First Run/Icarus Films > African American Studies

New name, new look, new featured films

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:19:07 GMT

First Run / Icarus Films is now Icarus Films, and we've updated our web site to reflect the name change. We've also featured new films on the home page, so please come have a look.

Been Rich All My Life

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:42:44 GMT

Meet the Silver Belles — former Apollo Theater showgirls who have danced and performed together for 70 years.

Robert, Mary, and Katrina

Wed, 22 Mar 2006 01:30:11 GMT

The astounding and surprisingly humorous story of how an elderly couple faced and survived Hurricane Katrina.

The Human Hambone

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:55:26 GMT

Celebrates the use of the human body as an instrument, and traces the roots of body music back to 18th-century American history, when African slaves were forbidden to use drums, and so resorted to the body itself as a percussive instrument.

Finally Got The News

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:54:43 GMT

A film about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, which was, "in many respects the most significant expression of black radical thought and activism in the 1960s." - Manning Marable, Prof. of History, Columbia Univ.

Fundi

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:53:59 GMT

Friend and advisor to Martin Luther King, FUNDI reveals the instrumental role that Ella Baker played in shaping the American civil rights movement.

Ghosts of Attica

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:53:15 GMT

The definitive account of America's most violent prison rebellion, its deadly suppression, the days of torture that ensued, and the almost 30 year legal case that followed.

Guns & Mothers

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:52:36 GMT

The contentious debate over gun control, as seen through the eyes of two mothers on opposite sides of the issue.

I Am Somebody

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:51:56 GMT

1969 hospital workers struggle in Charleston, South Carolina.

The Intolerable Burden

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:51:06 GMT

One black family's commitment to a quality education, from the pre-1965 time of segregation, through desegregation, and through the recent period of resegregation.

The Last Angel of History

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:50:24 GMT

An engaging and searing examination of the hitherto unexplored relationships between Pan-African culture, science fiction, intergalactic travel, and rapidly progressing computer technology

Public Enemy

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:49:23 GMT

Four former leaders of the Black Panther Party reflect on the impact of their radical 60s civil rights movement, and the promise and limitations of attempting revolutionary change.

Red Hook Justice

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:48:41 GMT

Profiles an innovative court in a Brooklyn neighborhood plagued by poverty and crime that is at the center of a legal revolution - the community justice movement.

Sermons and Sacred Pictures

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:47:52 GMT

Profiles Reverend L.O. Taylor, a Baptist minister and inspired photographer/filmmaker who documented the fabric of black American life prior to the civil rights movement.