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.
'Parody of big game films: a Hollywood film director discovers that film units have civilised Africa.' (British Film Institute)
'Mother thwarts daughter's elopement with story of how wife shot her errant husband.' (British Film Catalogue)
