguely remember seeing it on TV as a kid and not enjoying it. Seeing this makes me think I should give it another go.
Where did they go to the toilets,,,, again?
@@themadfarmer5207 ~ 😆😅 I won't even fix it, so people know what you're on about
Back then this was A sight to behold now you can see this anytime you travel into an urban area in England
Ahh, the good ole days.
i remember watching this as a kid. incredible scene.
Great movie and great scene. 🎥 👏
Hits far differently than it did as a child in the 70s. I could only consider the horror and feel for the British troops. Now I see the humanity of the Zulu fighting for their own lands from an invader.
😂😂😂😂 The Zulus GAVE them a perfect gift 😂😂😂😂😂
It still amazes me that the Zulu warriors did all that while they were barefoot!!!
What ran across mud ?
I'm sure they was fine ...no Lego bricks on the floor back then.
Well they never invented shoes...
They just used to it they never wore shoes so they know no different.
King Shaka instructed his warriors to do it that way , go to war barefoot and with short heavy spears.
The sound here is a perfect representation of what the zulu army sounded like.
Eye witness reports state that the zulu sounded like a giant swarm of angry bees.
I think it was younghusbands company on the far left of the british line that first came under attack.
They had advanced across the steep slope of isandlwhana and across the ridge, so that their engagement was hidden, except for sporadic shooting, which became more rapid as they gradually gave ground.
This would be part of the zulu right horn.
The head and chest of the zulu attack is fairly accurately represented
As they pour across the plateau and drop down a slope to engage the British line.
The zulu left horn temporarily held by durnford, was forced, because of the accurate fire, to swing even further left, this led to durnfords stand being out flanked, he had no support to his right or right rear to check this movement
And consequently attempted to retire.
As a side note,
Simon ward plays verecker,
In realty, verecker was the actor David nivens grandfather, he died at isandlwhana.
A pucker moment, which Custer and his men also had at the Little Big Horn.
This movie in a nutshell:
*BUNCH OF OOGA BOOGA! SCARY BLACK! KILL KILL KILL! WHITE MAN HAVE BIG STICK GO BOOM BOOM! THEN BLOODY MONKEY FALL DOWN*
The anniversary of Custer’s humiliation and mutilation of his corpse is my favorite day of the year. Nothing more joyous than reminiscing on this genocidal egomaniac’s much deserved bloody payback
@@FrostRare You are mentally ill.
Custer didn't come across a 25,000 strong enemy force though.
@@lyndoncmp5751 Really?
Watched this part with my mum and dad at about 10 years old, at that point I went 'oh sh&t' - expecting to get a ticking off, instead they both laugh
Just like one of the parks in London!
"Oh shit. They've got vuvuzelas. Thousands of 'em. Cover your ears".
素晴らしい✨
That's the same feeling you get when you shut your car door and 1 second later realized your keys was still in the ignition and your in the middle of no where
Ooh this is like that time I was mowing my lawn and stumbled on a ground bees nest.
It was at rhis moment he knew , he f@#$d up 😂😂😂😂😂
We need some gatling guns, NOW!
That's the day you pray that your horse doesn't twist an ankle while running away!😅
We’re gonna need a bigger army
We gonna need to think big. And better. An army that size is nothing compared if you could be tactically smart. Unfortunately, they get overwhelmed and could not think clearly big.
@@MarkEmperor do not advance on sheer power alone. The British certainly learned that lesson. The Zulus adhered more to Sun Tzu’s teachings. I was quoting from Jaws, when they first see the shark in my original post.
Remember watching this early eighties 81 or 82 great movie
How do you say "we're fucked" in 19th century English?
"We are lost!"
A very bad feeling when you are facing an army with absolutely no fear of death.
Zulu warriors run 50 miles, fight for days then running 50 miles home. The greatest warriors of their time. Massive fan from the 🇬🇧 uk.
They also wiped out and enslaved nearly all other Africans in the sub-continent.
Not the ones we shot wasn't .
Good quality food , and no pharmaceutical injections at childhood can do that for you.
Different class of Warrior.
@@keithrose6931 sad thing is Keith is that this battle obviously took place during our empire, we were simply murdering hundreds of thousands during the plundering of Africa. This movie is where we badly lost, at rourkes drift just over 160 (I think it's 168) british troops held off 4000 zulu warriors, so you could call that a win (tongue in cheek) but it wasn't, the zulu's simply respected those who fought and literally spared the few left (THATS A FACT). hope your good chap, and trust me when I say I am proud to be a good old englishmen.
They were also massively defeated with one or two tactical wins. Maybe fighting other tribes though. Respect still given.
When you have that many enemy charging towards you. Believe me, that's gonna get your blood pumping!
Were you there?
@@petermorris9818 I've been in combat.
We have their rival tribe rolling through to flank at the exact right moment.
I had exactly that same feeling in Southside of Chicago.
😂😂 that bad?
@@dr.finnegan3949 I have no desire to live in a land where I am hated for being who I am.
@@s.k.6616 you’re right bro! I was asking actually if things were that bad in south Chicago.
@@dr.finnegan3949 Chicago is a shit-hole that I have no desire to live in. The older I get, the more I appreciate the unique gifts of who I am and where I come from. It was stupid for the Brits to stand up to so many Zulus in one battle. Better to win quietly, divide and win.
I hear there are very very few people of color in Russia.
Zulus sah! Fousands ov’ ‘em!
That's quite a lot of Zulus.
Brave men all.
The soap opera effect kills me everytime
yeah worst invention when it comes to smart tvs
@@RichyDYupYup you know you can just turn on cinema mode lol
@@tompoynton
I do
I’ve had more fun kicking hornet nests then that chap seeing the zulus
He sounds remarkably calm for someone who just discovered how fucked he is.
He wasn't fucked. He was on a horse. He could easily get away.
Worst thing to do in that situation is panick.
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Ótimo filme ❤
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@@Nhará1471ZULU DAWN! IT'S A PREQUEL TO ZULU.
They gotta run a mile before they even get to fight. 🤣
Legends had it that the Zulus warriors still running and fighting til this day
Legends are wrong
@@andystoker6961 I’m a legend and I’m never wrong.
I see them everyday in London
In Detroit
probably carrying someone's television
Every time someone tell me about Avengers or Transformers or another pice of sh*t, I think on this movie. No, you cannot beat it with robots from space coming find a Cube. No... No, sir. This movie is epic.
I like how they could of left without killing anyone but they were like “what the hell, just for fun”
Be rude not to.
Very wrong. the job of a Scout is to find the enemy (done) report his size, composition and actions (done) and then engage him to delay his advance. They had superior mobility and firepower, and conducted a fighting withdrawal- extremely well executed.
This was deliberate and professional.
@@mattz1230 They hardly knew of their presence until they started firing at them lol
@@Garl_Vinland Uh, I'm certain they knew that the clumsy English were there.
In reality, the Zulus hat 20,000 men sitting in absolute silence.
That's discipline.
@@Garl_Vinland did you watch the same video clip? The Zulu screamed out for a Charge and they all started chanting and charging towards the British BEFORE he ordered his riders to fire.
Love these two movies unfortunately these will never be remade, one is always ready to watch in xbox drive
you mean fortunately they'll never be remade, i shudder to think how they would butcher this and "zulu" with todays libtard directors at the helm
@whitetroutchannel i agree both would be destroyed, im glad that i have them on dvd as it wont be long before they are not able to be sold
1:23 the horse turns around and shits for the audience to see
"I poo in your general direction" , the horse thought.
@@FerdausAmzah
" He was shitting himself out of fear when he saw the Zulu horde 😂🤭".
This is one of the movies to grow up watching; Zulu, The Alamo, anything John Wayne...
Definitely would have fouled my breeches upon seeing that.
Now as british your horse just throws you down in that moment 😅😅
I liked how that arrogant officer was forced to change his tune when he took in the sight that was before him.
And how they basically did a hit and run.
The Zulu morale must have been incredible, to keep chasing men fleeing on horseback while they were still on foot, after taking multiple casualties without inflicting any themselves.
Edit:
Turns out, I misjudged the officer. He was a decent man. Sorry, officer! You're a decent man! You were just taking your man to task about his misdeeds. I mistook it as a case of aloofness to the war situation. I had judged you hastily, and I hope we can start again on a new foot as friends.
its just a movie bro.
Never bring a spear to a gun fight!!
@@petemoore7089
I'm not sure it was meant to be a fair fight.
Pete,
The Zulus had more guns than the British in this battle. Roughly 1 in 5 Zulus were armed with a gun of some sort.
@@lyndoncmp5751 aww
That was inspiring.
The best part of the movie is when the British soldier crosses the river with the British flag into Zulu Land. I want to remind everyone that even though the British lost the battle of Isandlwana. 150 British soldiers defeated an army of 5, 000 Zulus at Rorke's Drift the next day.
Hooray for the invaders! 🙄
@@seanyoung9014 Absolutely! You don't build the greatest Empire the world has ever known by not being an ass kicker.
@@rboddington Lol that's a fair point.
@@seanyoung9014
Who do you regard as invaders. Hopefully you realise both parties were?
@@Officialnrb Please explain how the Zulus in Zululand were invaders.
my grandfather was very interested in the Anglo Zulu Wars, he had so may books which I read as a kid, didn't have a TV back then, and I must give credit to this film, as it does its best to follow the events of the battle as honestly as possible. there are some historical inaccuracies, minor at that. but this seen is perfectly re-enacted, the Zulu Impi was discovered by accident, and too late.
Well not exactly - it was discovered by a recce patrol commanded by Charlie Raw who was out searching for them.. The Zulus were intending to negotiate, and were discovered by Raw's patrol 24 hours early, by their standards. That is what forced them into an attack at around midday, rather than attack the following day at first light, which was their custom and intention.
@@michaeljones-qm4wqKing Cetshwayo made every effort to avoid war with Chelmsford.
Tarixin ən igid xalqlarından biridir, Zulular. Azərbaycandan bu qorxmaz, igid xalqa sevgilər! ✊🏻😊🇦🇿
Whoa, I can confidently say that's a language I have never seen written before.
I agree with ya I've never seen this language before!
@@El_Gallo_de_Pesca97 Azerbaijani. Quite similar to Turkish.
1:23 Even the horse is shitting itself...