

Zulu Dawn
The sun dawned bloodied... two great armies met face to face... and the earth trembled to the sound of the Zulu death chant!
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
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6.1/10
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $11.8M
- Box office
- $1.9M
- Language
- Zulu
- fight
- british empire
- victory
- prequel
- battlefield
- battle
- death
- colonialism
- spear throwing
- surrounded
- standoff
- mortar
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Netherlands, United States of America, South Africa
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG15 May 1979
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG17 Oct 1979
BrazilBR
- TheatricalIMDB21 Sept 1979
FranceFR
- Theatrical14 May 1979
GreeceGR
- Theatrical1315 May 1979
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Zulu Dawn was released on 14 May 1979.
Audience reviews
1- C6/10
CinemaSerf
12/3/2022
Though certainly epic in cinematographic terms, this is a really meandering and over-cast depiction of the Zulu defeat of the British garrison at Isandlwana at the end of the 19th century. I'm assuming it was made as a precursor of - and to capitalise upon - the far superior "Zulu" (1964) but right from the get-go it's just wordy and ponderous and, well, lacklustre. Peter O'Toole does exude a certain arrogance in his…
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