The Somme (2005)

5.9/10 102 min Drama Documentary

Overview

Drama-documentary recounting the events of the 1st July 1916 and the Battle of the Somme on the Western Front during the First World War. Told through the letters and journals of soldiers who were there.

Cast

Tilda Swinton

Narrator (voice)

Ed Stoppard

Captain Charlie May

Paul Popplewell

Greenhalgh

Patrick Kennedy

Sergeant Richard H. Tawney

Martin Hancock

Andrews

Raymond Waring

Lance-Corporal Sidney McCoy

William Beck

Bundy

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