THE BUSH WAR — Rhodesia 1964–1980 | How White Rule Lost the Guerrilla War (Documentary)
Descrição
A small, landlocked state fought a guerrilla war for fifteen years — and lost it in the villages.
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From UDI in 1965 to independence in 1980, Rhodesia fought one of the longest counter-insurgency wars of the Cold War. This film follows the war on the ground: ZANLA and ZIPRA, the first battles at Chinhoyi and Wankie, the turning point after 1972, Nyadzonia and the cross-border raids, Fireforce and the Selous Scouts, the Viscount shootdowns, the internal settlement of 1979 and the election that made Zimbabwe. Every claim is sourced and dated; disputed figures are given as ranges with who says what.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Cold open
2:21 Part One — The Settlement
4:53 Part Two — UDI
8:04 Part Three — The Fighters
10:39 Part Four — The First Battles
13:26 Part Five — The Turning
16:01 Part Six — The Border War
18:33 Part Seven — Fireforce
21:52 Part Eight — The Air War
24:48 Part Nine — The Endgame
27:17 Part Ten — The Reckoning
30:17 Credits
KEY FACTS
• UDI, 11 November 1965: Ian Smith's government breaks from Britain rather than accept majority rule
• ZANLA (ZANU) and ZIPRA (ZAPU) fight separate wars from Mozambique and Zambia
• Chinhoyi, 28 April 1966: seven ZANLA fighters die in the first major battle
• The war turns after the Altena farm attack, 21 December 1972
• Nyadzonia, 9 August 1976: hundreds of refugees and guerrillas killed in a Rhodesian raid
• Air Rhodesia 825 (Hunyani) shot down 3 September 1978; 827 (Umniati) 12 February 1979
• Lancaster House, December 1979; independence, 18 April 1980
SOURCES
Wikipedia (Rhodesian Bush War, Ian Smith, UDI, Lancaster House and related articles) · Human Conflicts · De Gruyter Brill · Southern Africa magazine · CITE Zimbabwe oral histories · Hoover Institution (Firing Line) · Wikimedia Commons
ARCHIVE FOOTAGE (excerpts for criticism, review and education)
CITE Zimbabwe (interviews with ZANLA and ZIPRA veterans)
Hoover Institution Library & Archives (Firing Line, public domain)
'Rhodesia Unafraid' (1978) · 'Rhodesia 1976' · 'Winds of Change: From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe'
'It's a Long Way to Mukumbura' · home movies (Callisto Collection; Salisbury/Harare 1960s-70s)
Fighting Men of Rhodesia oral history · Wikimedia Commons contributors
PHOTOGRAPHS: 169 images from Wikimedia Commons — 93 attribution-licensed (credited below) and 76 CC0 / public domain. Maps: Natural Earth (public domain).
PHOTO CREDITS (Wikimedia Commons, by licence)
CC BY-SA 4.0: (WT-shared) Shaund, Czech translation: Honza Záruba · Aart Rietveld · Anatole0519 · BorysMapping · Dean Newman · Edwardx · For the authors see the images shown on the sources · Franciscus3668 · Fritz Joubert · FunkyCanute · Granville Davies · Halidtz · Jcornelius · Karl-Heinz Wellmann · Kudakwashe Engels Chingono · Lycksele-Nord · MaltaGC (Nigel Tout) · Mangwanani · Matti Blume · Mwangi Kinyua · Nalle&Lisa · Nelson65105 · Rjcastillo · Ruan Moreira Peixoto · Seabifar · Simonchihanga · Swimmer2025
CC BY-SA 3.0: Cliftonian · Cliftonian, after Abbott, Peter; Botham, Philip (1986-June) Modern African Wars: Rhodesia, 1965–80, Oxford: Osprey Publishing, p. 7 ISBN: 978-085045728 · Cliftonian, after Cilliers, Jackie (1984-December) Counter-Insurgency in Rhodesia, London, Sydney & Dover, New Hampshire: Croom Helm, p. 29 ISBN: 9 · Cliftonian, after Cilliers, Jackie (1984-December) Counter-Insurgency in Rhodesia, London, Sydney & Dover, New Hampshire: Croom Helm, p. 91 ISBN: 9 · Digr · Katangais · Macvivo at English Wikipedia (Original text: Samwise Gamgee) · Vitaliy Saveliev / Виталий Савельев
CC BY-SA 3.0 nl: Bert Verhoeff for Anefo · Koen Suyk / Anefo · Rob Bogaerts for Anefo
CC BY-SA 3.0 de: Friedrich Gahlbeck
CC BY-SA 2.0: ActuaLitté · Andrew Moore from Johannesburg, South Africa · Bob Adams from George, South Africa · Christian Spannagel · Hugh Llewelyn from Keynsham, UK · Jeppestown · René Speur from The Netherlands · Susan Adams
CC BY 4.0: John Wynne Hopkins · JuliaC2006 · SigmaIota · unknown
CC BY 3.0: 4wallz
CC BY 2.0: A Verdade from Maputo, Moçambique · Adam Annfield · Gary Bembridge · Gary Bembridge from London, UK · Gooders2011 from Beith (Via Dunragit and RHODESIA), Scotland · Infrogmation of New Orleans · Rob from United Kingdom
Attribution: FOCR · fototeca.iiccr.ro · ototeca.iiccr.ro
Narration: AI voice (Kokoro text-to-speech). Music: the Upright Films house soundtrack, an original roots-reggae instrumental (Upright Films / Google Flow Music).
Produced by Upright Films.
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From UDI in 1965 to independence in 1980, Rhodesia fought one of the longest counter-insurgency wars of the Cold War. This film follows the war on the ground: ZANLA and ZIPRA, the first battles at Chinhoyi and Wankie, the turning point after 1972, Nyadzonia and the cross-border raids, Fireforce and the Selous Scouts, the Viscount shootdowns, the internal settlement of 1979 and the election that made Zimbabwe. Every claim is sourced and dated; disputed figures are given as ranges with who says what.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Cold open
2:21 Part One — The Settlement
4:53 Part Two — UDI
8:04 Part Three — The Fighters
10:39 Part Four — The First Battles
13:26 Part Five — The Turning
16:01 Part Six — The Border War
18:33 Part Seven — Fireforce
21:52 Part Eight — The Air War
24:48 Part Nine — The Endgame
27:17 Part Ten — The Reckoning
30:17 Credits
KEY FACTS
• UDI, 11 November 1965: Ian Smith's government breaks from Britain rather than accept majority rule
• ZANLA (ZANU) and ZIPRA (ZAPU) fight separate wars from Mozambique and Zambia
• Chinhoyi, 28 April 1966: seven ZANLA fighters die in the first major battle
• The war turns after the Altena farm attack, 21 December 1972
• Nyadzonia, 9 August 1976: hundreds of refugees and guerrillas killed in a Rhodesian raid
• Air Rhodesia 825 (Hunyani) shot down 3 September 1978; 827 (Umniati) 12 February 1979
• Lancaster House, December 1979; independence, 18 April 1980
SOURCES
Wikipedia (Rhodesian Bush War, Ian Smith, UDI, Lancaster House and related articles) · Human Conflicts · De Gruyter Brill · Southern Africa magazine · CITE Zimbabwe oral histories · Hoover Institution (Firing Line) · Wikimedia Commons
ARCHIVE FOOTAGE (excerpts for criticism, review and education)
CITE Zimbabwe (interviews with ZANLA and ZIPRA veterans)
Hoover Institution Library & Archives (Firing Line, public domain)
'Rhodesia Unafraid' (1978) · 'Rhodesia 1976' · 'Winds of Change: From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe'
'It's a Long Way to Mukumbura' · home movies (Callisto Collection; Salisbury/Harare 1960s-70s)
Fighting Men of Rhodesia oral history · Wikimedia Commons contributors
PHOTOGRAPHS: 169 images from Wikimedia Commons — 93 attribution-licensed (credited below) and 76 CC0 / public domain. Maps: Natural Earth (public domain).
PHOTO CREDITS (Wikimedia Commons, by licence)
CC BY-SA 4.0: (WT-shared) Shaund, Czech translation: Honza Záruba · Aart Rietveld · Anatole0519 · BorysMapping · Dean Newman · Edwardx · For the authors see the images shown on the sources · Franciscus3668 · Fritz Joubert · FunkyCanute · Granville Davies · Halidtz · Jcornelius · Karl-Heinz Wellmann · Kudakwashe Engels Chingono · Lycksele-Nord · MaltaGC (Nigel Tout) · Mangwanani · Matti Blume · Mwangi Kinyua · Nalle&Lisa · Nelson65105 · Rjcastillo · Ruan Moreira Peixoto · Seabifar · Simonchihanga · Swimmer2025
CC BY-SA 3.0: Cliftonian · Cliftonian, after Abbott, Peter; Botham, Philip (1986-June) Modern African Wars: Rhodesia, 1965–80, Oxford: Osprey Publishing, p. 7 ISBN: 978-085045728 · Cliftonian, after Cilliers, Jackie (1984-December) Counter-Insurgency in Rhodesia, London, Sydney & Dover, New Hampshire: Croom Helm, p. 29 ISBN: 9 · Cliftonian, after Cilliers, Jackie (1984-December) Counter-Insurgency in Rhodesia, London, Sydney & Dover, New Hampshire: Croom Helm, p. 91 ISBN: 9 · Digr · Katangais · Macvivo at English Wikipedia (Original text: Samwise Gamgee) · Vitaliy Saveliev / Виталий Савельев
CC BY-SA 3.0 nl: Bert Verhoeff for Anefo · Koen Suyk / Anefo · Rob Bogaerts for Anefo
CC BY-SA 3.0 de: Friedrich Gahlbeck
CC BY-SA 2.0: ActuaLitté · Andrew Moore from Johannesburg, South Africa · Bob Adams from George, South Africa · Christian Spannagel · Hugh Llewelyn from Keynsham, UK · Jeppestown · René Speur from The Netherlands · Susan Adams
CC BY 4.0: John Wynne Hopkins · JuliaC2006 · SigmaIota · unknown
CC BY 3.0: 4wallz
CC BY 2.0: A Verdade from Maputo, Moçambique · Adam Annfield · Gary Bembridge · Gary Bembridge from London, UK · Gooders2011 from Beith (Via Dunragit and RHODESIA), Scotland · Infrogmation of New Orleans · Rob from United Kingdom
Attribution: FOCR · fototeca.iiccr.ro · ototeca.iiccr.ro
Narration: AI voice (Kokoro text-to-speech). Music: the Upright Films house soundtrack, an original roots-reggae instrumental (Upright Films / Google Flow Music).
Produced by Upright Films.
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#Rhodesia #BushWar #Zimbabwe #LiberationWar #Documentary #UprightFilms
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