Wiseman

MEAT traces the process through which cattle and sheep become consumer products. It depicts the processing and transportation of meat products by a highly automated packing plant, illustrating important points and problems in the area of production, transportation, logistics, equipment design, time- motion study, and labor management.

Titicut Follies is a 1967 documentary film by United States filmmaker Frederick Wiseman about the treatment of inmates / patients at Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane, a Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. The title is taken from a talent show put on by the hospital's inmates. In 1967 the film won awards in Germany and Italy. It was one of a number of films made by Wiseman that examined social institutions: hospital, police, school, etc., in the United States. Wiseman's cinema-verite masterpiece is very possibly the greatest documentary film of all time. Forget about what you've seen in Hollywood films, this is the raw, hellish reality of living in a cement cell, as indifferent and sadistic guards taunt and abuse the inmates. Watch in horror as a doctor forcefeeds a patient through a nose-tube, while carelessly dropping cigarette ash into the mix. Screaming, babbling maniacs galore… the lunatic is on the grass, indeed.

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, and the elderly. These issues are presented in a context where welfare workers as well as clients struggle to cope with and interpret the laws and regulations that govern their work and life.

In 2011, a small time drug dealer on a council estate was hunted by the police in connection with multiple murders and the kidnap of a neglected nine year old girl. This is his story.

Central Park, as designed by Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmstead, is amazing. 843 acres of man-made urban oasis (not even the Lake is natural), one of the largest metropolitan parks in the country, smack dab in the middle of its most densely populated city. "Central Park," the documentary, celebrates this irreplaceable marvel, taking in most of the familiar sights including the boat pond, the Great Lawn, Sheep Meadow, the Bandshell, the reservoir, the Boathouse, Belvedere Castle, the Arsenal, the police precinct, etc.

MENTAL is a feature-length documentary that observes the complex world of an outpatient mental health clinic in Japan, interwoven with patients, doctors, staff, volunteers, and home-helpers, in cinema-verite style. The film breaks a major taboo against discussing mental illness prevalent in Japanese society, and captures the candid lives of people coping with suicidal tendencies, poverty, a sense of shame, apprehension, and fear of society.