Cinematography: John Davey

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by John Davey. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Public Housing

1997 · Documentary · 200 min. · United States

Direction Frederick Wiseman

Plot "Public Housing" documents daily life at the Ida B. Wells public housing development in Chicago. The film illustrates some of the experiences of people living in conditions of extreme poverty....

7.6

24 votes

7.6

24 votes

In Jackson Heights

2015 · Documentary · 190 min. · United States

Direction Frederick Wiseman

Plot Jackson Heights, Queens is one of the most culturally diverse communities in the US where 167 languages are spoken. IN JACKSON HEIGHTS explores the conflict between maintaining ties to old...

7.4

42 votes

7.4

42 votes

City Hall

2020 · Documentary · 272 min. · United States

Direction Frederick Wiseman

Plot City government touches almost every aspect of our lives. Most of us are unaware of or take for granted these necessary services such as police, fire, sanitation, veterans affairs, elder...

7.3

55 votes

7.3

55 votes

Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

2017 · Documentary · 197 min. · United States

Direction Frederick Wiseman

Plot 'Ex Libris: The New York Public Library' takes viewers behind the scenes of one of the world’s greatest institutions of learning. The film examines how this legendary establishment has continued...

7.2

254 votes

7.2

254 votes

National Gallery

2014 · Documentary · 180 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Frederick Wiseman

Plot The National Gallery in London is one of the great museums of the world with 2400 paintings from the 13th to the end of the 19th century. Almost every human...

7.2

619 votes

7.2

619 votes

La danse - Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris

2009 · Documentary · 159 min. · France

Direction Frederick Wiseman

Plot The film follows the production of seven ballets by the Paris Opera Ballet.

7.1

282 votes

7.1

282 votes

At Berkeley

2013 · Documentary · 244 min. · United States

Direction Frederick Wiseman

Plot At Berkeley is a documentary film about the University of California at Berkeley, the oldest and most prestigious member of a ten campus public education system and one of the...

7.0

131 votes

7.0

131 votes

Monrovia, Indiana

2018 · Documentary · 143 min. · United States

Direction Frederick Wiseman

Plot The film explores the conflicting stereotypes and illustrates how values like community service, duty, spiritual life, generosity and authenticity are formed, experienced and lived. The film gives a complex and...

7.0

52 votes

7.0

52 votes

Missile

1988 · Documentary · 115 min. · United States

Direction Frederick Wiseman

Plot It focuses on men trained to launch nuclear missiles. With his characteristically detached eye, Wiseman follows several men of the 4315th Training Squadron of the Strategic Air Command at Vandenberg...

6.9

22 votes

6.9

22 votes

Crazy Horse

2011 · Documentary · 134 min. · France

Direction Frederick Wiseman

Plot Celebrated documentary director Frederick Wiseman spent ten weeks with his camera exploring one of the most mythic places dedicated to women, ‘CRAZY HORSE’. This legendary Parisian cabaret club, founded in...

6.6

103 votes

6.6

103 votes

Boxing Gym

2010 · Documentary · 91 min. · United States

Direction Frederick Wiseman

Cast Richard Lord

Plot Explores the world of a boxing gym in Austin, Texas, dwelling on the discipline of training as people from all walks of life aspire to reach their personal best.

6.5

59 votes

6.5

59 votes

A Couple

2022 · Movie · 64 min. · France

Direction Frederick Wiseman

Cast Nathalie Boutefeu

Plot A Couple' follows a long term relationship between a man and a woman. The man is Leo Tolstoy. The woman is his wife, Sophia.

4.5

28 votes

4.5

28 votes

Box On

1980 · Documentary · 38 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lindsey Clennell

Cast Lenny McLean

Plot This is a movie about the alternate boxing circuit Fighters who have lost their licences to box professionally mainly through injury carry on fighting illegally in big underground tournaments

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Blind

1987 · Documentary · 132 min. · United States

Direction Frederick Wiseman

Plot "Blind" shows the educational programs and daily life of students in kindergarten through the 12th grade at the Alabama School for the Blind. The School is organized around the effort...

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Belfast, Maine

1999 · Documentary · 245 min. · United States

Direction Frederick Wiseman

Plot "Belfast, Maine" is a film about ordinary experience in a beautiful old New England port city. It is a portrait of daily life with particular emphasis on the work and...

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Aspen

1991 · Documentary · 146 min. · United States

Direction Frederick Wiseman

Plot ASPEN is a film about a town famous in the 19th century for silver mining and now known for its scenic splendor, mountains, skiing, hiking, music, intellectual activity and fashionable...

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High School II

1994 · Documentary · 220 min. · United States

Direction Frederick Wiseman

Plot "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% of whose graduates go on to...

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Domestic Violence 2

2002 · Documentary · 196 min. · United States

Direction Frederick Wiseman

Plot The opening scene in this film is of an arrest in Hillsborough County Florida where a woman has scratched her husband while he was trying to restrain her from getting...

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Ballet

1995 · Documentary · 170 min. · United States

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Near Death

1989 · Documentary · 358 min. · United States

Direction Frederick Wiseman

Plot "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 the film presents...

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