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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:

Close Relations (Rodnye) - imageClose Relations (Rodnye)

Russian citizen and Soviet-born Ukrainian native Vitaly Mansky crisscrosses Ukraine to explore country’s society after the Maidan revolution.

Icarus Films | 2016 | 114 minutes
Cocaine Unwrapped - imageCocaine Unwrapped

Documents the devastating effects of the war on drugs and suggests realistic alternatives.

Bullfrog Films | 2013 | 83 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Code Black - imageCode Black

Unprecedented access to the ER at Los Angeles County Hospital provides a doctor's-eye view into the heart of our complex and overburdened healthcare system.

Bullfrog Films | 2015 | 81 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adults
Code Gray - imageCode Gray

Academy Award nominee for Best Short Documentary. Explores four open-ended cases in which nurses confront serious ethical dilemmas in their day-to-day work.

The Fanlight Collection | 1983 | 26 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Codigo Color, Memorias - imageCodigo Color, Memorias

An exploration of racism and skin color in Cuba during the 1950s.

Icarus Films | 2015 | 30 minutes
Come Hell or High Water - imageCome Hell or High Water

When the graves of former slaves are bulldozed in Mississippi, a Boston teacher returns home to protect the community his ancestors settled.

Bullfrog Films | 2014 | 56 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
Coming to Light - imageComing to Light

An in-depth portrait of Edward S. Curtis, the preeminent photographer of North American Indians.

Bullfrog Films | 2000 | 84 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Community Voices - imageCommunity Voices

A multi-cultural array of patients, clinicians, and other healthcare workers explore the many ways that differences in culture, race and ethnicity affect health and the delivery of healthcare services.

The Fanlight Collection | 2001 | 69 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Company Town - imageCompany Town

A grassroots movement challenges Citizens United, corporate power, and moguls of the "sharing economy" to stop gentrification and wrest back control of San Francisco's future.

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 77 minutes | 9 - 12, College, Adults
Complicit - imageComplicit

A benzene-poisoned, Foxconn factory worker takes his fight against the global smartphone industry from his hospital bed in China to the international stage.

Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 89 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adults

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