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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:

When Claude Got Shot - imageWhen Claude Got Shot

After being shot in the face by a teenager, can law student Claude find it in himself to forgive his attacker?

371 Productions | 2021 | 94 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Regenerating Life - imageRegenerating Life

Regenerating Life takes an ecological approach to unraveling the climate crisis.

Bullfrog Films | 2023 | 137 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Runner - imageRunner

RUNNER depicts Guor Mading Maker's difficult and triumphant journey from refugee to world-renowned athlete.

Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 87 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Fonko - Episode 1: South Africa + Nigeria - imageFonko - Episode 1: South Africa + Nigeria

The great music revolutions of our times have come from Africa, and the next one is brewing there right now.

First Hand Films | 2014 | 52 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Fonko - Episode 2: Francophone West Africa - imageFonko - Episode 2: Francophone West Africa

Francophone West Africa is bound together by the French language and a common currency, but also by traditions and languages from the vast empires that dominated the region long before colonialism.

First Hand Films | 2014 | 52 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Fonko - Episode 3: Angola + Ghana - imageFonko - Episode 3: Angola + Ghana

Ghana and Angola are two of the fastest growing economies in the world, as well as two countries in midst of a musical revolution.

First Hand Films | 2014 | 52 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels - imageCiné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

Plunges us into the media battle that played out during the Algerian war for independence where cinema was mobilized as a weapon of political struggle against colonialism.

Icarus Films | 2023 | 94 minutes
Eastern Front - imageEastern Front

6 months on the front line of war with a Ukranian medical unit.

Icarus Films | 2023 | 98 minutes
Colette and Justin - imageColette and Justin

A filmmaker interviews his grandparents about their experience of Belgian colonialism.

Icarus Films | 2023 | 89 minutes
Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels - imageNon-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

Re-traces the birth of the Non-Aligned movement, examining how a global project of political emancipation was constituted by the cinematic image.

Icarus Films | 2023 | 100 minutes

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