Does the film, 'The battle of the Somme' provide us with a realistic picture of what it was like to be a soldier

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Does the film, 'The battle of the Somme' provide us with a realistic picture of what it was like to be a soldier in the Trenches?

Casualty figures over 60,000 by the 19th December 1915. The Battle of the Somme continues until General Haig calls a halt to the attack and even then the British have only gained 8 km and lost over 400,000 men. In August 1916, the film, 'The battle of the Somme' was released by the British government to provide a realistic source of information into what the war was really like for the General Public. Over the past decades historians have all disagreed into whether this file released by the Government really was a 'realistic' source of the War.

The way that the film portrays the Trench Conditions can be supported by some of the Sources. The sources suggest that the trench conditions were poor and men loathed them. The soldiers slept on a bed of mud and lived with rats. For example: Extracts from a diary written by a soldier when he was fighting explained that they were, 'Just rat holes, one hell of an accommodation. No trenches at all in places