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
as Narrator (voice)
Ed Stoppard
as Captain Charlie May
Paul Popplewell
as Greenhalgh
Patrick Kennedy
as Sergeant Richard H. Tawney
Martin Hancock
as Andrews
Raymond Waring
as Lance-Corporal Sidney McCoy
Robert Cambrinus
as Franz Cassel
William Beck
as Bundy
