Jean Chrétien
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Biography: Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien PC OM CC QC (born January 11, 1934) is a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 20th prime minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Shawinigan Falls, Quebec, Canada
Birthday: Not available
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Gender: Male
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The Black Sheep
Overview: From coast to coast, from St. John's, Newfoundland to Vancouver, British Columbia, Jacques Godbout films a documentary chronicle of the political turnaround that was to follow the Meech Lake Accord. Following the Meech referendum, Quebec and Canada found themselves at an impasse after a long and ultimately fruitless negotiation, various social and political actors spoke out. Their comments, linked to film clips on the lives of important Canadian politicians (Sir Georges-Étienne Cartier, John A. Macdonald, Louis-Joseph Papineau...), draw parallels between the speeches of yesterday and those of the post-Meech era.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-05-30
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The First Family's Holiday Gift to America: A Personal Tour of the White House
Overview: President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton discuss life in the White House as they lead a tour of the residence. Also: the arrival of the Blue Room Christmas tree, and a Presidential message of thanks.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-15
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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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High Wire
Overview: It examines the reasons that Canada declined to take part in the 2003 US-led military mission in Iraq, shining a spotlight on the diplomatic tug of war that took place behind the scenes with our neighbours to the south, who have often adopted an interventionist foreign policy to serve their own economic and geopolitical interests. Canada’s historic refusal could have had disastrous consequences, but a number of key players and other analysts remind us of the terrible price we pay when diplomacy fails.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-01
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Se fondre
Overview: Elderly inmates are dying mysteriously one after another in their prison cells.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-06-28
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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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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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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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Corbo
Overview: Montreal, spring 1966. Jean Corbo, 16 years old, born to a Quebec mother and an Italian father, is torn between his two affiliations. After befriending two young far-left activists, he joined the Front de Libération du Québec, an underground radical group. Jean, from then on, marches inexorably towards his destiny.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-09-02
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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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Referendum: Take 2
Overview: October, 1995. The most important political event in recent Canadian history, the Quebec vote on sovereignty, is about to unfold. During the tense days leading up to the referendum for independence, 23 filmmakers from the NFB's English and French documentary studios take their cameras into the streets and homes of Quebeckers. Culled from 250 hours of footage, Referendum is an emotional portrait of a profoundly divided society. In a collage of powerful moments, the video recaptures the emotions of that time and measures them against today's political agenda. Implicit is the question: What next?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-03-25
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Le choix d'un peuple
Overview: A documentary which revisits the Quebec referendum of May 20, 1980, looking at both the Non/No and Oui/Yes sides.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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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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For Future Generations
Overview: This documentary is about the conservation ethic in Canada that led to the national parks systems around the world. Includes interviews with the then-Minister of Natural Resources, Jean Chretien.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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