The word "Nomolos", the name of the fight to the death, is meaningless in Zulu. It is simply Solomon backwards.
The warrior that Allan Quatermain (Patrick Swayze) fights towards the end of the movie was really a white man who was digitally painted black.
In the beginning when the elephant is rampaging, the double rifle with the hammers has the Jones Under Lever action and one barrel is larger than the other. That is because the rifle has two different calibers. A rifle of that type is called a Cape Gun.
The movie is loosely based on the novel, as new characters are introduced along with a much younger Gagool (Lesedi Mogoathle).
King Twala's son, Scragga, a pivotal character in the novel, did not appear in this mini-series.