The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands

The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands

The Great War at sea

1927 · 106 min · ★ 6.6 · Drama, War

The film focuses on the naval warfare around the Battle of Coronel and Battle of the Falkland Islands during the First World War. It was the last in a successful series of documentary reconstructions of First World War battles by British Instructional Films made between 1921 and 1927.

Directed by Walter Summers · Written by Frank Bowden

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