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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 Ninth Floor - imageThe Ninth Floor

In an apartment above Fifth Avenue, some thirty young people live in a vortex of drug addiction and despair. Jessica Dimmock enters this world, exploring what has been lost and what may be recovered.

MediaStorm | 2007 | 14 minutes | college, adults
The Other Side of Everything - imageThe Other Side of Everything

A Belgrade apartment divided in two—with one half that has been locked for more than 30 years—tells the story of Serbia's political turmoil.

Icarus Films | 2017 | 104 minutes
The Paper - imageThe Paper

A year in the life of one of the country's biggest college newspapers, Penn State's The Daily Collegian, as it struggles with declining circulation and difficult choices about how to represent its diverse readership.

Icarus Films | 2007 | 78 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
The Perfumed Garden - imageThe Perfumed Garden
An exploration of the myths and realities of sensuality and sexuality in Arab society.
Icarus Films | 2000 | 52 minutes | 11-12, College, Adult
The Pinochet Case - imageThe Pinochet Case

The story of the landmark legal case against General Augusto Pinochet of Chile, before and after his arrest in London in 1998.

Icarus Films | 2001 | 109 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
The Poets - imageThe Poets

Follows two West African poets and lifelong friends, Syl Cheney-Coker and Niyi Osundare, as they travel through their home countries of Sierra Leone and Nigeria to explore what has shaped their art.

Icarus Films | 2018 | 99 minutes
The Price of Aid - imageThe Price of Aid

An investigation of America's food aid programs for famine-stricken nations, a multi-million dollar business, which asks both U.S. and African government officials whether such aid creates more problems than it solves.

Icarus Films | 2004 | 55 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
The Providers - imageThe Providers

Three healthcare providers bring care to a rural American community, showing the transformative power of providers' relationships with marginalized patients.

Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 82 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adults
The R-Word - imageThe R-Word

THE R-WORD is an intimate look at the history of the word ‘retard(ed),’ cultural representation, and the challenges and triumphs of people living with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Women Make Movies | 2020 | 65 minutes
The Red Soul - imageThe Red Soul

Why do so many Russians still defend Stalin as a great leader and a hero? Russians speak openly about Joseph Stalin and their traumas, rooted in a violent history.

Icarus Films | 2017 | 90 minutes

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