Zulu Dawn poster
Screenplay Cy Endfield, Anthony Story
Director Douglas Hickox

Zulu Dawn

Tagline: The sun dawned bloodied... two great armies met face to face... and the earth trembled to the sound of the Zulu death chant!

Release Date: 1979-05-14

Duration: 117 minutes

Synopsis

In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.

Casting

  • Freddie Jones
    Bishop Colenso
  • Peter O'Toole
    Lord Chelmsford
  • Bob Hoskins
    C.S.M. Williams
  • Burt Lancaster
    Col. Anthony Durnford
  • Denholm Elliott
    Colonel Pulleine
  • John Mills
    Sir Henry Bartle Frere
  • Anna Calder-Marshall
    Fanny Colenso
  • Phil Daniels
    Boy Pullen
  • Ronald Lacey
    Norris Newman
  • Peter Vaughan
    QSM Bloomfield