Winning a Continent (1916) — drama, history film. Directed by Harold M. Shaw. Starring Dick Cruikshanks, Caroline Frances Cooke, Jackie Turnbull, Bobby Rowson.
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The film chronicles the Great Trek migration, the decisive Battle of Blood River, and its subsequent cultural and cinematic legacy across South Africa and internationally.
Drama, History · 6/10 · 54 min · 1916
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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