The Somme

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The Somme

2005

1h 42m

5.7(7 votes)

Drama

Documentary

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.

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8 members

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Tilda Swinton

Narrator (voice)

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Ed Stoppard

Captain Charlie May

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Paul Popplewell

Greenhalgh

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Patrick Kennedy

Sergeant Richard H. Tawney

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Martin Hancock

Andrews

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Raymond Waring

Lance-Corporal Sidney McCoy

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Robert Cambrinus

Franz Cassel

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William Beck

Bundy

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