Dick Cruikshanks
Directing
Known For
This 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.
Winning a Continent
South African Film
Prester John
In the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together, unaware that sexual maturity will eventually intervene. A lost film.
The Blue Lagoon
Symbol of Sacrifice is a 1918 film dramatisation of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War. It follows English soldier Preston Fanshall from the British defeat at the Battle of Isandlwana to Rorke's Drift where he participates in the successful defence of that post.
Symbol of Sacrifice
South African Film
The Reef of Stars
South African Film
Fallen Leaves
South African Film
The Piccanin's Christmas
South African Film
The Illicit Liquor Seller
South African Film
The Silver Wolf
South African Film
The Man Who Was Afraid
South African Film
Sonny's Little Bit
South African Film
Bond and Word
South African Film
The Vulture's Prey
South African Film
With Edged Tools
South African Film
A Zulu's Devotion
South African Film
A Border Scourge
Early South African Film
Gloria
South African Film
And Then ---
South African Film
The Splendid Waster
South African Film