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In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944 (1992)
Directed by Brian McKenna
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.
Length 104 minutes
Actors
Terence McKenna | Roman Jarymowycz | Jacques Dextraze | Sydney Radley-Walters | Patrick Goyette | Nicholas Campbell | Adrian Hough | Wayne Robson | Nigel Bennett | Stewart Arnott