In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944

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.

Release Date

26 January 1992

104 minutes

Director

Main Cast

interviewer
Self (Fusiliers Mont-Royal)
Self (Sherbrooke Regiment)
Joseph Le Boutillier
German Officer
Donald Pearce
Kurt Meyer
Harry Foster