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==In popular culture== *''[[The Revolution Script]]'', a [[Non-fiction novel|fictionalised account]] by [[Northern Irish]]-[[Canadians|Canadian]] novelist [[Brian Moore (novelist)|Brian Moore]] of key events in Quebec's October Crisis, was published in Canada and the United States at the end of 1971. * Canadian playwright [[George Ryga]]'s ''[[Captives of the Faceless Drummer]]'' was inspired by the October Crisis. The [[Vancouver Playhouse (theatre venue)|Vancouver Playhouse]] chose not to stage it as it was deemed too controversial.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Innes |first=Christopher |date=1985-01-01 |title=The Psychology of Politics: George Ryga's Captives of the Faceless Drummer |url=https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/TRIC/article/view/7428 |journal=Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théâtrales au Canada |volume=6 |pages=23–43 |doi=10.3138/tric.6.1.23 |issn=1913-9101}}</ref> * ''Action: The October Crisis of 1970'' and ''[[Reaction: A Portrait of a Society in Crisis]]'', two 1973 documentary films by Robin Spry.<ref name="Spry">{{cite web |url=http://www.nfb.ca/film/action_the_october_crisis_of_1970 |title=Action: The October Crisis of 1970 |last=Spry |first=Robin |year=1973 |work=Documentary film |publisher=[[National Film Board of Canada]] |access-date=October 5, 2009}}</ref> * ''[[Orders (1974 film)|Orders]] (Les Ordres)'', a historical film drama directed by [[Michel Brault]], based on the events of the October Crisis and the effect that implementation of the ''War Measures Act'' had on people in Quebec,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.filmreferencelibrary.ca/index.asp?layid=44&csid1=36&navid=46 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061215100531/http://www.filmreferencelibrary.ca/index.asp?layid=44&csid1=36&navid=46 |archive-date=December 15, 2006 |title=Les ordres |website=Canadian Film Encyclopedia |publisher=Film Reference Library |access-date=October 3, 2018}}</ref> was released in September 1974. * Quebec director [[Pierre Falardeau]] shot in 1994 a movie titled ''[[Octobre]]'' which tells a version of the October Crisis based on a book by [[Francis Simard]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/22979ac |format=PDF |title=Pierre Falardeau tourne Octobre |first=Gabriel |last=Landry |magazine=Érudit |language=fr |issn=0707-9389 |issue=71 |date=March 1974 |pages=4–8}}</ref> * ''[[Nô (film)|Nô]]'' is partially set in Montreal during the October Crisis and features fictional FLQ members planning a bombing.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nô | url=http://www.newyorkerfilms.com/nyf/t_elements/no/no_pk.PDF |publisher=New Yorker Films |access-date=March 7, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060326150407/http://www.newyorkerfilms.com/nyf/t_elements/no/no_pk.PDF |archive-date=March 26, 2006}}</ref> * [[CBC Television]] produced a two-hour documentary program ''[[Black October (film)|Black October]]'' in 2000, in which the events of the crisis were discussed in great detail. The program featured interviews with former Canadian Prime Minister [[Pierre Elliott Trudeau]], former Quebec justice minister [[Jérôme Choquette]], and others.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cbcshop.ca/CBC/shopping/product.aspx?Product_ID=ETDOC00043&Variant_ID=8009&lang=en-CA |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071005101050/http://www.cbcshop.ca/CBC/shopping/product.aspx?Product_ID=ETDOC00043&Variant_ID=8009&lang=en-CA |archive-date=October 5, 2007 |title=Black October – DVD |publisher=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] |access-date=October 3, 2018}}</ref> * ''La Belle province'', a 2001 documentary film by Ad Hoc Films Montreal / Tele-Quebec, portrays events leading to the death of Pierre Laporte.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://voir.ca/societe/2000/10/11/medias-la-belle-province/ |title=Médias: La Belle Province |first=Nathalie |last=Collard |date=October 11, 2000 |magazine=Voir |language=fr |access-date=October 3, 2018}}</ref> * In ''L'Otage'', a 2004 documentary film by Ad Hoc Films Montreal / Tele-Quebec, Richard Cross, his wife and his daughter remember how they suffered during October 1970. * ''Tout le monde en parlait'' «La crise d'Octobre I» [[Ici Radio-Canada Télé|Radio Canada]] 2010, is a documentary relating the events of October 1970.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ici.radio-canada.ca/emissions/tout_le_monde_en_parlait/2010/Reportage.asp?idDoc=119989 |title=La crise d'Octobre (I): l'engrenage |date=September 23, 2010 |website=Tout le monde en parlait |language=fr-CA |publisher=Radio Canada |access-date=October 3, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ici.radio-canada.ca/emissions/tout_le_monde_en_parlait/2010/reportage.asp?idDoc=119992 |title=Crise d'octobre (II): le dénouement |date=September 24, 2010 |website=Tout le monde en parlait |publisher=Radio Canada |language=fr-CA |access-date=October 3, 2018}}</ref> * An eight-part [[miniseries]] about some of the incidents of the October Crisis titled ''[[October 1970 (film)|October 1970]]'' was released on October 12, 2006.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/flq-on-cbc-english-only/article18155884/ |title=FLQ on CBC |last=Armstrong |first=Jane |date=February 18, 2006 |work=[[The Globe and Mail]] |access-date=October 3, 2018}}</ref> * ''Just Watch Me: A Trudeau Musical'', a 2015 play, was performed at the Vancouver Fringe Festival.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ubyssey.ca/culture/fringe-2015-just-watch-trudeau-musical/ |title=Fringe 2015: Just Watch Me: A Trudeau Musical |last=Duhatschek |first=Paula |date=August 31, 2015 |website=The Ubyssey |access-date=October 3, 2018}}</ref>
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