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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:

Midian Farm - imageMidian Farm

A personal historical documentary about Midian Farm, a Canadian back-to-the-land social experiment from the 1970s.

Collective Eye Films | 2018 | 80 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
R21 aka Restoring Solidarity - imageR21 aka Restoring Solidarity

The growing struggle for Palestinian self-determination between 1960 and 1980 was supported by radical left-wing movements worldwide, including Japan.

Collective Eye Films | 2022 | 71 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Watan: Portraits of Syrian Refugees in Jordan - imageWatan: Portraits of Syrian Refugees in Jordan

Watan (Homeland) explores two of the biggest refugee camps in Jordan - Zaatari and Azraq - along with neighbouring city Jerash, to paint intimate portraits of the men, women and children who have found themselves there.

Collective Eye Films | 2018 | 52 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Youth (Spring) - imageYouth (Spring)

Wang Bing's epic profile of Chinese garment workers.

dGenerate Films | 2023 | 215 minutes
One Bullet - imageOne Bullet

The story of the desctruction of one single bullet, told over many years of investigation.

First Hand Films | 2023 | 92 minutes | College, Adults
My Maysoon - imageMy Maysoon

My Maysoon is a tribute to all families who have to live with a missing loved one.

First Hand Films | 2023 | 55 minutes | College, Adults
Rojek - imageRojek

Interviews members of the Islamic State who want to establish a caliphate.

Icarus Films | 2023 | 127 minutes
Looking for Horses - imageLooking for Horses

A film about a friendship between the filmmaker and a fisherman. One lost his mother-tongue because of a stutter, the other lost his hearing during the Bosnian civil war. They look for ways to communicate, while the camera mediates their growing bond.

Lightdox | 2021 | 88 minutes | College, Adults
Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege - imageLittle Palestine, Diary of a Siege

A filmed diary of the daily life in the biggest Palestinian refugee camp – Yarmouk, in Damascus, Syria and its besieged inhabitants, who decided to face bombing, displacement and hunger with rallying, study, music, love and joy.

Lightdox | 2021 | 89 minutes | College, Adults
Penelope, My Love - imagePenelope, My Love

For 18 years, director Claire Doyon has been filming Pénélope, her daughter with autism. Composed of DV tapes, Super 8 reels and HD archives, Penelope My Love traces the relationship between mother and daughter through different stages – the shock of the diagnosis, the fight against it, the resolve, the acceptance and discovery of a different mode of existence.

Lightdox | 2021 | 88 minutes | College, Adults

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