The Canadian Conspiracy (1985)

Directed by

Robert Boyd

Genre

mockumentary

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 10m

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This mockumentary parodies Cold War scare films by building a fake conspiracy that Canada has secretly infiltrated US entertainment. It uses real Canadian celebrities playing themselves to sell the joke.

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What happens

The Canadian Conspiracy is a 1986 CBC Television mockumentary, directed by Robert Boyd and co-written by Boyd, Mark Achbar and Mike Short. It parodies American Cold War propaganda films and tabloid journalism, using archival clips and interviews with notable Canadian entertainers to build a narrative that the Canadian government has for decades been training agents to infiltrate and take over the American entertainment industry for the purpose of subverting American culture in preparation for a Canadian invasion of the United States. The film stars numerous celebrities as fictionalized versions of themselves, including Eugene Levy, Lorne Greene, Leslie Nielsen, William Shatner, Margot Kidder, Dave Thomas, John Candy, Anne Murray and Tommy Chong. It won two Gemini Awards and was nominated for an International Emmy Award. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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