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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frederick Wiseman, the legendary documentarian who made groundbreaking portraits of social institutions for over half a century, ...

Actor Jackie Chan, film editor Anne V. Coates, casting director Lynn Stalmaster and documentarian Frederick Wiseman are getting honorary Academy Awards. The film academy announced Thursday that the ...

Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman has died. The celebrated documentarian started making documentaries that captured the weirdness and wonder of everyday life in the mid 1960s and did not stop until 2023.

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, ...

A month-long survey at Film at Lincoln Center is screening dozens of the 95-year-old’s films, running the gamut of modern life. “ My goal is to make films of as many different aspects of life as I can ...

Frederick Wiseman’s documentary films offer an unparalleled, panoramic vision of society. His 45th feature, “City Hall,” is on PBS this month — and he’s eager to get back to work.