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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 God Squad and the Case of the Northern Spotted Owl - imageThe God Squad and the Case of the Northern Spotted Owl

A rare, behind-the-scenes look at the way politics shape environmental policy.

Bullfrog Films | 2001 | 57 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
The Good Breast - imageThe Good Breast

Explores the cultural and emotional roots of the loss of the breast through the intimate stories of four breast cancer patients and their surgeons.

Icarus Films | 2016 | 94 minutes
The Great Flood - imageThe Great Flood

Filmmaker Bill Morrison and musician Bill Frisell evoke the Mississippi River Flood of 1927, and its many legacies.

Icarus Films | 2013 | 80 minutes | 8-12, COLLEGE, ADULT
The Greening of Southie - imageThe Greening of Southie

The story of Boston's first LEED-certified residential green building, and the people who made it possible.

Bullfrog Films | 2008 | 72 minutes | Grades 7 - 12, College, Adult
The Grocer's Son, the Mayor, the Village and the World - imageThe Grocer's Son, the Mayor, the Village and the World

A group of people have gathered in what used to be the village grocery store. Among the vineyards in rural France, they are trying to start a platform for broadcasting documentary films.

Icarus Films | 2020 | 111 minutes
The Hand That Feeds - imageThe Hand That Feeds

Shy sandwich-maker Mahoma Lopez unites his undocumented immigrant coworkers to fight abusive conditions at a popular New York restaurant chain.

Bullfrog Films | 2015 | 84 minutes | 10 -12, College, Adults
The Heretic - imageThe Heretic

Follows Rob Bell, former founder of a megachurch in Michigan, but now an influential writer and speaker, who spreads a message of love and inclusion and searches for what it means to be human.

Bullfrog Films | 2018 | 71 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adults
The Hidden Face of Fear - imageThe Hidden Face of Fear

Neuroscientists and psychologists are approaching a common understanding of how the brain's fear circuitry works, and changes.

Icarus Films | 2008 | 53 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
The Homestretch - imageThe Homestretch

Three homeless teens in Chicago fight to stay in school, graduate, and build a future.

Bullfrog Films | 2014 | 89 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adults
The Human Scale - imageThe Human Scale

Acclaimed architect Jan Gehl and his team are on a humanistic mission to reclaim public space in mega cities for pedestrians (and cyclists) rather than cars.

KimStim | 2012 | 77 minutes

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