***“Breaker Morant” and “Zulu” for starters and both were great.***
I just watched those again in the last few weeks. Great Movies!
I didn’t realize that Breaker Morant and Zulu were based on true stories until the very end.
Another favorite of mine is “They Died with their boots on” (Custer). So then I did some research on why the Brits were able to beat the Zulus and why Custer didn’t beat the Indians.
I didn’t get into it too much, but I think the Brits had better guns and better training/discipline. The Brits use of the alternating rows of fire to keep up a steady stream of bullets was interesting and very effective, I’m not a military buff and it makes sense.
I forget the numbers, but it was something like 1 Zulu dead for every 20 rounds fired. For Custer they estimated it was something like 800 rounds for every dead Indian. (The Americans had a bad habit of firing too high under stress).
In Vietnam they guess that it was something like 20,000 rounds fired for every enemy killed!