Dvd Journey´s End DVD

Starring, Sam Claflin, Asa Butterfield, Paul Bettany, Tom Sturridge, Toby Jones.

During the First World War, young Second Lieutenant Raleigh is sent to the front lines in Northern France.

He requests of General Raleigh, his uncle, that he be put under the command of Captain Stanhope of C Company, a man who was a few years his senior at school, and who used to holiday with Raleigh and his sister Margaret.

Although an outstanding leader, who won the Military Cross at the Battle of Vimy Ridge, Stanhope has taken to heavy drinking to numb himself to the horrors of war.

Other company officers include the kindly second-in-command, Lieutenant Osborne, an older man who is called ´Uncle´ by his fellow officers Trotter, also an older man of lower social class commissioned from the ranks to make up shortages and Hibbert, whose attempts to escape the front line by complaining of eye pain are angrily rejected by Stanhope.

The officers work as a close team, sitting down to a three-course dinner each evening (in practice whatever soup, tinned meat and tinned fruit the mess cook has rustled up - in contrast to the fine meals which more senior officers are shown eating behind the front).

Raleigh learns his duties, making frequent inspections of the trenches, supervising the morning stand to (guarding the trench in case of a dawn attack) and learning the names of his men.