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War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme

11/15/2014

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1hr 29min

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Documentary

,History

,TV Movie

,War

STORY

The 1916 Battle of the Somme remains the most famous battle of World War I, remembered for its bloodshed and its limited territorial gains. What is often overlooked, however, is the literary importance of the Somme: more writers and poets fought in it than in any other battle in history. Narrated by Michael Sheen, War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme details the experiences of the poets and writers who served in the battle. The work of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg and JRR Tolkien (who arrived at the Western Front with ambitions to be a poet) was informed and transformed by the battle. Taken together, their experiences allow us to see this dreadful historical event through multiple points of view. The film uses animation, documentary accounts, surviving artefacts, battalion war diaries and the landscape itself to reconnect this literature to the events that inspired it.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Michael Sheen
  • Peter Barton
  • Max Egremont
  • Christophe Fricker
  • John Garth

    Director

  • Sebastian Barfield

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Parapet Productions
  • BBC Arts
  • BBC

    Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Michael Sheen

Narrator (voice)

Max Egremont

Himself - Biographer, Siegfried Sassoon

Christophe Fricker

Himself - Literary Historian

John Garth

Himself - Author, Tolkien and the Great War

William Graves

Himself - Son of Robert Graves

Jean Moorcroft Wilson

Herself - Biographer, Siegfried Sassoon

Paul O'Prey

Himself - Editor, Selected Poems: Robert Graves

Jonathon Riley

Himself - Royal Welch Fusiliers

Jon Stallworthy

Himself - Editor, The Oxford Book of War Poetry

Nigel Steel

Himself - Principal Historian, Imperial War Museums

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