My Father was Engineer on the mv Highland Monarch which outran the Graf Spee, they where there when Lansdorf scuppled his ship - The prisoners on the Spee were returned to Britian all spoke so highly of Capt Lansdorf - interestingly I served as engineer with a 1943 built MAN double acting engine sames as the Pocket battleship engines

An all-time great movie!
I've been watching this since I was a kid — first on VCR cassette, then on DVD, and now on YouTube. I've watched it countless times on YouTube alone, and I'm sure I'll keep coming back to it in the future. A true classic filled with good memories and great storytelling!

One of the greatest naval war movies 🎬 on earth.

I first saw this film as a small boy on its release. I was thrilled by the grim beauty of warships, and even now the long sequence of the dawn wait for the appearance of smoke on the skyline sends tingles down my spine.

A Long Time Favorite ⭐⭐⭐  , thanks for posting .....

This is an excellent film. I don’t know how accurate or inaccurate it is.
But, I do love the way they portray the politics being conducted in Uruguay. A regular 5D chess match going on there!

Absolute Legend and right of passage to watch this as a youngin'

Excellent movie. Thank you for hosting.. Mary msl Leonard. Pembroke Maine.

The real stars of this film are the ships. Beautifully done.

I watched this because I am a Drachinifel fan, and he did a video on the battle of the River Platte and it was a great video. Made me want to watch a movie based on it.

Jolly decent of our American cousins to lend one of their old cruisers to play as the Graf Spee.
Ajax and Achilles are the real thing and went on to have very interesting careers.
The Royal Navy heavy cruiser HMS Exeter was played by the Crown Colony-class light cruiser HMS Jamaica, similar in appearance to Exeter.
The real HMS Cumberland appeared in the film when her character joins the squadron after the battle.

My father was on HMS BIRMINGHAM they raced up from the Falklands, and were at the mouth of the River Plate for Graf Spee coming out, have some great photographs of Graf Spee entering Urguay and the result when she scuttled herself

My Grandads brother was on the HMNZS Achilles at the battle of river plate , most the crew were from New Zealand 🇳🇿

Saw the Graf Spee anchor in Montevideo.  Believe it has been moved to a monument in Punta del Este, though the range finder might still be by the port.  Great to see a movie about this story too.

Hollywood just couldn't get things right. I'm biased being a history buff. Capt Langsdorf was a honorable man, He never took a ship as depicted here, and always rescued the crews! The only time you would ha e seen a beard on kriegsmarine officers was I-boats

The German signal, quoted as being timed by Greenwich Mean Time.  Brutal.

I posted this on another channel that broadcast this movie. As far as "historical accuracy " goes, I understand that a modern warship had to stand in for the original vessel. Especially considering it's at the bottom of the South Atlantic. What doesn't make sense are the weapons used. Thompson submachine guns, Model M1a1. Not developed until 1943. Certainly there were MP-38/40 surplus weapons  available. They show up in movies in this century.

They should rename this movie to Pocket Battleship.

Really good movie. I watched "In Pursuit of the Graf Spe" thought that one was good too.

Did anyone else notice when the cumberland arrived it had no guns .