The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands
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Director Walter Summers Duration Country United Kingdom | 7/10 IMDb Genre Drama, War Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer John Buchan , Merritt Crawford , Harry Engholm Release date 27 October 1927 Initial release October 31, 1927 (United Kingdom) Cast Craighall Sherry, Roger Maxwell Screenplay John Buchan, Merritt Crawford, Harry Engholm, Frank Bowden Producers H. Bruce Woolfe, A.E. Bundy Similar movies The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies , The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 , Fury , Captain America: Civil War , American Sniper , Avatar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands is a 1927 British documentary film directed by Walter Summers. 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. The film was produced at Cricklewood Studios and on location off Malta and the Isles of Scilly. The film is an entirely fictional recreation with a strong documentary feel.
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- The battles of coronel and falkland islands 1927 walter summers trailer bfi release
- Restoration
- Historical background
- References
The film cost an estimated £18,000 to make. It grossed £70,000 in Britain alone. It was restored and re-released by the BFI in 2014.
Restoration
In 2014 the BFI restored the film for the centenary of the events with a new score composed by Simon Dobson.
Historical background
On 1 November 1914, off the coast of Chile near Coronel, ships of the German and British navies exchanged fire resulting in the sinking of two British ships HMS Monmouth and HMS Good Hope with the loss of nearly 1,600 sailors. To counter the German squadron, the Royal Navy sent two battle-cruisers - Inflexible and Invincible - to the South Atlantic. In December 1914, the British battle-cruisers, accompanied by smaller ships, engaged the German squadron during the Battle of the Falkland Islands and sank the German armoured cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau near the Falkland Islands.
References
The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands WikipediaThe Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands IMDb The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands themoviedb.org