Frederick Wiseman, 96, Penetrating Documentarian of Institutions, Dies

He exposed abuses in films like “Titicut Follies,” a once-banned portrait of a mental hospital, but ranged widely in subject matter, from a Queens neighborhood to a French restaurant.Mr. Wiseman in an undated photo. “I don’t know if I can offer a general definition of what I’m doing,” he said in 2011, “except to say I’m trying to create dramatic structures out of ordinary experience.”