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Quebec Nationalsm (7)

  • Comfort and Indifference
    Comfort and Indifference
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    Denys Arcand 1991 1 h 48 min
    English sub-titled version of a film showing facts and opinions that lead to the Québec referendum on independence in 1980, with the participation of a historical character: Machiavelli.
  • The Champions, Part 2: Trappings of Power
    The Champions, Part 2: Trappings of Power
    Donald Brittain 1978 55 min
    Part 2 of this 3-part documentary series about Pierre Elliott Trudeau and René Lévesque covers the years between 1967 and 1977, a colourful decade that saw Trudeau win three federal elections, the 1970 October Crisis and the sweeping rise to power of the Parti Québécois.
  • The Champions, Part 1: Unlikely Warriors
    The Champions, Part 1: Unlikely Warriors
    Donald Brittain 1978 57 min
    In Part 1 of this 3-part documentary series, director Donald Brittain chronicles the early years of Pierre Elliott Trudeau and René Lévesque. From their university days in the 1950s to 1967 when Lévesque left the Liberal Party and Trudeau became the federal Minister of Justice, Brittain attempts to get at the heart of what makes these men so fascinating.
  • The Champions, Part 3: The Final Battle
    The Champions, Part 3: The Final Battle
    Donald Brittain 1986 1 h 27 min
    The final instalment of this 3-part documentary series about Pierre Elliott Trudeau and René Lévesque spans the decade between 1976 and 1986. The film reveals the turbulent, behind-the-scenes drama during the Quebec referendum and the repatriation of the Canadian Constitution. In doing so, it also traces both Trudeau's and Lévesque's fall from power.
  • Reaction: A Portrait of a Society in Crisis
    Reaction: A Portrait of a Society in Crisis
    Robin Spry 1973 57 min
    This feature documentary gives voice to various English-speaking groups in Montréal and other places in Québec as they react to the October Crisis of 1970, when Québec nationalism took a violent turn. A British diplomat had been kidnapped, a Québec cabinet minister murdered. The troops were brought in as a safeguard. This film is a vigorous reflection of the discussions and analyses of the situation that went on wherever people gathered, voicing attitudes and fears, sympathies and concerns.
  • Referendum - Take 2/Prise deux
    Referendum - Take 2/Prise deux
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    Stéphane Drolet 1996 1 h 16 min
    October, 1995. The most important political event in recent Canadian history, the Quebec vote on sovereignty, is about to unfold. During the tense days leading up to the referendum for independence, 23 filmmakers from the NFB's English and French documentary studios take their cameras into the streets and homes of Quebeckers. Culled from 250 hours of footage, Referendum is an emotional portrait of a profoundly divided society. In a collage of powerful moments, the video recaptures the emotions of that time and measures them against today's political agenda. Implicit is the question: What next?
  • Sophie Wollock's Newspaper
    Sophie Wollock's Newspaper
    Gilles Blais 1979 27 min
    This short documentary profiles Sophie Wollock and the newspaper she founded for the western suburbs of Montreal in l963, The Suburban. A weekly paper distributed free to some 45,000 homes, most of them anglophone, The Suburban became famous for the strongly worded editorials written by Wollock, mainly on the subject of Québec nationalism. The film looks at the paper, then under the guidance of her son, and sums up some of Wollock's more impassioned editorials.