Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Also Known As: Pierre Trudeau, Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
Biography: Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1919 – 2000) was a Canadian politician who served as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 1968 to 1984 and as the 15th prime minister of Canada (1968–1979 and 1980–1984). His political longevity and the fundamental changes he initiated in Canadian politics and society at large make him arguably the most important Canadian figure of the latter half of the 20th century.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montreal, Canada
Birthday: October 18, 1919
Deathday: September 28, 2000
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Gender: Male
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Dancing Around the Table, Part One
Overview: Dancing Around the Table: Part One provides a fascinating look at the crucial role Indigenous people played in shaping the Canadian Constitution. The 1984 Federal Provincial Conference of First Ministers on Aboriginal Constitutional Matters was a tumultuous and antagonistic process that pitted Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau and the First Ministers—who refused to include Indigenous inherent rights to self-government in the Constitution—against First Nations, Inuit and Métis leaders, who would not back down from this historic opportunity to enshrine Indigenous rights. The conference was Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s last constitutional meeting before he resigned and the process was handed over to his successor, Brian Mulroney.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Nô
Overview: Robert Lepage directed this Canadian comedy, filmed in black and white and color and adapted from Lepage's play The Seven Branches of the River Ota. In October 1970, Montreal actress Sophie (Anne-Marie Cadieux) appears in a Feydeau farce at the Osaka World's Fair. Back in Montreal, her boyfriend Michel (Alexis Martin) watches the October Crisis on TV and sees Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau declare the War Measures Act. The Canadian Army patrols Montreal streets. Sophie learns she's pregnant and phones Michel. However, Michel is immersed in politics, while Sophie rejects the amorous advances of her co-star (Eric Bernier), becomes friendly with a blind translator, and passes an evening with frivolous Canadian embassy official Walter (Richard Frechette) and his wife Patricia (Marie Gignac). Meanwhile, in Montreal, Michael plots terrorist activities. Commenting on East-West cultural distinctions, the film intercuts between Quebec (in black and white) and Japan (in color).
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-05-26
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Royal Family
Overview: Intimate portrait of the daily life of the British Royal Family drawn from 18 months of filming within Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Balmoral.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-21
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Hold on to Daddy's Ears
Overview: The tribulations of two Québec nationalists in the English-speaking world of insurance. A satire that draws its irony from a specific social situation. A typical example of the era's popular comedies based on television and trendy stars, which gave birth to a certain commercial stream in Québec cinema.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-12-25
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Reason Over Passion
Overview: The film consists primarily of degraded footage of landscapes shot from vehicles moving across the country; meanwhile, 537 computer-generated permutations of the film’s title appear like subtitles—the letters are scrambled over and over again, undermining the meaning of Pierre Trudeau's infamous motto.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-02
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Les Rose
Overview: In October 1970, members of the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnapped and murdered Minister Pierre Laporte, part of an unprecedented crisis in Quebec. Fifty years later, Félix Rose tries to understand what could have led his father and uncle to commit such crimes. Thanks to his uncle Jacques, who agrees for the first time to speak on the subject, and to the traces left by his father Paul, he revives the heritage of a Quebec working class family. The fruit of ten years of research, Les Rose allows us to revisit a time and people that we knew through clichés, and gives a glimpse of the experiences of a rebellious youth and the crimes that followed.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-08-14
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15 Nov
Overview: A look at November 15, 1976, the date the Parti Québécois seized power in the provincial elections, a victory that gave rise to an unprecedented outburst of joy at the Center Paul-Sauvé, a place where PQ sympathizers gathered.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-06-16
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The Road to Patriation
Overview: This feature documentary retraces the century of haggling by successive federal and provincial governments to agree on a formula to bring home the Canadian Constitution from England. This film concentrates on the politicking and lobbying that finally led to its patriation in 1982. Five prime ministers had failed before Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau took up the challenge in the early 1970s. Principal players in this documentary are federal Minister of Justice Jean Chrétien, Prime Minister Trudeau, 10 provincial premiers and a host of journalists, politicians, lawyers, and diplomats on both sides of the Atlantic.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-14
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Truth to the Powerless: An Investigation into Canada's Foreign Policy
Overview: A six part documentary series which seeks to explore the role Canada's foreign policy has played in the international arena since the post-World War II era.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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Les Feux de la Saint-Jean
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Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Dief!
Overview: This documentary short is a portrait of Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and 13th prime minister of Canada, John George Diefenbaker (1895-1979). Diefenbaker's political career spanned 6 decades. When he died in 1979, his state funeral and final train trip west became more a celebration of life than a victory for death.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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John & Yoko's Year of Peace
Overview: The year: 1969. Headlines blare war and civil unrest while John Lennon and Yoko Ono are in love. The eccentic rock 'n' roll couple has just gotten married, and more than happy to be together, they want to change the world. Lying in a hotel bed surrounded by journalists, they announce their mission for peace and invite the rest of the world to symbolically climb into bed with them and share their dream. People call them silly, naive, even ridiculous, yet one famous couple's bed-in spread new hope that there really could be an end to war, hate and violence. Here is rare footage from that amazing time, including footage from John and Yoko's wedding, the infamous bedside confrontation between John and conservative cartoonist Al Capp, Lennon debating media expert Marshall McLuhan, and meeting Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Now twenty years after Lennon's murder, Yoko and others involved in the peace mission reflect on the events of that magical, mystical year.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Comfort and Indifference
Overview: Made shortly after the referendum on Quebec's independence was held, this documentary illustrates what the politicians' promises were and how the population did not really care nor truly understand what was really at stake, even though just about everyone had an opinion on the subject.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-02-07
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The Champions, Part 3: The Final Battle
Overview: The final instalment of this 3-part documentary series about Pierre Elliott Trudeau and René Lévesque spans the decade between 1976 and 1986. The film reveals the turbulent, behind-the-scenes drama during the Quebec referendum and the repatriation of the Canadian Constitution. In doing so, it also traces both Trudeau's and Lévesque's fall from power.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Champions, Part 1: Unlikely Warriors
Overview: In Part 1 of this 3-part documentary series, director Donald Brittain chronicles the early years of Pierre Elliott Trudeau and René Lévesque. From their university days in the 1950s to 1967 when Lévesque left the Liberal Party and Trudeau became the federal Minister of Justice, Brittain attempts to get at the heart of what makes these men so fascinating.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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The Champions, Part 2: Trappings of Power
Overview: Part 2 of this 3-part documentary series about Pierre Elliott Trudeau and René Lévesque covers the years between 1967 and 1977, a colourful decade that saw Trudeau win three federal elections, the 1970 October Crisis and the sweeping rise to power of the Parti Québécois.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the 70's Generation
Overview: Canadian director Catherine Annau's debut work is a documentary about the legacy of Pierre Trudeau, the long-running Prime Minister of Canada, who governed during the 1970s. The film focuses particularly on Trudeau's goal of creating a thoroughly bilingual nation. Annau interviews eight people in their mid-30s on both sides of the linguistic divide. One tells of her life growing up in a community of hard-core Quebec separatists, while another, a yuppie from Toronto, recalls believing as a child that people in Montreal got drunk and had sex all day long. Annau has all of the interviewees discuss how Trudeau's policies affected their lives and their perceptions of the other side, in this issue that strikes to the heart of Canada's national identity.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-20
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Welcome to My Castle!
Overview: Over 5 hours of full-length interviews with Nirvana, Tommy Chong, Sonic Youth, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Ron Jeremy, and many more. Includes videos of Nardwuar's band, The Evaporators, along with all sorts of bonus material!
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-04
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Two Women In Gold
Overview: Two bored Montreal housewives (Monique Mercure & Louise Turcot), with inattentive husbands (Marcel Sabourin & Donald Pilon), and lots of time on their hands, amuse themselves by paying the local tradesmen something extra to give them amorous attention. Their entertainment leads to frantic confusion, however, when one of the visiting gentlemen - shall we say - 'expires'. The housewives deal with their unpleasant situation quite energetically.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-05-21
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The Devil's Share
Overview: Quebec, on the cusp of the 1960s. The province is on the brink of momentous change. Deftly selecting clips from nearly 200 films from the National Film Board of Canada archives, director Luc Bourdon reinterprets the historical record, offering us a new and distinctive perspective on the Quiet Revolution.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-02-16
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Gai(e), tu ne seras point
Overview: A documentary that offers an intimate yet powerful perspective on the scars endured by survivors of conversion therapies, and on how the victims ultimately managed to accept their true selves.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-09-16
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Il était une fois... les Contes pour tous
Overview: A nostalgic deep dive into the world of Rock Demers’ popular children’s film series.
Genres: Documentary Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-04-04
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