The film Gallipoli is very useful to a certain degree as an historical source. The main reasons that make this film useful are the fact that it’s a fairly accurate movie, the accuracy portrayed in the film and the contrast between qualities of Australian men and death faced in the war. This film is also not useful to a historian because it not only adds but leaves out events in the movie in opposed to what really in the war.
Firstly, the accuracy portrayed in the film proved by sources makes it a useful historical source. According to numerous sources, the film is proven to be accurate to a certain level in portraying events and concepts such as the date of the Gallipoli campaign, training in Egypt, the