Asunder
Synopsis
The story of what happened to an English town during World War One with almost all of its men fighting abroad and its women and children left behind. The North East was in the front line, thanks to its shipyards and munitions factories.
Using archive and contemporary footage and audio, this film collages the stories of people from Tyneside and Wearside to uncover just what life was like on the home front, with bombs falling on Britain for the first time, conscientious objectors sentenced to death, and women working as doctors, tram conductors and footballers. The narrative moves from an Edwardian golden era, in which sport grew in popularity and aircraft and cars pointed to a bright new future, to a war that horrifically reversed this progress. In the Battle of the Somme, British, French and German armies fought one of the most traumatic battles in military history. Over the course of just four months, more than one million soldiers were captured, wounded or killed in a confrontation of unimaginable horror.
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Details
- Year
- 2016
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 72 mins
- Format
- 2K and Archive Film of Various Gauges
- Director
- Esther Johnson
- Producer
- Esther Johnson
- Executive Producer
- 14-18 NOW and Sunderland Cultural Partnership
- Editor
- Graham Taylor
- Screenwriter
- Bob Stanley
- Director of Photography
- Mary Farbrother and Esther Johnson
- Sound
- Chu-Li Shewring
- Principal Cast
- Narrated by: Kate Adie, Alun Armstrong
- Soundtrack by
- Field Music and Warm Digits, performing with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and The Cornshed Sisters
- Film Image
- Courtesy of Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 5th April 2017
