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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 collection includes the following titles:

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
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.

Hypnotic Pictures | 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

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