Frederick Wiseman

A film about the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital. The film is concerned with how people face death. More ...

A film by Frederick Wiseman following the ins and outs of 7 ballets by the Paris Opera Ballet.

An epic look at Boston’s city government, covering racial justice, housing, climate action, and more.

A portrait of the day-to-day operations of the National Gallery of London, that reveals the role of the employees and the experiences of the ...

Direct cinema pioneer Frederick Wiseman takes an in-depth look at the preeminent American university during a fall semester that saw a vigorous ...

A cinéma vérité look inside Paris’ Crazy Horse, a club that boasts the greatest and most chic nude dancing in the world.

WELFARE shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute ...

JUVENILE COURT shows the complex variety of cases before the Memphis Juvenile Court: foster home placement, drug abuse, armed robbery, child ...

Essene is about daily life in a Benedictine monastery and the resolution of conflict between personal needs and the institutional and ...

Shot during the summer of 1970 at Fort Knox, Kentucky, Frederick Wiseman’s film Basic Training focuses on a group of men going through infantry ...

Daily activities of the Metropolitan Hospital in New York City, with emphasis on the emergency ward and outpatient clinics. The cases depicted ...

LAW & ORDER surveys the wide range of work the police are asked to perform: enforcing the law, maintaining order, and providing general ...

Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside Northeast High School as a fly on the wall to observe the teachers and how they interact ...

A stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and ...

Founded in 1930, Troisgros has held three Michelin stars for 55 years. The children of the fourth generation, Marie-Pierre and Michel’s ...

A documentary about how a dominant cultural and demographic institution both sustains their traditional activities and adapts to the digital ...

Legendary documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman (At Berkeley, National Gallery) explores the culture, politics and daily life of the Queens, ...