Frederick Wiseman

A window into New York City’s prestigious American Ballet Theatre – its relentless rehearsals, its administrative gears, the lives of ...

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

A 93-year-old director embeds inside a French restaurant that’s held three Michelin stars for more than 50 years.

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 ...

Renowned documentarian Frederick Wiseman profiles the doctors, nurses, physicians, and patients at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, ...

Follows the 4315th Training Squadron of the Strategic Air Command at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, where Air Force officers are ...

This subtle yet effective documentary centers around a group of American soldiers in Germany. The soldiers volunteer to participate in a test of ...

This documentary is interesting because it does not focus just on animals on cages but it also gives the point of view of the staff that are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The film is a stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, ...

MEAT traces the process through which cattle and sheep become consumer goods. It depicts the processing and transportation of meat products by a ...

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE shows the Tampa, Florida police responding to domestic violence calls and the work of The Spring, the principal shelter in ...

The opening scene in this film is of an arrest in Hillsborough County Florida where a woman has scratched her husband while he was trying to ...

RACETRACK is about the Belmont Race Track, one of the world’s leading race tracks for thoroughbred racing. The film highlights the ...

Explores the world of a boxing gym in Austin, Texas, dwelling on the discipline of training as people from all walks of life aspire to reach ...

Wiseman enumerates the sights and sounds of Talladega, Alabama – the railroad tracks, quiet streets and homes, a few shops downtown – ...