DramaDocumentary
The Somme
User Score7 votes
57%5.7/10
Release2005→
Runtime1H 42M
LanguageEnglish
StatusReleased
Synopsis
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.
Principal Cast8

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
Robert Cambrinus
Franz Cassel

William Beck
Bundy
Media3
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Director
Carl Hindmarch
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Keywords
world war iinfantrydocudramabritish soldiercasualty of war1910strench warfarebattle of the somme
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Countries:United Kingdom
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