In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944 Poster

In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944 1992

★ 10.01 votes104 min📅 1992-01-26

"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)
Patrick Goyette
Patrick Goyette
Joseph Le Boutillier
Nicholas Campbell
Nicholas Campbell
Guy Simonds
Adrian Hough
Adrian Hough
German Officer
Wayne Robson
Wayne Robson
Donald Pearce
Nigel Bennett
Nigel Bennett
Kurt Meyer
Stewart Arnott
Stewart Arnott
Harry Foster