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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:

Death On Request - imageDeath On Request

Controversial documentary records the last days - and actual death - of a Dutch man who chose euthanasia to end his suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Icarus Films | 1994 | 57 minutes | College, Adult
Decade of Fire - imageDecade of Fire

In the 1970s, the Bronx was on fire. Abandoned by the city government, nearly a half-million people were displaced as their close-knit, multi-ethnic neighborhood burned, reducing the community to rubble.

GOOD DOCS | 2018 | 75 minutes
Deconstructing Supper - imageDeconstructing Supper

A leading chef investigates food safety in the age of GMOs and industrial agriculture.

Bullfrog Films | 2002 | 48 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Delphine's Prayers - imageDelphine's Prayers

A portait of Delphine, a Cameroonian woman who turned to prostitution to support her family.

Icarus Films | 2021 | 91 minutes
Democracy Road - imageDemocracy Road

A documentary road movie following the journalists of Burmese independent radio station DVB in Myanmar in a critical phase of the establishment of the newborn democracy.

Icarus Films | 2016 | 60 minutes
Democracy on Deadline - imageDemocracy on Deadline

A survey of journalists working in various media and languages around the world, as they grapple with their relationships to government, and the dangers of speaking truth to power.

Icarus Films | 2006 | 114 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Denial - imageDenial

A film about electricity, identity, family, and about the many ways we lie to ourselves when faced with overwhelming facts. It is the story of a family coming to terms with hard personal truths against the backdrop of a global crisis.

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 92 minutes | 10 -12, College, Adults
Derrida's Elsewhere - imageDerrida's Elsewhere

An exploration of the life and ideas of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), arguably the most important philosopher of the 20th Century.

Icarus Films | 2000 | 68 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Detropia - imageDetropia

Academy Award-shortlisted for Best Documentary, the film is a vivid portrait of Detroit, America's first major post-industrial city, as it struggles to deal with the consequences of a broken economic system.

Bullfrog Films | 2012 | 86 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Dido and Aeneas - imageDido and Aeneas

The critically-acclaimed Mark Morris dance production of the baroque operatic masterwork.

Bullfrog Films | 1996 | 55 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult

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