My Best Fiend
A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to…
Wheel of Time
Wheel of Time is Werner Herzog’s photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India.
On Death Row
A two part series on an inside look at a maximum security prison in Texas featuring interviews with death row inmates.
Invincible
A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.
The Wild Blue Yonder
An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people’s visitations to Earth and Earth’s self-made demise, while human astronauts in space are attempting to find an…
Where the Green Ants Dream
Extraordinary images from Werner Herzog. Shot in the Australian Outback the Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and…
Signs of Life
During World War II, three German soldiers are withdrawn from combat when one of them, Stroszek, is wounded. They are assigned to a small coastal community on the Greek island…
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
In 1966, Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, captured, and, down to 85 pounds, escaped. Barefoot, surviving monsoons, leeches, and machete-wielding villagers, he was rescued. Now, near 60, living…
Ballad of the Little Soldier
Ballad of the Little Soldier is a 1984 documentary film about child soldiers in Nicaragua.
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
When Bruce Chatwin was dying of AIDS, his friend Werner Herzog made a final visit. As a parting gift, Chatwin gave him his rucksack. Thirty years later, Herzog sets out…
Land of Silence and Darkness
Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since her teens, and her work on behalf of other deaf-blind people, this film shows how the…
Huie’s Sermon
Reverend Huie Rogers is a preacher at the Bible Way Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Brooklyn. He is the topic of this short film, during which launches into…
Handicapped Future
A documentary by Werner Herzog exploring the different treatment accorded to the disabled in Germany and the USA.
God’s Angry Man
The documentary follows Gene Scott, famous televangelist involved with constant fights against FCC, who tried to shut down his TV show during the 1970’s and 1980’s, and even argues with…
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
A study of the psychology of a champion ski-flyer, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
A documentary short examining the language and performance of auctioneering, filmed at the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship in Pennsylvania.
Lessons of Darkness
This film shows the disaster of the Kuwaitian oil fields in flames. In contrast to the common documentary film there are no comments and few interviews. What must have been…
The White Diamond
This 2004 documentary by Werner Herzog diaries the struggle of a passionate English inventor to design and test a unique airship during its maiden flight above the jungle canopy.
Heart of Glass
A small Bavarian village is renowned for its “Ruby Glass” glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the…
Meeting Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, sits down with filmmaker Werner Herzog to discuss his many achievements. Topics include the talks to reduce nuclear weapons, the reunification of…
Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds
This remarkable journey across our planet and universe explores how meteorites, shooting stars, and deep impacts have awoken our wonder about other realms—and make us rethink our destinies.
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in…
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time,…
Stroszek
Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as…
Woyzeck
Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some extra money for them. One of them…
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
In the center of the story is the life of the indigenous people of the village Bakhtia at the river Yenisei in the Siberian Taiga. The camera follows the protagonists…
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Fitzcarraldo
Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who intends to construct an opera house from Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, therefore, so as to fund his job, he embarks on a heroic adventure…
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Jonathan Harker, an actual state agent, goes to Transylvania to go to the mysterious Rely Dracula and formalize the buy of a property in Wismar. As soon as Jonathan is…
Cobra Verde
A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil till he arrives in the sugar farm of Don Octávio Countinho. Not understanding that his brand new guest…
Grizzly Man
Werner Herzog’s documentary film concerning the “Grizzly Man” Timothy Treadwell and that which exactly the thirteen summers at a National Park in Alaska were similar to at 1 individual’s effort…
Rescue Dawn
A US Fighter pilot’s epic wrestle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos in the course of the Vietnam Warfare.
Encounters at the End of the World
Herzog along with cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger goto Antarctica to meet those who live and operate, and also to catch footage of the continent’s specific locations. Herzog’s voice over narration explains…
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Brad has dedicated homicide and barricaded himself inside his home. With the assistance of his buddies and neighbours, the cops piece collectively the unusual story of how this good younger…
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans
Terrence McDonagh is just a New Orleans Authorities sergeant, who receives a trophy and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism throughout Hurricane Katrina. Owing to his epic action, McDonagh injures…
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Werner Herzog profits exclusive use of picture in the Chauvet caves of Southern France, getting the earliest known pictorial creations of humanity within their astonishing all-natural setting.
Into the Abyss
In romantic conversations with individuals included, for example 28-yearold deathrow inmate Michael Perry (who had been advised to perish eight days after his interview by Herzog), legendary film maker Werner…
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Werner Herzog’s investigation of the Web and the connected environment.