Winning a Continent
1916 · Harold M. Shaw · 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.
Dick CruikshanksPiet Retief
Caroline Frances CookeLenie RetiefJackie TurnbullPiet Retief JuniorBobby RowsonWillie van RensburgStephen EwartGen. Pretorius
M.A. WetherellKarel LandmanMabel RushtonMrs. LandmanEdna FlugrathJohanna LandmanJulius RoystonLouis PerreiraCharles KittsJosé DiazWilliam HarbordWillem FaberHelene MorrisMrs. FaberHolger PetersenJan Faber
Wyrley BirchRev. Francis Owen(as E. Wyrley Birch)Violet DickensMrs. Owen
Caroline Frances CookeLenie RetiefJackie TurnbullPiet Retief JuniorBobby RowsonWillie van RensburgStephen EwartGen. PretoriusM.A. WetherellKarel LandmanMabel RushtonMrs. LandmanEdna FlugrathJohanna LandmanJulius RoystonLouis PerreiraCharles KittsJosé DiazWilliam HarbordWillem FaberHelene MorrisMrs. FaberHolger PetersenJan FaberWyrley BirchRev. Francis Owen(as E. Wyrley Birch)Violet DickensMrs. Owen
