Tonight my husband had a hankering to watch our DVD of Zulu, the 1964 movie about the 1879 Battle of Rorke's Drift between a British regiment from South Wales and a vastly superior number of Zulu warriors. The film features a very young Michael Caine, Richard Burton as the narrator, a number of genuine Welsh actors as soldiers, and an uncredited Welsh male voice choir which provides a stirring performance of "Men of Harlech" (in English).
It's a real classic, and never fails to make this Welsh-American girl's heart go pitter-pat, even though Wikipedia claims that the singing never took place.
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