In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944
“The Valour and the Horror”
1992•1h 44m•10.0•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.
Director
Brian McKenna
Writer
Roman Jarymowycz, Brian McKenna, Terence McKenna
Studio
CBC
Cast
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
Production
Company
CBC
Company
ONF | NFB
Producer
Adam Symansky
Producer
Arnie Gelbart
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