Panorama: Frederick Wiseman

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  • Ex Libris : The New York Public Library
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    Ex Libris : The New York Public Library

    Documentary

    2016

    3h.17min

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    Frederick Wiseman casts a documentarian's look within the walls of the New York Public Library. Frederick Wiseman’s film goes behind the scenes of one ...


  • State Legislature

    State Legislature

    Documentary

    2007

    3h.37min

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    The film shows the day-to-day activities of the Idaho Legislature during an entire session. Lobbyists, lawmakers and their constituents are seen debating ...


  • Domestic Violence 2

    Domestic Violence 2

    Documentary

    2002

    3h.16min

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    In the arraignment, misdemeanor and injunction courts in Tampa (FL) lawyers elicit the stories of couples' relationships and the forms of violence between ...


  • Domestic Violence

    Domestic Violence

    Documentary

    2001

    3h.16min

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    The film shows the Tampa (FL police responding to domestic violence calls and the work of 'The Spring', the principal shelter in Tampa for women and children. Domestic ...


  • The Last Letter

    The Last Letter

    Documentary

    2001

    1h.1min

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    The last letter (La dernière lettre) is based on a chapter of Vasily Grossman’s novel Life and Fate. It is 1941. A Ukrainian ghetto has fallen to the Nazis ...


  • Public Housing

    Public Housing

    Documentary

    1997

    3h.15min

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    The film documents daily life at the Ida B. Wells public housing development in Chicago. The film illustrates some of the experiences of people living ...


  • La Comédie-Française

    La Comédie-Française

    Documentary

    1996

    3h.43min

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    La Comédie-Française is the oldest continuous repertory company in the world, founded in Paris in the late 17th century. This is the first time a documentary ...


  • Sinaï field mission

    Sinaï field mission

    Documentary

    1978

    2h.7min

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    Sinai field mission shows the routine activities of the diplomats and electronics technicians who operate the U.S. Sinai Field Mission, the early warning ...


  • Canal Zone

    Canal Zone

    Documentary

    1977

    2h.54min

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    The routines of U.S. residents who live and work in the Panama Canal Zone and shows both the operation of the Canal and the various governmental agencies. Canal ...


  • Welfare

    Welfare

    Documentary

    1975

    2h.47min

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    In-depth look at the nature and complexity of the welfare system in the United States. Acclaimed documentarian Frederick Wiseman examines a wide diversity ...


  • Primate

    Primate

    Documentary

    1974

    1h.45min

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    Daily activities at the Yerkes Primate Research Center. Scientists are seen studying the physical and mental development of primates through experiments. This ...


  • Juvenile court

    Juvenile court

    Documentary

    1973

    2h.24min

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


  • Essene

    Essene

    Documentary

    1972

    1h.26min

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    Daily life inside a Benedictine monastery. The resolution of conflict between personal needs and the institutional, organizational priorities of the community. Daily ...


  • Basic Training

    Basic Training

    Documentary

    1971

    1h.20min

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  • Hospital

    Hospital

    Documentary

    1970

    1h.24min

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    A look at life in a large urban hospital, detailing daily activities with his main focus on the emergency ward and outpatient clinic.


  • Law and Order

    Law and Order

    Documentary

    1969

    1h.21min

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  • High School

    High School

    Documentary

    1968

    1h.15min

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    A stinging critique of the American educational system, with a focus on the overwhelming, institutionalized sense of boredom and resignation. Wiseman also ...


  • High School 2

    High School 2

    Documentary

    1994

    3h.34min

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    'High School II' is a film about Central Park East Secondary School (CPESS), a successful alternative high school in New York's Spanish Harlem, 85-95% ...


  • Aspen

    Aspen

    Documentary

    1991

    2h.22min

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    Aspen is a film about a town famous for silver mining and scenic splendor, mountains, skiing, hiking, music, intellectual activity and fashionable people. Aspen ...


  • Central Park

    Central Park

    Documentary

    1989

    2h.49min

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    'Central Park' is a film about the famous New York City landmark and the variety of ways in which people make use of it: running, boating, walking, skating, ...


  • Near Death

    Near Death

    Documentary

    1989

    5h.58min

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    'Near Death' is a film about the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. The film is concerned with how people face death. More specifically ...


  • Missile

    Missile

    Documentary

    1987

    1h.50min

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    'Missile' follows a Squadron of the Strategic Air Command, where officers are trained to man Launch Control Centers for Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. 'Missile' ...


  • Adjustment and Work

    Adjustment and Work

    Documentary

    1986

    1h.55min

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    The film shows, in sequences, the adjustment services for adults in personal and work situations as they learn to adjust to their impairments. The first ...


  • Deaf

    Deaf

    Documentary

    1986

    2h.38min

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    The School for the Deaf at the Alabama Institute is organized around a theory of total communication i.e. the use of signs and finger spelling in conjunction ...


  • Multi-Handicapped

    Multi-Handicapped

    Documentary

    1986

    2h.1min

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    This film shows the activities of multi-handicapped and sensory impaired students and their teachers, dorm parents, and counselors at the H. Keller School. This ...


  • Racetrack

    Racetrack

    Documentary

    1985

    1h.54min

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    A part of the MoMA's collection, this documentary shows the horse racetrack of Belmont, which is one of the most important in the world.


  • Model

    Model

    Documentary

    1980

    2h.9min

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    Frederick Wiseman’s classic documentary that profiles the inner world of a modeling agency in the 1980s.