NEAR DEATH is a film about the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. The film is concerned with how people face death. More specifically the film presents the complex interrelationships among patients, families, doctors, nurses, hospital staff and religious advisors as they confront the personal, ethical, medical, psychological, religious and legal issues involved in making decisions about whether or not to give life-sustaining treatment to dying patients.
| Production | Nancy Simonian | Production Assistant |
| Production | Frederick Wiseman | Producer |
| Editing | Frederick Wiseman | Editor |
| Editing | Victoria Garvin Davis | Assistant Editor |
| Directing | Frederick Wiseman | Director |
| Camera | Lyn Gaza | Director of Photography |
| Production | Richard Gliklich | Production Assistant |
| Camera | Ollie Hallowell | Director of Photography |
| Camera | John Davey | Director of Photography |