Frederick Wiseman Movies

Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman analyzes the interrelation between animals and their human captors at Miami's Metro Zoo. Looking...

Documentarian Frederick Wiseman highlights the educational programs and daily life of all levels of students at the Alabama School for the Blind,...

Legendary documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman explores the culture, politics and daily life of the Queens, NYC district of Jackson Heights, which...

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

A short film by Nicolas Saada.

During the summer of 1970 at Fort Knox, Kentucky, a group of men going through infantry training show how they're transformed from civilians into...

A film about ordinary experience in a beautiful old New England port city. A portrait of daily life with particular emphasis on the work and the...

Frederick Wiseman’s unflinching portrayal of life at the Ida B. Wells housing project in Chicago, a raw exposition of the daily conflicts...

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

Follow a U.S. infantry tank company through NATO’s annual fall manoeuvres in Western Europe. One purpose of these war games is to test how...

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

At the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, people face death. Sequences highlight the complex interrelationships among...

The day to day activities of multi-handicapped and sensory impaired students and their teachers, dormitory parents, and counselors at the Helen...

Realist documentarian Frederick Wiseman hones his lens on the inmates of the Yerkes Primate Research Center in Atlanta, GA. A representative...

In a captured Ukrainian ghetto, circa 1941, Jewish town physician Anna Semyonovna dictates a final farewell letter to her son who is safe outside...

At the Belmont Race Track, one of the world's leading race tracks for thoroughbred racing, the viewer is invited into the training, maintaining and...

The story of a famous fashion model who, unable to cope with the fantasies and pressures her beauty induces in others, disappears. A profile of her...

A look at the routine activities of the diplomats and electronics technicians who operate the U.S. Sinai Field Mission, the early warning system...

The day-to-day activities of the Idaho Legislature during an entire session: lobbyists, lawmakers and their constituents debate and discuss the...

Frederick Wiseman's contribution to the 2009 'Vision du reel' project.