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War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme

Movie
2014
1h 29m
English
Documentary, History, TV Movie, War
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
Narrator (voice)
Peter Barton
Himself - First World War Historian
Max Egremont
Himself - Biographer, Siegfried Sas...
Christophe Fricker
Himself - Literary Historian
John Garth
Himself - Author, Tolkien and the G...
William Graves
Himself - Son of Robert Graves
Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Herself - Biographer, Siegfried Sas...
Paul OPrey
Himself - Editor, Selected Poems: R...
Jonathon Riley
Himself - Royal Welch Fusiliers
Jon Stallworthy
Himself - Editor, The Oxford Book o...
Nigel Steel
Himself - Principal Historian, Impe...
Charlotte Zeepvat
Herself - Biographer, W.N. Hodgson
Directed By: Sebastian Barfield

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