Film

EXPO 67 Mission Impossible

2017 · 1h 8m · Documentary · History

IMDb

8.1

This documentary let us to relive the challenge of the men behind the 1967 Universal Exposition in Montréal, Canada. By searching trough 80,000 archival documents at the national Archives, they managed to bring light on one of the biggest logistical and political challenges that were faced by organizers during the "Révolution Tranquille" in the Québec sixties. Includes the accounts of the Chief of Advertising Yves Jasmin, and businessman Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien.

Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien II

Self

Yves Jasmin

Self

Nan-B de Gaspé Beaubien

Self

Pierre Dupuy

Self (archive footage)

Robert Shaw

Self (archive footage)

Colonel Churchill

Self

Diana Nicholson

Self

Lester B. Pearson

Self (archive footage)

Jean Lesage

Self (archive footage)

Jean Drapeau

Self (archive footage)

John Dieffenbaker

Self (archive footage)

• Éric RuelEditor · Producer · Director
• Guylaine MaroistDirector · Producer
• Michel BarbeauDirector
• Martin GagnonEditor

Release date

April 25, 2017

Status

Released

Original language

French

Runtime

1h 8m

Genres

Documentary, History

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