And the Hey everybody it's Jim and A-Rone we're back with another episode of the

Bald Move Commission Movies podcast I don't know we should come up with a better name snap your name for this we've got a

commission the 1964 British film Zulu about kind of the later stages of the Zulu, Anglo war going down in South Africa.

This was commissioned by Glenn Suburts.

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Zulu filmed in South Africa in 1964 starring Stanley Baker and his in his first major role Michael Kane

is based on a true story of fighting at the

Rourke's drift between the British and Zulu nation in 1879. I've watched this movie

many times since it caught my imagination as a child in the mid-70s, so much so that I visited

real sight in 1995. As movies will do, it takes some liberties of the truth and it's naturally

dated in some ways, but the evocative music and beautifully staged battle scenes are timeless.

I like to point out that the film treats the Zulu's with respect.

On a number of occasions or strength and general prowess are mentioned generally in response

to prejudice comments by different

characters. Some might say this is merely to show how much better the British were able

to defeat them, but I feel the movie underlines the feelings of guilt and disdain

after a battle against a noble enemy, even in victory rather than gloating and flag-waving.

The fact that it was made despite being under the baleful gaze of the apartheid era, South Africa

culture of ministry says something positive about South Africa culture

culture of ministry says something positive about the makers.

So this film was directed by Saanfield and who I started I went through his

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