2005
5.7 (7 votes)
1h 42m
Genres
Drama
Documentary
Production Companies
DSP
Channel 4 Television
National Geographic
Channel 4 Television
National Geographic
The Somme
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.
Key Crew
Writer: Mark Hayhurst, Carl Hindmarch
Director: Carl Hindmarch
Producer: Maciej Skalski, Michał Szczerbic
Top 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
Robert Cambrinus
Franz Cassel
William Beck
Bundy
