PARIS, France, Feb 17, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - US documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman died Monday, a representative confirmed to AFP. 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. This approach got him such classic scenes as the ending to one of his most celebrated documentaries, "Welfare" (1975), set in a New York welfare office. But for Wiseman, on the back of all those hours of shooting, such extraordinary scenes always came.

Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha February 17, 2026 03:07 UTC