Everytime my mother-in-law shows up at my door, my mind instinctively screams "form square...form square !!! "

The troops looked a lot sharper and better trained in the first film.

As a historian of British imperial history allow me to make a few comments; both are meant to show episodes in the 1898 Soudan Re-conquest but the uniforms of the 2nd clip are all wrong since the British Army used khaki (and not scarlet) from after 1882. The 2nd clip however bears some resemblance to the battles of Abu Kru and Abu Klea in the 1884-85 Sudan War.  I always love the earlier version because it was actually shot in the Sudan and certainly the military advisors on the picture had served in the 1898 war. The big error in both scenes is to show the enemy charging on mounted animals; the dervishes had a "cavalry" but largely fought en masse and on foot. The "fuzzy-wuzzies" shown in the first clip are genuine Hadendowa tribesmen of the Sudan.

The first one (original) is far more accurate than the second, though, the second was really intense and entertaining to watch.

I choose the first one rather than the second.

Personally I prefer the original “The Four Feathers” 1939 and “Young Winston”  1972

1939 will always be the best version

Hands down the 1939 version, although the modern remake does show some excellent field maneuvers, mainly courtesy of the 'Die Hards' reenactment group.

"Whatever happens, we have got the Maxim gun, and they have not."- William Blood

They don't like it up em sir, no nothing like a bit of cold steel.

Can't beat Zulu or Lawrence of Arabia for gravitas, cinematography and realism.

British infantry discipline was amazing!

8:01 that camel though

I bet Cpl Jones is in there somewhere amongst those British troops. "They don't like the cold steel .They don't like it up 'em "

The 2nd clip is an allegory of Britain nowadays fighting for survival.

The way they were charging it's as if someone has said the council house list is about to close

Incidentally, at the battle of Omdurman in the Sudan, young cavalry officer Winston Churchill witnessed the advancing hordes and writes in his memoirs "They actually thought they were going to win!", there's confidence for you..:)

Thats when the uk had balls

Late in the war, the British Army was using magazine fed rifles, as in the first clip. That made a huge difference.

Both are good, but I prefer the first. ;-)