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Hospital
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Watch HOSPITAL as part of the Wednesdays With Wiseman virtual film series, opening November 4! Click here for details and participating theaters.

New York Magazine names HOSPITAL to its list celebrating 40 years of memorable New York movies.

HOSPITAL shows the daily activities of a large urban hospital with the emphasis on the emergency ward and outpatient clinics. The cases depicted illustrate how medical expertise, availability of resources, organizational considerations, and the nature of communication among the staff and patients affect the delivery of appropriate health care.

The chief characteristic of all Wiseman’s films — and the source of their tremendous emotional impact — is his instinctive sympathy for people who must confront the specific, human effects of vast, impersonal human social forces…

–Richard Schickel, Life


It is as open and revealing as filmed experience has ever been. You look misery in the eye and you realize there’s nothing to be afraid of… By the end we are so thoroughly involved… that tears well up, because we simply have no other means of responding to the intensity of this plain view of the ordinary activities in Metropolitan Hospital.

–Pauline Kael, The New Yorker


Purchase Prices

Educational

includes public performance rights
DVD - $400.00

High Schools & Volunteer Organizations

includes public performance rights
DVD - $200.00

Individuals

DVD - 29.95

16MM Rentals

released 1969, 84 minutes
B&W

Winner of two Emmy Awards in 1970 for Best News Documentary and Best Director.

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