Chinese construction of Africa’s longest railway. Built by 14,000 Chinese people and 40,000 Africans, and financed by generous loans by the Chinese government, this was the largest infra structure in Africa. The Tan-Zam railway line links Dar-es-Salaam on the Indian Ocean with Kapiri Mposhi…
Freedom Stories is an exploration of the achievements and struggles of former ‘boat people’. Now Australian citizens, they arrived seeking asylum from the Middle-East around 2001 – a watershed year in Australian politics sparked by the Tampa affair and Prime Minister John Howard’s…
Freedom Street Documentary explores the harrowing plights of Joniad, Ashfaq, and Azizah, three refugees who are affected by the consequences of Australia's policies and are trapped in Indonesia. This feature-length documentary tells their moving stories whilst deconstructing Australia’s cruel…
Freedoms Under Assault is a powerful full-length documentary that chronicles the systematic destruction of a world-class university and the politically motivated culture war against its faculty over a two-year period. A perfect storm of an autocratic university president collaborating with a supermajority…
« Freedom to be » is a documentary that follows the journey of a couple of educators in search of educational initiatives that rethink the values of education and place people at the heart of learning.
For thousands of years, we have been fascinated with horses: wild and powerful, they are a true symbol of freedom. But over the years of domestication, we started to rely on horses for our own survival and began restraining them for our own needs. From the arid plains of Patagonia to the jungles of…
With hundred kilos on their backs they are facing storms, blizzards and deep snow. Their craft is not only a profession, but also their way to the calmness. In the documentary Freedom under Load we get to know the oldest generation of the porters in the High Tatras, who climb with supplies to the mountain…
America’s Founding Fathers believed the free exercise of religion so central to a more perfect Union that they enshrined its protection in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights. Now comes the most complete documentary film ever on the history and meaning of the Free Exercise clause and how…
Free Flight is a documentary on the Miskito people of Honduras and their attempt to save their natural resources, especially the scarlet macaw, from land-grabbers and poachers intent on destroying them. The Misquitos are a pre-industrial society who believe that every animal and tree in the forest is…
“Hoe lang kan ik nog mee?” zingt Freek de Jonge in de documentaire FREEK. De film onderzoekt in hoeverre de cabaretier, die dit jaar 75 wordt, het podium gebruikt om aan de realiteit te kunnen ontsnappen. Geconfronteerd met collega’s en vrienden als André van Duin, Herman Finkers,…
They are a new breed of journalist; daring, determined and tech-savvy, freelance foreign correspondents fill the void left by a mainstream media retreating from international news coverage. Independent journalist Bill Gentile introduces us to the workplace of his fellow freelancers in Mexico, where the…
"Free Lunch Society" Order DVD: http://icarusfilms.com/if-lunch What would you do if your income was taken care of? Just a few years ago, an unconditional basic income was considered a pipe dream. Today, this utopia is more imaginable than ever before—intense discussions are taking…
