Desc: The Symbol of Sacrifice: Directed by Dick Cruikshanks. With Mabel May, Jack Montgomery, Dick Cruikshanks, Holger Petersen. Symbol of Sacrifice is a 1918 film dramatization of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War. It follows English soldier Preston Fanshall from the British defeat at the Battle of Isandlwana to Rorke's Drift.