In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944 (movie)
- User score: 10
- Production country: CA
- Producer: Brian McKenna
- Production companies: CBC, ONF | NFB
- Genre: War, Documentary
- Release date: 1/26/1992
- Run time: 104 min.
Movie description
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.
