Tijdens de 'Boerenoorlog' worden drie Australische luitenanten ervan beschuldigd een Boer-gevangene te hebben neergeschoten. Hoewel ze onder orders stonden, worden ze door de generale staf bestraft.
Clive Candy is een Brits officier die tijdens de Tweede Boerenoorlog en de Eerste Wereldoorlog succesvol was, relaties had met drie verschillende vrouwen en langdurig bevriend was met een Duitse officier.
Young Winston is het levensverhaal van de legendarische Winston Churchill en beschrijft zijn jeugdjaren, zijn jaren als correspondent in Afrika en zijn uiteindelijke toetreding tot het Britse parlement.
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.
Scenes on an ostrich farm, filmed in Natal during 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.
Tijdens de eerste Anglo-Boerenoorlog 1880-1881 worden de gebeurtenissen in de aanloop naar dit laatste gevecht beschreven die eindigen in een van de meest vernederende nederlagen voor Groot-Brittannië in de geschiedenis.