Werner Herzog

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Family Romance, LLC
6.7

Family Romance, LLC

Oct. 24, 2019

Family Romance, LLC

Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder Yuichi Ishii helps make his clients’ dreams ...
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
6.9

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 ...
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
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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 ...
Meeting Gorbachev
7.2

Meeting Gorbachev

May. 03, 2019

Meeting Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, sits down with filmmaker Werner Herzog to discuss his many achievements. Topics include ...
Salt and Fire
4.2

Salt and Fire

Dec. 07, 2016

Salt and Fire

A scientist blames the head of a large company for an ecological disaster in South America. But when a volcano begins to show signs of erupting, ...
Into the Abyss
7.3

Into the Abyss

Nov. 11, 2011

Into the Abyss

We do not know when and how we will die. Death Row inmates do. Werner Herzog embarks on a dialogue with Death Row inmates, asks questions about ...
Queen of the Desert
5.7

Queen of the Desert

Sep. 03, 2015

Queen of the Desert

A chronicle of Gertrude Bell’s life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British ...
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
7.7

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 ...
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
7.4

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of ...
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
6.1

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the ...
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans
6.6

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans

Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who recieves a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due ...
Encounters at the End of the World
7.7

Encounters at the End of the World

Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger go to Antarctica to meet people who live and work there, and to capture footage of the ...
Rescue Dawn
7.3

Rescue Dawn

Sep. 09, 2006

Rescue Dawn

A US Fighter pilot’s epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
The White Diamond
7.5

The White Diamond

Nov. 13, 2004

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 ...
Wheel of Time
7.1

Wheel of Time

Oct. 30, 2003

Wheel of Time

Wheel of Time is Werner Herzog’s photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India.
Invincible
6.4

Invincible

Dec. 02, 2001

Invincible

A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.
My Best Fiend
7.8

My Best Fiend

May. 17, 1999

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 ...
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
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Little Dieter Needs to Fly

Three decades after German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, he returns to the places where he was held prisoner during the ...
Lessons of Darkness
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Lessons of Darkness

Feb. 21, 1992

Lessons of Darkness

Shortly after the Gulf War, oil fires were raging all through Kuwait. In the week before this sea of fire would be extinguished, Werner Herzog ...
Cobra Verde
6.9

Cobra Verde

Dec. 03, 1987

Cobra Verde

A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the sugar plantation of Don Octávio Countinho. Not ...
Where the Green Ants Dream
6.9

Where the Green Ants Dream

The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are ...
Ballad of the Little Soldier
7.3

Ballad of the Little Soldier

A group of Miskito Indians use Nicaraguan child soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas.
Fitzcarraldo
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Fitzcarraldo

Mar. 02, 1982

Fitzcarraldo

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks ...
Huie’s Sermon
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Huie’s Sermon

Jul. 07, 1983

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 ...
God’s Angry Man
6.7

God’s Angry Man

May. 17, 1981

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 ...
Woyzeck
7

Woyzeck

May. 25, 1979

Woyzeck

Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some ...
Nosferatu the Vampyre
7.4

Nosferatu the Vampyre

Jan. 17, 1979

Nosferatu the Vampyre

A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a ...