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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 Illusion of Abundance - imageThe Illusion of Abundance

Three women share a common goal: Carolina, Maxima, and Bertha (daughter of Berta Caceras) are leading today's fight against modern conquistadors. Whereas governments and corporations, trapped in a global race towards unlimited growth, need to get the cheapest raw materials, these three women tell us a story of tireless courage: how to keep fighting to protect nature when your life is at risk? When police repression, corporate harassment, injuries or even death threats are part of your daily routine?

First Hand Films | 2022 | 58 minutes
The Internationale - imageThe Internationale

Draws on people's stories of an emotionally charged radical song (the long-time anthem of socialism and communism) to celebrate the relationship between music and social change.

Icarus Films | 2000 | 30 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
The Intolerable Burden - imageThe Intolerable Burden

One black family's commitment to a quality education, from the pre-1965 time of segregation, through desegregation, and through the recent period of resegregation. **Winner, John E. O'Connor Film Award, American Historical Association**

Icarus Films | 2003 | 56 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
The Iron Ministry - imageThe Iron Ministry

Filmed over three years on what will soon be the world's largest railway network, traces the vast interiors of China on the move.

dGenerate Films | 2014 | 83 minutes
The Ister - imageThe Ister

Takes up some of the most challenging paths in Martin Heidegger's thought, inviting the viewer to participate in some of the most provocative questions facing Europe and the world today.

Icarus Films | 2004 | 189 minutes | College, Adult
The Journalist and Her Jailers - imageThe Journalist and Her Jailers

Luna Watfa, a journalist and former political prisoner living in exile in Germany, reports on the men charged with mass detention and torture in Assad’s prisons, at the world’s first trial against members of the Syrian regime, for crimes against humanity.

First Hand Films | 2022 | 83 minutes
The Kill Team - imageThe Kill Team

Shortlisted for Best Documentary, Academy Awards®, Soldier Adam Winfield attempted to thwart atrocities being committed by his platoon in Afghanistan but was then himself charged in one of the largest war crimes investigations in US history.

Bullfrog Films | 2015 | 79 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adults
The Killing of Chico Mendes - imageThe Killing of Chico Mendes

The story of rainforest defender, Chico Mendes, that ended with his 1988 assassination.

Bullfrog Films | 1990 | 55 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
The La$t Market - imageThe La$t Market

Documents the efforts of the multinational corporation Philips to reach the more than five billion potential consumers among the world's poor, the 'bottom of the economic pyramid.' But can profitability fight poverty?

Icarus Films | 2007 | 48 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
The Last Angel of History - imageThe Last Angel of History

An engaging and searing examination of the hitherto unexplored relationships between Pan-African culture, science fiction, intergalactic travel, and rapidly progressing computer technology.

Icarus Films | 1996 | 45 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult

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