Released:
1992-01-26

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.

Director:
Brian McKenna

Runtime:
1h 44min

Genre:
War, Documentary

• Cast:
• 
  Terence McKenna
  as
  Narrator
• 
  Roman Jarymowycz
  as
  interviewer
• 
  Jacques Dextraze
  as
  Self (Fusiliers Mont-Royal)
• 
  Sydney Radley-Walters
  as
  Self (Sherbrooke Regiment)
• 
  Patrick Goyette
  as
  Joseph Le Boutillier