In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944
10.01992104 min
WarDocumentary
"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.
Top Cast
Terence McKenna as Narrator,Roman Jarymowycz as interviewer,Jacques Dextraze as Self (Fusiliers Mont-Royal),Sydney Radley-Walters as Self (Sherbrooke Regiment),Patrick Goyette as Joseph Le Boutillier,Nicholas Campbell as Guy Simonds,Adrian Hough as German Officer,Wayne Robson as Donald Pearce
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Production
CBCONF | NFB