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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:

Rebels on Pointe - imageRebels on Pointe

The first-ever documentary film celebrating the world famous Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the notorious all-male, drag ballet company founded over 40 years ago.

Icarus Films | 2016 | 90 minutes
Red Persimmons - imageRed Persimmons

A visually elegant paean to the cultivation and harvesting of the sweet red fruit, and the disappearance of a traditional way of life in rural Japan.

Icarus Films | 2001 | 90 minutes | 11-12, College, Adult
Redefining Prosperity - imageRedefining Prosperity

The story of how a mining town recovered from its legacy of pollution and prospered by building community around the battle to save their beautiful river.

Bullfrog Films | 2018 | 57 minutes | Grades 7-12, College, Adult
Reflection: A Walk With Water - imageReflection: A Walk With Water

Reckoning with the reality of a changing climate, filmmaker Emmett Brennan walks 200 miles next to the Los Angeles aqueduct in search of a vision for humanity worth living for - what he discovers has everything to do with water.

Bullfrog Films | 2021 | 79 minutes | 7-12, College, Adults
Refrigerator Mothers - imageRefrigerator Mothers

From the 1950's through the 1970's, autism was widely blamed on cold and rejecting mothers. This film explores the devastating impact of this misdiagnosis through the stories of seven mothers and their children.

The Fanlight Collection | 2002 | 53 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Refuge - imageRefuge

Refugees, asylees and caregivers share their stories to help professionals and volunteers understand the needs of the more than a million survivors of torture rebuilding lives in the US.

Bullfrog Films | 2014 | 57 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adults
Reinventing the World: Cities - imageReinventing the World: Cities

Is 'sustainable cities' an oxymoron or can they be made to work?

Bullfrog Films | 2000 | 50 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Reinventing the World: Food - imageReinventing the World: Food

Devising a sustainable food system -- one that is healthy, accessible, and affordable.

Bullfrog Films | 2000 | 49 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Reinventing the World: Work and Time - imageReinventing the World: Work and Time

A program about stress. How we can overcome being over-worked and out of time?

Bullfrog Films | 2000 | 50 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Remembrance of Things to Come - imageRemembrance of Things to Come

Ostensibly a portrait of photographer Denise Bellon, Chris Marker romps through the world of thought, feeling and history.

Icarus Films | 2001 | 42 minutes | College, Adult

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