When this site went dark this film had just been released. Since then it was nominated for ten Academy Awards and received three of them, for Cinematography, Sound Mixing and Visual Effects. There have been several reviews published, mostly favorable, although historical nit-pickers like myself have questioned the scene with the Sikh soldiers, as all Indian troops had been withdrawn from the Western Front in 1916. Following are links to two reviews by British historians. Click here and here.

James (“Jim”) Patton BS BA MPA is a retired state official from Shawnee, Kansas and a frequent contributor to several WW1 e-publications, including "Roads to the Great War," "St. Mihiel Tripwire," "Over the Top" and "Medicine in the First World War." He has spent many hours walking the WW1 battlefields, and is also an authority on British regiments and a collector of their badges. An Army Engineer during the Vietnam War, he does work for the US World War 1 Centennial Commission and is affiliated with the WW1 Historical Association, the Western Front Association, the Salonika Campaign Society and the Gallipoli Association.