Icarus Release Date

A cyclist who set out to prove he could outsmart athletic doping tests stumbles upon one of the game's biggest cheaters in this game-changing documentary.

In Icarus, a filmmaker injects himself into the shady world of sports doping.

Bryan Fogel’s “Icarus” starts as a prank and ends up at the center of a Kremlin conspiracy.

“Icarus” starts as a first-person investigation of doping in sports—a sort of “Super Dope Me” if you will—in which director Bryan Fogel, an amateur cyclist, tries to game the sy...

Mr. Fogel could be considered either daring or foolhardy for his initial plan. But his work with Dr. Rodchenkov is levelheaded, and his documentary illuminating.

Sundance 2017: Amateur cyclist Bryan Fogel’s mischievous idea to cheat and then document it has wider reach.

Bryan Fogel's sure-to-be-controversial doc focuses on the man who oversaw and then spoke out about Russia's widespread state-sponsored sports doping.

Icarus is the first in what will likely be a wave of documentaries capitalizing on American anxieties over Russia, which have been stoked fiercely by allegations of collusion be...

It contributes to a growing list of documentaries tailored to stoke the flames of our punishing political news cycle.