Meet 96-year-old Frederick Wiseman, the best American filmmaker you’ve (probably) never heard of - INSIDE FILM: There are few ...

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

For one thing, he almost exclusively makes documentaries, a mode of filmmaking that's hardly packing out the multiplexes.

A scene from Frederick Wiseman's 1975 documentary WelfareSource Zipporah Films, Inc. Leave the chilly breezes where they ...

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 ...

Every so often, the work of a filmmaker is given a major critical and public reassessment, allowing them to enter the pantheon of great directors. It happened in the 1950s, when French critics ...

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 ...