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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:

The Burden of Knowledge - imageThe Burden of Knowledge

Explores the difficult ethical issues arising from advances in biotechnology that make it possible to identify genetic defects during pregnancy.

The Fanlight Collection | 1994 | 54 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
The Celine Archive - imageThe Celine Archive

In 1932, Celine Navarro was buried alive by her own community in Northern California. This is an attempt to uncover the real story, revealing Navarro’s feminism and resistance in a time when neither was embraced, as well as the silences that haunt Filipino-American communities to this day.

Women Make Movies | 2020 | 69 minutes | College, Adults
The Changing Sea - imageThe Changing Sea

Decodes the signals that the ocean is sending us. Is the ocean's chemistry being compromised by increased acidity, less oxygen and warming temperatures?

Bullfrog Films | 2012 | 44 minutes | 8-12, College, Adult
The Chicago Maternity Center Story - imageThe Chicago Maternity Center Story

The struggle to keep the Chicago Maternity Center open after 75 years.

Kartemquin Films | 1976 | 60 minutes
The Children of 209 Saint-Maur Street - imageThe Children of 209 Saint-Maur Street

An emotional piece of experimental historiography which focuses on French children whose lives were upended by World War II.

Icarus Films | 2020 | 100 minutes
The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg - imageThe Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg

The entrepreneur, diplomat and art collector Uli Sigg has played a role in the transformation of China's art world since the 1970s.

Icarus Films | 2016 | 93 minutes
The Chocolate Farmer - imageThe Chocolate Farmer

This tender and moving tale captures a year in the life of a Belize cacao farm family.

National Film Board of Canada | 2010 | 52 minutes
The City Dark (83 minute version) - imageThe City Dark (83 minute version)

The definitive story of light pollution and the disappearing stars.

Bullfrog Films | 2012 | 83 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
The Clitoris - imageThe Clitoris

A provocative and often humorous documentary exploring the 'mysteries' of female sexuality, focusing on the clitoris.

Icarus Films | 2003 | 60 minutes | College, Adult
The Coming War on China - imageThe Coming War on China

John Pilger reveals that the United States and China, both nuclear-armed, may well be on the road to war. The film is both a warning and an inspiring story of resistance.

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 112 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults

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