If you missed the London Film Festival gala screening of The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands last month, and it isn’t showing at a cinema near you, and you can’t wait for the home video release in February 2015 … well all is not lost. Walter Summers’ naval epic is avilable on the BFIplayer, in the comfort of your own computer, and you can rent it for just £10, or £8.50 for BFI members.

But what is more, from 11.02am on Tuesday 11 November 2014, for 24 hours, streaming The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands is totally, delightfully free. 

• Watch the The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands on the BFIPlayer here

To whet your appetite, this short video about scoring the movie is free  – all the time.

There are several more British silent films on the BFIplayer, as you might expect, in glistening high-definition. Here’s a quick Silent London top 10, in no particular order:

• The Epic of Everest (1924) – £3.50
• High Treason (silent version, 1929) – £2.50
• Christmas Carol (1914) – free
• Scenes at Chester on the River Dee (1901) – free
• Underground (1928) – £3.50
• Flowers of London (1924) – free
• The Great White Silence (1924) – £3.50
• The Mistletoe Bough (1904) – free
• Ladies on Bicycles (1899) – free
• Cocaine (1922) – £1

And a couple of little-known gems from foreign parts, as a bonus:

• The Phantom of the Opera (1925) – £3.50
• Metropolis (1927) – £3.50