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.
- Year : 1992
- Country :
- Genre : War, Documentary
- Studio : CBC, ONF | NFB
- Keyword : normandy, france, war
- Director : Brian McKenna
- Cast : Terence McKenna, Roman Jarymowycz, Jacques Dextraze, Sydney Radley-Walters, Patrick Goyette, Nicholas Campbell