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The Champions, Part 2: Trappings of Power
197855 min 35 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Donald Brittain
Production: Janet LeissnerDonald BrittainPeter KatadotisPaul Wright
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 2 covers the years from 1967 to 1977, a colourful decade that saw Trudeau win three federal elections; the 1970 October Crisis; and the sweeping rise to power of the Parti Québecois.
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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 > October CrisisPolitics 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
- Peter Katadotis
- Paul Wright
- photography
- Andreas Poulsson
- sound
- Claude Hazanavicius
- editing
- Steven Kellar
- sound editing
- Abbey Jack Neidik
- Bernard Bordeleau
- re-recording
- Michel Descombes
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- music
- Art Phillips