In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944

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.

• Release date
• January 26, 1992
• Runtime
• 104 min
• Genres
• War, Documentary
• Director
• Brian McKenna

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 Adrian Hough German Officer Wayne Robson Donald Pearce