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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:

OCD: The War Inside - imageOCD: The War Inside

The personal stories of people fighting to survive a war in their minds: dealing with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

National Film Board of Canada | 2001 | 71 minutes
Oil and Water - imageOil and Water

Two boys come of age looking for solutions to the global problem of reckless oil drilling following years of oil contamination in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Bullfrog Films | 2014 | 78 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Old or New? - imageOld or New?

In Lima, Peru, a new generation of top chefs are cooking with traditional ingredients and supporting traditional livelihoods.

Bullfrog Films | 2013 | 29 minutes | 7-12, College, Adults
On the Border of the Ideal - imageOn the Border of the Ideal

How do ideals survive in times of deep crisis?

Dutch CORE | 2022 | 49 minutes
On the Inside of a Military Dictatorship - imageOn the Inside of a Military Dictatorship

Takes the viewer into the crisis in the news, behind the scenes, back to when the Myanmar military made their master plan for a so-called disciplined democracy and wrote a very scripted role for their enemy #1, Aung San Suu Kyi.

First Hand Films | 2019 | 54 minutes
Once Was Water - imageOnce Was Water

Las Vegas provides an example to the world of how any city can and must create its own sustainable water solutions.

Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 55 minutes | 7 - 12, College, Adults
One Big Home - imageOne Big Home

Trophy homes threaten Martha's Vineyard. When he feels he is complicit in wrecking the place he calls home, one carpenter takes off his tool belt and picks up a camera.

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 88 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
One Day Pina Asked... - imageOne Day Pina Asked...

An encounter between two of the most remarkable women artists of the 20th century, ONE DAY PINA ASKED... is Chantal Akerman's look at the work of choreographer Pina Bausch and her Wuppertal, Germany-based dance company.

Icarus Films | 1983 | 57 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
One in 2000 - imageOne in 2000

One in two thousand babies are born with anatomy that doesn't clearly mark them as either male or female. This provocative documentary demystifies the issue through intimate profiles of people born intersex.

The Fanlight Collection | 2006 | 26 minutes
Open Bethlehem - imageOpen Bethlehem

The filmmaker comes home to Bethlehem to find the city being strangled by the Wall and ongoing Israeli settlements, and starts a campaign to keep Bethlehem open to the world.

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 90 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adults

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