National Gallery

2014 174 min ★ 7.3 Documentary

A portrait of the day-to-day operations of the National Gallery of London, that reveals the role of the employees and the experiences of the Gallery's visitors. The film portrays the role of the curators and conservators; the education, scientific, and conservation departments; and the audience of all kinds of people who come to experience it.

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Cast

Leanne Benjamin

Kausikan Rajeshkumar

Jo Shapcott

Edward Watson

Details

Director

Frederick Wiseman

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Production

Gallery Films, Idéale Audience, Zipporah Films, Canal+, ITVS, Pershing Square Foundation, PBS

Reviews

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tmdb28039023

September 3, 2022

★ 6/10

If you can visit the National Gallery in London personally, more power to you. For those of us who can’t, though, National Gallery is the next best thing. As is par for the course in a Frederick Wiseman doc, we learn a lot about the subject matter, and we do it by smosis; not in scripted interviews, but like any other museum visitor; i.e., listening to the guides, whom Wiseman allows to go on at l...

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CinemaSerf

January 30, 2026

★ 7/10

Was it heart and soul that was supposed to distinguish human beings from animals? Well perhaps here it ought to be more art and soul as we take three hours to look into the workings of the UK’s National Gallery in London. Now I know, the thought of a three hour long documentary might be a bit off-putting, but this has been segmented quite sensibly into vignettes that illustrate the myriad of aspec...