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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:

Althusser, an Intellectual Adventure - imageAlthusser, an Intellectual Adventure

Centered around the only filmed interview ever given by acclaimed French philosopher Louis Althusser, who murdered his wife, Helene, a few weeks after the interview was given.

Icarus Films | 2016 | 55 minutes
Ama - imageAma

The untold story of the involuntary sterilization of Native American women by the Indian Health Service well into the 1970s.

Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 74 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Amateur Photographer - imageAmateur Photographer

The story of a German soldier and the photographs that he took, while serving on the Eastern Front during WWII.

Icarus Films | 2004 | 26 minutes | 11-12, College, Adult
America's Brutal Prisons - imageAmerica's Brutal Prisons

Exposes the violence occurring inside prisons throughout America, where prisoners are routinely abused, even tortured, by prison guards.

Icarus Films | 2005 | 48 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie - imageAmerica's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie

Tells the story of one of the most astonishing alterations of nature, the North American tallgrass prairie.

Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 60 minutes | 6-12, College, Adult
American Feud - imageAmerican Feud

A non-partisan classroom friendly documentary tracing the American story of liberalism and conservatism.

Nerds Make Media | 2017 | 86 minutes
American Outrage - imageAmerican Outrage

Two elderly Western Shoshone sisters, the Danns, put up a heroic fight for their land rights and human rights.

Bullfrog Films | 2008 | 56 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
An Apollo Legend - imageAn Apollo Legend

One night a week, the stage at the Apollo Theater is an amateur's battleground, where performers have competed for stardom since 1934. Today, the legend of Ella Fitzgerald lives on in the hearts of those who pray for their own big break.

MediaStorm | 2008 | 18 minutes | 4-12, college, adults
An Ecology of Hope - imageAn Ecology of Hope

Pierre Dansereau, ecologist, visionary and inveterate optimist, believes that while the environment may be threatened by human beings, it will also be saved by them.

National Film Board of Canada | 2001 | 84 minutes
An Ecology of Mind - imageAn Ecology of Mind

A daughter's loving film portrait of one of the 20th century's most influential thinkers, Gregory Bateson, anthropologist, systems theorist and ecologist.

Bullfrog Films | 2011 | 60 minutes | 9 - 12, College, Adults

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