Live stream preview

Watch this video and more on BFI Player Classics

Watch this video and more on BFI Player Classics

Start your free trial Learn more

Already subscribed? Sign in

Zulu

Recently Added • Action, History, War, R

A gutsy tale of grace under pressure, Zulu celebrates true British grit in the hour of need. Stanley Baker and Michael Caine lead a depleted contingent of Welsh infantrymen in defending Rorke's Drift missionary station from the attack of 4,000 Zulu warriors. Released in the final months of the British Empire, producer Baker and director Cy Endfield's film offered audiences a timely reminder of Empire history.

Tags
Zulus, British Army, Anglo Zulu War (1879), KwaZulu Natal, British Empire, Victoria Cross
Cast
Stanley Baker Lieutenant John Chard R.E.
Michael Caine Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead
Jack Hawkins Otto Witt
James Booth Private Henry Hook
Crew
Cy Endfield director

Up Next in Recently Added

  • The Boys from Brazil
    2:04:55
    The Boys from Brazil

    The Boys from Brazil

    The Boys From Brazil is a terrifying film about the perpetuation of a new race of Hitlers, based on Ira Levin's thrilling book of the same title. In the setting of 1970s South America, a notorious Nazi War criminal, Dr. Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck), gathers a group of former Nazis to work on a co...

  • County Lines
    1:33:50
    County Lines

    County Lines

    Obeying the first rule – 'write what you know' - former youth worker turned filmmaker Henry Blake turns in an original, stylish debut feature which premiered at the 2019 BFI London Film Festival.

    It exposes the urban-to-rural drugs system of the title, a network which exploits children to use as...

  • 71
    1:39:18
    71

    71

    Jack O’ Connell (Unbroken, Starred Up) plays a young British squaddie is caught behind enemy lines in bomb-torn Belfast, who has to navigate his way home while avoiding the competing attentions of rival IRA factions, dangerous loyalists and sinister secret agents.

×