Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Battle of the Somme was a documentuary film made in 1916, with some staged but mostly real footage of the Battle of the Somme. It was shown to the British public to be a moral booster, but did the opposite. It was quite graphic in showing what was really happening, unlike newspapers which were saying the battle was going well. Battle of the Somme (1916) Battle of the Somme (1918) This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.