A documentary about the Battle of the Somme - a World War 1 fight between Germany and UK in Somme, France.
This is important since it is probably the earliest videos of War that ever existed. In fact, it made 20 Million Ticket sales and has now enshrined by UN for its historical importance.
I personally did not care for it. I guess by 1916, the documentary genre is like just plainly taking videos. There is no view point in this film, just plain videos of the war with very descriptive intertitles. Clearly, if your British you would feel happy and at least enliven with how things went BUT this does not feel as propagandic as what was described. The famous scene in this film is literally about a troop that have massive fatalities not little after 30 minutes in the field. It feels more like a morbid curiosity (now and then) to be honest.
Kudos though for making the British middle class interested in films, which is nice. I guess having to see war is such a curiosity for early film audiences, since this was the same commentaries for All Quiet for the Western Front. They probably heard a lot of broken down veterans and think that can be that tough.
Recommended for Historical Reasons only.
