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The Icarus Films Collection

Icarus Films is a leading distributor of documentary film. With over 40 years in the film distribution business, Icarus Films has assembled an impressive collection in many area of social and political concern. According to their site,

We are dedicated distributing films about people and ideas too often unseen or unheard. Although we specialize in social, political, and historical documentaries, our collection includes a wide range of films with varying creative approaches and themes. We work with filmmakers and independent production companies from all around the world, seeking out films that provide innovative and informative views of a rapidly changing world.

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The Icarus Films Collection includes the following titles:

Double Life, a Short History of Sex in the USSR - imageDouble Life, a Short History of Sex in the USSR

Revisits 70 years of communist power in the Eastern Bloc through the prism of sexuality.

Icarus Films | 2017 | 52 minutes
Down There - imageDown There

Akerman spends a brief period on her own in an apartment by the sea in Tel Aviv, contemplating her family, her Jewish identity and her childhood.

Icarus Films | 2006 | 78 minutes
Downtown Dream - imageDowntown Dream

Five people in a Rust Belt town struggle to reinvent their lives and their dreams in contemporary America.

Icarus Films | 2013 | 45 minutes | 8-12, COLLEGE, ADULT
Dreaming of a Tree House - imageDreaming of a Tree House

An exploration of the design and philosophy behind a 20 year-old experimental, ecological collective housing project in the center of Berlin.

Icarus Films | 2011 | 85 minutes | 8-12, college, adult
Dreamland - imageDreamland

Takes a sharp but disarming approach in examining the romance of gambling, and reveals the decidedly unromantic reality.

Icarus Films | 2000 | 71 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Dreams Rewired - imageDreams Rewired

Tilda Swinton's narration and a treasure trove of rare archival footage trace the origins of today's hyper-connected world.

Icarus Films | 2015 | 85 minutes
Drowning by Bullets - imageDrowning by Bullets

Exposes the massacre, cover-up, and the years of denial of what was undoubtedly one of the darkest nights in the history of France.

Icarus Films | 1992 | 52 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Duncan Campbell Scott: The Poet and the Indians - imageDuncan Campbell Scott: The Poet and the Indians

The story of the prominent early Canadian literary figure - who was also a civil servant responsible for a brutal Native assimilation program.

Icarus Films | 1995 | 57 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Dying for Gold - imageDying for Gold

The story of 120 years of gold mining and racial capitalism leads to disease and extreme poverty which endures into the present.

Icarus Films | 2019 | 98 minutes
East Punk Memories - imageEast Punk Memories

After 20 years, the filmmaker revisits a group of young punks who struggled with the communist regime during the early 80s.

Icarus Films | 2012 | 79 minutes

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