Winning a Continent

Name: Winning a Continent
Director: Harold M. Shaw
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 1916-12-14
Duration: 54 min
Rating: 6
Cast: Dick Cruikshanks, Caroline Frances Cooke, Jackie Turnbull, Bobby Rowson, Stephen Ewart

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Winning a Continent

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African Film Productions Ltd

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1916-12-14

Winning a Continent

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.

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Piet Retief

Dick Cruikshanks

Lenie Retief

Caroline Frances Cooke

Piet Retief Junior

Jackie Turnbull

Willie van Rensburg

Bobby Rowson

Gen. Pretorius

Stephen Ewart