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.


The Somme (2005)
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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

Robert Cambrinus
Franz Cassel

William Beck
Bundy