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 ...

James Wiseman's next basketball opportunity has arrived. The former Memphis basketball player, who also starred for coach Penny Hardaway at East High in Memphis, has been named to the Team USA roster ...

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A Delaware man who was married to former first lady Jill Biden decades ago pleaded not guilty Tuesday to killing his second wife in Delaware. William Stevenson, 77, is charged with killing Linda ...

Former first lady Jill Biden’s ex-husband pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a murder charge in the death of his wife. William Stevenson, 77, was hit with a single count of first degree murder earlier this ...

Frederick Wiseman, a pioneer in documentary films who won an honorary Academy Award in 2016, died on Feb. 16. He was 96. Wiseman‘s death was announced in a joint statement by his family and by ...

We meet many people in Frederick Wiseman’s films. The crass American diner sticking his face into a plate of haute cuisine and taking a big whiff in Menus-Plaisirs, Les Troisgros. The migrant worker ...

For more than 50 years, the influential documentarian found inspiration in filming the ways his ordinary subjects lived their lives. By Alissa Wilkinson In 1968, as the filmmaker Frederick Wiseman was ...

Frederick Wiseman, whose 60-year project of quietly asking America to look at itself — without sermon or embellishment, yet wielding the camera with an ethical ferocity‚ has died at the age of 96.

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