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In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944
Film / 1992

In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944

Directed by Brian McKenna
WarDocumentary

★ 10.0/10Audience rating

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.

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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

Terence McKennaNarrator Roman Jarymowyczinterviewer Jacques DextrazeSelf (Fusiliers Mont-Royal) Sydney Radley-WaltersSelf (Sherbrooke Regiment) Patrick GoyetteJoseph Le Boutillier Nicholas CampbellGuy Simonds Adrian HoughGerman Officer Wayne RobsonDonald Pearce Nigel BennettKurt Meyer Stewart ArnottHarry Foster

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