Superb

Rating: 10/10 (6 August 2004)

I saw this when I was about 7 years old, I have seen it since at least on 20 other occasions, I was so impressed with this as a child I bought numerous books on the subject in later life. Funnily enough I went to live in South Africa when I was 24, I left briefly to come back to Europe but I am back there again. I visited the Natal reserve where Rourkes Drift is (or what little of it) and was disappointed as the place had been left to fall apart, however this did not stop the goosebumps. I noticed too that the film could not have been shot here as I couldn't identify any scenery. NOTE: when the Zulus are marching towards the British line, just as they start to run at them (defences) they are singing and chanting a certain way, I have heard this same section pasted into the beginning of the film Gladiator where the Teutons come screaming out of the woods, has anyone else noted this?