The famous New York City landmark is given the spotlight, as well as the variety of ways in which people make use of it: running, boating, walking,...
Central Park
Explores a long-term relationship between a man and a woman: the man, Leo Tolstoy; the woman, his wife, Sophia. Married for 36 years, had thirteen...
A Couple
An in-depth look at the main Neiman-Marcus store and corporate headquarters in Dallas: the selection, presentation, marketing, pricing, advertising...
The Store
Employing methods of direct cinema–observation, limited stylization, and non-intervention–this stark look into the State Prison for the...
Titicut Follies
Founded in 1930, Troisgros has held three Michelin stars for 55 years. The children of the fourth generation, Marie-Pierre and Michel's sons continue...
Menus-Plaisirs, les Troisgros
A documentary about how a dominant cultural and demographic institution both sustains their traditional activities and adapts to the digital...
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
A cinéma vérité exploration of the grueling schedules, auditions, lighting design, and backstage operations at the famous...
Crazy Horse
Frederick Wiseman observes the ins and outs of the Paris Opera House, including the processes behind seven of their operas: Genus (Wayne McGregor),...
La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet
Veteran award-winning documentarian Frederick Wiseman turns his lens on the world of boxing, specifically on a gym in Austin, Texas. Unobtrusively...
Boxing Gym
Frederick Wiseman focuses his lens on male and female models at work on television commercials, fashion shows, magazine covers, and advertising for a...
Model
Documentarian Frederick Wiseman highlights the educational programs and daily life of all levels of students at the Alabama School for the Blind,...
Blind
Follow the 4315th Training Squadron of the Strategic Air Command at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, where officers are trained to man the...
Missile
The nature and complexity of the welfare system is explored in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of constituting problems: housing,...
Welfare
The School for the Deaf at the Alabama Institute is organized around a theory of total communication, i.e. the use of signs and finger spelling in...
Deaf
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...
National Gallery
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman analyzes the interrelation between animals and their human captors at Miami's Metro Zoo. Looking...
Zoo
The day to day activities of multi-handicapped and sensory impaired students and their teachers, dormitory parents, and counselors at the Helen...
Multi-Handicapped
Frederick Wiseman is back to school, this time at Central Park East Secondary School (CPESS), a successful alternative high school in New York's...
High School II
Monrovia, Indiana explores a small town in rural, mid-America and illustrates how values like community service, duty, spiritual life, generosity,...
Monrovia, Indiana
La Comédie-Française is the oldest continuous repertory company in the world, founded in late 17th-century Paris. This is the first...
La Comédie-Française ou L'amour joué
