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Winning a Continent (1916)

Directed by Harold M. Shaw

Overview

This epic film was one of the first South African dramatic film productions. It tells the story of the Boers’ Great Trek at the end of the 1830s, concluding with a hegemonic reconstruction of the 1838 Battle of Blood River, where a few hundred armed Afrikaners defeated several thousand Zulus.

Length 54 minutes

Actors

Dick Cruikshanks | Caroline Frances Cooke | Jackie Turnbull | Bobby Rowson | Stephen Ewart | M.A. Wetherell | Mabel Rushton | Edna Flugrath