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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:

I Am Become Death: They Made the Bomb - imageI Am Become Death: They Made the Bomb

Illuminating stories told by scientists who actually worked on the Manhattan Project.

Icarus Films | 1995 | 55 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
I Am Somebody - imageI Am Somebody

1969 hospital workers struggle in Charleston, South Carolina.

Icarus Films | 1970 | 30 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
I Cannot Tell You How I Feel - imageI Cannot Tell You How I Feel

Filmmaker Su Friedrich moves her fiesty mother into an "independent living" facility.

Icarus Films | 2018 | 42 minutes
I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman - imageI Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman

Explores the filmmaker's 40 plus films and charts the sites of her peregrinations.

Icarus Films | 2015 | 67 minutes
Imaginary Feasts - imageImaginary Feasts

In Nazi concentration camps, Japanese war camps and Gulag labor camps, starving prisoners risked their lives to document fantasy recipes.

Icarus Films | 2014 | 70 minutes
Impunity - imageImpunity
What is the cost of truth for families damaged by Colombia's violent past?
Icarus Films | 2010 | 85 minutes | 9-12, college, adult
In Mansourah, You Separated Us - imageIn Mansourah, You Separated Us

The director returns to Algeria with her father to learn about how his village was destroyed during the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962) and his family relocated by force.

Icarus Films | 2020 | 71 minutes
In Motion: Amiri Baraka - imageIn Motion: Amiri Baraka

Biographical profile of the out-spoken African-American writer.

Icarus Films | 1983 | 60 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
In Search of Memory - imageIn Search of Memory

The life and work of one of the most important neuroscientists of the 20th century, Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel.

Icarus Films | 2008 | 95 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
In the Intense Now - imageIn the Intense Now

A meditation on 1968 political uprisings in France, Czechoslovakia, China, and Brazil.

Icarus Films | 2017 | 127 minutes

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