Movie
In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944
The Valour and the Horror
19921h 44m10.0out of 102 votes
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.
Directed by Brian McKenna
Your score–
Not scoredImages
Cast
Terence McKenna
Narrator
Roman Jarymowycz
interviewer
Jacques Dextraze
Self (Fusiliers Mont-Royal)
Sydney Radley-Walters
Self (Sherbrooke Regiment)
Patrick Goyette
Joseph Le Boutillier
Nicholas Campbell
Guy Simonds
Adrian Hough
German Officer
Wayne Robson
Donald Pearce
Nigel Bennett
Kurt Meyer
Stewart Arnott
Harry Foster
Related
2000 Meters to Andriivka
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company
Why We Fight: Prelude to War
They Shall Not Grow Old
The Battle of San Pietro
Avatar: The Deep Dive - A Special Edition of 20/20
The War on Democracy
The Soviet Story
City of Ghosts
Father Soldier Son
Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed
The Bloody Hundredth
Directed by John Ford
Night Will Fall
20 Days in Mariupol
The Curse of the Dragon