Cop Class (2015)

Director
Mélissa Beaudet

Main cast
Pascal Gagné; Claudie Lavoie; Lou Vaillancourt-Thivierge

Genres
Documentary

Description
First look inside the walls of Quebec police’s training grounds and the realities of our next generation of police officers.


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