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Movie
language
English
duration
113 min
genre
adventure
theme
war
director
Douglas Hickox
Score
5 / 10

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.

Plot

In the Cape Colony in January 1879, British Army officer Lord Chelmsford plots with diplomat Sir Henry Bartle Frere to annex the neighbouring Zulu Empire, which they perceive as a threat to the Cape Colony's emerging industrial economy.

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    author
    contentLocation South Africa
    director Douglas Hickox
    editor Malcolm Cooke
    genre adventure historical
    keywords adopt anglo-zulu war anthony durnford army officer attack attacked rorke's drift battle of rorke's drift boer britain british army british soldier buffalo river cape colony capture casus belli cetshwayo charge colonel durnford colour emerging industrial economy even expeditionary force expeditionary warfare fabian strategy flee henry bartle frere invade the zulu empire isandlwana kill laager last stand massed infantry charge mineral revolution mount isandlwana pitched battle reconnaissance river scout sir henry bartle frere skirmish skirmisher trap ulundi united kingdom of great britain and ireland wild goose chase wound zulu empire zulu kingdom
    musicBy Elmer Bernstein
    producer James Sebastian Faulkner
    publisher Orion Pictures Warner Bros.
    recordedAt South Africa
    theme prequel war