In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944 backdrop
In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944 poster
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In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944
10.0
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1h 44m
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1992
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Released
Overview
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 McKenna poster
Terence McKenna
Narrator
Roman Jarymowycz poster
Roman Jarymowycz
interviewer
Jacques Dextraze poster
Jacques Dextraze
Self (Fusiliers Mont-Royal)
Sydney Radley-Walters poster
Sydney Radley-Walters
Self (Sherbrooke Regiment)
Patrick Goyette poster
Patrick Goyette
Joseph Le Boutillier
Nicholas Campbell poster
Nicholas Campbell
Guy Simonds
Adrian Hough poster
Adrian Hough
German Officer
Wayne Robson poster
Wayne Robson
Donald Pearce
Nigel Bennett poster
Nigel Bennett
Kurt Meyer
Stewart Arnott poster
Stewart Arnott
Harry Foster

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