《 Battle Of The ISANDLWNA 》( 1879/01/22 )
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Published 2012-01-01
The Zulus were equipped mainly with the traditional assegai iron spears, iklwa and cow-hide shields, but also had a number of muskets and old rifles though they were not formally trained in their use.
All Comments (21)
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This and Waterloo are the only times I feel truly immersed in the true scale of these engagements. Real people real costumes will always look and feel more real then CGI battles
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A young British officer escaped from this battle, his name was Smith-Dorian and he went on the be a general in the 1914/18 war. Just think of the changes he saw ! From red coats to airplanes, cavalry charges to tanks.
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This film was lambasted at the time, however, just the fact that the action scenes were directed without CGI makes it a great action film.
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This battle took place in 1879. Up until 1871, British officers still purchased commissions, meaning that many high ranking officers most likely had bought their way into the officer corp. This meant that they were not necessarily officers because they were promoted due to merit or education, but because they came from rich families.
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In the 1950s my father used to frequent a pub in Wiltshire where an ex-soldier aged over 100 also drank. He'd been a professional soldier and fought in the Boer Wars, the Zulu war and then later WWI. He described how in one of the battles against the Zulus there were so many coming to attack and banging their shields rhythmically that the stones on the ground were jumping long before they could be seen or heard. Enough to make one's blood run cold, I should imagine.
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I am South African. Upon my visit to Isandlwana I stood on the slopes of the "koppie", the white stones marking the British graves scattering the hillside. The energy there is palpable. You can feel a tangible loneliness and desolation there....very sad....as with "Ngcome" (Blood river) (Bloed Rivier)....
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Never underestimate ones opponent. The Zulu were very brave and tenacious fighters. This battle was a massacre of an entire regiment of British Soldiers. Then they went after Rorke's Drift that was a great battle and victory by a small number of British Soldiers. 💪🏼🙏🏻✨
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Crazy how this was actually just 35 years before WWI broke out!
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A shortage of ammunition in the face of a 20,000 Zulu warriors is no reason to jump the queue.
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Great sweeping epic with a staggering cast. No cgi junk here and the accuracy in firearms and uniforms is as good as it gets. A tribute to heroism on both sides and to a sense of duty.
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There's an amazing book call Washing of the Spears, which gives an incredible amount of background to the participants on both sides of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift.
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Fun fact: This battle is closer to the outbreak of WW2 than it's closer to the end of Napoleonic War.
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I’ll always respect military leaders that refuse to eat until the soldiers in their charge already have.
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This is a Great Movie with great actors and action! It also gives good honor and credence to the strategy of the Zulus under Cetswayo. Always felt this movie was terribly underrated.
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Can we just appreciate how the cameraman recorded this footage and survived the war without dieing to publish it onto Youtube?
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Gawds I love these older movies. Simply because there is NO CGI, every single one of those men are real. No director is looking at it going "Oh add in a few hundred more Zulu over here..."
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charging barefoot, if only the brits had lego pieces to scatter around, the zulus would ve been no match for them...
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7:03 hype moment and the drums 🥁 playing in the background is
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Wonderful re-enactment in this great film, some superb acting by some very good actors, very well done and absolutely rivets youto your seat. Thanks so much for this, very well done.
