The Somme

Nov 14, 2005

1h 42m

★ 5.7

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.

Genres

Drama

Documentary

Production Companies

DSP

Channel 4 Television

National Geographic

The Somme Trailers

No Trailers found.

Cast

Narrator (voice)

Tilda Swinton

Captain Charlie May

Ed Stoppard

Greenhalgh

Paul Popplewell

Sergeant Richard H. Tawney

Patrick Kennedy

Andrews

Martin Hancock

Lance-Corporal Sidney McCoy

Raymond Waring

Franz Cassel

Robert Cambrinus

Bundy

William Beck

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