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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Basic Training

1971 · Documentary · 89 min. · United States

Direction Frederick Wiseman

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Zoo

1993 · Documentary · 130 min. · United States

Direction Frederick Wiseman

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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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Meat

1976 · Documentary · 112 min. · United States

Direction Frederick Wiseman

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Canal Zone

1977 · Documentary · 174 min. · United States

Direction Frederick Wiseman

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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

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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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