The Zulu Wars
“It is like a spear thrust into the belly
of our nation.”
King Cetshwayo on the British invasion
3 x 48 minute episodes
The stories of the battles in Zululand are forever
locked into the public imagination. With the help of Hollywood films
and countless books, legends have grown around the principal characters
and the main events. Never before has a television series investigated
the political and social background to the war or attempted to unravel
the hard facts behind the romantic myths that have come to surround the
entire episode.
This brand new series explores the facts and
investigates the truth behind the British Redcoat army’s campaign
in Zululand during 1879.
‘The Zulu Wars’ tells the full story of
a war that, even by the standards of the day, contained not the
faintest trace of legality and cost the lives of many brave men on both
sides.
‘The Zulu Wars’ features
• Authentic recreations and reconstructions
• Extensive new footage from Zululand
• 3D Maps and computer animation
• Leading authorities on the Zulu War
• Extracts from diaries, letters and memoirs
• Rare photographs and contemporary
images
Episodes
The Road To Isandlwana
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 Washing Of The Spears
The appalling disaster at Isandlwana was received
with horror in Britain and the Government did all it could to maximise
the news of the momentous events at Rorke’s Drift.
Twilight Of The Zulus
This episode tells the story of the bloody second
and final phase of the war during which the British exacted terrible
retribution on the Zulu nation and humiliated King Cetshwayo.
