Film · 1964 · Films · 1960s
Guns at Batasi
Scored from 36 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
Guns at Batasi is a black-and-white British drama set on a garrison in a newly independent African state, where a small British contingent has stayed on to train the national army. Richard Attenborough plays Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale, a parade-ground martinet who runs the sergeants' mess by the letter of King's Regulations. A mutiny breaks out overnight, and when a wounded loyalist African officer takes shelter in the mess, Lauderdale refuses to hand him to the rebel Lieutenant Boniface, whose men lay siege to the building. The standoff catches the British soldiers, a young Englishwoman and a visiting Member of Parliament between military honour and firm orders from London not to meddle in local politics.
Guns at Batasi (1964) is a film IMDb files under the drama, history and war genres. It runs 1h 43m. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom.
Only 36 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 36 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 13 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1960s films — 1,929 of them.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Guns at Batasi lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1960s (1,929 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 36.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
