Sources

First World War Centenary: This site is run by the British Imperial War Museum. It has a great collection of pod casts and information about British involvement in WWI.

Imperial War Museum: This site has a huge catalog of video archives from WWI. Some of the video was filmed for  British propaganda about the war effort.The Imperial War Museum has the best method of organization and displays thumbnails of the videos on the search page. This is super helpful when sifting through lots of video, and makes the site more user friendly than the National Archives.

National Archives: This site has American resources from the war. They have a lot of video as well but there are a lot more WWII videos. The content on the National Archives site is not organized as well as the content on the Imperial War Museum site. For example items in their catalogs have very vague names and even though I was searching for WWI footage a lot of WWII footage was in the mix as well.

How I Filmed the War, by Lieutenant Geoffrey H. Malins, O.B.E. This is a first hand account of what happened on the Somme form the man who filmed a lot of the video. He tells his experiences in rich detail, and he includes dialog that he had with soldiers and officers, which makes the book read more like a novel than a history text.



The text says "Filming the preliminary bombardment of the big push, July 1st, 1916. A few minutes after this photograph was taken a shell burst within six yards, smashing down the trench walls and half burying me. Note the sandbag on a wire in front of my camera for "camouflage."

The Battles of the Somme, 1916: Historiography and Annotated Bibliography By: Fred R. Van Hartesveldt
This book cites historical documents to explain the battle of the Somme and how it related to the other battles and the larger war. He goes into detail about the specific tactics, technology, casualties and costs of the first day of the Somme.