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Winning a Continent (1916)

5 | Dec 14, 1916 (ZA) | Drama, History | 00:54

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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Dick Cruikshanks
Piet Retief
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Jackie Turnbull
Piet Retief Junior
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Bobby Rowson
Willie van Rensburg
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Stephen Ewart
Gen. Pretorius
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M.A. Wetherell
Karel Landman
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Mabel Rushton
Mrs. Landman
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Edna Flugrath
Johanna Landman
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Julius Royston
Louis Perreira
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Charles Kitts
José Diaz

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