Remembering a legendary documentarian whose film was so controversial, it was banned

Frederick Wiseman died Monday at 96. The prolific, Boston-born filmmaker made roughly 50 documentaries.

His most famous — or infamous — film was one of his first. In 1967, he released "Titicut Follies." It was about life inside a correctional facility in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, where inmates had varying degrees of mental illness.

Wiseman's film was so controversial, it was banned from public screenings for more than two decades.

Fred Wiseman reflected on that film with WBUR’s Deborah Becker in 2014.