Before he became a filmmaker, Frederick Wiseman was a professor who was in over his head. Wiseman had gone to Yale Law School partly to avoid the Korean War draft (though he ended up drafted anyway), ...

A Frederick, Maryland, musician named Rae Boyd successfully auditioned for "American Idol." Boyd sang Aretha Franklin's "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" for the judges. The judges praised her ...

For more than 50 years, the influential documentarian found inspiration in filming the ways his ordinary subjects lived their lives. By Alissa Wilkinson In 1968, as the filmmaker Frederick Wiseman was ...

People who come to their calling after being in another line of work tend to cling to it all the more fervently and work at it all the more relentlessly; they express gratitude for a second chance by ...

Frederick Wiseman has died. The documentary filmmaker best known for capturing people trapped in the grinding gears of corrupt institutions for more than half a century passed peacefully, his family ...

Frederick Wiseman, the renowned and prolific documentary filmmaker who focused his lens on all parts American society and its institutions for almost 60 year and was given an honorary Oscar in 2016, ...

Frederick Wiseman, the Oscar and Emmy-winning documentarian who exposed the failings of American institutions, died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the age of 96, his distribution company ...

The 'silent auteur' tackled troubling social and economic issues in such films as 'Titicut Follies,' which exposed brutalities at a hospital for the criminally insane. By Duane Byrge, Mike Barnes ...

Frederick Wiseman, a dean of documentary filmmaking whose immersive chronicles of communities and institutions — including a psychiatric hospital, high school, dance troupe, monastery, Chicago public ...

He exposed abuses in films like “Titicut Follies,” a once-banned portrait of a mental hospital, but ranged widely in subject matter, from a Queens neighborhood to a French restaurant. By John Anderson ...

Frederick County's priorities for transportation include a project to widen Md. 85 south of Frederick, more money from the state for transit, and increasing development around existing infrastructure.

FREDERICK, Md. — One person was rescued from a burning townhome in Frederick, Maryland, Thursday morning. Firefighters had to use a ladder to get to the person who was trapped on the second floor of ...