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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:

South Africa Belongs to Us - imageSouth Africa Belongs to Us

Aided by two black women journalists, the filmmakers visited workers' barracks, a family planning clinic in Soweto, and a shantytown to create the first and most stirring record of black women's lives in South Africa under apartheid.

Icarus Films | 1980 | 57 minutes | 10-12, college, adult
Spears From All Sides - imageSpears From All Sides

Continuing the story started in Trinkets and Beads (1995), in Ecuador, the Waorani people resist the destruction of one of most remote and beautiful areas of the world.

Icarus Films | 2019 | 90 minutes
State of Mind - imageState of Mind

Therapist Albert Pesso trains mental-health care works in Kinshasa, Congo, in a technique to help genocide survivors overcome the traumas they witnessed and endured.

Icarus Films | 2010 | 52 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Stealing the Fire - imageStealing the Fire

In 1996, the German nuclear engineer Karl-Heinz Schaab was accused of selling secret information to Iraq. But was Schaab a shrewd traitor or a simple pawn in a much more extensive network?

Icarus Films | 2015 | 95 minutes
Stolen Art - imageStolen Art

In 1978 in New York City, an unknown Czech artist by the name of Pavel Novak held an exhibit entitled Stolen Art...

Icarus Films | 2007 | 56 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Stolen Land - imageStolen Land

Illustrates the decades-long often violent resistance movement of the indigenous Nasa people of Colombia over rights to their native land.

Icarus Films | 2009 | 73 minutes | 8-12, COLLEGE, ADULT
Stony Paths - imageStony Paths

Following in his great-grandfather's footsteps, Arnaud undertakes a trek across Anatolia to study the Armenian Genocide.

Icarus Films | 2015 | 60 minutes
Strait Through The Ice - imageStrait Through The Ice

Climate change is opening the Northwest Passage through Canada's Arctic for shipping. Examines the ecological and geopolitical ramifications.

Icarus Films | 2007 | 52 minutes | 8-12, College, Adult
Stroke - imageStroke

A film diary of what happens when a stroke suddenly up-ends the lives of a young couple.

Icarus Films | 2004 | 58 minutes | 8-12, COLLEGE, ADULT
Suspension - imageSuspension

Deep in the jungle of Colombia, between treacherous mountain slopes, stands an unfinished bridge, an absurd symbol of human folly.

Icarus Films | 2020 | 75 minutes

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