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War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme (2014)

ALL 11/15/2014 (en) Documentary, History, TV Movie, War 89 Min
  • Release
    11/15/2014
  • Production
    Parapet Productions, BBC Arts, BBC
  • Rotten tomato
    95%
  • Original title
    War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

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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  1. Michael Sheen

    Narrator (voice)

  2. Peter Barton

    Himself - First World War Historian

  3. Max Egremont

    Himself - Biographer, Siegfried Sassoon

  4. Christophe Fricker

    Himself - Literary Historian

  5. John Garth

    Himself - Author, Tolkien and the Great War

  6. William Graves

    Himself - Son of Robert Graves

  7. Jean Moorcroft Wilson

    Herself - Biographer, Siegfried Sassoon

  8. Paul O'Prey

    Himself - Editor, Selected Poems: Robert Graves

  9. Jonathon Riley

    Himself - Royal Welch Fusiliers

  10. Jon Stallworthy

    Himself - Editor, The Oxford Book of War Poetry

  11. Nigel Steel

    Himself - Principal Historian, Imperial War Museums

  12. Michael Symmons Roberts

    Himself - Poet

  13. Charlotte Zeepvat

    Herself - Biographer, W.N. Hodgson

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 13 , Crews : 20

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War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme (2014) 89 Min

ALL 11/15/2014 (en)
Documentary, History, TV Movie, War
  • Release 11/15/2014
  • Production
    Parapet Productions, BBC Arts, BBC
  • Original title War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Sebastian Barfield

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Ed Ison, Stuart Davies

    Editor

  4. Sebastian Barfield, Peter Barton

    Producer



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