A historical account of the French-Canadian terrorist kidnapping incident and the Federal Govt.'s response by declaring martial-law.A historical account of the French-Canadian terrorist kidnapping incident and the Federal Govt.'s response by declaring martial-law.A historical account of the French-Canadian terrorist kidnapping incident and the Federal Govt.'s response by declaring martial-law.
Réal Caouette
- Self (Créditiste MP)
- (archive footage)
Claude Charron
- Self (Péquiste MNA, with Lévesque)
- (archive footage)
Michel Chartrand
- Self (organizer of miners' strike)
- (archive footage)
James Cross
- Self (with Choquette after his release)
- (archive footage)
Charles de Gaulle
- Self (Vive le Québec libre speech in Montreal)
- (archive footage)
Charles Gagnon
- Self (FLQ with Lemieux)
- (archive footage)
Eric Kierans
- Self
- (archive footage)
Claude Lachance
- Self (journalist, describes discovery of Laporte)
- (archive footage)
André Laurendeau
- Self (Co-chairman, Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism)
- (archive footage)
- (as André Laurandeau)
Robert MacNeil
- Self (hopes to interview Trudeau on Parliament Hill)
- (archive footage)
Normand Maltais
- Self
- (archive footage)
Gaétan Montreuil
- Self
- (archive footage)
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Interesting, but the narratiion is boring
This is an interesting video about the FLQ Crisis in Quebec. I liked the depth of the whole video, starting from the real beginning of the crisis, because it really set the stage for what the Crisis was about. In some ways, I think what happened in Quebec was inevitable, since the loss of the region by the French to the British. The first British rulers of the region tried to accommodate the French with laws such as the Quebec Act, but in the end, the French-Canadiens would never truly belong to the expanding British Empire. This would result in under-representation in the government, which in turn would reduce awareness for the complaints that the French in Quebec would raise against the government in the 1960s. The FLQ was a militant offshoot of these protesters with reasonable demands or representation and equality. I liked how the video included the full reading of the FLQ manifesto on Canadian news, because it helped really show what the views of the organization were. I found it interesting how the video mentions that after the manifesto was read on the news, many people sympathized with the goal of the FLQ, even though they didn't necessarily agree with their methods.
My biggest complaint about the video is the narrator. I don't know if he was talking that way to increase suspense, or if that was just how he did the narration, but it was extremely dry and boring. I'm not sure if it was just the audio quality from footage that was recorded over 50 years ago, but there some parts where the sound design seems fake. There are a few parts where it seems like someone in a sound studio dubbed over the video from the time-period with sound effects like whistles or car crashes.
Overall I would rate this video a 6.5/10 (7/10 if the sound design isn't faked in some places).
My biggest complaint about the video is the narrator. I don't know if he was talking that way to increase suspense, or if that was just how he did the narration, but it was extremely dry and boring. I'm not sure if it was just the audio quality from footage that was recorded over 50 years ago, but there some parts where the sound design seems fake. There are a few parts where it seems like someone in a sound studio dubbed over the video from the time-period with sound effects like whistles or car crashes.
Overall I would rate this video a 6.5/10 (7/10 if the sound design isn't faked in some places).
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By what name was Action: The October Crisis of 1970 (1974) officially released in Canada in English?
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