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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:

A Is for Architecture - imageA Is for Architecture

A classic look at how architecture reflects the sentiments and values of the time.

National Film Board of Canada | 1959 | 29 minutes
A Jury of Her Peers - imageA Jury of Her Peers

This riveting feminist classic probes the notion of women’s victimization and justifiable homicide and opens the possibility for the creation of an alternate, feminist justice and judgment.

Women Make Movies | 1980 | 30 minutes
A Maid for Each - imageA Maid for Each

The world of maid service in Lebanon.

Icarus Films | 2016 | 67 minutes
A Man's Place - imageA Man's Place

Confronted with unforeseen pregnancies and, in most cases, abortions, men reveal their feelings and thoughts.

Icarus Films | 2017 | 58 minutes
A Mother Never Gives up Hope - imageA Mother Never Gives up Hope

Candid stories of four older women who are dealing with abuse at the hands of an adult son.

Terra Nova Films | 2009 | 42 minutes
A Natural History of Laughter - imageA Natural History of Laughter

A lively look at the latest developments in the scientific study of laughter.

Icarus Films | 2011 | 48 minutes | 8-12, COLLEGE, ADULT
A Place Between: The Story of an Adoption - imageA Place Between: The Story of an Adoption

A dramatic story of the reconciliation between biological and adoptive families for a cross-cultural adoptee.

National Film Board of Canada | 2007 | 75 minutes
A Quest for Meaning - imageA Quest for Meaning

Two childhood friends take an impromptu road trip attempting to uncover the causes of our current global crisis and discover a way to bring about change.

Bullfrog Films | 2018 | 87 minutes | 9 - 12, College, Adults
A Reckoning in Boston - imageA Reckoning in Boston

A rigorous night course in the humanities at a community center in the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester illuminates the glaring gap between rich and poor, Black and white, in an ostensibly prosperous and progressive city.

Bullfrog Films | 2022 | 84 minutes
A Sea Change - imageA Sea Change

Ocean acidification threatens over one million species with extinction--and with them, our entire way of life.

Bullfrog Films | 2009 | 83 minutes | 5-12, College, Adult

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