One particular genre of film, however, dominates the classics in British cinema, and that is war movies. We've been on the ...

An epic 138-minute-long war film has been voted the "best British war film" of all time, and it is streaming free on two platforms. Think Defence gave Zulu the honour, a film that fans hail for its ...

This series explores the facts and investigates the truth behind the British Redcoat Army's campaign in Zululand during 1879. The war was started by a country at the height of it's imperial powers and ...

The first episode in the series sets the scene and tells the fascinating story of the origins of the war and explains how Sir Henry Bartle-Frere engineered the British invasion of Zululand. The ...

Nathaniel Isaacs’s life defied convention. A white Jewish Englishman who came of age during the early 19th century, he spent much of his career on the outer reaches of the British Empire in Africa. In ...

Introduction : the stakes of war -- Grounds for aggression -- The Zulu polity and the ultimatum -- Opposing armies -- The Battle of Islandwana -- The Battle of Rorke's Drift -- Defeat on the coast and ...