Finally Got the News

This was a blind buy for me but I really enjoyed it. Love Icarus Films’ catalogue. They always deliver.

sometimes documentaries should be required viewing, but it's just the content of them and not actually the filmmaking. This one is both. So refreshing to watch a real documentary made by real filmmakers instead of what passes for that these days.... If you care about the world at all, you must see this.

An electrifying document of Black working-class resistance in Detroit, with the workers themselves making the case for solidarity far more convincingly than any outside narrator could. The footage of organizing inside and outside the auto plants gives the film an immediacy that still hits hard, especially as it exposes how racism is used to divide workers who share the same economic struggles. Its rough edges only add to the urgency. This isn't just a history lesson, but a reminder of what collective action can look like when workers take their fight into their own hands.

Icarus does it again. Short but impactful doc that goes into depth on the late 60s Detroit automobile industry and their disrespected workforce

This and bonus film Taking Back Detroit show how while some things have changed, to any others have stayed the same.