Frederick Wiseman's first landmark documentary, TITICUT FOLLIES, was released 50 years ago today. | MUBI

Frederick Wiseman, a giant in the film industry, has died. In his directorial debut, "Titicut Follies," in 1967, Wiseman took an unsparing look at conditions inside a mental hospital in Massachusetts. The film was banned for years, but it eventually aired on PBS in the early 1990s after the ban was lifted. Wiseman went on to create dozens of films over a nearly six-decade career that explored, and sometimes exposed, America's social and cultural institutions. Wiseman was 96 years old. | PBS News