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Released
1999 · FILM

The Trench

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
98 min
DramaHistoryWar
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

The Trench follows a group of young British soldiers in the summer of 1916, just before the Battle of the Somme, which is described as the worst defeat in British military history. Set against that backdrop, the film portrays their experience in a front‑line trench as a mix of boredom, fear, panic and restlessness.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Jim ClarkShot by Tony Pierce RobertsScored by Evelyn GlennieDesigned by Jim Clay

Also known as

  • Der Schützengrabende
  • La Tranchéefr

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