In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944
10.0
January 26, 1992
1h 44m
"The Valour and the Horror"
Overview
A documentary, using dramatization of fact, that examines the Battle of Verrières Ridge, where on July 25, 1944 and not long after D-Day, an inexperienced battalion of the Canadian Black Watch Regiment launched a doomed attack and was defeated with heavy casualties by veteran German SS troops. Part of "The Valour and the Horror" mini series.
Director
Brian McKenna
Cast
Terence McKenna
Narrator
Roman Jarymowycz
interviewer
Jacques Dextraze
Self (Fusiliers Mont-Royal)
Sydney Radley-Walters
Self (Sherbrooke Regiment)
