historical inaccuracy

Rating: 10/10 (20 September 2008)

Great film, much surrounded by myth. Apparently the Zulus who attacked Rourke's Drift were not those who had destroyed the British at Islandwana (apologies if that is not spelt correctly) and were in fact acting against the order of Cetawayo (more apologies!)since Rourkes Drift was across the border in Natal.They didn't have guns and, as Stanley Baker says at the end of the film, the victory was a 'martini henry' victory or words to that effect. If the Zulus did have guns they weren't captured from Islandhwana.also btw the British guns apparently had a range of 400 metres, not 100 as said in the film. I imagine this would have helped.