Panorama: Frederick Wiseman

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 ...

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

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

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 (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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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