Frederick Wiseman Movies

Follow the people who live and work in the Panama Canal Zone and glimpse into both the operation of the Canal and the various governmental agencies...

A short film by Nicolas Saada.

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

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

In a private collection in Arlington, French actor and director Mathieu Amalric, who won the Best director award in Cannes) takes his camera to one...

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

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...

Before the Memphis Juvenile Court are a complex variety of cases: foster home placement, drug abuse, armed robbery, child abuse, and sexual offenses....

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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