16 Films & TV Shows Set In South Africa During The 19th Century
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Gandhi
England 🇮🇳 India 🇿🇦 South Africa The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sHis triumph changed the world forever. — In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
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Zulu Dawn
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1870sThe sun dawned bloodied... two great armies met face to face... and the earth trembled to the sound of the Zulu death chant! — In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
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Young Winston
England 🇸🇩 Sudan 🇿🇦 South Africa The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1870sRebel Soldier Hustler Prisoner Fugitive Firebrand — 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.
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The Jackals
Africa - General 🇿🇦 South Africa The 19th CenturyBandits target a gold miner and his granddaughter in 19th century South Africa. Robert Gunnar is the bandit with a heart of gold, who is after Price's cache of gold, but falls in love with Diana Ivarson, who has hair of gold (bleach).
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The Naked Prey
🇿🇦 South Africa The 19th CenturyStripped, weaponless, alone and only ten desperate seconds ahead of the killers! — A group of men are on safari. One of the party refuses to give a gift to a tribe they encounter. The tribe is offended, seizes the party, and one-by-one, kills all but one of the safari members in various creative and horrifying ways. The last surviving member is given "The Lion's Chance" by the tribal leader to be hunted down by a party of tribal warriors.
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Zulu
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1870sDwarfing the mightiest! Towering over the greatest! — In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.
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The Fiercest Heart
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1830sThese were the trail blazers... Who dared to penetrate the core of trackless Africa! — Two British soldiers in 1830s South Africa flee military discipline and join a group of Boers heading north on "the Great Trek." In between fighting off Zulu attacks, one of these soldiers falls in love with the trek-leader's granddaughter who has been promised to another man.
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Untamed
🇮🇪 Ireland 🇿🇦 South Africa The 1850s The 1840sIt's AFRICOLOSSAL! in CINEMASCOPE — When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those leaving the Emerald Isle is Katie O'Neill and her husband, who decide that the promised land is South Africa and make their way there. Once there, they discover the hardships that are the reality of the homesteader experience.
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Diamond City
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1870sSet in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblance of law and order in the "Wild South".
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Uncle Kruger
England 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇿🇦 South Africa The 1900s The 1890sOhm Krüger (English: Uncle Krüger) is a 1941 German biographical film directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Emil Jannings, Lucie Höflich and Werner Hinz. It was one of a series of propaganda films produced in Nazi Germany attacking the British. The film depicts the life of the South African politician Paul Kruger and his eventual defeat by the British during the Boer War. It was the first film to be awarded the 'Film of the Nation' award. It was re-released in 1944
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Diamond Frontier
🇿🇦 South Africa The 19th CenturyStory of the early days of the diamond-mining era in South Africa.
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We're Going to Be Rich
🇦🇺 Australia 🇿🇦 South Africa The 1880sA perpetual dreamer talks his wife into moving with him from their home in Australia to South Africa, where he hopes to discover gold and finally become wealthy.
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King Solomon's Mines
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1880sAdventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon.
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For Valour
🇿🇦 South Africa England The 1890sIn this British comedy, set during the Boer War, a foot soldier saves his major's life. The officer is most grateful and puts the soldier in line for a Victoria Cross (a medal for valor). Unfortunately the well-meaning major's actions cause the soldier to be extradited back to England where he must stand trial for a series of crimes he committed before he joined the military. Later the major scours the British jails in search of the heroic lad. He finally finds him recruiting soldiers for WW I.
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Rhodes of Africa
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe 🇿🇦 South Africa The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1870s The 1860sRhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was directed by Berthold Viertel and starred Walter Huston, Oskar Homolka, Basil Sydney and Bernard Lee.
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Winning a Continent
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1830sThis 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.
