Winning a Continent
MovieTitle | De Voortrekkers |
User score | 5 |
Release date | Dec 14, 1916 |
Genre | Drama, History |
Director | Harold M. Shaw |
Production country | South Africa |
Production companies | African Film Productions Ltd |
Run time | 54 min. |
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.