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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21 August 1916
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27 February 1916
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16 April 1916
Roscoe writes of his love and announces that he will call on Irene with the ring and ask her parents' consent to their marriage.
29 July 1916
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10 September 1916
When her husband Jim strikes it rich, Grace, who has had a lifelong fear of poverty, strictly raises her daughter Florence to accept only luxury.
17 September 1916
An narcissistic woman with the ability to charm, Leila Aradella reaps delight from preying upon weak men.
01 April 1916
Jack Marston is the sheriff of a western town and Jennie, his sister, is postmistress and operator at the stage station.
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.
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