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A thoughtful, award-winning look at the desperate days of October 1970, when Montreal awaited the outcome of the FLQ terrorist acts. This video puts the October Crisis in historical perspective, showing independence movements and their leaders past and present, and reflecting the mingled relief, dismay and defiance of Montrealers when the army intervened. A 1973 production.
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The Champions - A Three Part Series René Lévesque and Pierre Elliott Trudeau, two of Canada's chief political protagonists, are the focus of this series. Using rare photos, newsreel footage and interviews with close political colleagues, the film provides the background to the struggle between the two men and their ideologies.
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The second part of a trilogy of films on Canada's national security operations and civil liberties during the past half-century. When Winston Churchill called for a grand alliance against Soviet communism, after World War II ended, it signalled the beginning of the Cold War, with universal tensions and distrust. Spies, counter-spies, and double agents dominated the world scene. Canadians reached for a security blanket and the ensuing secret witch-hunts left a trail of deception, despair and death. Civil servants were put through strict security checks, and two diplomats died while under suspicion. This climate of deception climaxed in Quebec in 1970, when the FLQ crisis revealed the confusion besetting governments and police forces in their dealings with national security and civil liberties.
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