The Somme

5.7

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.

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Tilda Swinton

Narrator (voice)

Ed Stoppard

Captain Charlie May

Paul Popplewell

Greenhalgh

Patrick Kennedy

Sergeant Richard H. Tawney

Raymond Waring

Lance-Corporal Sidney McCoy

Robert Cambrinus

Franz Cassel

Directing

Carl Hindmarch

Director

Production

Maciej Skalski

Producer

Writing

Directing

Carl Hindmarch

Director

Production

Maciej Skalski

Producer

Writing