Zulu is one of those films you can't help but root for a small garrison of soldiers occupying a Mission is South Africa and caught in something they didn't want or expect.
Despite one's feeling on European countries colonizing all over Africa, its still a great film. Zulu only shows a portion of what's happening all over South Africa, which doesn't really come up in this movie.
Stanley baker and Cy Endfield made a wonderful film out of history for this movie. The battle scenes between the Zulu warriors and about 100 british solders is outstanding with such overwhelming odds, 4,000 Zulu's to abut 100 british and their methods of fending off each attack is just amazing. This is the one time I'm seen the old style fighting using the stand up mode where there are 2 or 3 ranks of soldiers using the one rank fire, the other reload, and on and one, so effective.
John Barry's music as usual is helps creates the suspense and with Richard Burton doing the narration is unbeatable.
Despite one's feeling on European countries colonizing all over Africa, its still a great film. Zulu only shows a portion of what's happening all over South Africa, which doesn't really come up in this movie.
Stanley baker and Cy Endfield made a wonderful film out of history for this movie. The battle scenes between the Zulu warriors and about 100 british solders is outstanding with such overwhelming odds, 4,000 Zulu's to abut 100 british and their methods of fending off each attack is just amazing. This is the one time I'm seen the old style fighting using the stand up mode where there are 2 or 3 ranks of soldiers using the one rank fire, the other reload, and on and one, so effective.
John Barry's music as usual is helps creates the suspense and with Richard Burton doing the narration is unbeatable.