A Touch of Churchill, A Touch of Hitler- The life of Cecil Rhodes by Kenneth Griffith (1971)

Actor and film-maker Kenneth Griffith's documentary on the life of Cecil Rhodes. The son of an Anglican vicar, Rhodes set off to South Africa at the age of 17. He died 32 years later having amassed a vast fortune and several hundred thousand square miles of the earth's surface in his own name, formally Rhodesia.
Griffith had a passionate and deep interest in the British Empire, especially it's involvement in Southern Africa. This film was his conception and in it he narrates dramatically the story of Rhodes's influence in Africa.
It is a story that may shock many people who still regard Rhodes as a man of great moral fibre who sought, for the highest principles, to spread Britain's 'sphere of influence'.
Directed by Anthony Thomas.
Photography by Grenville Middleton