Au cours des quatre épisodes qui composent cette série "Migrations Secrètes" nous allons traverser l’Europe aux côtés d’animaux migrateurs d’une endurance exceptionnelle. Nos migrateurs ne pèsent parfois que quelques grammes ou encore…
Indigenous communities around the world and in the U.S. resist threats to their sacred places—the original protected lands—in a growing movement to defend human rights and restore the environment. In this four-part documentary series, native people share ecological wisdom and spiritual…
In four new episodes, Chris is travelling thousands of miles by train across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In the pursuit of great railways and their stories, he finds himself in the places that most visitors never reach and sees a very different side to countries that we may think we know, but…
Canadian historians pride themselves on being friends of the little people. Unlike the Great Man histories of our colonial parent and imperial neighbour, the key events in our past are often depicted from the point of view of regular folk caught up in the vast winds of change. Ah, but there’s the…
How far would you go in pursuit of justice? The tragic murder of 13-year old Yara Gambiarasio near her home in northern Italy in 2010 sparked the most high-profile and shocking murder investigation in recent Italian history. This documentary follows the tenacious and emotionally-invested lead prosecutor…
For years, the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, has been almost completely sealed off to the media. Now, for the first time since its founding, dozens of former operatives have agreed to be interviewed. Through personal testimonies and rare archival footage, we get an inside look at…
In each episode of Persons of Interest we give someone their previously secret intelligence file and ask them to show us through it and explain the allegations it contains. He or she was a ‘person of interest’ to the secret service or police because of their activities - a communist, an…
Icarus Films is proud to present four dance films - ONE DAY PINA ASKED..., REBELS ON POINTE, IN THE STEPS OF TRISHA BROWN and PHOENIX DANCE. ONE DAY PINA ASKED... (re-released 2013) An encounter between two of the most remarkable women artists of the 20th century, ONE DAY PINA ASKED... is Chantal…
How, since the 1950s, have music and sex influenced each other? Between the intimate and the universal, this 4-episode documentary series recounts evolving mores, through song. In the 1950s, 3% of songs in the charts were about sex. In the 1970s, that figure had risen to 40%. And in 2009, sex featured…
Audio Interview with Naka Tatsuya sensei
HOW THE CHURCH IS BETTER + WORSE THAN YOU EVER IMAGINED Christian history is full of violence, corruption, and oppression. So does religion poison everything? For the Love of God is a documentary that confronts the worst that Christians have done, and traces the origins of Western values like…
Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and China: countries that are frequently covered in the news, often in dramatic and, quite literally, explosive tones. For two thousand years, these countries were connected and intertwined through a tight commercial network, historically known as The Silk Road. Throughout the…
