An engaging documentary about the merit and mechanics of its own form, “Middletown” is set deep in the slacker era of 1991, when, in a small town in upstate New York, a vanguarding high school teacher ...

In wrestling, if you pin your opponent your team receives six points. If you win by 15 or more points, the technical fall earns the team five points. Still, Isbell said he prefers to dominate his ...

The hero of “Middletown” is Fred Isseks, a warm but idiosyncratic high school teacher who, in the early 1990s, was granted permission by the school to conceive of an audiovisual course.