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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 Rescue Brigade - imageThe Rescue Brigade

When Leah Lizarondo learned that every year more than 40% of America’s food is wasted, she decided to do something about it. Today, she is the founder and CEO of 412 Rescue in Pittsburgh, built around an app, a real-world kitchen, and a food rescue mission

Bullfrog Films | 2022 | 9 minutes | 7-12, College, Adults
The Return - imageThe Return

After California's "Three Strikes" law was amended, thousands of lifers were suddenly freed, but re-entry presented problems for the lifers, their families and their communities.

Bullfrog Films | 2016 | 83 minutes | 9 - 12, Adults
The Return of Sara Baartman - imageThe Return of Sara Baartman

After years of unsettling negotiation with France, South Africa finally welcomes home the remains of Sara Baartman in an historic event of repatriation.

Icarus Films | 2003 | 55 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
The Return of the Cuyahoga - imageThe Return of the Cuyahoga

The story of the death and rebirth of one of America's most emblematic waterways.

Bullfrog Films | 2008 | 57 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
The Sandwich Generation - imageThe Sandwich Generation

Millions of middle-aged Americans are caring for their children as well as their aging parents. When parents Ed and Julie took in her 83-year-old father, they decided to document their own story.

MediaStorm | 2006 | 14 minutes | 4-12, college, adults
The Savoy King - imageThe Savoy King

The story of Chick Webb, who virtually invented modern drumming and built the hottest Swing orchestra of the 1930s - the "house band" of The Savoy Ballroom

Collective Eye Films | 2022 | 60 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
The Scientist, the Imposter and Stalin - imageThe Scientist, the Imposter and Stalin

Two extraordinary human destinies, caught up in the implacable political machinery of the burgeoning Soviet Union of the 1920s, prey to famine.

Icarus Films | 2017 | 55 minutes
The Search - imageThe Search

Follows three people as they deal with the legacy and personal damage of the civil war that ravaged Peru for 20 years.

Icarus Films | 2018 | 75 minutes
The Secret Life of Babies - Part One - imageThe Secret Life of Babies - Part One

Part One - Prenatal psychology. The first of a two-part examination of the psychological development of babies, from intrauterine life to the first months after birth. How do fetuses and babies perceive their worlds, and ours?

Icarus Films | 2005 | 43 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
The Secret Life of Babies - Part Two - imageThe Secret Life of Babies - Part Two

Part Two - Post-natal psychology. Part two of a two-part examination of the psychological development of babies, from intrauterine life to the first months after birth. How do fetuses and babies perceive their worlds, and ours?

Icarus Films | 2005 | 43 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult

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