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.

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Cast

Terence McKenna

Roman Jarymowycz

Jacques Dextraze

Sydney Radley-Walters

Patrick Goyette

Nicholas Campbell

Adrian Hough

Wayne Robson

Nigel Bennett

Stewart Arnott