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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:

The End of the Ottoman Empire - Part One - imageThe End of the Ottoman Empire - Part One

The Ottomans ruled three continents for six centuries. How did their rule end, and how does this history inform politics today? Part one of a two part series.

Icarus Films | 2016 | 54 minutes
The End of the Ottoman Empire - Part Two - imageThe End of the Ottoman Empire - Part Two

The Ottomans ruled three continents for six centuries. How did their rule end, and how does this history inform politics today? Part two of a two-part series.

Icarus Films | 2016 | 52 minutes
The Enemy Within - imageThe Enemy Within

The story of Britain's longest strike, the 1984-85 miners' strike, when Margaret Thatcher declared war on the unions, as told by those who lived through it.

Bullfrog Films | 2015 | 112 minutes | 9 - 12, College, Adults
The Flaw - imageThe Flaw

Tells the story of the credit bubble that caused the financial crash of 2008, and clearly explains how excessive income inequality leads to economic instability.

Bullfrog Films | 2011 | 82 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
The Forest For The Trees - imageThe Forest For The Trees

The amazing story of the fight to clear Earth First! activist Judi Bari's name after her car was bombed and she was arrested as a terrorist.

Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 57 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
The Forgotten Space - imageThe Forgotten Space

A panoramic and essayistic portrait of the new global economy and a compelling argument about why it must change.

Icarus Films | 2010 | 112 minutes | 8-12, COLLEGE, ADULT
The Gas Weapon - imageThe Gas Weapon
A clear and much-needed examination of the role natural gas and gas pipelines play in the geopolitics of Russia and Ukraine.
Icarus Films | 2014 | 52 minutes | 8-12, COLLEGE, ADULT
The Ghosts In Our Machine - imageThe Ghosts In Our Machine

Following animal photographer Jo-Anne McArthur over the course of a year, the film illuminates the lives of individual animals living within and rescued from the machine of our modern world.

Bullfrog Films | 2014 | 92 minutes | 8 - 12, College, Adults
The Giant Is Falling - imageThe Giant Is Falling

A sweeping look at the big political events of recent years in South Africa that signify the end of the Jacob Zuma ANC era.

Icarus Films | 2016 | 77 minutes
The Girl With The Rivet Gun - imageThe Girl With The Rivet Gun

An unconventional animated documentary short based on the adventures of three real-life 'Rosie the Riveters'

Bullfrog Films | 2021 | 15 minutes

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