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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:

Black Wave - imageBlack Wave

The story of the Exxon Valdez and the 20-year legal battle to get restitution from ExxonMobil.

Bullfrog Films | 2010 | 99 minutes | 7-12, College, Adults
Blind Trust - imageBlind Trust

Examines the lifetime work of Nobel Peace Prize nominee Vamik Volkan, a psychiatrist who brings enemy groups together for dialogue in traumatized areas of the globe.

Bullfrog Films | 2021 | 58 minutes
Blowback - imageBlowback

BLOWBACK is a dynamic exploration of the representation of the wars in Iraq (2003-2011) and Afghanistan (2001-2021) in world cinema which argues that films function as resonant cultural artifacts that shape how the conflicts come to be understood and remembered by audiences at the time, and those of generations to come.

Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 30 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Blue Island - imageBlue Island

This creative documentary shows real-life characters recreating protest movements from Hong Kong's modern history.

dGenerate Films | 2022 | 98 minutes
Blue Vinyl - imageBlue Vinyl

Filmmakers Judith Helfand and Daniel B. Gold use humor and chutzpah in their search for the environmental truth about vinyl.

Bullfrog Films | 2004 | 97 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Bluefin - imageBluefin

A story about the extraordinary bluefin tuna, and its questionable future.

Bullfrog Films | 2018 | 53 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adults
Bluespace - imageBluespace

Contrasts sci-fi ideas about terraforming Mars with the state of NYC's waterways, and questions the viability of colonizing Mars before making our own planet sustainable.

Bullfrog Films | 2016 | 73 minutes | 10 -12, College, Adults
Bombay Our City - imageBombay Our City

Tells the story of the daily battle for survival of the 4 million slum dwellers of Bombay who make up half the city’s population.

Anand Patwardhan | 1985 | 75 minutes
Bones of Contention - imageBones of Contention

The first nonfiction feature film to explore the theme of historical memory in Spain, focusing on the repression of lesbians and gays under Franquismo.

Icarus Films | 2017 | 75 minutes
Border South - imageBorder South

A vivid portrait of Central American immigrants who disappear along the trail running from southern Mexico to the US border, exposing a global migration system that renders human beings invisible in life, as well as in death.

Bullfrog Films | 2020 | 82 minutes

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