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In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944

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In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944

The Valour and the Horror

10.0

1h 44m

1992

“The Valour and the Horror”

Synopsis

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.

Director

Brian McKenna

WarDocumentary

normandy, francewar

Cast & Crew

Terence McKenna

as Narrator

Roman Jarymowycz

as interviewer

Jacques Dextraze

as Self (Fusiliers Mont-Royal)

Sydney Radley-Walters

as Self (Sherbrooke Regiment)

Patrick Goyette

Patrick Goyette

as Joseph Le Boutillier

Nicholas Campbell

Nicholas Campbell

as Guy Simonds

Adrian Hough

Adrian Hough

as German Officer

Wayne Robson

Wayne Robson

as Donald Pearce

Nigel Bennett

Nigel Bennett

as Kurt Meyer

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