In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944

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.

Country:

Genre:

War,

Documentary

Duration:

104 minutes

Year:

1992

Director:

Brian McKenna

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Company:

CBC,

ONF | NFB

Cast:

Narrator

interviewer

Self (Fusiliers Mont-Royal)

Self (Sherbrooke Regiment)

Joseph Le Boutillier

Crew:

Director

Writer

Writer

Writer

Producer