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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:

Bastards: Outcast in Morocco - imageBastards: Outcast in Morocco

Documents one woman's fight to have her sham marriage recognized and her daughter legitimized by the Moroccan judicial system.

Icarus Films | 2014 | 83 minutes
Bauhaus Spirit - imageBauhaus Spirit

How do we want to live, where do we want to go? The film tells the fascinating story of the Bauhaus movement and explores its current significance as an artistic and social force.

Icarus Films | 2018 | 90 minutes
Beatrix Farrand's American Landscapes - imageBeatrix Farrand's American Landscapes

Lynden B. Miller explores the life and work of America's first female landscape architect, Beatrix Farrand.

Bullfrog Films | 2020 | 62 minutes | 7 - 12, College, Adults
Beethoven's Hair - imageBeethoven's Hair

Traces the journey of a lock of Beethoven's hair, culminating in the scientific analysis that reveals Beethoven's medical secret.

Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 84 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Before The Flood II - Gong Tan - imageBefore The Flood II - Gong Tan

Yan Yu follows BEFORE THE FLOOD with this profile of the residents of Gongtan, a 1700-year-old village soon to be demolished by a hydroelectric dam project.

dGenerate Films | 2008 | 60 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Before the Flood I - imageBefore the Flood I

The residents of the historic Chinese city of Fengjie clash with officials forcing them to evacuate their homes to make way for the world's largest dam.

dGenerate Films | 2005 | 147 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Beijing Besieged by Waste - imageBeijing Besieged by Waste

Wang Jiu-liang travels to more than 500 landfills, documenting Beijing's unholy cycle of consumption.

dGenerate Films | 2011 | 72 minutes | 10-12, college, Adult
Berlin 1885: The Division of Africa - imageBerlin 1885: The Division of Africa

The story of the first international conference on Africa, which established its division amongst the European powers, and created Congo as a personal possession of the Belgian king.

Icarus Films | 2010 | 84 minutes | 11-12, College, Adult
Between Madness and Art - imageBetween Madness and Art

The story of Dr. Hans Prinzhorn (1886-1933) and his collection of art by schizophrenic patients.

Icarus Films | 2007 | 75 minutes | 11-12, College, Adult
Between Two Worlds - imageBetween Two Worlds

A personal essay revealing the passionate debates over identity and generational change inside today's American Jewish community.

Bullfrog Films | 2011 | 70 minutes | College, Adults

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