One of Craig's lesser-known films is The Trench ... a group of British soldiers in the days leading up to the Battle of the Somme, a real World War I battle that took place against the German ...

Inspired by the 1916 British film The Battle of the Somme (1916) as well as Ypres’s very specific history as a crucial WW1 battleground, they discussed the legacy of the First World War and explored ...

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.

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