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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 collection includes the following titles:

Matter Out of Place - imageMatter Out of Place

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

Icarus Films | 2023 | 105 minutes
Mayan Voices: American Lives - imageMayan Voices: American Lives

Contrasts the experiences of Mayan families who came to Indiantown, Florida as refugees fleeing the violence in Guatemala in the early 1980s, with the struggles of those continuing to arrive in search of better lives.

Icarus Films | 1994 | 56 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
Mayor - imageMayor

A real-life political saga following Musa Hadid, the Christian mayor of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, during his second term in office.

Film Movement LLC | 2020 | 89 minutes
McLibel - imageMcLibel

McLIBEL is the story of two ordinary people who humbled McDonald's in the biggest corporate PR disaster in history.

Bullfrog Films | 2005 | 85 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Meat the Future - imageMeat the Future

Follows Dr. Uma Valeti, co-founder and CEO of leading "cultivated" meat startup Upside Foods, as he and his team develop and perfect a game-changing solution to a global, unsustainable hunger for meat.

Bullfrog Films | 2021 | 88 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Meddle - imageMeddle

Meddle captures Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas‘s artistic process and philosophy as he creates a re-purposed, car-hood art for the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, BC

Bullfrog Films | 2020 | 7 minutes | 7-12, College, Adults
Meishi Street - imageMeishi Street

Ordinary citizens take a stand against the planned destruction of their homes to make way for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

dGenerate Films | 2012 | 85 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Meltdown In Dixie - imageMeltdown In Dixie

In Orangeburg, South Carolina, a battle erupts between the Sons of Confederate Veterans and an ice cream shop owner forced to fly the Confederate flag in his parking lot.

Bullfrog Films | 2021 | 54 minutes | 6 - 12, College, Adults
Microtopia - imageMicrotopia

Explores how architects, artists and ordinary problem-solvers are pushing the limits of living space. How low can you go?

Icarus Films | 2013 | 52 minutes
Midian Farm - imageMidian Farm

A personal historical documentary about Midian Farm, a Canadian back-to-the-land social experiment from the 1970s.

Collective Eye Films | 2018 | 80 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults

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