You never saw Zulu?
Oh—you’re in for a treat!
Here’s what one reviewer on Amazon has to say about the movie: “Zulu is one of the greatest historical action movies ever made, and one of the great war movies. It is based on what historian Michael Glover terms ‘the most highly decorated battle in British history’, the defence of Rorke’s Drift during the Zulu War of 1879. Eleven of the defenders received Britain’s highest award for military valor, the Victoria Cross—the rarely awarded counterpart of the US Congressional Medal of Honor. The movie is a landmark in the art of cinema for its extraordinary combination of location, cross-cultural engagement, a real story, good script and fine cast. This 1964 film never looks tired, despite my many years of rerunning it in 16mm, the Criterion laserdisc, and now the Front Row Entertainment Inc. DVD. Anecdotally, military colleges have used Zulu to show the power of directed massed musketry, and leadership and teamwork in combat.”
One of the movies iconic moments: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkSPmsZxesw&feature=related
You’ve convinced me!
:)