October 1970 (2006)

Directed by

Don McBrearty

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Length

1 season, 8 episodes

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This series dramatizes the 1970 October Crisis in Quebec. It follows the kidnapping of a British diplomat and a provincial minister by a separatist group, and the events that follow.

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What happens

October 1970 is an eight-part made-for-television series that played on Canadian television in October and November 2006. It is a dramatization of the actual events surrounding the October Crisis in the Canadian province of Quebec, when members of the militant separatist group Front de libération du Québec abducted British Trade Commissioner James Cross and then Pierre Laporte, the Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour of Quebec, the latter of whom they murdered. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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