Zulu with Michael Caine...

 Great movie, if you haven't already seen it...

Bromhead: If 1200 men couldn’t hold a defensive position this morning, what chance have we with 100?

Lieutenant John Chard: The army doesn’t like more than one disaster in a day.
Bromhead: Looks bad in the newspapers and upsets civilians at their breakfast.

Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead: Sixty! We dropped at least 60, wouldn’t you say?
Adendorff: That leaves only 3,940.

Bromhead: Fire at will!
Pte. Owen: That’s very nice of him.

Lieutenant John Chard: [the Zulus are chanting before their final charge] Do you think the Welsh can’t do better than that, Owen?
Pte. Owen: Well, they’ve got a very good bass section, mind, but no top tenors, that’s for sure

Lt. John Chard: If it’s a miracle, Colour Sergeant, it’s a short-chambered, Boxer-Henry .45 calibre miracle.
Color Sgt. Bourne: And a bayonet, sir. With some guts behind it.

[Bourne calls the roll after the battle]
Colour Sergeant Bourne: Hitch... Hitch, I saw you. You’re alive.
Pte. Fred Hitch: I am? Oh, thanks very much.

 

Zulu is a 1964 British epic war film depicting the Battle of Rorke's Drift between the British Army and the Zulus in January 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War. It shows how 150 British soldiers, 30 of whom were sick and wounded patients in a field hospital, successfully held off a force of 4,000 Zulu warriors. The film is notable for showing the Zulu army as disciplined and governed by strategy.