De Voortrekkers
Winning a Continent
1916 · 54 min · ZA
Directed by Harold M. Shaw
Harold Shaw's 1916 Afrikaner-nationalist epic restages the Great Trek and the Battle of Blood River as a colonial origin myth: armed Voortrekkers defeat thousands of Zulu fighters. Made for a white settler audience. Surviving foreign-release cut ~53 min.
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Wikimedia Commons · Wikimedia Commons copy of the surviving foreign-release cut (~53 min; original South African cut ~2 hours).
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