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In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944

  • January 1992
  • 1hr

    44mins

  • War
  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Brian McKenna,

    Starring

    Jacques Dextraze,

    Sydney Radley-Walters,

    Patrick Goyette,

    Nicholas Campbell

    ...

    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.