Mahdi's camp from 'Khartoum', a 1966 film written by Robert Ardrey and directed by Basil Dearden. It stars Charlton Heston as British Gen. Charles Gordon and Laurence Olivier. based on historical accounts of Gordon's defence of the Sudanese city of Khartoum from the forces of the Mahdist army during the Siege of Khartoum. 1885

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Mahdi's camp from 'Khartoum', a 1966 film written by Robert Ardrey and directed by Basil Dearden. It stars Charlton Heston as British Gen. Charles Gordon and Laurence Olivier. based on historical accounts of Gordon's defence of the Sudanese city of Khartoum from the forces of the Mahdist army during the Siege of Khartoum. 1885

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Keywords: 1966, ahmed, archival, archive, ardrey, camp, charlton, film, fundamentalism, general, gordon, heston, historical, history, islamic, khartoum, laurence, mahdi, muhammad, olivier, robert, siege, sudan, written