Frederick Wiseman, documentarian of America's institutions, dead at 96

Wiseman died peacefully at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, according to a statement from his production company, Zipporah Films. For more than a half century, Oscar-winner Wiseman patiently observed some of America's most familiar institutions through his dozens of documentaries that shine a rare light on people's daily lives. Viewed through his unobtrusive lens, the drudgery of a welfare office or the cleaning routines at a city zoo became as gripping as an action movie, all of which were...