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Zulu (1964)

Movie"Dwarfing the mightiest! Towering over the greatest!"
Audience Score
74
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NR 2 hr 18 minJun 17th, 1964Action, War, History, DramaZulu Collection PosterPart of Zulu Collection
In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.
StarringStanley BakerJack HawkinsUlla Jacobsson
DirectorCy Endfield
WritersCy EndfieldJohn Prebble

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:June 17th, 1964 - Buy Tickets
On DVD & Blu-ray:October 22nd, 1999 - Buy DVD
Movie Budget:$1,720,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$8,000,000 (Worldwide)
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Joseph E. Levine
Production Companies:Diamond Films UK
Movie Tags:
based on true story19th centurymixed martial artsafricasouth africabritish armyattempted rapebritish empirezulutribal warfare

Zulu Collection

The Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879 between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. Following the British North America Act of 1867 for the federation in Canada, by Lord Carnarvon, it was thought that similar political effort, coupled with military campaigns, might succeed with the African Kingdoms, tribal areas and Boer republics in South Africa. In 1874, Sir Bartle Frere was sent to South Africa as High Commissioner for the British Empire to effect such plans. Among the obstacles were the armed independent states of the South African Republic and the Kingdom of Zululand. Frere, on his own initiative, sent a provocative ultimatum on 11 December 1878 to the Zulu king Cetshwayo and upon its rejection sent Lord Chelmsford to invade Zululand. The war is notable for several particularly bloody battles.