Zipporah Films Movies

La Comédie-Française is the oldest continuous repertory company in the world, founded in late 17th-century Paris. This is the first...

A cinéma vérité exploration of the grueling schedules, auditions, lighting design, and backstage operations at the famous...

Employing methods of direct cinema–observation, limited stylization, and non-intervention–this stark look into the State Prison for the...

A documentary about how a dominant cultural and demographic institution both sustains their traditional activities and adapts to the digital...

The famous New York City landmark is given the spotlight, as well as the variety of ways in which people make use of it: running, boating, walking,...

Veteran award-winning documentarian Frederick Wiseman turns his lens on the world of boxing, specifically on a gym in Austin, Texas. Unobtrusively...

Explores a long-term relationship between a man and a woman: the man, Leo Tolstoy; the woman, his wife, Sophia. Married for 36 years, had thirteen...

Founded in 1930, Troisgros has held three Michelin stars for 55 years. The children of the fourth generation, Marie-Pierre and Michel's sons continue...

A film about ordinary experience in a beautiful old New England port city. A portrait of daily life with particular emphasis on the work and the...

Frederick Wiseman focuses his lens on male and female models at work on television commercials, fashion shows, magazine covers, and advertising for a...

A portrait of the day-to-day operations of the National Gallery of London, that reveals the role of the employees and the experiences of the...

The School for the Deaf at the Alabama Institute is organized around a theory of total communication, i.e. the use of signs and finger spelling in...

Frederick Wiseman observes the ins and outs of the Paris Opera House, including the processes behind seven of their operas: Genus (Wayne McGregor),...

Documentarian Frederick Wiseman highlights the educational programs and daily life of all levels of students at the Alabama School for the Blind,...

The nature and complexity of the welfare system is explored in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of constituting problems: housing,...

Monrovia, Indiana explores a small town in rural, mid-America and illustrates how values like community service, duty, spiritual life, generosity,...

In a captured Ukrainian ghetto, circa 1941, Jewish town physician Anna Semyonovna dictates a final farewell letter to her son who is safe outside...

An epic look at Boston’s city government, covering racial justice, housing, climate action, and more, exploring the government of Boston, MA,...

Realist documentarian Frederick Wiseman hones his lens on the inmates of the Yerkes Primate Research Center in Atlanta, GA. A representative...

Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman analyzes the interrelation between animals and their human captors at Miami's Metro Zoo. Looking...