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The Battle of the Somme is a black-and-white silent film in five parts, with sequences divided by intertitles summarising the contents. The first part shows preparations for the battle; there are sequences of troops marching towards the front, French peasants at work in rear areas, the stockpiling of munitions, Major-General Beauvoir De Lisle addresses the 29th Division and some of the ...
Sharples disappears attempting to capture the enemy machine gun nest and Fiddis is wounded taking a message to battalion requesting withdrawal. Moorland, some 3 miles (4.8 km) from the front, follows the failure of the first and second attacks on Thiepval by sticking to the battle plan and ordering a third.
The Somme is more than a war picture. It deals with humanity in the war, the bitter and the sweet, the fineness and the hellishness, the friendliness and the hate. It is utterly free from hokum, but full of sentiment. It you are a red-blooded Britisher, you will not want to miss The Somme. It is something superb in motion pictures." [4]
The Trench is a 1999 war film written and directed by William Boyd and starring Paul Nicholls and Daniel Craig.It depicts the experiences of a group of young British soldiers in the 48 hours leading up to the Battle of the Somme in 1916.
The Battle of Albert was the first two weeks of Anglo-French offensive operations in the Battle of the Somme. The Allied preparatory artillery bombardment began on 24 June and the Anglo-French infantry attacked on 1 July, on the south bank from Foucaucourt to the Somme and from the Somme north to Gommecourt, 2 mi (3.2 km) beyond Serre.
Pages in category "Films about the Battle of the Somme" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
The Battle of the Somme (film) S. The Somme (film) The Somme – From Defeat to Victory; W. War As It Really Is
In 1976, McKern narrated and presented The Battle of the Somme, a British Broadcasting Corporation documentary marking the 60th anniversary of the World War I battle. [6] He played the Earl of Gloucester in Granada Television 's production of King Lear (1983).