Timewatch (TV Series)

Zulu: The True Story (2003)

Michael Praed: Self - Narrator

Quotes 

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  Himself - Narrator : January the 22nd, 1879: the Battle of Isandlwana in today's South Africa, the British army suffers its most humiliating defeat. Extraordinary military blunders allows Zulus, most armed with just spears, to crush a modern British army. Yet this day goes down as one of our finest, for later that same day a much smaller and less significant British victory is won eight miles away at Rorke's Drift - the basis for the film "Zulu". Those at the summit of power claim this is the major battle shielding the culprits responsible for the earlier disaster.

• Himself - Narrator : Long claimed as heroic, the true story of the empire's longest day was of unprovoked slaughter, heroes ignored and the guilty protected. The responsibility for this went right to the top - to Queen Victoria herself.