En plena Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), un anciano militar británico rememora su larga y excitante vida. Su larga amistad con un colega alemán o su desobediencia a las ordenanzas para ayudar a una bella compatriota en apuros sólo son dos episodios de una experiencia personal inolvidable. (FILMAFFINITY)
Sudáfrica, 1901. Tres lugartenientes australianos son sometidos a un consejo de guerra por asesinato. El oficial encargado del proceso lee las notas preliminares que implican a Harry Harbord ‘Breaker’ Morant, George Witton y Peter Handcock de la muerte de un misionero alemán y de varios prisioneros Boer confinados en una prisión custodiada por el ejército inglés. El oficial defensor, el Comandante Thomas, entiende que el proceso presenta ciertas irregularidades. (FILMAFFINITY)
Cuando Winston Churchill era niño, sus padres estaban tan volcados en sus respectivas actividades que no le prestaron apenas atención alguna. Siguiendo los deseos de su padre, un prestigioso político conservador (tory), se alistó en el ejército y participó en la guerra anglo-bóer (1899-1902), donde estuvo a punto de morir. Terminada la contienda, se dedicó a la política hasta el fin de sus días. (FILMAFFINITY)
Set in 1901, this period epic follows Willem Morkel, a Boer family man whose wife and son are murdered during the Anglo-Boer War. Captured as a prisoner of war, Willem must survive incarceration in the notorious St. Helena concentration camp and defeat the ruthless Colonel Swannell, at his own game—Rugby
Lee Remick stars as Jennie Jerome, born in the United States in 1845, who eventually became Lady Randolph Churchill, and gave birth to Sir Winston Churchill in this seven-part, seven-hour biographical mini-series.
Jan Smuts is a foremost political figure in South African 20th Century History, and is recognised today by two of the world's leading historians as being at the very centre of the vision for a new world order that emerges from the League of Nations and the United Nations.. Yet, he is virtually persona non grata in his own country.... and largely ignored in school history books.
This one hour drama-documentary, with its dramatised cameo scenes in which his look-alike grandson takes on the role of Jan Smuts, battle re-enactments, historical archival footage, comments from historians, political analysts, and South African political struggle heroes, looks back on his life and the circumstances that shaped it in search of some answers.
The story of the Battle of Majuba Hill, a humiliating defeat for the British in the Boer War.
This 2000 documentary, "Scorched Earth," tells the story of the destructive policy that was used by the British military during the Anglo Boer War 1899-1902 . It docuses on Britain’s merciless “Scorched Earth” policy and the concentration camps for Afrikaner women, children and black people, as well as the way it shaped the collective South African psyche and politics of the twentieth century.
Scenes on an ostrich farm, filmed in Natal during the Boer War.