Located in mid-America, MONROVIA, INDIANA, founded in 1834, is primarily a farming community. The film is about the day-to-day experiences living and working in Monrovia, with emphasis on community ...

Documaker Frederick Wiseman turns his camera on a small Midwestern farming community and explores its values in 'Monrovia, Indiana.' By Deborah Young Small-town America has been portrayed so often and ...

Located in mid-America, Monrovia, Indiana (population 1,400), founded in 1834, is primarily a farming community. Frederick Wiseman’s film is about the day-to-day experiences living and working in ...

"I mentioned to a friend of mine that I wanted to make a movie about a small town in the Midwest, and she told me she had a friend who worked at the University of Indiana Law School whose family lived ...

"Thanks for stopping by." The first official trailer has debuted for the documentary Monrovia, Indiana, the latest film by iconic doc filmmaker Frederick Wiseman. This premiered at the Venice Film ...

‘Monrovia, Indiana’ does not sound like a scintillating topic for a documentary. But in the hands of Frederick Wiseman, you never get what you expect. America’s premier documentarian, the 88-year-old ...

Watch the trailer for the documentary "Monrovia, Indiana," directed by Frederick Wiseman. Photo: Zipporah Films In the realm of documentary films, as in the news media, polemicists are ascendant, but ...

A low-lying, unremarkable assemblage of cornfields, churches and boxy mom-and-pop businesses, the eponymous town in Frederick Wiseman’s “Monrovia, Indiana” is the kind of community we’ve read a lot ...

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