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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:

Bread Bike - imageBread Bike

Sam, Matt and Mariah are three energetic young people on California’s central coast, un-inspired by what they studied in college, but, with a passion for dough - the bread kind.

Bullfrog Films | 2023 | 19 minutes | 7-12, College, Adults
Beyond Being Silenced: Gyaa Isdlaa - imageBeyond Being Silenced: Gyaa Isdlaa

World-famous Haida artist Robert Davidson stages a potlatch acknowledging centuries of Indigenous abuse by government and colonists, but celebrating the newfound spirit of cultural and societal renewal and reconcilliation.

Bullfrog Films | 2022 | 23 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Dance Me to The End of Time - imageDance Me to The End of Time

Award-winning filmmaker Melanie Chait documents the last four years of her life-partner, outspoken lesbian, artist and theatre director, Nancy Diuguid's life, as she fights breast cancer.

Bullfrog Films | 2021 | 80 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Ecosophia - imageEcosophia

Ecosophia explores the interrelation between energy, the economy, resources, population, psychology, spirituality, the biosphere, the limits to growth and climate change.

Bullfrog Films | 2023 | 77 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Meddle - imageMeddle

Meddle captures Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas‘s artistic process and philosophy as he creates a re-purposed, car-hood art for the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, BC

Bullfrog Films | 2020 | 7 minutes | 7-12, College, Adults
The Oil Machine - imageThe Oil Machine

Our economic, historical and emotional entanglement with oil gets ever more complex as we hurtle towards climate breakdown. Is the era of North Sea oil over?

Bullfrog Films | 2023 | 81 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Works For All - imageWorks For All

Since 2011, Cincinnati has been home to Co-op Cincy, a unique network of activists and unionized cooperatives that are building a more equitable economy from the ground up.

Bullfrog Films | 2023 | 31 minutes | 7-12, College, Adults
The Boxers of Brule - imageThe Boxers of Brule

This is the story of the 23 years old, Shaionna Grass Rope, who lost her best friend Cheryl Ziegler to suicide. Cheryl—her cousin by blood and sister by culture—was an aspiring boxer who battled depression and addiction.

Collective Eye Films | 2019 | 38 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Deciding Vote - imageDeciding Vote

Deciding Vote shares the now-forgotten story of how New York State Assemblyman George Michaels defied his conservative and religious constituents by casting the critical tie-breaking vote on a bill which legalized abortion in the state of New York, laying the groundwork for Roe v Wade.

Collective Eye Films | 2022 | 20 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Jackson - imageJackson

Set against the backdrop of the fight to close the last abortion clinic in Mississippi, Jackson captures the essential and hard truth of the lives at the center of the debate over reproductive healthcare in America.

Collective Eye Films | 2018 | 93 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults

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