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Overview

User Rating:
7.9/10   11,708 votes
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Director:
Writers:
John Prebble (screenplay) and
Cy Endfield (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
17 June 1964 (USA) more
Tagline:
Dwarfing The Mightiest! Towering Over The Greatest! more
Plot:
Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. more
NewsDesk:
(11 articles)
Caine Refuses To Watch His Movies
 (From WENN. 12 November 2009, 4:11 AM, PST)

Zakes Mokae obituary
 (From The Guardian - Film News. 10 November 2009, 10:45 AM, PST)

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a classic more (188 total)

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Battle of Rorke's Drift (UK) (working title)
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Runtime:
138 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
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2.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
4-Track Stereo (35 mm magnetic prints) | 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Mono (35 mm optical prints)
Certification:
Iceland:12 | Portugal:M/12 | New Zealand:PG | Australia:M (alternate rating) | Australia:PG (original rating) | Finland:K-8 | Singapore:PG (DVD rating) | Sweden:15 | UK:PG (video rating) (1989) | UK:U (original rating) | USA:Unrated | West Germany:16
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Trivia:
The then Minister of Native Affairs banned the film for screenings to black South Africans as "it might incite them to rise up in revolt". more
Goofs:
Anachronisms: The 24th is identified as the "South Wales Borderers". In 1879 the regiment was the 2nd Warwickshire. It did not become a Welsh regiment until 1881. more
Quotes:
Color Sgt. Bourne: [doing roll call] Hughes!
Hughes: Excused duty!
[the soldiers begin to laugh]
Color Sgt. Bourne: No comedians, please. Hughes.
Hughes: Yes, Colour Sergeant.
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Referenced in Dog Soldiers (2002) more

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35 out of 47 people found the following comment useful.
a classic, 5 May 2004
Author: DavidRobinson10 from SYDNEY

I watched three videos the other night: Belly of the Beast, Kill Bill#1, and ZULU. Belly was better than most of Seagals efforts lately, Bill had a bigger budget but was pretty ordinary, and last,at about 2am, I watched ZULU. Sure I was tired, but I soon got my second wind. The others, while more graphically violent, numbed my senses, wereas ZULU stimulated them!!! Who cares that the deaths were stylized (little gore) and there were no four-letter words...... While I can remember very little now about the first two, images dialog, music and camera from ZULU are still with me, days later. A sterling effort, you actually CARE about these people. This movie could not be produced today to this quality - even by the best in the world. A classic: five out of five. (loved the "colour seargant" character!!

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