
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.
Release Date: 1992-01-26
War
Documentary
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Casts

Patrick Goyette
as Joseph Le Boutillier

Nicholas Campbell
as Guy Simonds

Adrian Hough
as German Officer

Wayne Robson
as Donald Pearce

Nigel Bennett
as Kurt Meyer

Stewart Arnott
as Harry Foster