Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frederick Wiseman, a dean of documentary filmmaking whose immersive chronicles of communities and institutions — including a ...

If you Google one of Frederick Wiseman’s earliest films, “Hospital” (1970), the search engine’s results identify it as a “Documentary/Comedy.” Shot at a ...

Frederick Wiseman, the prolific documentarian behind films like “Titicut Follies,” “At Berkeley,” “National Gallery” and “Ex Libris,” died on Monday. He was 96 years old. Wiseman’s death was announced ...

This month offers a tribute to the prolific filmmaker who died last week at 96 and has a plausible claim to being the greatest documentarian who ever lived. By Ben Kenigsberg For more than 50 years, ...