Movies found: 16, viewing from 1 to 16
Welfare
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Unknown
Directors: Frederick Wiseman
Country: USA
Year: 1975
This in-depth look at the nature and complexity of the welfare system prompted New York Social Welfare Commissioner James R. Dumpson to comment, "I wish all the public, as well as legislators and politicians, could see this film. It could have been made in any urban area in the United States." Acclaimed documentarian Frederick Wiseman examines a wide diversity of welfare-related situations during the film's 167 minutes. Areas covered include unemployment, housing, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, concerns of the elderly, child abuse, and abandoned children. Both welfare workers and clients are seen struggling to interpret the laws, ...
Essene
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Unknown
Directors: Frederick Wiseman
Country: USA
Year: 1972
Essene is about daily life in a Benedictine monastery and the resolution of conflict between personal needs and the institutional and organizational priorities of the community. In the Order, where the focus of life is the relationship of individual work and worship to the community as a whole, the brethren must cope with the same issues that arise in any community: rules, work, worship, values, love, and play.
Law and Order
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Richard Nixon
Directors: Frederick Wiseman
Country: USA
Year: 1969
One of the best of Wiseman's documentaries, an impressionistic account of the daily police routine in a predominantly black neighbourhood of Kansas City, Missouri. Although violence abounds, with a black prostitute almost strangled by a vice-squad cop, the film avoids grinding axes about police brutality. Instead, sitting back and coolly observing the situation from multiple perspectives, it suggests that any sickness in the forces of law and order is a symptom of disease in the society that breeds them.
Missile
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Unknown
Directors: Frederick Wiseman
Country: USA
Year: 1987
Profile of the 4315th Training Squadron of the Strategic Air Command at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Juvenile Court
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Unknown
Directors: Frederick Wiseman
Country: USA
Year: 1973
In "Juvenile Court" there is a scene in which a psychologist questions a 15-year-old boy who has been accused of molesting a small girl he was baby-sitting. We later meet the mother of the girl who seems nervous and sexually obsessed. We see the boy agree to take a lie detector. Then we see some attorneys, some counselors, and the judge in the case discuss whether or not the mother might have fabricated the charges. That is the last we see of that case. As Thomas R. Atkins wrote in a 1974 article in "Sight and Sound": "The characters have spoken for themselves, and each viewer can have his own reaction, make his own judgment according to his ...
Meat
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Unknown
Directors: Frederick Wiseman
Country: USA
Year: 1976
MEAT traces the process through which cattle and sheep become consumer products. It depicts the processing and transportation of meat products by a highly automated packing plant, illustrating important points and problems in the area of production, transportation, logistics, equipment design, time- motion study, and labor management.MEAT is a study of one of America's largest feed lots and packing plants, and both is and isn't what you expect it to be. Wiseman shows us how cattle are auctioned, the operations of a feeding lot, the care and feeding of the animals, the storage and packing of meat, and even union meetings and pricing arrangemen...
State Legislature
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Unknown
Directors: Frederick Wiseman
Country: USA
Year: 2007
High School
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Unknown
Directors: Frederick Wiseman
Country: USA
Year: 1968
Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside Northeast High School as a fly on the wall to observe the teachers and how they interact with the students.
Public Housing
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Unknown
Directors: Frederick Wiseman
Country: USA
Year: 1997
Adjustment and Work
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Unknown
Directors: Frederick Wiseman
Country: USA
Year: 1986
Crazy Horse
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Naamah Alva, Daizy Blu, Philippe Decouflé, Philippe Katerine
Directors: Frederick Wiseman
Country: USA, France
Year: 2011
In Crazy Horse, he pulls back the curtain on Le Crazy Horse de Paris, a landmark that has prided itself as "the best nude dancing show in the world" since 1951. Le Crazy Horse sets itself apart from the average strip club by adhering to exacting standards in choreography, lights and physiques. The erotic revue is composed of songs and sequences that blend traits of old-fashioned burlesque, Bob Fosse and Cirque du Soleil, designed not only for the enjoyment of men, but also couples.
Titicut Follies
Genres: Drama, Documentary
Starring: Unknown
Directors: Frederick Wiseman
Country: USA
Year: 1967
I saw "Titicut Follies" over seventeen years ago. Thus, what I write is from fading memory. I can't remember all the details...
Hospital
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Eugene Friedman, Stanley Friedman, Robert Schwartz
Directors: Frederick Wiseman
Country: USA
Year: 1970
Daily activities of the Metropolitan Hospital in New York City, with emphasis on the emergency ward and outpatient clinics. The cases depicted illustrate how medical expertise, availability of resources, organizational considerations and the nature of communication among the staff and patients affect the delivery of health care.
The Store
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Unknown
Directors: Frederick Wiseman
Country: USA
Year: 1983
THE STORE is a film about the main Neiman-Marcus store and corporate headquarters in Dallas. The sequences in the film include the selection, presentation, marketing, pricing, advertising and selling of a vast array of consumer products including designer clothes and furs, jewelry, perfumes, shoes, electronic products, sportswear, china and porcelain and many other goods. The internal management and organizational aspects of a large corporation are shown, i.e., sales meetings, development of marketing and advertising strategies, training, personnel practices and sales techniques.