CANAL ZONE is about the people who live and work in the Panama Canal Zone and shows both the operation of the Canal and the various governmental agencies — business, military, and civilian — related to the functioning of the Canal and the lives of the Americans in the zone. The film includes sequences of ships in transit, the work of special canal pilots, aspects of the civil government, work of the military, and the social, religious and recreational life of the Zonians.
Frederick Wiseman
Director, Writer
A Plastic Ocean75%
Directed by John Ford70%
The Class of ‘9271%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Public Speaking70%
Deepsea Challenge 3D66%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Night Will Fall76%
McQueen74%
Room 23761%
180° South72%
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return67%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
The Skywalker Legacy78%
Samsara80%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
Cameraperson67%
Leviathan65%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
