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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.
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Michael Sheen
as Narrator (voice)
P.B
Peter Barton
as Himself - First World War Historian
M.E
Max Egremont
as Himself - Biographer, Siegfried Sassoon
C.F
Christophe Fricker
as Himself - Literary Historian
J.G
John Garth
as Himself - Author, Tolkien and the Great War
W.G
William Graves
as Himself - Son of Robert Graves
J.W
Jean Moorcroft Wilson
as Herself - Biographer, Siegfried Sassoon
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War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme
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1h 29m
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United Kingdom
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English
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War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme(2014)
November 15, 2014 · 1h 29m
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 and Crew
MORE CAST & CREWMichael Sheen
as Narrator (voice)
P.B
Peter Barton
as Himself - First World War Historian
M.E
Max Egremont
as Himself - Biographer, Siegfried Sassoon
C.F
Christophe Fricker
as Himself - Literary Historian
J.G
John Garth
as Himself - Author, Tolkien and the Great War
W.G
William Graves
as Himself - Son of Robert Graves
J.W
Jean Moorcroft Wilson
as Herself - Biographer, Siegfried Sassoon
