14 December 1916 Drama, History 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.
Watch the official Winning a Continent 1916 trailer in HD below.
Dick Cruikshanks as Piet Retief
Caroline Frances Cooke as Lenie Retief
Jackie Turnbull as Piet Retief Junior
Bobby Rowson as Willie van Rensburg
Stephen Ewart as Gen. Pretorius
M.A. Wetherell as Karel Landman
Mabel Rushton as Mrs. Landman
Edna Flugrath as Johanna Landman
Julius Royston as Louis Perreira
Holger Petersen as Jan Faber
Wyrley Birch as Rev. Francis Owen(as E. Wyrley Birch)
Violet Dickens as Mrs. Owen
H.J. Hamlin as Rev. Erasmus Smit(as Halford Hamlin)
Norman H Lee as Rev. Daniel Lindley
A.O. Glisson as Rev. Venables
Goba as Sobuza
South Africa 14 December 1916
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08 October 1916
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18 September 1916
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01 January 1916
A girl tends a garden planted with symbolic flowers: red roses for lust and white roses for love. Daddy Wisdom encourages the girl to cultivate the white roses instead of the red.
12 November 1916
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21 August 1916
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10 September 1916
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30 October 1916
A father who despises his daughter, a boyfriend who refuses to marry the girl he knocked up, and a mother caught in the middle.
22 January 1916
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