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Action: The October Crisis of 1970 (1970)

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Original title
Action : The October Crisis of 1970
Directed by
Robin Spry
Genre
documentary
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 27m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This film covers the events of the October Crisis of 1970 in Canada. It explains the kidnapping of a government official by the FLQ and the government's response with the War Measures Act.

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What happens

Action: The October Crisis of 1970 is a 1973 Canadian feature from Robin Spry, produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). It is one of two NFB films by Spry completed in 1973 about the 1970 October Crisis, along with Reaction: A Portrait of a Society in Crisis. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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