Desc: Black as Hell...Thick as Grass: Directed by Michael Pearce. With Kenneth Griffith, Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi. A documentary on the Battles of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift, from the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War, written and presented by Kenneth Griffith. He, a Welshman, presents the history of British politics and policies which led to the confrontation between the British Army and the Zulus, reading letters from the soldiers, diary entries from the officers, as well as observations from the Zulu warriors and their king.