In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944
The Valour and the Horror
104 mins
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.
Terence McKenna
Narrator
Roman Jarymowycz
interviewer
Jacques Dextraze
Self (Fusiliers Mont-Royal)
Sydney Radley-Walters
Self (Sherbrooke Regiment)
Roman Jarymowycz
Writer
Roman Jarymowycz
Producer's Assistant
Alfonso Peccia
Editor
Terence McKenna
Writer
Robert Hackborn
Art Direction
Neville Ottey
Cinematography
Brian McKenna
Writer
Brian McKenna
Director