Law and Order
1969, NR, 81 min. Directed by Frederick Wiseman.
REVIEWED By Marjorie Baumgarten, Tue., March 26, 2002
Trained as a lawyer, Frederick Wiseman aims his documentary camera on social institutions and uses its lens as a tool for muckraking. One of America's most acclaimed documentarians, Wiseman employs a cinema vérité style so observe the relationships between human beings and the bureaucracies that serve them. His two early features in this program hail from 1969, a time ripe for raised consciousness. Filmed in Kansas City, Law and Order is a documentary about the wide range of duties involved in police work.
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Law and Order, Frederick Wiseman