The Squamish Five

Canada, for whatever reasons, has been relatively untouched by political extremism in the last few decades. That age of innocence came to an end in 1982, when a power plant was blown up by a group calling itself Direct Action. Shortly after that, a Litton plant making cruise missile guidance systems was destroyed, and the same group claimed responsibility. Their next target was a number of pornographic video stores that were firebombed. Some time later, Canadian officials announced arrests, the bombings stopped, and, apart from a brief notice of convictions, little more was heard of Direct Action. The interest of director Paul Donovan and producer Bernard Zukerman ...