October Crisis - Cinema and Television

Cinema and Television

  • Action: The October Crisis of 1970, a 1973 feature-length documentary film by Robin Spry.
  • Orders (Les Ordres), a historical film drama, directed in 1974 and based on the events of the October Crisis and the War Measures Act; concerning the effect it had on people in Quebec.
  • Quebec director Pierre Falardeau shot in 1994 a movie titled Octobre which tells a version of the October Crisis based on a book by Francis Simard.
  • Nô is partially set in Montreal during the October Crisis and features fictional FLQ members planning a bombing.
  • CBC Television produced a two-hour documentary program Black October in 2000, in which the events of the crisis were discussed in great detail. The program featured interviews with former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, former Quebec justice minister Jérôme Choquette, and others.
  • An 8-part miniseries about some of the incidents of the October Crisis titled October 1970 was released on October 12, 2006.
  • In the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network series, "Orioles Classics", the footage shown of the 1970 World Series is the feed from the CBC. The World Series is often interrupted for updates on the "Cross Kidnapping".

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