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Legendary Documentarian Frederick Wiseman Shows Us How Berkeley Works

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In the four-hour At Berkeley, Frederick Wiseman stumbles upon what may be the most financially distressed body he has seen in 50 years of documenting American institutions.

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Justin Sullivan

Fred Wiseman, the godfather of documentary filmmaking, has turned his attention to the public university system and fears he may have stumbled upon the most financially distressed body he has encountered in 50 years of documenting American institutions.

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In At Berkeley, a four-hour examination of the University of California campus, 83-year-old...

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