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Zulu is a 1964 British epic adventure action war film depicting the 1879 Battle of Rorke's Drift between a detachment of the British Army and the Zulu, in the Anglo-Zulu War. The film was directed and co-written by American screenwriter [ 5 ] Cy Endfield .
Zulu is a 2013 French-South African crime film directed by Jérôme Salle, starring Orlando Bloom and Forest Whitaker. It was selected as the closing film at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival . [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is partly based on Project Coast , the program for biological and chemical weapons of the South African apartheid regime, and the book Zulu ...
Zulu Dawn is a 1979 American adventure war film directed by Douglas Hickox and written by Anthony Storey and Cy Endfield. It is based on Endfield's book of the same name about the historical Battle of Isandlwana in 1879 between British and Zulu forces in South Africa .
Zulu has been accused by some critics of racism, with recent research by William Shawcross suggesting that the film could provide inspiration for “white nationalists and supremacists”. Michael ...
Michael Caine has lashed out at the claim one of his films might inspire possible terrorists.. The actor questioned the 1964 film Zulu’s recent labelling as a “key text” for “white ...
The Battle of Rorke's Drift, also known as the Defence of Rorke's Drift, was an engagement in the Anglo-Zulu War.The successful British defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift, under the command of Lieutenants John Chard of the Royal Engineers and Gonville Bromhead, of the 24th Regiment of Foot, began once a large contingent of Zulu warriors broke off from the main force during the ...
Historical inaccuracies in the film Zulu was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 11 August 2009 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Zulu (1964 film). The original page is now a redirect to this page.
In the film Zulu, Hook is depicted as an insubordinate malingerer placed under arrest in the hospital, only to come good during the battle. However, Saul David writes in his book, Zulu: The Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879 , [ 6 ] that he was there as the hospital cook, subsequently as part of a small guard detail assigned to protect ...