The Somme (2005)
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
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