Frederick Wiseman, the prolific documentary filmmaker behind the controversial 1967 film "Titicut Follies" and 2017's "Ex Libris," has died. He was 96. The director "passed away peacefully at his home ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frederick Wiseman, the pioneering documentary filmmaker whose penetrating, observational depictions of public institutions raised ...

Mon, January 26, 2026 at 6:00 AM UTC In the US, Wiseman has for decades self-distributed his work via his company Zipporah Film, with his filmography also available on the free-to-use American library ...

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, ...

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 ...