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.
Docuseek is proud to provide streaming for over 560 of Icarus Films's most distinctive titles.
The Icarus Films Collection includes the following titles:
A personal documentary that tracks the construction of America's collective memory (or lack of one) of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
An unprecedented feat in African history: the dictator of Chad, Hissein Habre, was brought to trial.
After a century of films that exploited, caricatured, sidelined, and finally embraced them, HORROR NOIRE traces a secret history of Black Americans through their connection to the horror film genre.
Part 1 of Marcel Ophuls's epic Academy Award-winning examination of the Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie.
Part 2 of Marcel Ophuls's epic Academy Award-winning examination of the Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie.
Part 3 of Marcel Ophuls's epic Academy Award-winning examination of the Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie.
Seven Brazilian teenagers film their housemaids, exposing issues of class, race, and gender in their families, and in their country.
What is happiness? And how do we get more of it? Visiting leading figures in positive psychology and observing clinical experiments, this is a light-hearted but serious investigation.
A detailed investigation, with archives and exclusive interviews with the participants, into how Vladimir Putin rose from mayoral aide in St. Petersburg, to President of Russia, in only eight years.
Giant agribusiness and internet companies are investing millions in trying to invent remedies for hunger - using new technological forms of nutrition.
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