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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:

A Crack in the Mountain - imageA Crack in the Mountain

Tells the story of the incredible, recently discovered, world's largest cave passage and the opportunity and challenges it presents to the small, impoverished Vietnamese community nearby.

Bullfrog Films | 2022 | 99 minutes | 7-12, College, Adults
Fight Like Hell - imageFight Like Hell

Mother Jones, a fiery orator and fearless organizer for the United Mine Workers during the early part of the 20th century, in a riveting performance by Kaiulani Lee.

Bullfrog Films | 2022 | 55 minutes | 7-12, College, Adults
They Keep Quiet So We Make Noise - imageThey Keep Quiet So We Make Noise

Under cover of the night, ride along with two activists from the Environmental Protection Agency of Kuala Langat in search of illegal recycling facilities while learning about their work to expose, fight and prevent the illegal importation of plastic waste being sent to Malaysia from overseas.

Bullfrog Films | 2021 | 12 minutes | 8-12, College, Adult
Windshipped - imageWindshipped

What started as one man's quixotic dream has turned to reality. For the past three years, the 65-foot Schooner Apollonia has been delivering goods up and down the Hudson River by sail sans fossils fuels - a throwback to a day when there were 1200 such boats on the river each day. It turns out buyers prefer the non-polluting, anti-Amazon way of making deliveries.

Bullfrog Films | 2022 | 39 minutes | 8-12, College, Adults
The Spanish Flu - imageThe Spanish Flu

In April 1918, while Europe was plunged into WWI, an extremely virulent flu swept across every continent. Wrongly called "Spanish flu", it raged for two years, causing the death of more than 50 million people before disappearing and falling into oblivion.

Cinétévé | 2021 | 52 minutes | College, Adults
Iraq's Lost Generation - imageIraq's Lost Generation

International Emmy Award-winner is an unprecedented investigation into a generation of young victims of the war against the Islamic State.

Cinétévé | 2021 | 52 minutes | College, Adults
White Balls on Walls - imageWhite Balls on Walls

Go behind-the-scenes as the staff at Amsterdam's Stedelijk Musuem strives to diversify their art collection, where 90% of the art was made by white men.

Icarus Films | 2023 | 90 minutes
The Five Demands - imageThe Five Demands

A riveting story about the student strike that changed the face of higher education forever.

Icarus Films | 2023 | 74 minutes
Money, Freedom, a Story of the CFA Franc - imageMoney, Freedom, a Story of the CFA Franc

Explores the history of the CFA Franc and monetary colonization in Africa.

Icarus Films | 2023 | 104 minutes
Matter Out of Place - imageMatter Out of Place

Nikolaus Geyrhalter follows waste to the shores, mountains, and ocean floor.

Icarus Films | 2023 | 105 minutes

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