The great filmmaker Frederick Wiseman passed away in February of this year, at the age of 96. He left behind 47 feature films ...

The American Cinematheque’s This Is Not a Fiction festival, which kicks off this week in Los Angeles, has emerged as something truly special in the documentary exhibition space. The third edition of ...

Acclaimed filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, who died in February at age 96, revolutionized the art of documentaries with such films as "Titicut Follies," "High School," and "Hospital." In an interview with ...

Frederick Wiseman, the Academy Award-winning documentary director, scholar and anthropologist behind “High School,” “Titicut Follies” and “At Berkeley,” died Monday, Feb. 16 at 96 years old. His ...

Before he became a filmmaker, Frederick Wiseman was a professor who was in over his head. Wiseman had gone to Yale Law School partly to avoid the Korean War draft (though he ended up drafted anyway), ...

This is FRESH AIR. Frederick Wiseman, the documentary filmmaker whose approach was to choose a subject and capture it at great, revealing length, died Monday at age 96. A law school graduate who was ...