Nov 14, 2005
102 min
Full-HD

The Somme (2005)

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.

Category

Drama Documentary

Country

United Kingdom

Companies

DSP Channel 4 Television National Geographic

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

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