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:
Illuminating stories told by scientists who actually worked on the Manhattan Project.
1969 hospital workers struggle in Charleston, South Carolina.
Filmmaker Su Friedrich moves her fiesty mother into an "independent living" facility.
Explores the filmmaker's 40 plus films and charts the sites of her peregrinations.
In Nazi concentration camps, Japanese war camps and Gulag labor camps, starving prisoners risked their lives to document fantasy recipes.
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.
Biographical profile of the out-spoken African-American writer.
The life and work of one of the most important neuroscientists of the 20th century, Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel.
A meditation on 1968 political uprisings in France, Czechoslovakia, China, and Brazil.
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