For Freedom(1940)

movie - first aired/released 1940-05-04 - 87 min - audience 7.0

Drama, War

Directed by Castleton Knight, Maurice Elvey

Made in 1940, this stirringly patriotic film cleverly combined new scenes with genuine newsreel footage. A newsreel journalist is on hand when the Giant German battleship Graf Spee flees into Montevideo Harbour after a punishing encounter with the British warships Exeter and Ajax. As events unfold in a very unexpected way, he is there with his camera to capture the dramatic end to the encounter.