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The film premiered on January 20, 2017, at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, where it won The Orwell Award, a U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award. [2] [3] [4] Its distribution rights were acquired by Netflix, [5] which released Icarus for streaming globally on August 4, 2017. [1]
The leading character of the Oscar-winning Netflix documentary Icarus, Rodchenkov masterminded Russia’s state-sponsored doping program which benefited more than 1,000 athletes between 2011 and 2015.
Russian doping has been featured in several documentaries broadcast in Germany, France, and the United States: Geheimsache Doping: Wie Russland seine Sieger macht (The Doping Secret: How Russia Creates Champions), ARD / Das Erste, aired 3 December 2014 [22] Geheimsache Doping.
Rodchenkov was featured in the 2017 Netflix documentary Icarus, directed by Bryan Fogel. In Icarus, Rodchenkov describes his involvement in a conspiracy to help Russian athletes to beat doping tests in the Olympic Games. [48] On 4 March 2018, Icarus won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
World-famous sushi. Illegal doping in sports. Child pageant queens. What more could you possibly ask for? These are the 16 best documentaries you can stream on Netflix right this second. RELATED ...
"The Rodchenkov Affair: How I Brought Down Putin's Secret Doping Empire" outlines his account of how he helped Russian athletes who cheated by doping escape detection. Rodchenkov later became a ...
Antidote is a 2024 documentary film, directed and produced by James Jones. It follows three individual whistleblowers and activists who face grave consequences for their courageous efforts exposing Vladimir Putin's regime. It had its world premiere at Tribeca Festival on June 7, 2024.
The country Russia has not been allowed to send official delegations to the last two Olympics, but hundreds of Russian athletes competed in PyeongChang in 2018 as “Olympic Athletes from Russia ...