The Somme

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.

Top cast

Tilda Swinton

Narrator (voice)

Ed Stoppard

Captain Charlie May

Paul Popplewell

Greenhalgh

Patrick Kennedy

Sergeant Richard H. Tawney

Martin Hancock

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