Main content

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.

New to Docuseek? Please register and login to preview and/or license this collection. If your institution has already licensed this collection, you will need to access this page from your institution's network to watch the film. For help on using Docuseek2, please visit our help wiki.

The Docuseek Essential Collection includes the following titles:

South - imageSouth

Chantal Akerman explores the mental and physical landscape of the American South through the horrific modern-day lynching of James Byrd, Jr. in Jasper, Texas.

Icarus Films | 1999 | 70 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
South Africa Belongs to Us - imageSouth Africa Belongs to Us

Aided by two black women journalists, the filmmakers visited workers' barracks, a family planning clinic in Soweto, and a shantytown to create the first and most stirring record of black women's lives in South Africa under apartheid.

Icarus Films | 1980 | 57 minutes | 10-12, college, adult
Space Dogs - imageSpace Dogs

Laika, a stray dog, was the first living being sent into space. The adventures of her descendants, living on the streets of Moscow today.

Icarus Films | 2020 | 91 minutes
Spark - imageSpark

Filmmaker Hu Jie—who has been described as “China’s most important unofficial historian-filmmaker”—tracks down the surviving men and women of the political magazine, Spark, and allows them to tell their stories.

dGenerate Films | 2019 | 114 minutes
Spears From All Sides - imageSpears From All Sides

Continuing the story started in Trinkets and Beads (1995), in Ecuador, the Waorani people resist the destruction of one of most remote and beautiful areas of the world.

Icarus Films | 2019 | 90 minutes
Split Estate - imageSplit Estate

Documents the devastating effect that fracking for natural gas and oil is having on the health of families and the environment in the Rocky Mountain West.

Bullfrog Films | 2009 | 76 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
State of Terrorism - Part 1 - imageState of Terrorism - Part 1

The war that was launched in the name of defense of our democracies might have become its biggest threat.

Icarus Films | 2022 | 52 minutes
State of Terrorism - Part 2 - imageState of Terrorism - Part 2

The war that was launched in the name of defense of our democracies might have become its biggest threat.

Icarus Films | 2022 | 52 minutes
Stateless - imageStateless

Through the grassroots campaign of attorney Rosa Iris, STATELESS reveals the depths of racial hatred and institutionalized oppression that divide Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Women Make Movies | 2020 | 96 minutes
Stay or Go? - imageStay or Go?

Who will grow China's food as young people leave the countryside for the cities?

Bullfrog Films | 2013 | 29 minutes | 7-12, College, Adults

Visit the title page to preview any of the titles above.