The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands

{{Short description|1927 British film by Walter Summers}}

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{{Use British English|date=April 2016}}

{{Infobox film

| name = The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands

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| director = Walter Summers

| producer = Harry Bruce Woolfe

| writer = Frank Bowden
John Buchan
Merritt Crawford
Harry Engholm

| starring =

| music =

| cinematography = Jack Parker
Stanley Rodwell

| editing =

| studio = British Instructional Films

| distributor = British Instructional Films

| released = {{film date|df=y|1927|10|27}}

| runtime = 107 minutes

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| budget = £18,000Low p.181

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The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands is a 1927 British docudrama 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.{{cite web|title=The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands: the best British war film you've never seen|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/09/the-battles-of-coronel-and-falkland-islands-best-british-war-film-silent-lff-rereleased|work=The Guardian|accessdate=10 October 2014|author=Pamela Hutchinson|date=9 October 2014}} 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.Low p.292 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.

The film cost an estimated £18,000 to make. It grossed £70,000 in Britain alone.Low p.181 It was restored and re-released by the BFI in 2014.