Los Angeles, Feb. 17 -- Legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman passed away on Monday at the age of 96, Zipporah Films, the distribution company he founded in 1971, announced, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
"For nearly six decades, Frederick Wiseman created an unparalleled body of work, a sweeping cinematic record of contemporary social institutions and ordinary human experience, primarily in the United States and France," the company said in a statement.
Originally a law professor, Wiseman turned to filmmaking and went on to craft nearly one documentary a year. His first film, the controversial Titicut Follies (1967), exposed the appalling conditions at Bridgewater State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. The film was banned f...