In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944 (1992)

"The Valour and the Horror"

10.0 January 26, 1992 1h 44m Released
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.

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Cast

  • Terence McKenna

    Terence McKenna

    Narrator

  • Roman Jarymowycz

    Roman Jarymowycz

    interviewer

  • Jacques Dextraze

    Jacques Dextraze

    Self (Fusiliers Mont-Royal)

  • Sydney Radley-Walters

    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

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