Jacob Burns Film Cener: Wiseman's America— High School Frederick Wiseman’s second film takes place in a large urban high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The film documents how the school system exists not only to pass on “facts” but also to […]

Jacob Burns Film Center: Frederick Wiseman's America: Law and Order In the shadow of the 1968 race riots, Law and Order surveys the day-to-day work of a Kansas City police department. From drive-alongs to arrests to general social service work, what accrues […]

Jacob Burns Film Center: Frederick Wiseman's America— Welfare Welfare shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare: housing, unemployment, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, abandoned and abused children, […]