

The Valour and the Horror
January 26, 1992
1h 44m
EN
Brian McKenna
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, Terence McKenna, Brian McKenna
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Patrick Goyette
Joseph Le Boutillier

Nicholas Campbell
Guy Simonds

Adrian Hough
German Officer

Wayne Robson
Donald Pearce

Nigel Bennett
Kurt Meyer

Stewart Arnott
Harry Foster

CBC
CA

ONF | NFB
CA