While I agree with one reviewer that there are many details lacking, it still manages to cover a lot in a short documentary. The first 10 minutes give a fairly detailed background and provide a lot of points from which to do further research for someone like me, who knows very little about the Boer Wars. It's great that they mention Barney Barnato, the rival and later ally of Cecil Rhodes, politicians like Alfred Milner, who had a shadowy role in helping to provoke the war (at Joseph Chamberlain's behest), and military figures like General Redvers Buller, all of whom are fairly unknown outside of South Africa, I believe.
This has more of an old-school documentary style, much like 'WWII in Color' or 'Secrets of WWII', also narrated by Powell. There are, thankfully, no talking heads, and it relies more on the lively narration than on detailed maps or video. I miss this sort of style, so if that's your cup of tea, then this doc is worth watching just for that.
If anything, this might be even too detailed for someone unfamiliar with the Boer Wars in terms of number of battles mentioned, though it provides a good context, chronologically, and makes you feel like you at least understood the dynamic of early set-piece war changing to guerrilla warfare. That being said, as another reviewer mentioned, if you already are interested in this topic or know something about it, you may want *more* details (as they wrote, there is not much mention of specific events/tactics during individual battles, though beyond the famous battles from antiquity like Marathon, I think that would be too much for the average viewer or even history buff).
It's fairly short and a lot better than most of the old documentaries Amazon has up, with no contentious viewpoints or empty filler that a lot of the lower-rated old docs up there have. Highly recommended.