Frederick Wiseman

THE STORE is a film about the main Neiman-Marcus store and corporate headquarters in Dallas. The sequences in the film include the selection, ...

MODEL shows male and female models at work on TV commercials, fashion shows, magazine covers, and advertising for a variety of products, ...

A former mining town in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, Aspen is now better known as a winter playground for wealthy holidaymakers. Against the ...

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 overview of the day-to-day operations of a Michelin 3-star restaurant in central France.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Monrovia, Indiana explores a small town in rural, mid-America and illustrates how values like community service, duty, spiritual life, generosity ...

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