
In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944
1992•104 min•
★10.0
WarDocumentary
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.
Cast & Crew

Terence McKenna
Narrator

Roman Jarymowycz
interviewer

Jacques Dextraze
Self (Fusiliers Mont-Royal)

Sydney Radley-Walters
Self (Sherbrooke Regiment)

Patrick Goyette
Joseph Le Boutillier

Nicholas Campbell
Guy Simonds

Adrian Hough
German Officer

Wayne Robson
Donald Pearce

Nigel Bennett
Kurt Meyer

Stewart Arnott
Harry Foster

DirectorBrian McKenna
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