
In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944 (1992)
1h 44m | PG-13
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.
Director: Brian McKenna
Studio: CBC
Genre: War, Documentary
Video: 720p
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