There are not many initial viewings I remember so vividly as I do watching Frederick Wiseman’s “Titicut Follies.” I was a junior in college taking a course on the history of documentary and when the ...

A Private Life shows how veteran documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman is a natural screen actor. Jodie Foster and Rebecca ...

Over the course of his very long career, director Frederick Wiseman has always worked in nonfiction, in the realm of the real, yet his films may best be described as novelistic. Embedding himself in ...

Frederick Wiseman may not be a household name for the average filmgoer, but he has built a reputation as one of the best American documentary filmmakers of the past 60 years. With that in mind, the ...

For almost half a century, Frederick Wiseman has been directing some of the finest documentaries ever made. In more than 40 films, he’s taken his camera everywhere, from slaughterhouses to a school ...

The content of Wiseman’s films, which often focus on the kind of social programs that only a “big” government can provide, might remind one of WPA-funded early American documentaries. Yet his ...

Turning 95 years old on New Year’s Day, Frederick Wiseman has a body of work that could be argued as the most important in cinema history. To view it in totality, he has captured every spectrum of ...

Humans love to watch other humans, whether it’s movies by Frederick Wiseman or vertical videos on your phone. In a way, we’re all documentarians. By Alissa Wilkinson The playwright Jeremy O. Harris’s ...

Film at Lincoln Center celebrates the documentarian's groundbreaking work this month with a retrospective featuring brand-new 4K restorations of 33 films. “The subjects I choose to make films about ...