San Demetrio London
1943 British drama documentary based on the true event of the rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean by members of her own crew. The tanker had been set ablaze in the middle of the ocean by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer and then abandoned. They made the decision to board the blazing tanker and put out the fires after one of the lifeboats floated back to it the next day and found that it had not yet exploded after discovering that it had not yet exploded. In the end, they were successful in restarting the engine, and they made the decision to keep going in spite of the overwhelming odds against them.
Released: 1943-12-07