Icarus Films Movies

  • 2005
    1932: Scars of Memory

    1932: Scars of Memory

    1932: Scars of Memory

    02005HD

    January 22, 1932. An unprecedented peasant uprising erupts in western El Salvador, as a group of Latino and indigenous peasants cut army supply lines,...

    1932: Scars of Memory
  • 2014
    Althea

    Althea

    Althea

    72014HD

    Althea Gibson’s life and achievements transcend sports. A truant from the rough streets of Harlem, Althea emerged as a most unlikely queen of the high...

    Althea
  • 2003
    Kochuu

    Kochuu

    Kochuu

    62003HD

    A film about modern Japanese architecture, its roots in the Japanese tradition and its impact on the Nordic building-tradition. Winding its way throug...

    Kochuu
  • 1997
    Ducktators

    Ducktators

    Ducktators

    01997HD

    Documentary about WWII propaganda cartoons.

    Ducktators
  • 2019
    Rethinking Cuban Civil Society

    Rethinking Cuban Civil Society

    Rethinking Cuban Civil Society

    52019HD

    The notion of a Cuban civil society is often misrepresented in the U.S. mainstream media. According to most sources, Cuban civil society is limited to...

    Rethinking Cuban Civil Society
  • 1997
    Devils Don't Dream!

    Devils Don't Dream!

    Devils Don't Dream!

    7.31997HD

    Before his journey into exile Jacobo Arbenz, the overthrown President of Guatemala, is presented to photographers stripped down to his underwear: an i...

    Devils Don't Dream!
  • 2019
    Out of Focus

    Out of Focus

    Out of Focus

    02019HD

    The night of a lonely photographer with a Polaroid camera, looking for human connections in the alienating Amsterdam nightlife, ends with an indefinab...

    Out of Focus
  • 1994
    Imperfect Journey

    Imperfect Journey

    Imperfect Journey

    51994HD

    Haile Gerima and Ryszard Kapuscinski travel around Ethiopia talking to people about their current situations and what needs to be done for a prosperou...

    Imperfect Journey
  • 2012
    Simone de Beauvoir: Two Interviews

    Simone de Beauvoir: Two Interviews

    Simone de Beauvoir: Two Interviews

    02012HD

    Two interviews, recorded 16 years apart, illuminating the historic role, personality and thoughts of the novelist, philosopher and political activist...

    Simone de Beauvoir: Two Interviews
  • 2019
    Spears from All Sides

    Spears from All Sides

    Spears from All Sides

    02019HD

    Until the 1950s, the Waorani were able to successfully defended their area of settlement – today’s Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon – wit...

    Spears from All Sides
  • 2008
    Svetlana About Svetlana

    Svetlana About Svetlana

    Svetlana About Svetlana

    02008HD

    Svetlana Parshina was deeply moved by her childhood reading of Twenty Letters to a Friend by Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin's daughter. Years late...

    Svetlana About Svetlana
  • 2024
    RARE

    RARE

    RARE

    02024HD

    RARE follows an extraordinary mother in a race against time to find a treatment for her daughter's rare genetic disease. When Donna Appell learned th...

    RARE
  • 1979
    Black Dawn

    Black Dawn

    Black Dawn

    01979HD

    Recounts the founding of Haiti through the eyes of two captured African tribespeople, Sili and Simba. Starting with their capture in Africa, the story...

    Black Dawn
  • 2024
    Shigeru Ban: An Architect for Emergencies

    Shigeru Ban: An Architect for Emergencies

    Shigeru Ban: An Architect for Emergencies

    02024HD

    "SHIGERU BAN features extensive interviews with this innovative young architect (b. 1957),who explains the practical, philosophical and esthetic aspe...

    Shigeru Ban: An Architect for Emergencies
  • 1983
    Celso and Cora

    Celso and Cora

    Celso and Cora

    01983HD

    A documentary of a young couple and their two children living in a squatter settlement in the Philippine capital, Manila. Rather than just a report on...

    Celso and Cora