In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944
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1hr
44mins
Directed by
Brian McKenna,
Starring
Jacques Dextraze,
Sydney Radley-Walters,
Patrick Goyette,
Nicholas Campbell
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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.