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title: "The Boer War [DVD]"
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# The Boer War [DVD]

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Explore the war that changed the British Army forever. Take a trip back in time to the turn of the 20th century, to the last years of Queen Victoria s reign when the sun never set on the British Empire. Rebellion and war had occupied the British military for decades, flaring up in colonies from Canada to Burma, yet the British Army had always emerged victorious. Now, in the sun-bleached landscape of South Africa, Britain found itself in conflict with a formidable and determined enemy. It would prove to be a war that would demand new strategies and tactics from the British, as the rulebook was torn up in the face of a new kind of guerilla warfare. This feature-length documentary uses rare archive footage, photographs and illustrations to bring to life the last large-scale British military operation before WWI. Examining both sides of the conflict, the programme places the three-year campaign in its historical context, providing a shocking and revealing insight into a war that claimed tens of thousands of lives.

## Product Details

- **Format:** PAL
- **Number of discs:** 1
- **Runtime:** 1 hour and 20 minutes
- **Publication date:** 20 Aug. 2012
- **Colour:** Colour

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Boer War - The wider implications
  

*by M***E on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 31 October 2013*

DVD mainly consisted of still photos , maps , a limited amount of film shot at the time and commentary. The introduction as to the causes of the War was covered reasonably mentioning prominent politicians like  Milner ,Joseph Chamberlain ,  Cecil John Rhodes . There was the late Victorian  pressures of imperialism especially with the economic rise of the Transvaal and Orange Free State with the development of gold mines which changed the perception of the European powers to Africa at the end of the 19th Century.Britain and the Empire eventually sent half a million men to South Africa overwhelming the better armed Boers with numbers and a ruthless policy of depriving them of support as farms were burnt down and livestock destroyed. Boer families were transported to internment / concentration camps where 28,000 died of disease and neglect- a sixth of the total Boer population. Even more Africans died in British run camps, which was not covered in the film. There was massive protests internationally about Britain's harsh policies from France, Germany , USA etc. and politicians like Lloyd George who opposed the War were attacked mobs in England. Half of Britain's dead in the War of 20,000 were as a result of diseases like typhoid rather than in military action . The economy of South Africa declined drastically as a result of the War - Rand down to 40% of pre War level. By 1902 politicians on all sides except for a few hard liners were desperate for peace and reconciliation after the misery of deprivations , disease and loss. The bitterness of the conflict especially with many Boers lasted for generations- in 1916 Kitchener's drowning in World War One was a cause for celebration amongst many in South Africa after his time as Commander in Chief and the neglect of those suffering in the concentration camps during the Boer War .

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Plodding account of the Boer War
  

*by J***G on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 3 April 2019*

This 2 part production is narrated by Robert Powell and resembles a very long lecture, illustrated by lots of contemporary line-drawings as well as some black and white film footage. If you want the war described battle by battle it's reasonably thorough, but it would have been a great deal better if it had given us the South African viewpoint, by which I mean interviews with the descendants of those South Africans who fought in the war and, at the very least, interviews with South African historians.  I don't think there was any mention of Rudyard Kipling. There was no quoting from newspaper reports to give a flavour of how the British saw the conflict.  At one point there was mention of "the natives" - referring in that old fashioned way to the black population. The notorious concentration camps were mentioned about one hour into Part 2 and took up only about five minutes. Again, a better understanding of this aspect would have been achieved if there had been quotations from contemporaneous source documents dealing with the problems of accommodating the civilians and the difficulty in combatting typhoid, a disease which killed half the British soldiers in the region let alone the civilians. It isn't enough to say that concentration camps in South Africa represented some of the darkest days in British history - we need some illumination, we need the powerful glare of publicity and we ought to be told which officials or generals or politicians were to blame.  The production did mention the callous way the British troops burned down the dwellings of civilians and slaughtered their farm animals.  There was surely a great deal of well-earned resentment towards the British which must have persisted for generations. As a nation, Britain needs to acknowledge what it did in South Africa as well as pointing the finger at the atrocities committed by other nations.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Written and narrated
  

*by C***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 28 January 2021*

A well written and narrated piece of British and African history that is often ignored in favour of the World Wars.Interesting  to see names in this conflict that appear as the giants in WWI and to see the same thinking that killed so many in the "strategies" of the trenches a decade later.

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