Direction: Frederick Wiseman
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Frederick Wiseman. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
I Miss Sonia Henie (S)
1971 · Movie · 20 min. · Yugoslavia
Direction Karpo Acimovic-Godina · Tinto Brass · Mladomir 'Purisa' Djordjevic · Milos Forman
Cast Brooke Hayward · Branko Milicevic · Catherine Rouvel · Dobrila Stojnic
Plot An omnibus film curated by Karpo Godina. Karpo Godina, Tinto Brass, Milos Forman, Buck Henry, Dusan Makavejev, Paul Morrissey, Frederick Wiseman each directed a segment. Shot in a single room...
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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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Deaf
1986 · Documentary · 164 min. · United States
Direction Frederick Wiseman
Plot 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 conjunction with speech, hearing...
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Adjustment & Work
1986 · Documentary · 120 min. · United States
Direction Frederick Wiseman
Plot The first part of this film takes place at the E.H. Gentry Technical Facility which provides evaluation and personal adjustment services to sensory impaired adults and also functions as a...
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Racetrack
1985 · Documentary · 114 min. · United States
Direction Frederick Wiseman
Plot "Racetrack" is about the Belmont Race Track, one of the world's leading race tracks for thoroughbred racing. The film highlights the training, maintaining and racing of thoroughbred horses. Everyday occurrences...
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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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Menus-Plaisirs - Les Troisgros
2023 · Documentary · 240 min. · United States
Direction Frederick Wiseman
Plot Director Wiseman (93 years-old) embeds inside a French restaurant that's held three Michelin stars for more than 50 years.
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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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Model
1980 · Documentary · 129 min. · United States
Direction Frederick Wiseman
Plot Model begins at and continually returns to an elite modeling agency on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where applicants offer their portfolios to somewhat clinical, but constructively critical employees....
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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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Sinai Field Mission
1978 · Documentary · 127 min. · United States
Direction Frederick Wiseman
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Ballet
1995 · Documentary · 170 min. · United States
Direction Frederick Wiseman
Cast Mitchell Bloom · Julio Bocca · Brenda-Li · Alessandra Ferri
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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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The Garden
2005 · Documentary · 196 min. · United States
Direction Frederick Wiseman
Plot A documentary on Madison Square Garden.
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The Store
1983 · Documentary · 118 min. · United States
Direction Frederick Wiseman
Plot THE STORE is a film about the main Neiman-Marcus store and corporate headquarters in Dallas. The sequences in the film include the selection, presentation, marketing, pricing, advertising and selling of...
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