During the 1870's, South-East Africa become terrified by the invasion of the Zulu-nation that wanted to conquer the territories of the local tribes. Alarmed by the continuous man-slaughter and devastations of the country, the British send a minuscule regiment after an ultimatum to the Zulu-king. It is still for our eyes incomprehensible how it is possible that the British had the idea to send only 500 men to battle 10.000 Zulu-warriors! The result was easy to predict: the British, outnumbered by ten to one, were smashed in battle. One of the reasons was that all the cartridges broke when unloaded from the munition-waggons. Another reason was that the British had posted their soldiers at 20 yards from each other and this in front of hordes of Zulus coming up at hundreds in a row. The courage of the British must have been tremendous. Above all, most of the Zulus were addicted to drugs given by their sorcerers so they could not feel the bullets. Driven by their racist arrogance and by a typical Zulu-superiority complex (that the Zulus had against all other black tribes) they went further into the territory of the other black nations until they were stopped by a small British company (the 2nd Warwickshire Regiment) at Rorke's drift "Zulu (1964)" just the day after. This movie depicts the British as stupid snobs but in fact this was only the case for the superior officers. The battle-scenes are good and you can easily imagine how you feel when you see thousands of shouting Zulus running up to you to smash your head or to kill you with a spear.
