At Berkeley

Frederick Wiseman

At Berkeley is a documentary film about the University of California at Berkeley, the oldest and most prestigious member of a ten campus public education system and one of the finest research and teaching facilities in the world. The film shows the major aspects of university life with particular emphasis on the administrative efforts to maintain the academic excellence, public role, and the economic, racial and social diversity of the student body of America’s premiere public university in the face of severe budgetary cuts imposed by the California legislature.

Festivals & Awards

Venice Film Festival 2013

Toronto Film Festival 2013

New York Film Festival 2013

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Press

In AT BERKELEY we witness the autumn 2010 semester at a university in crisis, yet thriving. Mr. Wiseman uses the institution’s settings—the meetings, classes and protests—as stages to play out its multifaceted drama of people and ideas.

–Nicolas Rapold, New York Times

Frederick Wiseman’s AT BERKELEY isn’t only a study of the contemporary American university, but, like all of the filmmaker’s best documentaries, a wide-ranging inquiry into the larger institutions and contradictions that define life in the United States.

–Andrew Schenker, SLANT

It’s a state-of-the-nation masterwork, a vitally important piece of work, and should be seen by as many people as possible.

–Oliver Lyttleton, The Playlist

One of Wiseman’s best, a summation of sorts of a career’s principled filmmaking.

–Leslie Felperin, VARIETY

At Berkeley

Frederick Wiseman

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