The Squamish Five (1988)
Directed by Paul Donovan
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Synopsis by Sandra Brennan
In 1982, five young left-wing extremist shook up the Canadian government and its people by bombing a power plant, destroying a Litton Industries plant that made cruise missile guidance systems and firebombing several pornographic video stores. Based on interviews with one of the convicted bombers and wiretap transcripts, this made for Canadian television drama tells their story.
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investigation, politics, terrorism, armored-car, arrest, bomb, clue, double-life, extremist, fanatic, fire, group, gullibility, industry, investigator, left-wing, missile, music, plant [factory], police, politician, protester, responsibility, robbery, target [object of attack], tension, training, video-store, warning, woods [place], friendship, maniac, planting, play [recreation], woman
