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
Canal Zone
This film is part of the Frederick Wiseman's America series.
This series is presented with generous support from:

Canal Zone
1977. 174 m. Frederick Wiseman. Zipporah Films. US/Panama. English. Rated NR.
Tickets: $11 (members), $16 (nonmembers)
"In the sunny landscape of a distant Army enclave in Panama, Wiseman finds a nightmare version of America itself."
"(Wiseman's) film is both a despairing critique of lower-middle-class American values and a comic pathetic elegy for American imperialism."
This film is part of the Frederick Wiseman's America series.
This series is presented with generous support from:

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