• Frederick Wiseman (born January 1, 1930) is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and theater director. His work is primarily about exploring American institutions.
  • Born in 1930, Wiseman is a Cambridge, Massachusetts resident and member of the Massachusetts Bar Association who turned to filmmaking in 1967...
  • Frederick Wiseman has won numerous awards, including four Emmys, a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival in 2014...
  • Since 1968 Wiseman has produced over 20 films, each of which (with the exception of his first documentary, "Titicut Follies") has been broadcast nationally on PBS.
  • As Barry Keith Grant writes in 5 Films by Frederick Wiseman, his films are alive with “what Emerson called the ‘primal warblings’ of the American people...
  • “We’re trying to encourage a ninety-nine-cent jack steak,” explains one of the business barons of Frederick Wiseman’s Meat (1976)...
  • Frederick Wiseman, American filmmaker noted for his documentaries that examine the functioning of American institutions.
  • Frederick Wiseman Frederick Wiseman is arguably the most important American documentary filmmaker of the past three decades.
  • “Domestic Violence” is a 2001 documentary film directed by Frederick Wiseman that explores the issue of domestic violence in the United States.
  • Frederick Wiseman is a filmmaker whose numerous documentaries explore American life as it is expressed in and through its institutions.