Zulu Dawn poster

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!

6.1(124)19791h 57m3

In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.

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Status
Released
Budget
$11.8M
Box office
$1.9M
Language
Zulu
Part of Zulu Collection · 2 films
  • fight
  • british empire
  • victory
  • prequel
  • battlefield
  • battle
  • death
  • colonialism
  • spear throwing
  • surrounded
  • standoff
  • mortar

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Produced in

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

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    CinemaSerf

    12/3/2022

    6/10

    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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