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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:

Biophilic Design - imageBiophilic Design

A design revolution that connects buildings to the natural world, buildings where people feel and perform better.

Bullfrog Films | 2012 | 62 minutes | Grades 7-12, College, Adults
Birth of an Ocean - imageBirth of an Ocean

The story of the ocean's turbulent beginnings and its successive incarnations.

Bullfrog Films | 2012 | 44 minutes | 8-12, College, Adult
Bitter Money - imageBitter Money

Follows a handful of migrant factory workers, both at work where they may labor for more than 12 hours a day and in their off-hours, and as they hang around shabby dorms drinking, dreaming of home, worrying about getting paid, and trying to decide whether their jobs are worth keeping.

dGenerate Films | 2016 | 152 minutes
Bitter Seeds - imageBitter Seeds

The final film in Micha X. Peled's Globalization Trilogy examines the epidemic of suicides amongst India's cotton farmers, deeply in debt after switching to genetically modified seeds.

Bullfrog Films | 2012 | 88 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Black Dawn - imageBlack Dawn

An animated account of Haiti's liberation told through the eyes of two African slaves.

Icarus Films | 1979 | 20 minutes | 8-12, College, Adult
Black Diamonds - imageBlack Diamonds

Examines the escalating drama in Appalachia over mountaintop removal mining.

Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 72 minutes | 7 - 12, College, Adult
Black Girl in Suburbia - imageBlack Girl in Suburbia

For many Black girls raised in the suburbs, the experiences of going to school, playing on the playground, and living day-to-day life is alienating. BLACK GIRL IN SUBURBIA looks at the suburbs of America from the perspective of women of color.

Women Make Movies | 2017 | 54 minutes
Black Mambas - imageBlack Mambas

The Black Mambas are South Africa‘s first all-female anti-poaching unit, chosen by the white and male-dominated conservation authorities. Their fight against poaching challenges the role of women (and men) in their communities and South African society at large.

Autlook | 2022 | 81 minutes | College, Adults
Black Market - imageBlack Market

The sale of bear paws, crocodile hearts, and other rare animal parts form the world's third-largest illegal market. Black Market explores the human passions and ancient beliefs that drive the trade and threaten its most endangered species.

MediaStorm | 2007 | 11 minutes | 7-12, college, adults
Black Sun - imageBlack Sun

A history of the esoteric ideas and myths that served as a breeding ground for Nazi ideology and inspired Adolf Hiter.

Icarus Films | 2009 | 90 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult

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