Frederick Wiseman Movies

When aimless Manon begins work at À mon seul désir, a strip club that offers high concept performances, she instantly bonds with her...

One camera in one setting, one attic and eight young directors – the result is a unique Dadaistic collage of seven short sketches. The original...

Rachel loves her life, her students, her friends, her ex, her guitar lessons. When she falls in love with Ali, she grows close to his 4-year-old...

As an imminent construction project looms over their beloved small-town baseball field, a pair of New England rec-league teams face off for the last...

An aspiring author looking to get more out of life takes up a writing residency and finds herself in the sort of romantic entanglements that could...

A stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and...

A documentary about how a dominant cultural and demographic institution both sustains their traditional activities and adapts to the digital...

A cinéma vérité look inside Paris' Crazy Horse, a club that boasts the greatest and most chic nude dancing in the world.

MODEL shows male and female models at work on TV commercials, fashion shows, magazine covers, and advertising for a variety of products, including...

A large and beautiful property on the French Riviera. A place that seems out of time and sheltered from the rest of the world. Anna goes there with...

Founded in 1930, Troisgros has held three Michelin stars for 55 years. The children of the fourth generation, Marie-Pierre and Michel's sons are...

A portrait of the day-to-day operations of the National Gallery of London, that reveals the role of the employees and the experiences of the...

Public Housing is Wiseman’s unflinching portrayal of life at the Ida B. Wells housing project in Chicago, a raw exposition of the daily...

Essene is about daily life in a Benedictine monastery and the resolution of conflict between personal needs and the institutional and organizational...

WELFARE shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare:...

"A Couple" is a film about a long term relationship between a man and a woman. The man is Leo Tolstoy. The woman is his wife, Sophia. They were...

Ballet portrays rehearsals, choreography, performances, business transactions, and other day-to-day life of the American Ballet Theatre. Much of the...

An epic look at Boston’s city government, covering racial justice, housing, climate action, and more.

La Comédie-Française is the oldest continuous repertory company in the world, founded in Paris in the late 17th century. This is the...

Shot during the summer of 1970 at Fort Knox, Kentucky, Frederick Wiseman’s film Basic Training focuses on a group of men going through infantry...