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The Champions, Part 1: Unlikely Warriors
197857 min 10 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Donald Brittain
Production: Janet LeissnerDonald BrittainBarrie Howells
Script: Donald Brittain
Co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada and the CBC.
This three-part documentary uses rare photos, newsreel footage and interviews to trace the careers of René Lévesque and Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Part 1 chronicles their early years, from university in the early 1950s through to 1967, the year Lévesque left the Liberal Party and Trudeau became the federal minister of justice.
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- Politics and Government - Canada > Canada-Quebec RelationsFederal Politics and GovernmentPrime Ministers and PremiersProvincial Politics and GovernmentQuébecQuébec Nationalism
- History - Canada - 1946-Present > Politics and GovernmentPortraitsQuebec NationalsmQuébec
- History > Canada 1946-1991
- Social Studies > Canadian Politics and GovernmentQuebec/Federal Relations
- History and Citizenship Education > Modernization of Quebec Society (1929-1980)
Credits
- director
- Donald Brittain
- script
- Donald Brittain
- narrator
- Donald Brittain
- producer
- Janet Leissner
- Donald Brittain
- executive producer
- Barrie Howells
- photography
- Andreas Poulsson
- sound
- Hans Oomes
- editing
- Ted Remerowski
- Steven Kellar
- sound editing
- Abbey Jack Neidik
- re-recording
- Michel Descombes
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- music
- Eldon Rathburn