Clive Candy V.C. lutou na Guerra dos Boers (África do Sul) e na Primeira Guerra Mundial. Ele ainda acredita que pode vencer qualquer luta com honra e mantendo uma "Conduta Cavalheiresca". Ele têm um velho amigo alemão para mostrar o quanto as regras foram alteradas quando lutando contra os nazistas. Seguimos este senhor delicioso através de sua vida e da busca de seus diversos ideais.
Durante a Guerra dos Boers, na África do Sul, três tenentes australianos estão sendo julgados por atirar em prisioneiros Boers. Apesar de terem agido sob ordens, eles estão sendo usados como bodes expiatórios pelos ajudantes do General, que espera se livrar dessas práticas irregulares da guerra. O julgamento não transcorre tão bem como esperado pelos ajudantes, isso porque a defesa resolve empreender uma forte luta no tribunal.
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.
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.
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.