DramaHistory
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.
Directed by Harold M. Shaw
60
User score
3 votes
Status
Released
Released
December 14, 1916
Runtime
54m
Language
No Language
Top cast
Dick Cruikshanks
Piet Retief
Caroline Frances Cooke
Lenie Retief
Jackie Turnbull
Piet Retief Junior
Bobby Rowson
Willie van Rensburg
Stephen Ewart
Gen. Pretorius
M.A. Wetherell
Karel Landman
Mabel Rushton
Mrs. Landman
Edna Flugrath
Johanna Landman
Julius Royston
Louis Perreira
Charles Kitts
José Diaz
William Harbord
Willem Faber
Helene Morris
Mrs. Faber
Holger Petersen
Jan Faber
Wyrley Birch
Rev. Francis Owen(as E. Wyrley Birch)
Violet Dickens
Mrs. Owen
Leon Morris
Maritz
Eileen Gerard
Jane Bird
N. Turnbull
Mrs. Halley
Stephanus Maré
Charl Cilliers
H.J. Hamlin
Rev. Erasmus Smit(as Halford Hamlin)
