Faster access than browser!
71 relations: Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy Awards, Agricultural attaché, Argo (2012 film), Backstory, Basic Books, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Canadian passport, Canton of Aargau, Central Intelligence Agency, Congressional Gold Medal, Diplomat, Diplomatic courier, Dover Air Force Base, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Eric Hoffer, Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper, Extraction (military), Flora MacDonald (politician), Florida, Frankfurt, Gordon Pinsent, Government of Canada, Guyana, Hollywood, Intelligence Medal of Merit, Iran, Iran hostage crisis, Iranian Revolution, Jimmy Carter, Joe Clark, John Chambers (make-up artist), Kenneth D. Taylor, La Presse (Canadian newspaper), Lamont Johnson, Laverna Katie Dollimore, List of films based on actual events, Location scouting, Lord of Light, Mehdi Bazargan, Mehrabad International Airport, Michael Douglas, Middle East, Minister of Foreign Affairs (Canada), Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, Office of Technical Service, Order in Council, Order of Canada, Ottawa, ..., Our Man in Tehran, Postmedia News, Prime Minister of Canada, Ramstein Air Base, Richard Morefield, Roger Zelazny, Safe house, Sanctuary, Scrabble, Shah, Solar Hijri calendar, Sunset Gower Studios, Swissair, Tehran, Television film, The China Syndrome, Tony Mendez, Travel visa, United States Congress, Zürich, 85th Academy Awards. Expand index (21 more) »
Academy Award for Best Picture
The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards presented annually since the awards debuted in 1929, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
New!!: Canadian Caper and Academy Award for Best Picture · See more »
Academy Awards
The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Academy Awards · See more »
Agricultural attaché
An agricultural attaché is a diplomat who collects, analyzes, and acts on information on agriculture, agribusiness, food, and other related spheres in a foreign country or countries.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Agricultural attaché · See more »
Argo (2012 film)
Argo is a 2012 American historical drama film directed by Ben Affleck.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Argo (2012 film) · See more »
Backstory
A backstory, background story, back-story, or background is a set of events invented for a plot, presented as preceding and leading up to that plot.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Backstory · See more »
Basic Books
Basic Books is a book publisher founded in 1952 and located in New York, now an imprint of Hachette Books.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Basic Books · See more »
British Academy of Film and Television Arts
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image – film, television and game in the United Kingdom.
New!!: Canadian Caper and British Academy of Film and Television Arts · See more »
Canadian passport
The Canadian passport (Passeport canadien) is the passport issued to citizens of Canada.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Canadian passport · See more »
Canton of Aargau
The canton of Aargau (German: Kanton; sometimes anglicized Argovia; see also other names) is one of the more northerly cantons of Switzerland.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Canton of Aargau · See more »
Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT).
New!!: Canadian Caper and Central Intelligence Agency · See more »
Congressional Gold Medal
A Congressional Gold Medal is an award bestowed by the United States Congress; the Congressional Gold Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom are the highest civilian awards in the United States.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Congressional Gold Medal · See more »
Diplomat
A diplomat is a person appointed by a state to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or international organizations.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Diplomat · See more »
Diplomatic courier
A diplomatic courier is an official who transports diplomatic bags as sanctioned under the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Diplomatic courier · See more »
Dover Air Force Base
Dover Air Force Base or Dover AFB is a United States Air Force base located southeast of the city of Dover, Delaware.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Dover Air Force Base · See more »
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 American science fiction film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, and written by Melissa Mathison.
New!!: Canadian Caper and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial · See more »
Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer (July 25, 1902 – May 21, 1983) was an American moral and social philosopher.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Eric Hoffer · See more »
Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper
Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper is a Canadian-American television film from 1981 about the "Canadian Caper" during the Iranian Revolution and hostage crises.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper · See more »
Extraction (military)
In military tactics, extraction (also exfiltration or exfil), is the process of removing personnel when it is considered imperative that they be immediately relocated out of a hostile environment and taken to a secure area.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Extraction (military) · See more »
Flora MacDonald (politician)
Flora Isabel MacDonald, (June 3, 1926 – July 26, 2015) was a Canadian politician and humanitarian.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Flora MacDonald (politician) · See more »
Florida
Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Florida · See more »
Frankfurt
Frankfurt, officially the City of Frankfurt am Main ("Frankfurt on the Main"), is a metropolis and the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Frankfurt · See more »
Gordon Pinsent
Gordon Edward Pinsent, CC, FRSC (born July 12, 1930) is a Canadian actor, screenwriter, director and playwright.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Gordon Pinsent · See more »
Government of Canada
The Government of Canada (Gouvernement du Canada), formally Her Majesty's Government (Gouvernement de Sa Majesté), is the federal administration of Canada.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Government of Canada · See more »
Guyana
Guyana (pronounced or), officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a sovereign state on the northern mainland of South America.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Guyana · See more »
Hollywood
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Hollywood · See more »
Intelligence Medal of Merit
The Intelligence Medal of Merit is awarded by the Central Intelligence Agency for performance of especially meritorious service or for achievement conspicuously above normal duties.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Intelligence Medal of Merit · See more »
Iran
Iran (ایران), also known as Persia, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (جمهوری اسلامی ایران), is a sovereign state in Western Asia. With over 81 million inhabitants, Iran is the world's 18th-most-populous country. Comprising a land area of, it is the second-largest country in the Middle East and the 17th-largest in the world. Iran is bordered to the northwest by Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan, to the north by the Caspian Sea, to the northeast by Turkmenistan, to the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan, to the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, and to the west by Turkey and Iraq. The country's central location in Eurasia and Western Asia, and its proximity to the Strait of Hormuz, give it geostrategic importance. Tehran is the country's capital and largest city, as well as its leading economic and cultural center. Iran is home to one of the world's oldest civilizations, beginning with the formation of the Elamite kingdoms in the fourth millennium BCE. It was first unified by the Iranian Medes in the seventh century BCE, reaching its greatest territorial size in the sixth century BCE, when Cyrus the Great founded the Achaemenid Empire, which stretched from Eastern Europe to the Indus Valley, becoming one of the largest empires in history. The Iranian realm fell to Alexander the Great in the fourth century BCE and was divided into several Hellenistic states. An Iranian rebellion culminated in the establishment of the Parthian Empire, which was succeeded in the third century CE by the Sasanian Empire, a leading world power for the next four centuries. Arab Muslims conquered the empire in the seventh century CE, displacing the indigenous faiths of Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism with Islam. Iran made major contributions to the Islamic Golden Age that followed, producing many influential figures in art and science. After two centuries, a period of various native Muslim dynasties began, which were later conquered by the Turks and the Mongols. The rise of the Safavids in the 15th century led to the reestablishment of a unified Iranian state and national identity, with the country's conversion to Shia Islam marking a turning point in Iranian and Muslim history. Under Nader Shah, Iran was one of the most powerful states in the 18th century, though by the 19th century, a series of conflicts with the Russian Empire led to significant territorial losses. Popular unrest led to the establishment of a constitutional monarchy and the country's first legislature. A 1953 coup instigated by the United Kingdom and the United States resulted in greater autocracy and growing anti-Western resentment. Subsequent unrest against foreign influence and political repression led to the 1979 Revolution and the establishment of an Islamic republic, a political system that includes elements of a parliamentary democracy vetted and supervised by a theocracy governed by an autocratic "Supreme Leader". During the 1980s, the country was engaged in a war with Iraq, which lasted for almost nine years and resulted in a high number of casualties and economic losses for both sides. According to international reports, Iran's human rights record is exceptionally poor. The regime in Iran is undemocratic, and has frequently persecuted and arrested critics of the government and its Supreme Leader. Women's rights in Iran are described as seriously inadequate, and children's rights have been severely violated, with more child offenders being executed in Iran than in any other country in the world. Since the 2000s, Iran's controversial nuclear program has raised concerns, which is part of the basis of the international sanctions against the country. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, an agreement reached between Iran and the P5+1, was created on 14 July 2015, aimed to loosen the nuclear sanctions in exchange for Iran's restriction in producing enriched uranium. Iran is a founding member of the UN, ECO, NAM, OIC, and OPEC. It is a major regional and middle power, and its large reserves of fossil fuels – which include the world's largest natural gas supply and the fourth-largest proven oil reserves – exert considerable influence in international energy security and the world economy. The country's rich cultural legacy is reflected in part by its 22 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the third-largest number in Asia and eleventh-largest in the world. Iran is a multicultural country comprising numerous ethnic and linguistic groups, the largest being Persians (61%), Azeris (16%), Kurds (10%), and Lurs (6%).
New!!: Canadian Caper and Iran · See more »
Iran hostage crisis
The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic standoff between Iran and the United States of America.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Iran hostage crisis · See more »
Iranian Revolution
The Iranian Revolution (Enqelāb-e Iran; also known as the Islamic Revolution or the 1979 Revolution), Iran Chamber.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Iranian Revolution · See more »
Jimmy Carter
James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Jimmy Carter · See more »
Joe Clark
Charles Joseph "Joe" Clark, (born June 5, 1939) is a Canadian elder statesman, businessman, writer, and politician who served as the 16th Prime Minister of Canada, from June 4, 1979 to March 3, 1980.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Joe Clark · See more »
John Chambers (make-up artist)
John Chambers (September 12, 1922August 25, 2001) was an American make-up artist and prosthetic makeup expert in both television and film.
New!!: Canadian Caper and John Chambers (make-up artist) · See more »
Kenneth D. Taylor
Kenneth Douglas "Ken" Taylor, (October 5, 1934 – October 15, 2015) was a Canadian diplomat, educator and businessman, best known for his role in the 1979 covert operation called the "Canadian Caper" when he was the Canadian ambassador to Iran.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Kenneth D. Taylor · See more »
La Presse (Canadian newspaper)
La Presse, founded in 1884, is a French-language online newspaper published daily in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
New!!: Canadian Caper and La Presse (Canadian newspaper) · See more »
Lamont Johnson
Ernest Lamont Johnson Jr. (September 30, 1922 – October 24, 2010) was an American actor and film director who has appeared in and directed many television shows and movies.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Lamont Johnson · See more »
Laverna Katie Dollimore
Laverna "Verna" Katie Dollimore (January 22, 1922 – October 24, 2011) was one of six Canadians awarded the Order of Canada for her participation in the Canadian Caper, in which the Canadian government and the CIA orchestrated the cover rescue of six American diplomats in Iran (1979).
New!!: Canadian Caper and Laverna Katie Dollimore · See more »
List of films based on actual events
This is a list of feature films that are based on actual events.
New!!: Canadian Caper and List of films based on actual events · See more »
Location scouting
Location scouting is a vital process in the pre-production stage of filmmaking and commercial photography.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Location scouting · See more »
Lord of Light
Lord of Light (1967) is a science fantasy novel by American author Roger Zelazny.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Lord of Light · See more »
Mehdi Bazargan
Mehdi Bazargan (مهدی بازرگان; 1 September 1907 – 20 January 1995) was an Iranian scholar, academic, long-time pro-democracy activist and head of Iran's interim government, making him Iran's first prime minister after the Iranian Revolution of 1979.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Mehdi Bazargan · See more »
Mehrabad International Airport
Tehran Mehrabad International Airport (فرودگاه بین المللی مهرآباد), is a joint airport and one of the two international airports serving Tehran, the largest city in Iran.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Mehrabad International Airport · See more »
Michael Douglas
Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Michael Douglas · See more »
Middle East
The Middle Easttranslit-std; translit; Orta Şərq; Central Kurdish: ڕۆژھەڵاتی ناوین, Rojhelatî Nawîn; Moyen-Orient; translit; translit; translit; Rojhilata Navîn; translit; Bariga Dhexe; Orta Doğu; translit is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia, Turkey (both Asian and European), and Egypt (which is mostly in North Africa).
New!!: Canadian Caper and Middle East · See more »
Minister of Foreign Affairs (Canada)
The Minister of Foreign Affairs (Ministre des Affaires étrangères) is the Minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible for overseeing the federal government's international relations and heads the Department of Global Affairs, though the Minister of International Trade leads on international trade issues.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Minister of Foreign Affairs (Canada) · See more »
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (Mohammad Reza Pahlavi,; 26 October 1919 – 27 July 1980), also known as Mohammad Reza Shah (Mohammad Rezā Šāh), was the last Shah of Iran from 16 September 1941 until his overthrow by the Iranian Revolution on 11 February 1979.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi · See more »
Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line
The Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line (دانشجویان مسلمان پیرو خط امام Dânešjuyân Mosalmân Piru Xatt Emâm), also called the Muslim Students of the Imam Khomeini Line, was an Iranian student group that occupied the U.S. embassy in Tehran on 4 November 1979.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line · See more »
Office of Technical Service
The Office of Technical Service (OTS; formerly known as the Technical Services Division and Technical Services Staff) is a component of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, responsible for supporting CIA's clandestine operations with gadgets, disguises, forgeries, secret writings, and weapons.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Office of Technical Service · See more »
Order in Council
An Order in Council is a type of legislation in many countries, especially the Commonwealth realms.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Order in Council · See more »
Order of Canada
The Order of Canada (Ordre du Canada) is a Canadian national order and the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Order of Canada · See more »
Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital city of Canada.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Ottawa · See more »
Our Man in Tehran
Our Man in Tehran is a 2013 Canadian documentary film, profiling the role of Kenneth D. Taylor, Canada's ambassador to Iran in the 1970s, in resolving the Iran hostage crisis of 1979-1980 by engineering the Canadian Caper.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Our Man in Tehran · See more »
Postmedia News
Postmedia News is a national news agency with correspondents in Canada, Europe, and the United States and is part of the Canadian newspaper chain owned by Postmedia Network Inc.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Postmedia News · See more »
Prime Minister of Canada
The Prime Minister of Canada (Premier ministre du Canada) is the primary minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus Canada's head of government, charged with advising the Canadian monarch or Governor General of Canada on the exercise of the executive powers vested in them by the constitution.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Prime Minister of Canada · See more »
Ramstein Air Base
Ramstein Air Base is a United States Air Force base in Rhineland-Palatinate, a state in southwestern Germany.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Ramstein Air Base · See more »
Richard Morefield
Richard Henry Morefield (September 9, 1929 – October 11, 2010) served in the United States Foreign Service and was one of the 66 staff members at the American embassy in Teheran who were taken captive by a militant Islamist student group called the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line on November 4, 1979, as part of what became known as the Iran hostage crisis.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Richard Morefield · See more »
Roger Zelazny
Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) was an American poet and writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for The Chronicles of Amber.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Roger Zelazny · See more »
Safe house
A safe house is, in a generic sense, a secret place for sanctuary or suitable to hide persons from the law, hostile actors or actions, or from retribution, threats or perceived danger.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Safe house · See more »
Sanctuary
A sanctuary, in its original meaning, is a sacred place, such as a shrine.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Sanctuary · See more »
Scrabble
Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles bearing a single letter onto a board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Scrabble · See more »
Shah
Shah (Šāh, pronounced, "king") is a title given to the emperors, kings, princes and lords of Iran (historically also known as Persia).
New!!: Canadian Caper and Shah · See more »
Solar Hijri calendar
The Solar Hijri calendar (gāh-shomāri-ye hejri-ye khorshidi; لمريز لېږدیز کلیز), also called the Solar Hejri calendar or Shamsi Hijri calendar, and abbreviated as SH, is the official calendar of Iran and Afghanistan.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Solar Hijri calendar · See more »
Sunset Gower Studios
Sunset Gower Studios is a television and movie studio at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Sunset Gower Studios · See more »
Swissair
Swissair AG/S.A. (German: Schweizerische Luftverkehr-AG; French: S.A. Suisse pour la Navigation Aérienne) was the national airline of Switzerland between its founding in 1931 and bankruptcy in 2002.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Swissair · See more »
Tehran
Tehran (تهران) is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Tehran · See more »
Television film
A television film (also known as a TV movie, TV film, television movie, telefilm, telemovie, made-for-television movie, made-for-television film, direct-to-TV movie, direct-to-TV film, movie of the week, feature-length drama, single drama and original movie) is a feature-length motion picture that is produced for, and originally distributed by or to, a television network, in contrast to theatrical films, which are made explicitly for initial showing in movie theaters.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Television film · See more »
The China Syndrome
The China Syndrome is a 1979 American disaster thriller film directed by James Bridges and written by Bridges, Mike Gray, and T. S. Cook.
New!!: Canadian Caper and The China Syndrome · See more »
Tony Mendez
Antonio Joseph "Tony" Mendez (born November 15, 1940) is an American CIA technical operations officer, now retired, who specialized in support of clandestine and covert CIA operations.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Tony Mendez · See more »
Travel visa
A visa (from the Latin charta visa, meaning "paper which has been seen") is a conditional authorization granted by a country to a foreigner, allowing them to enter, remain within, or to leave that country.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Travel visa · See more »
United States Congress
The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States.
New!!: Canadian Caper and United States Congress · See more »
Zürich
Zürich or Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich.
New!!: Canadian Caper and Zürich · See more »
85th Academy Awards
The 85th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2012 and took place on February 24, 2013, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST.
New!!: Canadian Caper and 85th Academy Awards · See more »
Redirects here:
Canadian caper, Operation Argo, Operation argo, The Canadian Caper.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Caper
