The Battle of Vimy Ridge

Combining actual footage with intensely realistic reenactments, this is the dramatic story of one of the most brilliantly planned offensives of World War I. For three years, British and French assaults on German fortifications at Vimy Ridge had failed, leaving 160,000 Allied troops killed or wounded on this "field of slaughter" On April 9,1917, a Canadian force of 100,000 undertook the seemingly impossible mission. Four days and 10,000 casualties later they had captured the ridge in a victory that stunned the world.