Directed by: Shekhar Kapur
Starring: Kate Hudson, Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Daniel Caltagirone, Campbell Brown, Mohamed Bouich
Factual error: In the scene where the British soldiers form square, there is a drummer boy. The British army stopped using drummer boys after the battle of Isandhlwana in 1879.
Factual error: The Battle of Abu Klea wasn't a decisive British defeat, as depicted. In fact, it was a crushing British victory, with the British killing thousands of Dervishes for the loss of less than one hundred men.
Continuity mistake: In the scene just after the Mahdi forces are 'retreating,' a drummer boy drums the square to open to let the skirmishers out. If you look behind the drummer boy however there seems to be a fight going on behind him although the Mahdi forces have retreated.
Abou Fatma: I found you half dead crossing the desert alone and you say you are afraid?
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