The 'silent auteur' tackled troubling social and economic issues in such films as 'Titicut Follies,' which exposed ...

One of the greatest documentary filmmakers of the past 60 years, Frederick Wiseman, died in mid-February. He leaves behind a legacy of films remarkable for their insight, for their unusual subjects – ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world of cinema has lost another giant. Frederick Wiseman, the prolific documentary filmmaker and one of the greatest ...

Frederick Wiseman, the Oscar and Emmy-winning documentarian who exposed the failings of American institutions, died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the age of 96, his distribution company ...

3 Frederick Wiseman movies to watch in honor of the legendary director. The post Frederick Wiseman, the Bostonian who changed ...

This month offers a tribute to the prolific filmmaker who died last week at 96 and has a plausible claim to being the greatest documentarian who ever lived.

Meaning in his films piles up through juxtaposition — a policy debate then the fallout; a rule then an exception; authority ...

Frederick Wiseman, the prolific documentarian behind films like “Titicut Follies,” “At Berkeley,” “National Gallery” and “Ex ...

Last month brought suitable mourning for Robert Duvall and Frederick Wiseman, whose legacies are so enshrined that the ...

Before he became a filmmaker, Frederick Wiseman was a professor who was in over his head. Wiseman had gone to Yale Law School ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Thin Blue Line director and fellow documentary legend Errol Morris used an entomological metaphor to describe Wiseman’s work, ...

The celebrated director of “Titicut Follies” and dozens of other documentaries was known for in-depth, unadorned movies that showed a unique and revelatory history of American institutions.