The film showed only positive scenes of British soldiers at war. (Source: Imperial War Museum). After the war, for many people, the Battle of the Somme summed up modern, mechanised warfare.

A lot of Peter Jackson's film comes from the material of the groundbreaking documentary The Battle of the Somme For Remembrance Sunday BBC Two is screening Peter Jackson's World War one ...

They first met in the Belgian town of Ypres in April 2015, where they took part in a 3-day workshop. Inspired by the 1916 British film The Battle of the Somme (1916) as well as Ypres’s very specific ...

Official film of the British Army’s autumn campaign on the Somme, which ran from 15th September to 18th November 1916.