The Battle of Roark's Drift is an emblematic tale in the history of British colonialism.

It's a case study of different combat tactics used by technologically asymmetric armies and a parable about the cost of conquest.

In today's film a surprisingly neutral depiction of the events of the battle, the British

Redcoats are vastly outnumbered and defend their position against 4,000 Zulu

warriors, led by Lieutenant's Gonville Bromhead played by Michael Kane and John Chard, played by

Stanley Barker, the British who's volley fire against the Zulu bullhorn tactic.

In the end, after extensive casualties on both sides, the Zulu army sings to the diminished and desperate British unit, saluting their bravery.

The Zulu Army leaves the redoubt, sparing the surviving redcoats.

This classic film has had immeasurable cultural influence inspiring Africa Bambata to found the universal Zulu nation in the 70s

as well as inspiring the combat scenes in Lord of the Rings the two towers and Ridley Scott's gladiator.

A prayer is as good as a bayonet on a day like this,

when the Friendly Fire Podcast takes on the 1964 film Zulu. Welcome to Friendly Fire, the show with the hosts who are making a desperate last stand after

the other 1,200 podcasters fell in battle.

I'm Ben Harrison. I'm Adam Pranica. I'm John Roderick. I'm Harry Reisner. Can I be Leslie

Stahl? Leslie Stahl still in the game. She has that right still alive. Yeah.

She's a little bit more formidable than the armies of the Zulu nation. We watched the movie Zulu today.

1964 film. This is a little bit different of a war movie than we've seen so far on our show, isn't it?

Our heroes are colonialists, which I think in the modern partlands could be deemed problematic?

Did you have a hard time rooting for the colonialists?

I kind of did.

I did too.

I mean, I think that it's an interesting take from that standpoint, though, because, I mean, this movie was made, you know, at a time when the colonialist wasn't the like knee jerk bad guy and I don't think that it

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