The Somme is a 1927 British documentary film directed by M. A. Wetherell. It re-examined the 1916 Battle of the Somme during the First World War.
The film was made at Isleworth Studios using a docudrama format. It involved a number of the personnel who had previously worked on a successful series of documentary reconstructions of First World War battles by British Instructional Films released between 1921 and 1927. British Instructional Films had finished their series with The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands, and Geoffrey Barkas moved to the newly established New Era films to carry on the cycle. When Barkas fell ill, Wetherell was brought in to take over the project. Although Wetherell received the directors credit, much of the film was made by Barkas and Boyd Cable.
Toronto ads touted that the Imperial Army Museum provided the footage; its actual name is the Imperial War Museum.
The following year the company released another docudrama, Q-Ships.
Toronto, Ontario theatre Tivoli hosted the first Canadian showing, with hundreds of people being "turned away" from the theatre daily.
A "press agent" for the film told The Toronto Daily Star that it was a "masterpiece of British pictures".