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Zulu Dawn is a 1979 American adventure war film directed by Douglas Hickox and written by Anthony Storey and Cy Endfield. It is based on Endfield's book of the same name about the historical Battle of Isandlwana in 1879 between British and Zulu forces in South Africa.
Zulu Dawn: Directed by Douglas Hickox. With Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole, Simon Ward, Denholm Elliott. A dramatization of the Battle of Isandlwana, where the British Army met its match against the Zulu nation.
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- Adventure, Drama, History
- Douglas Hickox
- 1979-12-14
Zulu Dawn is a 1979 war film about the historical Battle of Isandlwana between British and Zulu forces in 1879 in South Africa. The screenplay was by Cy Endfield, from his book, and Anthony Storey. The film was directed by Douglas Hickox. The score was composed by Elmer Bernstein.
The Battle of Isandlwana (alternative spelling: Isandhlwana) on 22 January 1879 was the first major encounter in the Anglo-Zulu War between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom.
- 22 January 1879
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership. Though certainly epic in cinematographic terms, this is a really meandering and over-cast depiction of the Zulu defeat of the British garrison at Isandlwana at the end of the 19th century.
If the British clinging on by a thread in Zulu (1964) pissed you off, this is the movie to watch. A prequel to Zulu, Zulu Dawn shows the British stumbling into the absolute fiasco that was the Battle of Isandhlwana, as a combination of greed and arrogance leads British colonial forces to a crushing defeat at the hands of the Zulus.
The story of the 1879 British defeat at the Battle of Isandlwana in South Africa, where Zulu warriors crushed her Majesty s forces. A disaster that was put down to inept leadership.
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