In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944 (1992)
The Valour and the Horror
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.
- Date of release
- 1992-01-26
- TMDB
- 10.0 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Genres
- War, Documentary
- Director
- Brian McKenna
Casting
- 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
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