“Zulu”
One of my all time best movies, and it follows the history rather well.
Zulu is also one of my all time favorites. I enjoyed the firing by ranks drill. I had never seen mass volley fire done by ranks before. Very impressive.
The Zulu shouting and banging their shields was also very impressive. BTW the Zulus phoney deaths were the result of showing old cowboy movies to them so they could get the hang of acting a death scene.
The song “Men of Harlech” was done specifically for the movie. A very nice touch having the Welsh sing it in response to the Zulu’s chanting.
Colour Sgt Bourne was a favorite of mine. His coolness under fire was impressive as well as his general demeanor. I always remember his answer to one of his troops getting the vapors and asking why it had to be them to stand against impossible odds and most likely be slaughtered. “Because we’re here lad, because we’re here. No one else, just us.”
Zulu was a movie about real men fighting impossible odds and surviving. One of three fights like that: Xenophon and the Retreat of the Ten Thousand, the battle of Roark’s Drift and the Rangers at Mogadishu.