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Icarus Films is a leading distributor of documentary films in North America. The company was started in 1978, with an emphasis on films from and about the Middle East.

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"Premier Plan" Program: A..

In this interview filmed in Paris for Radio-Canada in 1959, Simone de Beauvoir explains her philosophy, existentialism, her political commitment, and her theories on atheism and free love. She also talks about the process of writing her autobiography..

All restrictions end: the politics of clothes
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All restrictions end: the..

This film discusses the evolution of fashion in contemporary Iran. With clothing as the leitmotif, the filmmaker provides the history of Iran, the country of his birth. The film is structured like a collage, interweaving archival footage from Iranian..

Between Midnight and the Rooster's Crow
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Between Midnight and the ..

In the aggressive search for the 'black gold' that drives Western economies, multinational corporations are working to extract billions of dollars of oil reserves from beneath Ecuador's rain forest.This documentary investigates the operations of the ..

Cholesterol, the Great Bluff
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Cholesterol, the Great Bl..

Cholesterol, the Great Bluff convincingly argues that the link between cholesterol and heart disease is tenuous and that its persistence results from a potent mix of bad science, entrenched interests, and pharmaceutical profits. The problems date fr..

Chore Wars
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Chore Wars

Should you tell your partner "I love you" by sending flowers? Or by doing the dishes! As dual incomes become necessary to meet today's family's expenses, increasingly more women continue to enter the work force. With both partners working outside th..

Dead Souls - Part 1
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Dead Souls - Part 1

In Gansu Province, northwest China, lie the remains of countless prisoners abandoned in the Gobi Desert sixty years ago. Designated as “ultra-rightists” in the Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957, they starved to death in the Jiabi..