Drawing richly on contemporary documents and eyewitness accounts (sources given), this fast-paced, informative documentary covers: historical context, Britain outlaws slavery, The Great Trek, the First Anglo-Boer War, Boer Independence, Transvaal. Gold rush and immigration, Cecil Rhodes, the Jameson Raid, asymmetrical warfare; Boer Invasion, Mafeking, Ladysmith; Elandslaagte; Colenso, Stormberg, Magersfontein; Lord Roberts, Spionkop; Guerrilla Warfare, Bergendal; Concentration Camps, Kitchener,