
WarDocumentary
In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944
📅 Sunday, 26 January 1992⏱️ 1h 44m
🎬 Directed by Brian McKenna🏢 CBC
★ 10.0
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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 & Crew
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
🎬 Directed byBrian McKenna
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