Zulu Dawn
| Zulu Dawn | |
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UK film poster by Tom Chantrell | |
| Directed by | Douglas Hickox |
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| Story by | Cy Endfield |
| Produced by | Nate Kohn |
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| Cinematography | Ousama Rawi |
| Edited by | Malcolm Cooke |
| Music by | Elmer Bernstein |
Production companies | Lamitas Samarkand |
| Distributed by | American Cinema Releasing Orion Pictures (through Warner Bros.) |
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Running time | 117 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $11.75 million($51 million in 2025 dollars) |
Zulu Dawn is a 1979 British-American adventure war film directed by Douglas Hickox and written by Anthony Storey and Cy Endfield. It is based on Endfield's book of the same name about the historical Battle of Isandlwana in 1879 between British and Zulu forces in South Africa.
Zulu Dawn features an ensemble cast led by Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole, Simon Ward, and Nigel Davenport. Chronologically it precedes the smaller Battle of Rorke's Drift, which also had opposing British and Zulu forces. Zulu (1964) was a film about the latter battle.