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The Docuseek Essential Collection

The Docuseek2 Essential Collection includes the most recent and most popular titles made available for streaming on Docuseek2 from our distributors. It is capped at 800 titles. The collection is updated at the beginning of each year to make room for new titles as they are added to Docuseek. For the most comprehensive set of films, see The Docuseek2 Complete Collection.

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The Docuseek Essential Collection includes the following titles:

Koromousso: Big Sister - imageKoromousso: Big Sister

KOROMOUSSO: Big Sister explores the phenomenon of FGM as experienced by African immigrant women in Quebec.

National Film Board of Canada | 2023 | 77 minutes | 10-12, PS
To Kill A Tiger - imageTo Kill A Tiger

Ranjit, a farmer in India, takes on the fight of his life when he demands justice for his 13-year-old daughter, the victim of a brutal gang rape.

National Film Board of Canada | 2022 | 125 minutes | 10-12, PS
Unspoken Tears: Trauma Through Words - imageUnspoken Tears: Trauma Through Words

How can refugee children integrate into Quebec’s school system, given the unspeakable violence they’ve experienced?

National Film Board of Canada | 2022 | 52 minutes | 10-12, PS
The Whale and the Raven - imageThe Whale and the Raven

As the people in the Great Bear Rainforest struggle to protect their territory against the pressure and promise of the gas industry, caught in between are the countless beings that call this place home.

National Film Board of Canada | 2019 | 101 minutes | 4-12, PS
Unarchived - imageUnarchived

Unarchived highlights community archives across British Columbia to reveal some of what has been erased from the official record. The people and places left out of traditional archives and museums are often determined by the dominant power, but as UBC’s Dr. Henry Yu states, “the process of silencing makes a lot of noise.”

National Film Board of Canada | 2022 | 85 minutes | 10-12, PS
My War - imageMy War

A disturbing portrait of four Western volunteers who risk their lives to fight ISIS alongside Kurdish forces. The feature documentary My War probes the complex motives behind the need to take up arms on someone else’s behalf.

National Film Board of Canada | 2018 | 97 minutes | 10-12, PS
Voices Across the Water - imageVoices Across the Water

For Alaskan Tlingit carver Wayne Price, fashioning a dugout canoe from a single massive red cedar tree is a way to reconnect to the Ancestral Knowledge of Indigenous craftspeople.

National Film Board of Canada | 2022 | 84 minutes | 7-12, PS
Solutions - imageSolutions

Solutions offers deeply inspiring insights into a new vision for humanity, with concrete ideas that will pave the way for solving some of the world's most challenging problems.

First Run Features | 2021 | 102 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Touristic Intents - imageTouristic Intents

A 3 mile long Nazi resort built taking cues from American industrial titan Henry Ford, is redeveloped as a contemporary vacation destination; how do we reconcile its history with modern commercial forces?

First Run Features | 2022 | 72 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Becoming Animal - imageBecoming Animal

An urgent and immersive audiovisual quest, forging a path into the places where humans and other animals meet.

Bullfrog Films | 2018 | 79 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults

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