Primary sources
The Spanish-American War and the Boer War were the first to be covered by the new technology of cinematography. This Pathé News website offers free low-resolution footage of battlescenes and British propaganda. (Type "Boer War" into the search line.)
W. K-L Dickson's memoir, The Biograph in Battle, its Story in the South African War (London, T.Fisher-Unwin, 1901)is the first-ever film memoir by a film cameraman.
Read a short article (PDF format) on the Boer war on film.
 

Feature Films
In Frank Lloyd's film of the Noel Coward play Cavalcade (1933), the action begins on New Year's Eve 1899.
There have been six screen versions of A.E.W. Mason's novel The Four Feathers (1902), set against the background of a colonial war in Africa. Zoltan Korda's 1939 version is one of the best.
Ohm Krüger (1941) is a historical film about the Boer War which, as part of the Nazi propaganda against Britain, is decidedly anti-British.
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressberger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) has episodes that represent German propaganda about the Boer War.
Cy Endfield's Zulu (1962) focusses on the battle of Rorke's Drift, during the Zulu wars (1879).
Khartoum (1966) tells the story of the death of General Gordon in 1885.
In Richard Attenborough's Young Winston (1972) the Boer War episodes are disappointingly short.
Bruce Bereford's Breaker Morant (1980) focusses on a true story, the court martial of an Australian officer during the Boer War.
In Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982) the first third of the film concerns Gandhi's experiences in South Africa.