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Winning a Continent (1916)

Winning a Continent (1916)

Drama History
Release Date: 1916, December 14
Directors: Harold M. Shaw
Countries: South Africa
Production: African Film Productions Ltd
Cast: Percy Marmont, Wyrley Birch, Caroline Frances Cooke, M.A. Wetherell, Stephen Ewart, Holger Petersen, Edna Flugrath, H.J. Hamlin, A.O. Glisson, Goba, Jackie Turnbull, Bobby Rowson

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.