Fact-based drama, chronicling the rising tensions between British colonial forces and Zulu tribes in 1879, culminating in the massacre at Isandlwana in which more than 1,500 British soldiers died shortly before the attack on Rorke's Drift. Prequel to Zulu, starring Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole, Denholm Elliott, John Mills, Simon Ward and Nigel Davenport