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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:

Overworked to Suicide - imageOverworked to Suicide

After the recession of the 1990s, Japan’s white collar salarymen increasingly must work arduous hours for fear of losing their jobs. This often leads to depression and suicide.

MediaStorm | 2014 | 10 minutes | 7-12, college, adults
Oyster - imageOyster

Observes the daily life of a family running an oyster farm in a lake on the SE coast of Australia, as they deal with climate change, pollution, and the fickleness of consumers.

Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 80 minutes | 9-12, College, Adults
Panopticon - imagePanopticon

With the spread of electronics and computer networks, privacy is disappearing everywhere, even in the most liberal democracies. What are the implications of this new digital panopticon?

Scorpion TV | 2012 | 57 minutes
Passage - imagePassage

A brilliantly innovative telling of the story of Dr. John Rae who discovered the awful truth about the fate of the Franklin Expedition's attempt to find the Northwest Passage.

Bullfrog Films | 2009 | 108 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Paths of the Soul - imagePaths of the Soul

Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Zhang Yang blurs the border between documentary and fiction to follow a group of Tibetan villagers who leave their families and homes in the small village of Nyima to make a Buddhist 'bowing pilgrimage' - laying their bodies flat on the ground after every few steps - along the 1,200 mile road to Lhasa, the holy capital of Tibet.

Icarus Films | 2016 | 117 minutes
Phoenix Dance - imagePhoenix Dance

Dancer Homer Avila lost his right leg and most of his hip to cancer and thought he'd never dance again until choreographer Alonzo King challenged expectations of what it means to be 'disabled.'

The Fanlight Collection | 2006 | 22 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
PicturePerfect - imagePicturePerfect

This lively and engaging video explores the impact media has on young women's physical, psychological and emotional health, and offers tools to begin dissecting the media that influence our behaviors, attitudes, and values.

The Fanlight Collection | 2002 | 40 minutes
Pilgrims and Tourists - imagePilgrims and Tourists

In the Altai Republic of Russia and in Northern California, indigenous shamans resist massive government projects that threaten nature and culture.

Bullfrog Films | 2014 | 57 minutes | 9-12, College, Adults
Plane Truths - imagePlane Truths

With the "Pivot to Asia" increased activity at the navy base on Whidbey Island, WA is making life unbearable for locals and wildlife — collateral damage in the ever increasing militarization of our society.

Bullfrog Films | 2018 | 33 minutes | 7 - 9, Colleges, Adults
Planeat - imagePlaneat

Makes the case for a plant-based diet which is good for our bodies, good for the environment and mitigates climate change.

Bullfrog Films | 2011 | 72 minutes | 7-9, College, Adults

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