Zulu Dawn

"Zulu Dawn" is a 1979 war film directed by Douglas Hickox. Set in the late 1800's during more prevalence of harsh colonialism, the film holds a lot of aesthetic application for the war film direction of filmmaking as well as some sprawling epic adventure trope energy thrown…

Blake Bergman "Various Spaghetti"

Some Bank Holiday weekend of the 1980s. Seas of red uniforms & white cork pith helmets being speared without the immortal John Barry theme. That was the limit of my recollections of this prequel. The 1964 original defending Rorke’s Drift seemed to have way more TV showings…

Paul Tonks

i have to drop my history class so now we'll never know what other movies i would have lied to my teacher about watching

vitani

I have seen Zulu with Michael Caine so many times I have lost count. This was the first time I ever watched Zulu Dawn, which happens before the events in Zulu. The first 75 minutes are a deadly bore...as we watch men walk, men ride horses and men stand around. Once the…

UltimateMovieRankings

I’m a sucker for large scale battle scenes so I had a good enough time with this, but you compare this to the climactic battle in the original and see how that one evokes the importance of every maneuver, of every bullet fired, of every casualty, and this feels…

Rock

Cy Endfield's cinematic recreation of the Battle Of Rorke's Drift released back in 1964 is one of the greatest war films ever made. Helping launch the career of Michael Caine, whose portrayal as Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead is as much of an iconic role as both Alfie Elkins…

Andy Summers 🤠

Epic battle sequences. Thousands of Zulu warriors, British infantry and horses. All in-camera. It's incredible that the story is mostly told from the British colonist perspective and as a viewer, you feel like you are still conditioned to sympathize and root for them to…

Schizopolis23 🦅🏋🏽‍♂️

I watched the film because I teach imperialism in class: I didn^t except much. And it was very pleasant surprise! The flick is visually absolutely stunning. Ousama Rawi's camerawork is masterful, brilliantly capturing the South African expanse – right up to the glorious…

Reto Hochstrasser

Incredible cast mostly doing good stuff, but this film obviously felt the need to give you the full build up rather than the edited highlights, so we get this very dry and very dull first half. Accurate I dare say, but when you've seen Zulu as I'm sure we all have, you know…

holas79