Lt. John Chard R.E.
Rev. Otto Witt
Margareta Witt
Pte. Henry Hook
Lt. Gonville Bromhead
Colour Sgt. Frank Bourne
Sgt. Maxfield
Surgeon Reynolds
Cpl. Allen
Pvt. Thomas
Pvt. Hitch
Pvt. Cole
Narration spoken (voice)
Cetewayo
Company cook
Commissary Dalton
Adendorff
Stickman
Stephenson
Sergeant Windridge
In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.