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.
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
The Thin Red Line
1914: The Last Days Before the War
Bitter Heaven
Douaumont - The Hell of Verdun
The Colt
The Three Lives of Thomasina
Passchendaele
The Lost Battalion
They Shall Not Grow Old
Before Dawn
Beneath Hill 60
When Trumpets Fade
Fort Bliss
All Lines
Heroin King of Baltimore: The Rise and Fall of Melvin Williams
Ett enklare liv
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company
Father Soldier Son
Einstein and the Bomb
Glory