Winning a Continent

Winning a Continent

Original Title: De Voortrekkers
Release: 1916 | Community Score: 50%

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.