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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:

Prism - imagePrism

The hidden racism of cinematic technology is explored by three dynamic filmmakers in dialogue with one another.

Icarus Films | 2021 | 78 minutes
Prison for Profit - imagePrison for Profit

Whistleblowers, former prisoners and an investigative journalist paint a shocking picture of South Africa’s first privatized prison.

Icarus Films | 2020 | 84 minutes
Private Dicks: Men Exposed - imagePrivate Dicks: Men Exposed

Men talk honestly about their penises.

Icarus Films | 1999 | 55 minutes | College, Adult
Profiled - imageProfiled

Profiled knits the stories of mothers of Black and Latino youth murdered by the NYPD into a powerful indictment of racial profiling and police brutality, and places them within a historical context of the roots of racism in the U.S.

Women Make Movies | 2016 | 52 minutes
Profit and Loss - imageProfit and Loss

From Papua New Guinea to the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, native people fight the loss of land, water, and health to mining and oil industries.

Bullfrog Films | 2014 | 57 minutes | 9-12, College, Adults
Profits of Punishment - imageProfits of Punishment

A critical look at America's booming private prison industry.

Icarus Films | 2001 | 52 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Programmed To Be Fat? - imageProgrammed To Be Fat?

Man-made chemicals may be programming us to be fat - before we're even born.

Bullfrog Films | 2012 | 45 minutes | 7 - 12, College, Adults
Project Z - imageProject Z

An investigation into how war games, worst-case scenarios, complex systems, and networked media produce the very crises they seek to model, predict and report.

Bullfrog Films | 2015 | 74 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Propaganda: The Manufacture of Consent - imagePropaganda: The Manufacture of Consent

How do you control people in a democracy? A handful of thinkers developed the first tools of persuasion in 1914 because World War I had to be promoted in the United States. In less than 50 years, they would create one of the most booming industries of our time: public relations.

Icarus Films | 2020 | 53 minutes
Psychology and the New Heroism - imagePsychology and the New Heroism

Philip Zimbardo and Daniel Ellsberg discuss why some people are willing to take courageous nonviolent action in defense of ethical principles.

Bullfrog Films | 2013 | 87 minutes | 9-12, College, Adults

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