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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 Sense of Wonder - imageA Sense of Wonder

Rachel Carson's love for the natural world and her fight to defend it.

Bullfrog Films | 2009 | 55 minutes | Grades 7-12, College, Adult
A Sentence for Two - imageA Sentence for Two

The film contrasts the stories of prison inmates who are forced to give their newborn baby up with a prison nursery where infants spend the first year of life alongside their mothers.

The Fanlight Collection | 2008 | 58 minutes
A Silent Transformation - imageA Silent Transformation

The transformative power of the co-operative enterprise model, illustrated with many inspirational examples.

Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 70 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adults
A Tribe of His Own - imageA Tribe of His Own

Indian journalist reminds us of the meaning of responsible journalism.

Bullfrog Films | 2002 | 50 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
A Veiled Revolution - imageA Veiled Revolution

Considers the possible reasons for modern Egyptian women's turn back to tradition.

Icarus Films | 1982 | 26 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
A Will for the Woods - imageA Will for the Woods

Clark Wang's passionate wish for a legacy of green burials inspires a profoundly affecting and optimistic portrait of people finding meaning in death.

Bullfrog Films | 2014 | 61 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adults
AWAKE, A Dream from Standing Rock - imageAWAKE, A Dream from Standing Rock

Documents the story of Native-led defiance of construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline that has forever changed the fight for clean water, our environment and the future of our planet. The film asks: 'Are you ready to join the fight?'

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 89 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adults
Abandoned - imageAbandoned

Exposé of the horrifying results of the 1996 immigration law.

Bullfrog Films | 2001 | 55 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Able to Laugh - imageAble to Laugh

Enter the world of disability as interpreted by six professional comics, who happen to be disabled.

The Fanlight Collection | 1993 | 27 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Aboriginal Architecture - imageAboriginal Architecture

New structures in seven North American Native communities that reinterpret traditional forms for contemporary purposes.

Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 93 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult

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