Zulu Dawn

Zulu Dawn
Film poster by Tom Chantrell
Directed byDouglas Hickox
Written byCy Endfield
Anthony Storey
Produced byNate Kohn
James Sebastian Faulkner
StarringBurt Lancaster
Peter O'Toole
Simon Ward
Nigel Davenport
Michael Jayston
Peter Vaughan
Denholm Elliott
James Faulkner
John Mills
CinematographyOusama Rawi
Edited byMalcolm Cooke
Music byElmer Bernstein
Distributed byAmerican Cinema Releasing
Orion Pictures (through Warner Bros.[1])
Release date
  • 15 May 1979 (1979-05-15)
Running time
117 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$11.75 million[1]($48.3 million in 2023 dollars)[2]

Zulu Dawn is a 1979 American adventure war film directed by Douglas Hickox and written by Anthony Storey and Cy Endfield, based on Endfield's book of the same name about the historical Battle of Isandlwana between British and Zulu forces in 1879 in South Africa.

A prequel to Zulu (1964), which depicts the historical Battle of Rorke's Drift later the same day, Zulu Dawn features an ensemble cast led by Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole, Simon Ward, and Nigel Davenport.

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  2. ^ 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved 29 February 2024.