Zulu

1964 "Dwarfing the mightiest! Towering over the greatest!"
7.7| 2h18m| NR| en| More Info
Released: 17 June 1964 Released
Producted By: Diamond Films
Country: United Kingdom
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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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.

Genre

Drama, Action, History

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Director

Cy Endfield

Production Companies

Diamond Films

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Zulu Audience Reviews

Jeanskynebu the audience applauded
Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.
Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
Josephina Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.
Kirpianuscus heroic, great, impressive, remarkable. an entire dictionary content for define a film who remains special at each new meet. for performances and for the great script, for stories of each character and for the fight scenes. and for the feel to be eyewitness to a confrontation who becomes, scene by scene, not only epic but with solid roots. because it is the story of an empire and its people, about memories, vulnerabilities and courage, sacrifice and the right answer to a huge challenge. a film about honor. and about war. not only against the Zulu attacks. but against yourself. the admirable virtue of film remains the humanity. the escape from the temptation to be a manifesto. or only a patriotic lesson of history. remaining only a story. about few people, in Natal, resisting to a impossible to stop attack. this is all. and it is enough.
grantss Zululand, South Africa, 1879. The British are fighting the Zulus and one of their columns has just been wiped out at Isandlwana. The Zulus next fix their sights on the small British outpost at Rorke's Drift. At the outpost are 150 British troops under the command of Lieutenants Bromhead and Chard. In the next few days these 150 troops will fight about 4,000 Zulus in one of the most courageous battles in history.Superb movie. Based on actual events with a few dramatisations along the way. Stirring stuff, showing well the courage and heroism shown on both sides. Militarily accurate too.Solid performances by Stanley Baker and Michael Caine in the lead roles. This was Michael Caine's first starring role in movies and the role that launched his career.
Leofwine_draca This epic adventure is one of the yardsticks of the action-cum-war film genre, offering intense excitement, bloody action, and furious violence and all within a PG certificate too. A perennial favourite of the British television stations, it tells the true story of a British detachment stranded at the outpost of Rorke's Drift in hostile enemy territory, facing an angry army of 4000 Zulu warriors intent on killing all and sundry.The main army has already been slaughtered (an event chronicled in 1979's prequel, ZULU DAWN), so it's down to our stiff-upper-lip British and Welsh heroes – including Michael Caine in his standout, star-making performance as a young, cocky officer, and Stanley Baker as the heroic older rank – to battle against the dreaded foe. The film builds slowly in the first hour, displaying some glorious African locations, before letting rip with full-scale battle and destruction come the second half. Courage, bravery, tragedy, and most of all determination is what this film is all about, and it's a hard one to top.
Parker Lewis I couldn't but help be reminded of Starship Troopers when I saw Zulu, with the protagonists defending themselves against the enemy attempting to swarm their headquarters. This movie was Michael Caine's breakout movie, well before he was Albert in the Dark Knight trilogy several decades later.I wish there was another movie about the unsung heroes of Zulu. I'm thinking of the support staff who kept the British uniforms clean and crisp amidst the daily battle of war, the chefs who keep up the soldiers' appetites after a hard day defending the fort, the doctors, so many people who play a role behind the scenes. How did the regular food supply get replenished? What did the British soldiers eat for breakfast? A Full English breakfast?