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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:

Damages - imageDamages

Behind the scenes at Koskoff, Koskoff and Bieder, a leading law firm specializing in personal injury cases.

Icarus Films | 2008 | 69 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World - imageDark Star: H. R. Giger's World

A mesmerizing introduction to surrealist artist H. R. Giger's oeuvre, who terrified audiences with the monsters of the Alien films; and an intimate look at last years of the artist's life.

Icarus Films | 2014 | 95 minutes
Daughter Rite - imageDaughter Rite

This classic, which explores relationships between mothers and their adult daughters, illustrates the missing link between the 'direct cinema' documentaries and the later hybrids that acknowledged truth couldn't always be found in front of a camera lens.

Women Make Movies | 1978 | 53 minutes
Daughter of a Lost Bird - imageDaughter of a Lost Bird

Kendra Mylnechuk Potter, a Native woman adopted into a white family, reconnects with her Native identity and begins to view herself as a living legacy of U.S. assimilationist policy.

Women Make Movies | 2021 | 66 minutes | College, Adults
Daughters of the Forest - imageDaughters of the Forest

A group of girls in a remote forest in Paraguay are transformed at an experimental high school where they learn to protect the threatened forest and build a future for themselves.

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 56 minutes | 7 - 12, College, Adults
Day One - imageDay One

Traumatized Middle Eastern and African teen refugees are guided through a program of healing by devoted educators at a unique St. Louis public school for refugees only.

Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 82 minutes | 6 - 12, College, Adults
Dead Souls - Part I - imageDead Souls - Part I

Part I of Wang Bing's powerful film of survivors of the Chinese Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957 reeducation camps.

dGenerate Films | 2018 | 166 minutes
Dead Souls - Part II - imageDead Souls - Part II

Part II of Wang Bing's powerful film of survivors of the Chinese Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957 reeducation camps.

dGenerate Films | 2018 | 164 minutes
Dead Souls - Part III - imageDead Souls - Part III

Part III of Wang Bing's powerful film of survivors of the Chinese Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957 reeducation camps.

dGenerate Films | 2018 | 175 minutes
Death By Design - imageDeath By Design

Investigates the underbelly of the international electronics industry and reveals how even the tiniest devices have deadly environmental and health costs.

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 73 minutes | 7 - 9, College, Adults

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