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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:

Dirty Business - imageDirty Business

Reveals the true social and environmental costs of coal power and looks at promising developments in renewable energy technology.

Bullfrog Films | 2011 | 90 minutes | 8-12, College, Adult
Disorder - imageDisorder

Huang Weikai collects footage from a dozen amateur videographers and weaves them into a unique symphony of urban social dysfunction.

dGenerate Films | 2009 | 58 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Disturbing the Peace - imageDisturbing the Peace

A film about people born into conflict, sworn to be enemies, Palestinians and Israelis, who challenged their fate and joined together to say "enough."

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 86 minutes | 9 - 12, College Adults
Divide In Concord - imageDivide In Concord

A fiery octogenarian activist spearheads a grassroots campaign to ban the sale of single-serve plastic bottled water in Concord, MA.

Bullfrog Films | 2015 | 82 minutes | 5 - 12, College, Adults
Division of Hearts - imageDivision of Hearts

Ordinary people from Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh recount their tumultuous experiences after the 1947 British subdivision of colonial India.

Icarus Films | 1987 | 57 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Do Communists Have Better Sex? - imageDo Communists Have Better Sex?

In divided Germany, studies showed that East Germans enjoyed their sexual lives more than their West German counterparts. What could account for the difference?

Icarus Films | 2006 | 52 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Don't Give Up Your Voice! - imageDon't Give Up Your Voice!

Looks at the inspirational resistance of Argentinians to the government of Mauricio Macri, whose election preceded Trump's but whose style and policies are eerily similar.

Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 41 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Donka: X-Ray of an African Hospital - imageDonka: X-Ray of an African Hospital

Daily life in the largest public hospital in the Republic of Guinea

Icarus Films | 1996 | 59 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival - imageDonna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival

A portrait of one of the most important living thinkers in the fields of feminism, science and technology.

Icarus Films | 2017 | 81 minutes
Donna's Story - imageDonna's Story

An intimate portrait of a fiercely determined survivor -- Donna, a Cree woman who left behind a bleak existence on the streets.

National Film Board of Canada | 2001 | 51 minutes

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