In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944

The Valour and the Horror

• War
• Documentary

• 104 Mins
• 1992
• en

• star10.0/ 10

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.