Frederick Wiseman Movies

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...

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

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

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

Tracing the process through which cattle and sheep become consumer goods, Frederick Wiseman's deep dive depicts the processing and transportation of...

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

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

Simon, a disillusioned developer, carries a secret that could dismantle modern society: a code capable of remote neural hijacking. Hunted by his...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

A short film by Nicolas Saada.

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

Opening on an arrest in Hillsborough County, FL, a woman scratches her husband as he tries to restrain her from getting back in her car and leaving...

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