The long-time Cambridge resident’s documentaries observed how institutions function, and by doing so showed us who we are.

For more than 50 years, the influential documentarian found inspiration in filming the ways his ordinary subjects lived their ...

We meet many people in Frederick Wiseman’s films. The crass American diner sticking his face into a plate of haute cuisine and taking a big whiff in Menus-Plaisirs, Les Troisgros. The migrant worker ...

His maximal studies of US institutions such as welfare bureaucracy and an intensive care unit were packed with human detail and free from explicit commentary ...