Frederick Wiseman

Frederick Wiseman was born in Boston in 1930, the son of a lawyer. A law graduate of Yale, he did two years of military service, taught law in Boston, then produced a fiction film before moving on to directing. He went on to make several dozen documentaries, without commentary, without added music and without interviews, devoted for the most part to American institutions (a high school, a juvenile court, a slaughterhouse, a department store, a public library), and he also shoots in France. He died in February 2026, at the age of ninety-six.

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• CinemaTiticut FolliesFrederick Wiseman · 1967Cinema