Movie

In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944

★ 10/10 · 2 votes 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.

Cast

T Terence McKenna Narrator R Roman Jarymowycz interviewer J Jacques Dextraze Self (Fusiliers Mont-Royal S Sydney Radley-Walters Self (Sherbrooke Regiment) Patrick Goyette Joseph Le Boutillier Nicholas Campbell Guy Simonds