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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:

SPK Complex - imageSPK Complex

The untold story of the anti-psychiatric "Socialist Patient's Collective" in Germany, from the 1970s.

Icarus Films | 2018 | 111 minutes
Sacred Cod - imageSacred Cod

Captures the collapse of the historic cod population in New England, delving into the effects of overfishing, climate change and government policies on fishermen and the fish.

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 65 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adults
Sacred Soil - imageSacred Soil

The Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation exhumes up to 1,000 bodies a year to identify them, and return the remains to their families.

Icarus Films | 2008 | 22 minutes | 8-12, COLLEGE, ADULT
Sacred Water - imageSacred Water

Immerses the viewer into a modern Rwanda rediscovering its heritage in a most secret way: female pleasure.

Icarus Films | 2017 | 60 minutes
Salvador Allende - imageSalvador Allende

Patricio Guzmán tells Allende's story, from his youth in Valparaiso and his early career, to his presidency of Chile and death during the coup of September 11, 1973.

Icarus Films | 2004 | 100 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Salvador Dali: In Search of Immortality - Episode 1 - imageSalvador Dali: In Search of Immortality - Episode 1

Takes viewers on an eye-opening journey through the life and work of the great Salvador Dalí and his longtime muse and collaborator, Gala. Part 1 covers the period 1904 - 1929.

Film Movement LLC | 2018 | 58 minutes
Salvador Dali: In Search of Immortality - Episode 2 - imageSalvador Dali: In Search of Immortality - Episode 2

Takes viewers on an eye-opening journey through the life and work of the great Salvador Dalí and his longtime muse and collaborator, Gala. Part 2 covers the period 1929 - 1982.

Film Movement LLC | 2018 | 58 minutes
Salvador Dali: In Search of Immortality - Episode 3 - imageSalvador Dali: In Search of Immortality - Episode 3

Takes viewers on an eye-opening journey through the life and work of the great Salvador Dalí and his longtime muse and collaborator, Gala. Part 3 covers the period 1982 - 1989.

Film Movement LLC | 2018 | 58 minutes
Sankara's Orphans - imageSankara's Orphans

In 1986, 600 orphans and rural children from Burkina-Faso were sent to Cuba with the mission of learning a trade so they could come back and develop their country, which was undergoing a Revolution. But after the assassination in 1987 of the country's president and the end of the Cold War, how were they to return?

Icarus Films | 2022 | 84 minutes
Saving Mes Aynak - imageSaving Mes Aynak

Afghan archaeologist Qadir Temori races against time to save a 5,000-year-old archaeological site from imminent demolition.

Icarus Films | 2015 | 58 minutes

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