Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frederick Wiseman, the prolific film-maker whose documentaries primarily explored US public institutions and communities, has died aged 96.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK (AP) -- Frederick Wiseman, the celebrated director of "Titicut Follies" and dozens of other documentaries whose in-depth, unadorned movies comprised a unique and revelatory history of American institutions, died Monday at age 96.

Frederick Wiseman made roughly 50 documentaries, many of which chronicled the inner workings of everyday institutions. He's pictured above at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2013.