Zulu (film)
Zulu was a 1964 film (American English: movie) depicting the (1879) Battle of Rorke's Drift between the colonial British and the Zulus. The film was directed by Cy Endfield and starred Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins and Michael Caine. The film is essentially of the Western movie genre, but located in South Africa with the traditional roles of the United States and Native Americans taken by the British and the Zulus respectively.
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The Battle of Rorke's Drift was part of the Anglo-Zulu War, where 150 British redcoats held off 5,000 Zulu warriors. Eleven Victoria Crosses were won in the action, the most in a single battle, thus ensuring its place in British military history.
The film contains a number of factual errors.
A prequel entitled Zulu Dawn was made in 1979, depicting the Battle of Isandlwana that occured previously to the Battle of Rorke's Drift.
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