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 ...

Former Memphis basketball player James Wiseman has been named to the Team USA roster for FIBA World Cup qualifying. The team will play against the Dominican Republic and Mexico in late February and ...

Lecturer in the Department of English, Creative Writing and Film, Adelaide University Frederick Wiseman, who died yesterday at the age of 96, was an American filmmaker whose carefully observed works ...

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 ...

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 became a globally celebrated documentary filmmaker by capturing the inner workings of a wide range of social institutions, from governments to schools, small towns, and cultural ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world of cinema has lost another giant. Frederick Wiseman, the prolific documentary filmmaker and one of the greatest ...

NEW YORK — Frederick Wiseman, the celebrated director of “Titicut Follies” and dozens of other documentaries whose in-depth, unadorned movies comprised a unique and revelatory history of American ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Frederick Wiseman, a preeminent documentary filmmaker, has died. He was 96. The filmmaker’s death was announced by ...