Winning a Continent

54 mins
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 Cruikshanks

Piet 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

Wyrley Birch

Rev. Francis Owen(as E. Wyrley Birch)

Eileen Gerard

Jane Bird

N. Turnbull

Mrs. Halley

Stephanus Maré

Charl Cilliers

H.J. Hamlin

Rev. Erasmus Smit(as Halford Hamlin)

Norman H Lee

Rev. Daniel Lindley

A.O. Glisson

Rev. Venables

Tom Zulu

Dingaan

Goba

Sobuza

Martha Rowson

Katje Faber

Percy Marmont

Horseman (uncredited)

J. Humphrey

Director of Photography

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