Collections Highlight: Docuseek

screenshot of the Docuseek homepage displaying tiles of movie stills with title screens. The Docuseek logo is displayed above the movie tiles.

The Libraries continually strive to expand access to relevant resources that benefit the entire community. This highlight shares the interesting and high-quality resources we’ve recently added to our collection. We encourage you to explore and engage with the rich diversity of content the Libraries work hard to curate for the university.


Docuseek

The Libraries are happy to announce streaming access to approximately 2,800 high-quality academic documentaries curated by Docuseek. The film database streams essential independent, social-issue and environmental films to universities, providing exclusive access to content from renowned leaders in documentary film. These films are distributed by video publishers such as Bullfrog, Collective Eye, dGenerate, Fanlight, First Run Features, Good Docs, Icarus, KimStim, the National Film Board of Canada and Women Make Movies.

screenshot of the Docuseek database displaying the 'Popular Films' and other important topics
1. Highlighting popular films and important topics
screenshot of the Docuseek database highlighting the 'new release' section.
2. Browse new releases
screenshot of the Docuseek database highlighting the search bar where you can filter based on subject or distributor
3. Filter results based on subject or source / distributor

Docuseek’s portal allows users to discovery documentary content in a number of ways:
1. by highlighting popular films and important topics.
2. browse new releases, and
3. filter results based on subject or source / distributor.

We hope these educational films become popular quickly amongst our faculty, staff and students. They are great resources to enhance interdisciplinary coursework!


If you have any questions about this announcement or the Libraries collections, please reach out to Matt Gallagher (gallaghm@binghamton.edu), director of collection development.