Werner Herzog

biography:
Werner Herzog (German: [ˈvɛɐ̯nɐ ˈhɛɐ̯tsoːk]; born 5 September 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director, regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema. His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals in conflict with nature. He is known for his unique filmmaking process, such as disregarding storyboards, emphasizing improvisation, and placing the cast and crew into similar situations as characters in his films.

Herzog started work on his first film Herakles in 1961, when he was nineteen. Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than sixty feature films and documentaries, such as Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), Heart of Glass (1976), Stroszek (1977), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982), Cobra Verde (1987), Lessons of Darkness (1992), Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997), My Best Fiend (1999), Invincible (2000), Grizzly Man (2005), Encounters at the End of the World (2007), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009), and Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010). He has published more than a dozen books of prose, and directed as many operas.

French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog "the most important film director alive." American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog "has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular." He was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2009.

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The Simpsons

overview: Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.

character: Walter Hotenhoffer (voice)

original_name: The Simpsons

Sonntagsgespräch

original_name: Sonntagsgespräch

original_language: de

Okay

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The Colbert Report

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original_name: The Colbert Report

The Henry Rollins Show

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original_name: The Henry Rollins Show

The Simpsons

character: Werner Herzog (voice)

On Death Row

overview: A two part series on an inside look at a maximum security prison in Texas featuring interviews with death row inmates.

character: Werner Herzog

original_name: On Death Row

origin_country: AT US GB

The Simpsons

character: Dr. Lund (voice)

Die Harald Schmidt Show

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original_name: Die Harald Schmidt Show

Rick and Morty

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character: Shrimply Pibbles (voice)

original_name: Rick and Morty

Late Night with Seth Meyers

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original_name: Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Parks and Recreation

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character: Keg Jennings

original_name: Parks and Recreation

Spécial cinéma

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original_name: Spécial cinéma

original_language: fr

German Film Award

original_name: Deutscher Filmpreis

Grimme Award

overview: Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.

original_name: Grimme-Preis

Bavarian Film Awards

original_name: Bayerischer Filmpreis

Midi Première

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original_name: Midi Première

The Mandalorian

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character: The Client

original_name: The Mandalorian

American Dad!

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original_name: American Dad!

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

overview: Some of this year's most talked about talent open up about the challenges and triumphs of creating critically acclaimed series and performances.

Kulturplatz

original_name: Kulturplatz

name: Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian

overview: Executive producer Jon Favreau invites the cast and crew of The Mandalorian to share an unprecedented look at the making of the series. Each chapter explores a different facet of the first live-action Star Wars television show through interviews, never-before-seen footage, and roundtable conversations hosted by Favreau himself.

character: Self - The Client

original_name: Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian

Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen

original_name: Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen

Metalocalypse

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original_name: Metalocalypse

The Boondocks

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character: Himself (voice)

original_name: The Boondocks

Placido Domingo's Tales from the Opera

overview: The series aims to portray Domingo both as artist and person: his working process, the “blood, sweat, tears” behind the opera, and his relationships with productions.

character: Self - Director

original_name: Placido Domingo's Tales from the Opera

Film Lesson

overview: A 4-part series of interviews and demonstrations by various artists, authors and performers put on in 1991 for the Viennale film festival (which Herzog directed). Herzog conducts the interviews himself.

original_name: Filmstunde

Sternstunde Philosophie

original_name: Sternstunde Philosophie

Hulk Hogan: Real American

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original_name: Hulk Hogan: Real American

60 Minutes

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original_name: 60 Minutes

Soccer Meets America

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original_name: Soccer Meets America

2000 Years of Christianity

job: Director

overview: 2000 Jahre Christentum is a German documentary series on the history of Christianity prior to the year 1999.  This series explores the archeology and origins of Christianity and how it came into the world. Filmed on location in actual historical and biblical sites, this series features many memorable, full-scale dramatic re-creations.

department: Directing

original_name: 2000 Jahre Christentum

On Death Row

job: Writer

department: Writing

Under the Sun

overview: BBC series exploring cultures around the world.

Español

biography:
Werner Herzog es un director, documentalista, guionista, productor y actor alemán.

Nació en Múnich como segundo hijo de Dietrich Herzog y Elizabeth Stipetic. Dietrich fue inmediatamente conscripto para el ejército alemán, y la pareja se disolvió. Bajo la custodia de la madre, Werner mantuvo su apellido materno Stipetic hasta que lo cambió por el de su padre, que, "para director de cine, sonaba mucho mejor".

Era muy pobre. Creció sin radio ni cine, en pleno contacto con la naturaleza, en una granja, alejado del mundo moderno. Según afirma él mismo, no tuvo conocimiento de la existencia del cine hasta los once años, la misma fecha en la que vio por primera vez un coche. A los 17 años hizo su primera llamada telefónica.

A los trece años lo llevaron a Múnich para que iniciara sus estudios secundarios. Su familia se alojó provisionalmente en una pensión donde, casualmente, se alojaba Klaus Kinski, (1926-1991), actor que en un futuro sería clave en su carrera cinematográfica. Kinski ni reparó en el Herzog de trece años, pero el futuro director sí lo hizo con el singular actor.

Durante su adolescencia, pasó por una etapa de gran fervor religioso, llegando a convertirse al catolicismo, lo que le provocó discusiones con sus parientes, que eran ateos convencidos. Por esta época empezó a realizar sus primeros largos viajes a pie. Hacia los quince años atravesó media Europa, desde Múnich hasta Albania. También hizo a pie el viaje que lo llevó a Grecia.

Hacia los 17 años decidió dedicarse al cine. Para pagarse sus películas, trabajó en diversos oficios, que combinaba con sus estudios secundarios y más tarde universitarios. Se matriculó en Historia, Literatura y Teatro en Múnich. Hacia 1960 obtuvo la beca Fulbright para el Seminario de cine de la Universidad de Duquesne, en Pittsburgh (Estados Unidos).

A pesar de participar en seminarios universitarios de cine, Herzog nunca estudió en ninguna escuela ni tampoco trabajó como asistente de ningún director; su formación fue completamente autodidacta. En Estados Unidos combinó de nuevo sus estudios con diversos trabajos, como soldador en una fábrica o aparcacoches, para ganar dinero que luego invertiría en su arte. En 1962, a los veinte años, fundó su productora de cine, Herzogfilmproduktionen. Al año siguiente inició el rodaje de su primer cortometraje, Herakles, para el cual tuvo que trabajar dos años y medio en la cadena de montaje de una fundición de Múnich.

Le seguirían Juego en la arena (1964), Últimas palabras (1967) y La incomparable defensa de la fortaleza Deutschkreutz (1967).

Tras esta primera etapa de formación en el cortometraje realizó su primer largometraje, Lebenszeichen (Señales de vida), subvencionado por el Instituto de Cine alemán, que buscaba promocionar a nuevos cineastas. La película ganó el Premio de Cine Alemán (Deutscher Filmpreis). A partir de aquí Herzog inició una carrera singular, que ha combinado la filmación de largometrajes, documentales, dirección de ópera, actuación y redacción de guiones. Werner Herzog sigue activo en la actualidad.

Deutsch

biography: Werner Herzog (* 5. September 1942 in München als Werner Stipetić) ist ein deutscher Regisseur, Produzent, Schauspieler, Synchronsprecher und Schriftsteller. Er zählt zu den bedeutendsten Vertretern des internationalen Autorenfilms und des Neuen Deutschen Films. Die Zeitschrift Time zählte ihn im Jahr 2009 zu den 100 einflussreichsten Personen der Welt.

Français

biography:
Werner Herzog, de son nom complet Werner Herzog Stipetić, est un réalisateur, acteur, metteur en scène et écrivain allemand né le 5 septembre 1942 à Munich.

Considéré comme l'un des pionniers du nouveau cinéma allemand des années 1960-1970, ses films mettent souvent en scène des protagonistes ambitieux aux rêves impossibles, des personnes aux talents inhabituels dans des domaines obscurs ou des individus en conflit avec la nature. Son style consiste à éviter les *storyboards*, à mettre l'accent sur l'improvisation et à placer ses acteurs et son équipe dans des situations réelles similaires à celles du film sur lequel ils travaillent.

En 1961, à 19 ans, il commence à travailler sur son premier film intitulé *Herakles*. Depuis, il a produit, écrit et réalisé plus de 60 films et documentaires tels que *Aguirre, la colère de Dieu* (1972), *L'Énigme de Kaspar Hauser* (1974), *Cœur de verre* (1976), *La Ballade de Bruno* (1977), *Nosferatu, fantôme de la nuit* (1979), *Fitzcarraldo* (1982), *Cobra Verde* (1987), *Leçons de ténèbre* (1992), *Petit Dieter doit voler* (1997), *Ennemis intimes* (1999), *Invincible* (2001), *Grizzly Man* (2005), *Rencontres au bout du monde* (2007), *Bad Lieutenant : Escale à La Nouvelle-Orléans* (2009), et *La Grotte des rêves perdus* (2010). Il a également publié plus de 12 livres en prose et mis en scène de nombreux opéras.

Le cinéaste français François Truffaut a un jour qualifié Herzog de « réalisateur le plus important du monde ». Le critique de film américain Roger Ebert a déclaré que Herzog « n'a jamais créé un seul film compromis, honteux, réalisé pour des raisons pragmatiques ou inintéressant. Même ses échecs sont spectaculaires ». Il est cité comme l'une des 100 personnes les plus influentes au monde par le Time en 2009.

En 2024, Werner Herzog déclare qu'il est « un écrivain qui accessoirement fait des films ».

普通话

沃纳·赫尔佐格

biography:
沃纳·赫尔佐格（德语：[ˈvɛɐ̯nɐ ˈhɛɐ̯tsoːk];生于1942年9月5日）是德国电影导演、编剧、作家、演员和歌剧导演。

他十二岁时与母亲迁居慕尼黑，十五岁写出第一个剧本，并在十七岁时放映了一部监狱改革题材的电影。他曾在德国的大学学文学、戏剧、历史，并获得过奖学金。他青少年时期酷爱旅行，遍游英国、希腊、墨西哥等地，十八岁时到过苏丹旅行，丰富的旅游经验为他的电影带来独特的景观色彩。荷索的电影具有强烈的个人风格，而且都在很少的预算下完成，由他自己兼任制片和编剧。他很早就在慕尼黑铁厂打工挣钱，并用偷来的35mm摄影机拍摄自己的第一部短片。1963年，他成立自己的制片公司，拍摄了《荷拉克勒斯》、《沙上游戏》等三部短片。据说1966年还在太空总署赞助下拍摄电视作品。 　　第一部剧情长片《生命的讯息》（1967），描写纳粹在被占领的希腊的暴行，但影片并不仅限于对历史的如实描绘，而留下更多的篇幅将这种暴行寓言化、普遍化。这种对人类历史政治的终极思考，是影片呈现出一种非凡的品质，因而获得68年柏林电影节最佳新导演奖。

1972年执导著名作品《阿基尔，上帝的愤怒》（又名《天谴》），影片再一次将历史事件寓言化，16世纪欧洲殖民者侵略美洲的冒险在片中成了一个激情而孤独的狂想者的疯狂行为。历史背景被从影片中剥离出来，而人类的本性才是导演最为关注的主题范围。影片被英国《Sight and Sound》杂志评为年度十大佳片之首，他也成为国际影坛最受瞩目的德国青年导演。

1974年的名作《加斯·荷伯之谜》（人人为自己，上帝反众人），在戛纳电影节上获得国际影评人联合会特别奖。影片通过19世纪一个欧洲广为人知的弃儿的故事，展现出人性、宽容等现实和历史问题。1977年的《玻璃精灵》又是一个近似寓言的历史故事，讲述了一个狂热的玻璃工厂厂主的故事。1977年的《史楚锡流浪记》反映了德国流亡者在美国的命运及普通人在唯利是图的社会里难以找到自己的社会位置的悲剧。1978年他重拍了德国电影表现主义默片杰作、穆瑙的《吸血鬼》，1981年又拍摄了一个狂想家在南美“陆上行舟”的疯狂故事《费兹卡拉度》1984年在澳大利亚拍摄了《绿蚁安睡的地方》，描绘了澳洲原住民与国外资本矿业公司的斗争，公司要破坏的不仅是他们的家园，更是“绿蚁安睡的大地”。此后有《哭泣的石头》等等名作。他的作品大多以狂热、孤独的狂想者为主人公，强调人力与天意的对抗，很多作品有寓言性质。他是新德国电影运动中几位最著名的导演之一，与法斯宾德、文德斯、施隆多夫等人齐名。

普通话

沃納·赫爾佐格

biography: 沃納·赫爾佐格（德語：[ˈvɛɐ̯nɐ ˈhɛɐ̯tsoːk]; 生於 1942 年 9 月 5 日）是德國電影導演、編劇、作家、演員和歌劇導演

日本語

ヴェルナー・ヘルツォーク

biography: ドイツを代表する映画監督。本名はベルナー・シュティペティック。15歳からシナリオを書き始め、ミュンヘン大学に進学後、米ピッツバーグのデュケイン大学で映画とTVについて学ぶ。学生時代から映画制作を始め、62年に初の短編を完成させる。長編処女作「生の証明」（68）でベルリン国際映画祭で銀熊賞を受賞し、以降ニュー・ジャーマン・シネマを牽引する。カンヌ国際映画祭で、「カスパー・ハウザーの謎」（74）が審査員特別グランプリに選ばれ、「フィツカラルド」（82）で監督賞を受賞した。同作のほか、クラウス・キンスキー主演の「アギーレ　神の怒り」（72）や「ノスフェラトゥ」（79）が特に有名。当初からドキュメンタリー作品も数多く手がけ、「キンスキー、我が最愛の敵」（99）などを発表。「Encounters at the End of the World（原題）」（07）はアカデミー長編ドキュメンタリー賞にノミネートされた。俳優として、「ジュリアン」（99）、「ミスター・ロンリー」（07）などに出演し、トム・クルーズ主演の「アウトロー」（2012）では悪役を演じる。

also_known_as:
韋納荷索
Werner Herzog Stipetić
Вернер Херцог
베르네 헤어조크
ورنر هرتزوگ
沃纳·赫尔佐格

title: The Transformation of the World Into Music

overview: This film was prepared as a introduction to a series of opera broadcasts on German television. It depicts the behind-the-scenes manoeuvrings in preparation for the annual opera festival in Bayreuth.

original_title: Die Verwandlung der Welt in Musik: Bayreuth vor der Premiere

title: The Lonely

overview: A documentary portrait of the filmmaker Harmony Korine during the production of his third feature film, Mister Lonely (2007). Shot on location in Scotland, Paris, and Panama, each chapter presents the production process and the causal, day-to-day absurdities of the actor/impersonators featured in Mister Lonely. Throughout the process, as Harmony reveals his thoughts on the film he also reveals a part of himself.

title: The White Diamond

overview: 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.

title: Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

overview: Documentary about filmmakers of the New German Cinema who were members of the legendary Filmverlag für Autoren (Film Publishing House for Authors). Among them are Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Wim Wenders.

title: My Best Fiend

overview: 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 murder one another.

title: The Arc of Oblivion

overview: "The Arc of Oblivion" explores a quirk of humankind: in a universe that erases its tracks, we humans are hellbent on leaving a trace. Set against the backdrop of the filmmaker's quixotic quest to build an ark in a field in Maine, the film heads far afield - to salt mines in the Alps, fjords in the Arctic, and ancient libraries in the Sahara - to illuminate the strange world of archives, record-keeping, and memory.

title: Burden of Dreams

overview: The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.

title: The Grand

overview: The Grand is in the tradition of improvisational comedies like Best In Show and This Is Spinal Tap. The story is set in the world of professional poker and follows six players who reach the final table of the world’s second most famous high stakes tournament, the Grand Championship of Poker.

title: 50 Films to See Before You Die

overview: Celebrating the relaunch of Film4 as a free-to-air TV channel, Channel4 counts down their list of the fop 50 films to see before you die, as compiled by film critics and personalities.

title: Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn

overview: "Rescue Dawn: The Making of a True Story" is a documentary film that provides a behind-the-scenes look at the production of the movie "Rescue Dawn" (2006). Directed by Werner Herzog, the documentary delves into the process of bringing the captivating true story of Dieter Dengler to the big screen.  This documentary film provides a fascinating insight into the filmmaking process, shedding light on the director's vision, the authenticity of the settings, the grueling conditions endured by the actors during filming, and the passion that drove everyone involved to create a powerful and authentic portrayal of a remarkable real-life hero.

title: Strawberryfields

overview: A reconstruction, the replica of a complex emotional world made of desire and aggression: a teen film. Florian Pochlatko explores the agonies of adolescence and the rage and frustration caused by being dissatisfied with oneself.

title: Heart of Glass

overview: 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 town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the glassworks becomes obssessed with the lost secret.

title: Mister Lonely

overview: In Paris, a young American working as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and her daughter, Shirley Temple.

title: Hard to Be a God

overview: Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the city of Arkanar. But the resident perishes under an unlucky attempt to make a palace coup, and Rumata have to take his place as the resident. Soon he meets all the horrors of the medieval society - a peasant war, palace coups, mass executions. To continue to be an indifferent watcher of all these horrors turns out to be simply impossible...

title: Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life

original_title: Hannelore Elsner - Ohne Spiel ist mir das Leben zu ernst

title: Close Up

overview: More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferences in Cannes, Venice and Berlin, between 1993 and 2002. Presented the first time in 2012 (ten years after the last shooting) in Napoli Film Festival and in 2013 at the Art Institute of California in Santa Ana. An anthropological experiment on the facial expressions of famous people showing the human being aspect. All original footage from Mel Gibson to Peter Jackson, from George Lucas to Catherine Deneuve, from Michael Douglas to Giancarlo Giannini and many others.

title: Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance

overview: After the war, almost by chance, Alfonso Sansone started to produce documentary films and moved from Palermo to Rome, the city of film.

title: The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus

overview: Self-taught magician, transformist at the Grande Eugène cabaret, man of theater, television and cinema, Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus has been dragging his inimitable drawl wherever he wants. Able to play the Diva for Michel Audiard as well as for Werner Herzog. Loubard one day for Gilles Béhat and Duke of Orleans the next day for Rohmer. We often met him with Mocky or Boisset, more mysteriously with Tommy Chong and remains permanently anchored in our memories thanks to his performance in Delicatessen or Marie's ads, depending on the genre. Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus is one of those marginal people, adventurers a bit crazy, often poet and above all a bon vivant, in short, a species on the way to extinction. The directors wanted to meet the character and remember  this extravagant little life.

original_title: L'extravagante petite vie de Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus

title: Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire

overview: From Murnau to Herzog, and until modern incarnations, a mischievous exploration of a cinematographic legendary character, with Nosferatu himself as a guide...

title: The 100 Greatest Films

overview: A countdown of the 100 greatest films, as voted by the British public via the Channel 4 website.

title: Plastic Bag

overview: A plastic bag, thrown out in the trash, attempts to find his way back to his owner and along the way discovers the world.

title: Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur

overview: Jag Mandir is a quiet and often overlooked film in the vast oeuvre of Werner Herzog. Apparently, 20 hours of footage was shot that covered the whole fest and the film hardly presents us a twentieth of that. A native walking into the film in between may well fail to immediately realize that it is his country that is being shown and these are figures from the mythology of various sections of his nation.  The bulk of the film consists of footage of an elaborate theatrical performance for the Maharana Arvind Singh Mewar at the City Palace of Udaipur, Rajasthan staged by André Heller.

original_title: Jag Mandir: Das exzentrische Privattheater des Maharadscha von Udaipur

title: La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe

overview: Werner Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except for one old man who refuses to leave.

original_title: La Soufrière: Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe

title: Incident at Loch Ness

overview: When renowned director Werner Herzog and fellow filmmaker Zak Penn set off to explore the legend of Scotland's Loch Ness monster, they uncover much more than they bargained for. Unexplained sightings of the creature and chaos among the crew create an uneasy feeling that things aren't what they seem.

title: Jack Reacher

overview: One morning in an ordinary town, five people are shot dead in a seemingly random attack. All evidence points to a single suspect: an ex-military sniper who is quickly brought into custody. The interrogation yields one written note: 'Get Jack Reacher!'. Reacher, an enigmatic ex-Army investigator, believes the authorities have the right man but agrees to help the sniper's defense attorney. However, the more Reacher delves into the case, the less clear-cut it appears. So begins an extraordinary chase for the truth, pitting Jack Reacher against an unexpected enemy, with a skill for violence and a secret to keep.

title: Tokyo-Ga

overview: German director Wim Wenders tries to explore the Tokyo that was depicted in the films of Yasujiro Ozu and finds a very different city.

title: All In This Tea

overview: During the 1990s, David Lee Hoffman searched throughout China for the finest teas. He's a California importer who, as a youth, lived in Asia for years and took tea with the Dali Lama. Hoffman's mission is to find and bring to the U.S. the best hand picked and hand processed tea. This search takes him directly to farms and engages him with Chinese scientists, business people, and government officials: Hoffman wants tea grown organically without a factory, high-yield mentality. By 2004, Hoffman has seen success: there are farmer's collectives selling tea, ways to export "boutique tea" from China, and a growing Chinese appreciation for organic farming's best friend, the earthworm.

title: Into the Abyss

overview: 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 life and death and looks deep into these individuals, their stories, their crimes.

title: Cave of Forgotten Dreams

overview: Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.

title: Orion and the Dark

overview: A boy with an active imagination faces his fears on an unforgettable journey through the night with his new friend: a giant, smiling creature named Dark.

title: A Brief History of Errol Morris

overview: This film tells the fascinating story of one of the most critically acclaimed careers in independent documentary film making in recent cinema history. This comprehensive overview of Morris' career includes clips of all his important films as well as interviews with collaborators such as Werner Herzog and Phillip Glass.

title: How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

overview: A documentary short examining the language and performance of auctioneering, filmed at the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship in Pennsylvania.

original_title: How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck: Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache

title: Last Exit: Space

overview: Documentary about space colonization: a voyage across our planet, into the stars and beyond.

title: Scream of Stone

overview: A meeting of two world famous climbers, one an experienced mountaineer the other a sport climber, and a journalist (Ivan) results in a bet on which of the two is the best climber. Roger (the mountaineering expert) states that Martin (the sport climber) wouldn't survive a day on a 'real' climbing expedition, although he is considered to be the world's best sport climber (having just won an indoor 'world championship,' an event depicted in the opening scene). They plan to climb 'Cerro Torre,' in the Patagonia region of South America, near the Argentinian/Chilean border, one of the world's most difficult mountains, especially considering the extreme weather conditions common to the area.

title: Dinotasia

overview: Computer-generated animation about the daily lives of dinosaurs, narrated by Werner Herzog.

title: Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

overview: 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 in the village over a period of a year. The natives, whose daily routines have barely changed over the last centuries, keep living their lives according to their own cultural traditions.

title: Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

overview: Directors Werner Herzog and Errol Morris make a bet which results in Herzog living up to his promise that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris ever completed the film Gates of Heaven.

title: Ballad of the Little Soldier

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

title: Man of Flowers

overview: An eccentric elderly man tries to enjoy the three things in life that he considers real beauty: collecting art, collecting flowers, and watching pretty women undress.

title: Tegoyo

overview: In 1968 legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog shot in the island of Lanzarote his film Even Dwarfs Started Small. Fifty years later a rather peculiar scientist recovers haunting sounds from an unearthly past.

title: Portrait: Werner Herzog

overview: An autobiographical short film by Werner Herzog made in 1986. Herzog tells stories about his life and career.  The film contains excerpts and commentary on several Herzog films, including Signs of Life, Heart of Glass, Fata Morgana, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, Fitzcarraldo, and the Les Blank documentary Burden of Dreams.  Notable is footage of a conversation between Herzog and his mentor Lotte Eisner, a photographer. In another section, he talks with mountaineer Reinhold Messner, in which they discuss a potential film project in the Himalayas to star Klaus Kinski.

title: Dribble

overview: Winner of the Tromadance/Kodak Independent Soul Award, Giuseppe Andrews’ Dribble is a short film set in the director's trailer park.

title: The Dark Glow of the Mountains

overview: Werner Herzog follows mountaineers Hans Kammerlander and Reinhold Messner during their expedition into climbing the Gasherbrum mountains, which has some of the most difficult peaks to be conquered, and they'll do it without the use of oxygen tanks. Herzog also takes some time to hear about their past experiences with other mountains, their personal tragedies and the reasons why they are so involved with such activity.

title: The Unbelievers

overview: Scientists Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss travel the globe promoting a scientific worldview and the rational questioning of religious belief.

title: Location Africa

overview: Making-of documentary that covers "Cobra Verde," Herzog's last film with Kinski before Kinski's death.  This is the documentary that registers the behind the scenes moments of "Cobra Verde", the last project that united director Werner Herzog to actor Klaus Kinski.  The notorious and infamous relation between the two filled Cinema theatres with masterpieces, but also filled pages of Cinema History with mutual declarations of both love and hate.

title: Dreams and Burdens

overview: A retrospective interview with director Werner Herzog.

title: Dangerous Game

overview: A New York film director, working on his latest movie in Los Angeles, begins to reflect the actions in his movie and real life, especially when he begins an affair with the lead actress.

title: Walking to Werner

overview: Linas Phillips pays tribute to Werner Herzog in his pledge to walk from Seattle, Washington to Herzog's Los Angeles home.

title: The Boxing Prince

overview: The documentary tells the life story of the boxer Norbert Grupe, who was known by his fighting name Prince of Homburg.

title: To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further

overview: A documentation about Werner Herzog's motif to do movies.

original_title: Bis ans Ende... und dann noch weiter. Die ekstatische Welt des Filmemachers Werner Herzog

title: Life Itself

overview: The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling bachelor and Pulitzer Prize winner, his famously contentious partnership with Gene Siskel, his life-altering marriage, and his brave and transcendent battle with cancer.

title: Bride of the Orient

overview: After the death of his mother, a lonely farmer in rural Switzerland considers finally starting a family of his own. Eventually he pays for a bride from Thailand. The couple don't share a language, but being to know each other. However the village neighbors are suspicious of foreigners.

title: Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

overview: With exclusive behind-the-scenes access into Herzog’s everyday life, rare archive material and in-depth interviews with celebrated collaborators – including Christian Bale, Nicole Kidman, and Robert Pattinson, we are given an exciting glimpse into the work and personal life of the iconic artist.

title: Werner Herzog Defends Dade

overview: Werner Herzog shares his thoughts on Miami.

title: Penguins of Madagascar

overview: Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the world as we know it.

title: The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

overview: A study of the psychology of a champion ski-flyer, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.

original_title: Die große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner

title: The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft

overview: Filmmaker Werner Herzog combs through the film archives of volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft to create a film that celebrates their legacy.

original_title: The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft

title: Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God"

original_title: Russisches Abenteuer. Peter Fleischmann dreht "Es ist nicht leicht, ein Gott zu sein."

title: SnowwhiteRosered

overview: Documentary about  the twin sister Jutta and Gisela Schmidt. In the late sixties the two women rebelled against middle class society as if they gave vent to a new kind of art. They became active in the underground communist party KPD and showed a heart-felt interest in the colour red, the aesthetics of the revolution. Soon, though, the twins quit their experiments in Germany. They left their husbands and went to Rome, where they met the fabulously wealthy Paul Getty III, and soon things got really out of hand.

title: Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor

overview: Klaus Kinski is one of the few German actors who has achieved international fame. He made headlines. And disappeared behind them. Kinski lived his parts 24/7. This film tells the story of a man who no longer could understand the difference or distinguish between fantasy and reality.

original_title: Klaus Kinski - Ich bin kein Schauspieler

title: Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son

overview: The Making of 'My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done'.

original_title: Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son

title: Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space

overview: Legendary film director Werner Herzog brings together five shepherds and singers from the island of Sardinia in a Paris studio with a Senegalese singer and a Dutch cellist to create the music for one of his films.

original_title: Perpetuum mobile - Voces en el espacio azul

title: Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog

overview: Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog.

original_title: Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog

title: Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest

overview: A cheerful, amusing and melancholic look back at the Munich film festival from the perspective of the people who make up the film festival.

original_title: Münchner (Filmfest) Geschichten - 25 Jahre Filmfest München

title: No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon

original_title: Non, monsieur Werner Herzog, ceci n'est pas votre Cinématon

title: Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections

overview: Gérard Courant's "Filmed Diary" of December 14, 2011, produced in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). Between December 7 and 15, 2011, Gérard Courant was invited by the Dubai International Film Festival, in the United Arab Emirates. It was an opportunity for him to film many "Cinematons" of personalities from the Arab world and to continue his "Film Notebooks" from which he brought back 7 episodes.

original_title: Carnet de Dubaï Hiver VI: Lumière et Reflets

title: Lemonade War

overview: In an idyllic suburban neighborhood, Jerry runs his big business lemonade stand and has the market cornered, until ten-year-old Addie opens her own stand across the street. Competition equals war, and both sides use (and abuse) a government regulator to try and win. In the end, one special customer will decide their fate.

title: 90 Years of the Music Box Theatre

overview: Nominated for two Chicago/Midwest Emmy awards including Outstanding Historical Documentary and Outstanding Off-Camera Directing, "90 Years of the Music Box Theatre" depicts filmmakers Werner Herzog, Lana Wachowski, Michael Shannon, Joe Swanberg, and more as they celebrate a 90-year-old cinema institution in Chicago, IL.

title: Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog

overview: Director Jösta Hagelbäck speaks on the importance of Werner Herzog.

title: Journey Through History

title: The Heart and the Legs

title: Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait

overview: Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf claims to have never seen a movie before making his first film. Doubtful as it sounds, this boast matches perfectly with the controversial artist's personae. Stardust Stricken -- Mohsen Makhmalbaf: A Portrait documents the work of this Iranian filmmaker. After spending time in prison for political dissidence, Makhmalbaf discovered the social potential of the cinema. Some of his projects include Marriage of the Blessed and The Actor. While creating around 20 films, the outspoken director established new ideas about the nature of his work. In this release, Makhmalbaf speaks about art, human behavior, and his evolving fundamentalist beliefs.

original_title: Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait

title: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

overview: A strongly visual look at the life, work and obsessions od the writer Bruce Chatwin, who died of AIDS in 1989. Chatwin was hailed as the greatest novelist since Hemmingway, and the foremost travel writer of modern times.

title: The Last Documentary

overview: Documentary by Jan Sebening and Daniel Sponsel.

title: Shards of Cinema and Philosophy

overview: Inspired by the "The wind of cinema" festival which every year deals with issues relating to the relationship between cinema and philosophy, it shows a conversation between the critic Enrico Ghezzi and some directors including Werner Herzog, Amos Gitai, and the philosopher Boris Groys. The theme addressed is the "Catastrophe".

title: Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema

overview: A veteran film critic explores the legacy of Cannes Film Festival regular Pierre Rissient.

title: Bierbichler

overview: Documentary about actor Josef Bierbichler.

title: 40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight

overview: A history of the Cannes Film Festival's Director's Fortnight selection.

original_title: 40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight

title: Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse

original_title: Wer sich traut, reißt die Kälte vom Pferd

title: Champions: A Comic Tale

overview: A comic tale. The issue of film education has been a Gordian link for many years in Greece. Starting from the time of Stavrakos in 1950, the documentary reaches up to the present day, exploring this issue through a dialogue between the people who dealt and are dealing. Among them Theodoros Angelopoulos, Pantelis Voulgaris, Dinos Katsouridis, Nikos Koundouros, Manos Zacharias, Werner Herzog, Emir Kustouritsa, Fatih Akin.

original_title: Champions: Μια αστεία ιστορία

title: I, I, I José Lewgoy

overview: Documentary discussing the life and work of José Lewgoy, one of the most important Brazilian actors of all times.

title: Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around

overview: Cast and crew speak on adapting One Shot as the first Jack Reacher film, casting Tom Cruise, earning Lee Child's blessing, additional character qualities and the performances that shape them, Lee Child's cameo in the film, and shooting the film's climax.

title: On Borrowed Time

overview: Auteur filmmaker Paul Cox contemplates his own mortality and his life's work as he wits for a life saving liver transplant.

title: Mistaken for Strangers

overview: Mistaken for Strangers follows The National on its biggest tour to date. Newbie roadie Tom (lead singer Matt Berninger’s younger brother) is a heavy metal and horror movie enthusiast, and can't help but put his own spin on the experience. Inevitably, Tom’s moonlighting as an irreverent documentarian creates some drama for the band on the road. The film is a hilarious and touching look at two very different brothers, and an entertaining story of artistic aspiration.

title: An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog

overview: Werner Herzog talking about his appreciation for Les Blank.

original_title: An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog

title: Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'

overview: Directors Errol Morris and Werner Herzog describe and discuss the film The Act of Killing (2012).

original_title: Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'

title: Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director

overview: Werner Herzog talks about making 'On Death Row' and life as a director.

original_title: Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director

title: Jihad in Hollywood

overview: Once a successful Syrian actor, Jihad Abdo is now struggling as a refugee while trying to reinvent his life and rebuild his career.

title: Jihad in Hollywood

title: Die Erben von Papas Kino

overview: Documentary by Wilhelm Roth about the state of affairs of the Young German Cinema.

title: Tales of the Dumpster Kid

overview: The Dumpster Kid is an artistic creation: in every story society forces her to learn something. But she, fully grown from the moment of her birth, unquestionably learns more than is called for. This extra knowledge, which is not wanted by society, regularly brings her into danger. Dumpster Kid dies in each story, and across each genre. Her stories are set in a whole range of different time periods. What is a Dumpster Kid?

title: In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session

overview: With Herzog's direction, Richard Thompson leads a small group of musicians into creating Grizzly Man's evocative soundtrack.

title: Back to Room 666

overview: What is the future of cinema? In 1982, in Cannes, Wim Wenders invited many movie makers to answer this question. 26 years later, the question remains, but Wenders is now on the other side of the camera.

title: Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless

overview: Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless by Mahmoud Behraznia is a documentary with a different perspective on Sohrab Shahid Saless, a leading Iranian filmmaker. Someone whose viewpoint at cinema and the special type of aesthetics he used in his films has been a path-breaker for many Iranian filmmakers. The film provides the viewer with new information about the life and work of Sohrab Shahid Saless in Germany.

original_title: ستاره دنباله دار: سهراب شهید ثالث

title: Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood

title: Grizzly Man

overview: Follows the story of "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Park in Alaska were like in his attempt to protect the grizzly bears. The film is full of unique images and a look into the spirit of a man who sacrificed himself for nature.

title: Into the Inferno

overview: With stunning views of eruptions and lava flows, Werner Herzog captures the raw power of volcanoes and their ties to indigenous spiritual practices.

title: Salt and Fire

overview: 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, they must unite to avoid a disaster.

title: Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers

overview: A zesty paean of praise to the greater glories of garlic. This lip-smacking foray into the history, consumption, cultivation and culinary/curative powers of the stinking rose features chef Alice Waters of Chez Panisse, and a flavorful musical soundtrack.  Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.

title: Celebrating the Rice Media Center

overview: Through the Fondren Fellows program, the Rice Media Center Archive Project has spent the past few months sifting through material stored at the now-defunct Rice Media Center. The team has identified several films as especially notable and will be presenting them in conjunction with documentary footage the team shot of people involved with the films. From lectures featuring Roberto Rossellini and Werner Herzog to films from former Rice students and faculty, the film presentation will tell the narrative of the Rice Media Center through the films and filmmakers that passed through its corridors.

title: The Making of 'Nosferatu'

overview: Werner Herzog discusses the making of "Nosferatu" on set.

title: Signs of Life

overview: 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 of Kos while Stroszek recuperates. The men become increasingly stir crazy in their uneventful new assignment. Stroszek eventually goes mad.

title: Lessons of Darkness

overview: 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 filmed this apocalyptic landscape with its murky skies, scorched earth and capricious flames.

title: Burning Heart

overview: Follows the life of the famous German politician, writer, and communist activist, Gustav Regler, from his birth in 1898, in the Saar, through the two World Wars and his many travels, until his death in 1963 in India.

title: Freaks of Nature

overview: In the town of Dillford, humans, vampires and zombies were all living in peace - until the alien apocalypse arrived. Now three teenagers-one human, one vampire, and one zombie-have to team up to figure out how to get rid of the visitors.

title: What Dreams May Come

overview: Chris Nielsen dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he died, his wife Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in Hades for the small chance that he will be able to bring her back to heaven.

title: Capturing Reality

overview: From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the world's best documentarians reflect upon the unique power of their genre. Capturing Reality explores the complex creative process that goes into making non-fiction films. Deftly charting the documentarian's journey, it poses the question: can film capture reality?

title: The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

overview: Behind the scenes documentary for Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. Features interviews and on-set footage.

original_title: The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

title: Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision

overview: Follow-up to the TV trilogy “Heimat”, this time for cinemas, set again in the fictional village Schabbach in the Hunsrück region of Rhineland-Palatinate.

original_title: Die andere Heimat - Chronik einer Sehnsucht

title: Wings of Hope

overview: Werner Herzog returns to the South American jungle with Juliane Koepcke, the German woman who was the sole survivor of a plane crash there in 1971. They find the remains of the plane and recreate her journey out of the jungle.

title: Room 666

overview: During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders asked a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the camera, and answer a simple question: "What is the future of cinema?"

title: Little Dieter Needs to Fly

overview: 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 early years of the Vietnam War. Accompanied by director Werner Herzog, Dengler describes in unusually candid detail his captivity, the friendships he made, and his daring escape. Not willing to stop there, Herzog even persuades his subject to re-enact certain tortures, with the help of some willing local villagers.

title: I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog

overview: Interview film with German director Werner Herzog revisiting the films he made up to ca. 1977.

title: The Man Who Killed John Wayne

title: BLAST!

overview: With extraordinary access, BLAST exposes a world of risky, hardcore, scientific adventure. The story follows an international team of astrophysicists trying to launch a multi-million dollar telescope on a NASA high-altitude balloon. Their journey to discover thousands of early galaxies takes them from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Revealing frustrations, inevitable failures and ultimate triumph, BLAST puts a human face on the quest to answer our most basic question - How did we get here?

title: Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

overview: Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.

original_title: Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

title: Neuer Deutscher Film Report

overview: Interview film with the protagonists of the New German Cinema in 1966.

title: Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun

overview: Herzog's documentary of the Wodaabe people of the Sahara/Sahel region. Particular attention is given to the tribe's spectacular courtship rituals and 'beauty pageants', where eligible young men strive to outshine each other and attract mates by means of lavish makeup, posturing and facial movements.

title: Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

overview: BBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures.

original_title: Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

title: Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices

overview: Works, legend and murders of Carlo Gesualdo, a notorious Italian composer and murderer from 16th century.

title: The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3

overview: In this third volume of the Best of Tromadance, viewers can sample fifteen of the best films from the 2003 and 2004 Film Festivals totally over three hours. Titles include Giuseppe Andrews' "Dribble;" winner of the Tromadance / Kodak Independent Soul Award, Kevin Maher's "Monkey Brains," "Kung-Fu Kitties" and "Marijuana's Revenge" by the filmmaking team of Philip Gunn, Daniel Guiterrez and David Valdez. Also included are Matt and Greg Brookens' "Skunk Ape!?," Jamie Greco's "PDA Massacre" and others.

original_title: The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3

title: The Ball Is a Scumbag

overview: "Sometimes the ball is bewitched," says legendary soccer coach Rudi Gutendorf. He's the one who would know, after having coached 6 first division soccer teams in Germany alone and countless others in 38 countries around the world.

title: 10 Questions for Werner Herzog

overview: Interview with Werner Herzog during his visit to the Indiana University Cinema.

title: Julien Donkey-Boy

overview: Undiagnosed, untreated and generally untethered schizophrenic Julien lives with his pregnant younger sister, anorexic aspiring wrestler brother, sympathetic grandmother, and severely depressed and abusive German father.

title: The Great Buster: A Celebration

overview: A celebration of the life and career of one of America's most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians—Buster Keaton—whose singular style and fertile output during the silent era created his legacy as a true cinematic visionary.

title: Manaslu: Mountain of Souls

overview: The great successes and tragedies in the life and work of Hans Kammerlander, the renowned mountaineer.

title: Encounters at the End of the World

overview: Acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog travels to Antarctica, where he finds a desolate, beautiful landscape, largely untouched by human hands, and a group of truly unique people who risk their lives to study it. Centered at McMurdo Station, the United States' largest Antarctic research center, Herzog explores the minds of the scientists willing to abandon civilization and endure volatile conditions to learn more about the continent's wildlife and awe-inspiring natural wonders.

title: Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

overview: 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.

title: Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

overview: 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 on his own journey, inspired by Chatwin’s passion for the nomadic life, uncovering stories of lost tribes, wanderers and dreamers.

original_title: Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

title: Meeting Gorbachev

overview: 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 Germany and the dissolution of his country.

title: Ballad of a Righteous Merchant

overview: Chronicles the making of director Werner Herzog’s 2009 feature, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, providing profound insight into the director and his craft. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done was inspired by the true story of an actor who committed in reality the crime he was supposed to enact on stage: murdering his mother. With longtime friend Herbert Golder behind the lens, Herzog reveals the privacy and deep solitude that defines the director and his art.

title: Tattoo Uprising

overview: An examination of the artistic and historical roots of today's tattoo explosion.

title: Paradox Bullets

overview: A short film which debuted in a secret location in London to coincide with the release of the NikeCraft x Tom Sachs Mars Yard Overshoe

title: Lost in the Garden of the World

overview: Cannes is the town in France where Bergman meets bikinis, and the art of filmmaking meets the art of the deal. In 1975, a group of expat Kiwis managed to score interviews with some of the festival's emerging talents, indulging their own cinematic dreams in the process. Werner Herzog waxes lyrical on the trials and scars of directing; a boyish Steven Spielberg recalls the challenges of framing shots during Jaws; Martin Scorsese and Dustin Hoffman talk a gallon.

title: Bells from the Deep

overview: A group of pilgrims lie down on the thin ice of the lake Svetloyar and begin to look for the city of Kitesh. According to the legend, God saved the city from the Mongolian prince Batyi's soldiers by letting it sink to the bottom of the lake. If you listen carefully you can hear the bells of the Kitesh cathedral toll deep down.

title: When Herzog Rescued Phoenix

overview: Famed film director Werner Herzog recounts the time he rescued Joaquin Phoenix from lighting a deadly cigarette.

title: God's Angry Man

overview: The documentary follows Gene Scott, famous televangelist involved with constant fights against FCC, who tried to shut down his TV show during the 1970s and '80s, and even argues with his viewers, complaining about their lack of support by not sending enough money to keep going with the show.

original_title: Glaube und Währung: Dr. Gene Scott, Fernsehprediger

title: AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.

overview: Unleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #2: LATER IN L.A. is a brand new compilation of the most electrifying found footage mayhem that you’ll see this week. For our second tape, we’ve returned to the hallowed halls of “behind the scenes” horror for another hour-long joyride of F-U-N.  Thank you for your incredible support during these difficult times. And remember: “Do what your spirit tells you.”

title: The Killers: Unstaged

overview: Following the band The Killers on road to and on stage in the Bronx, New York, in a series of American Express sponsored music documentaries.

title: Wheel of Time

overview: Wheel of Time is Werner Herzog's photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India.

title: Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias

overview: For over half a century, the filmmaker Edgar Reitz, one of the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto and a pioneer of epic film narration, has explored, as a practitioner and theoretician, the rules and limits of cinema, which he always seeks to break and extend in new ways. One example of his tireless search and research are the Geschichten vom Kübelkind, which he co-directed with Ula Stöckl in 1969/70, 22 absurdly funny, subversive and anarchistic short films of different lengths, which consciously oppose all conventions, with incredible success. The films remain unrivalled in their Dadaistic inventiveness.

original_title: Der Film verlässt das Kino: Vom Kübelkind-Experiment und anderen Utopien

title: Wim Wenders, Desperado

overview: "Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is considered one of the pioneers of New German Cinema and one of the most important and influential representatives of contemporary cinema. With never-before-shown archive material and extraordinary encounters with companions and contemporary witnesses such as Francis Ford Coppola, Willem Dafoe, Andie MacDowell, Hanns Zischler, Patti Smith, and Werner Herzog, this documentary provides unique insights into the life and work of one of the most multifaceted artists of our times. Renowned documentary filmmaker Eric Friedler ("It Must Schwing. The Blue Note Story") and his co-director Andreas Frege were given the exclusive opportunity to portray Wenders for this film. From Düsseldorf to Paris, and all the way to the desert of Texas, the film traces iconic locations and decisive moments in Wenders' work as director, producer, photographer, and author.

title: Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)

overview:
In 1974 Werner Herzog walked from Munich to Paris, an act of faith to prevent the
death of his mentor Lotte Eisner. In 2020, a young filmmaker walks following Herzog´s footprints in an act of love to one of the best filmmakers of our time. A journey through villages, nature, loneliness and cold, looking for the meaning of filmmaking. Including fragments of the book "Of Walking in Ice" by legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog narrated by himself exclusively for the film.

title: The Andinist

overview: An old painter recounts the story of when he met a strange mountain climber, or perhaps, an explorer from another world.

title: Echoes from a Sombre Empire

overview: Documentary examining Bokassa's rule in the Central African Republic using the testimony of witnesses and visits to key sites.

title: A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

overview: Born in Berlin in 1896, Lotte Eisner became famous for her passionate involvement in the world of both German and French cinema. In 1936, together with Henri Langlois, she founded the Cinémathèque Française with the goal of saving from destruction films, costumes, sets, posters, and other treasures of the 7th Art. A Jew exiled in Paris, she became a pillar of the capital's cultural scene, where she promoted German cinema.

title: Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'

overview: Jean-Luc Godard proposes a diary of his creative process. Looking at photos of three actors, Jacques Dutronc, Isabelle Huppert, and Miou-Miou, who were previously cast to play in "Sauve qui peut (la vie)," Godard speaks about great image makers: Dreyer and Wim Wenders, the painters Edward Hopper and Pierre Bonnard.

original_title: Quelques remarques sur la réalisation et la production du film 'Sauve qui peut (la vie)'

title: I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later

overview: Christian Weisenborn and Werner Herzog know each other for more than 40 years. His first film on Werner Herzog "I am my films" (1976-78) covered Herzog's beginning as a filmmaker, the new film is a sequel titled "I am my films, part 2 - 30 years later" in which Weisenborn talks about Werner Herzog as a documentarian of the past 30 years.

original_title: Was ich bin sind meine Filme - Teil 2... nach 30 Jahren

title: I'm a Soldier

title: One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo

overview: This documentary explores key moments in the life of writer Juan Rulfo, with artists such as Werner Herzog and Eduardo Galeano reflecting on his work.

title: About a Hero

overview: After a local factory worker named Dorem Clery dies under mysterious circumstances, Werner Herzog travels to Getunkirchenburg to investigate his perplexing death. But Herzog, our narrator, is not who he seems, and the film is not what we expect…

title: Atari: Game Over

overview: The Xbox Originals documentary that chronicles the fall of the Atari Corporation through the lens of one of the biggest mysteries of all time, dubbed “The Great Video Game Burial of 1983.” Rumor claims that millions of returned and unsold E.T. cartridges were buried in the desert, but what really happened there?

title: The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

overview: THE AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE VAULT is a 2-disc, 500-minute odyssey that collects eight feature-length VHS mixtapes from the crackpots at AGFA—including two that have only ever been available theatrically.

title: Ghost Elephants

overview: In Angola's mist-shrouded highlands, three KhoiSan master trackers embark on a spiritual quest to rediscover the legendary "ghost elephants" of Lisima, creatures presumed lost but remembered in ancestral trance, ritual, and memory.

title: Handicapped Future

overview: A documentary by Werner Herzog exploring the different treatment accorded to the disabled in Germany and the USA.

title: Sirena

overview: A laidback Mediterranean man discovers a mute mermaid while fishing and, enchanted by her otherworldliness, brings her to his backyard pool, unaware that she sacrificed her voice to be with him. As he puts her on display, seeing her as little more than a peculiar catch, she reluctantly has to accept the enormous price of her naivëte and blind desire

title: Into the Night With Harmony Korine and Gaspar Noe

overview: Two celebrities (Gaspar Noe and Harmony Korine) meet for the first time to spend an evening in each others and the camera’s company.

original_title: Durch die Nacht mit Harmony Korine und Gaspar Noé

title: Where the Green Ants Dream

overview: 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 disturbed, it will bring down disaster on us all. The Aborigines' belief is not shared by a giant mining company, which wants to tear open the soil and search for uranium.

title: Ally

overview: A squid dreams of becoming the star of a wildlife documentary. But when an aircraft sinks into the ocean, her peaceful world is suddenly thrown into danger.

title: Werner We Love You

overview: When Werner Herzog was still a child, his father was beaten to death before his eyes. His mother was overwhelmed with his upbringing and thereupon shipped him off to one of the toughest youth welfare institutions in Freistatt. This was followed by a career as a bouncer in the city's most notorious music club and an attempt to start a family. Today, the 77-year-old from Bielefeld lives with his dog Lucky in a lonely house in the country. Despite adverse living conditions, he has survived in his own unique and inimitable way.

title: Grizzly Man

title: Woyzeck

overview: 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 job is volunteering for experiments conducted by a local doctor, who puts Woyzeck on a diet of peas. This serves to drive him close to madness, and the discovery that Marie is involved in an affair with the local drum major exacerbates the situation. Pushed too far, Woyzeck resorts to violence.

title: Woyzeck

title: Aguirre, the Wrath of God

overview: 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 search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.

title: Aguirre, the Wrath of God

title: Cobra Verde

overview: A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the sugar plantation of Don Octávio Countinho. Not knowing that his new guest is the notorious bandit and impressed by his ruthless ways, Don Octávio hires Cobra Verde to oversee his slaves. But when Cobra Verde impregnates Don Octávio’s three daughters, the incensed plantation owner exiles the outlaw to Africa where he is expected to reopen the slave trade. Following his trans-Atlantic journey, Cobra Verde exploits tribal conflicts to commandeer an abandoned fortress and whips an army of naked warriors into a frenzied bloodlust as he vies for survival.

title: Cobra Verde

title: Nosferatu the Vampyre

overview: 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 property in Wismar.

title: Nosferatu the Vampyre

title: Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

overview: Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project consisting of two compilation feature films entitled The Trumpet and The Cello. The project was conceived by the producer Nicolas McClintock as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the Millennium. Fifteen celebrated film-makers were invited to create their own vision of what time means in ten minutes of film.

title: Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

title: Even Dwarfs Started Small

overview: A group of tormented patients stage a coup at an oppressive, dismal asylum after they're not allowed out on an excursion.

title: Even Dwarfs Started Small

title: Even Dwarfs Started Small

title: The White Diamond

title: Stroszek

overview: 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 a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.

title: Stroszek

title: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

overview: Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who receives a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of African immigrants.

original_title: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

title: The Wild Blue Yonder

overview: 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 alternate planet for surviving humans to live on.

title: The Wild Blue Yonder

title: The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

overview: The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.

title: The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

title: The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

title: My Best Fiend

title: My Best Fiend

title: Fitzcarraldo

overview: 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 on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.

title: Fitzcarraldo

title: Encounters at the End of the World

title: Where the Green Ants Dream

title: Heart of Glass

title: Heart of Glass

title: Rescue Dawn

overview: A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.

title: Rescue Dawn

title: Last Exit: Space

title: Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun

title: The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

title: My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

overview: Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young man arrived at such a dark place.

title: My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

title: The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz

overview: A satire on war and on the stupid things war inspires people to do. Four young men enter an abandoned fortress. Inside, they find military uniforms, which they immediately resolve to use to stage a bizarre war game. Their actions appear all the more senseless in relation to the peaceful everyday reality of the workers in the surrounding countryside.

original_title: Die beispiellose Verteidigung der Festung Deutschkreuz

title: La Bohème

overview: Part of a series of opera shorts by different directors. Herzog combines O Soave Fanciulla ("Oh you vision of beauty" from Puccini's La Boheme) with images of harsh life in Africa.  The varied body of work was produced to celebrate six years of Sky Arts' season sponsorship of ENO and both organisations' commitment to widening the appeal of opera. Set to recordings by ENO Orchestra conducted by ENO Music Director Edward Gardner, they feature singers Peter Auty, Geraint Dodd, Mary Plazas and Mark Stone.

title: God's Angry Man

title: Land of Silence and Darkness

overview: 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 deaf-blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.

title: Land of Silence and Darkness

title: Herakles

overview: Basically, 'Herakles' is an omnium-gatherum of film clips depicting images of machismo. Some of those images are explicitly macho: we see various body-builders flexing their biceps and triceps. Other images seen here are not macho in the literal sense, but are indirectly related to testosterone or cojones on some level: we see military aircraft making bombing raids, and footage of car crashes.

title: Handicapped Future

title: Signs of Life

title: Signs of Life

title: Invincible

overview: A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.

title: Invincible

title: Lessons of Darkness

title: Fata Morgana

overview: Shot under extreme conditions and inspired by Mayan creation theory, the film contemplates the illusion of reality and the possibility of capturing for the camera something which is not there. It is about the mirages of nature—and the nature of mirage.

title: Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

title: Little Dieter Needs to Fly

title: Into the Abyss

title: Into the Abyss

title: How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

title: How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

title: Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

title: Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

title: Wings of Hope

title: Cave of Forgotten Dreams

title: The Flying Doctors of East Africa

overview: The Flying Doctors of East Africa (German: Die Fliegenden Ärzte von Ostafrika) is a 1969 documentary film by Werner Herzog about the "flying doctors" service of the African Medical and Research Foundation in Tanzania, Kenya, and Nairobi.

title: Cave of Forgotten Dreams

title: Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices

title: Scream of Stone

title: Bells from the Deep

title: Bells from the Deep

title: Echoes from a Sombre Empire

title: Ballad of the Little Soldier

title: Ballad of the Little Soldier

title: Ballad of the Little Soldier

title: No One Will Play with Me

overview: A darkly humorous short documentary about a preschool-age boy ostracised from interactions with his classmates until a girl who has become interested in his pet crow provides the link to social acceptance.

title: Huie's Sermon

overview: 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 an epic call-and-response denunciation of human hubris, greed, corruption and failure. The use of lengthy shots present it less like a sermon and more a performance, and induce an almost trance-like state.

title: Precautions Against Fanatics

overview: The film features several horse trainers and other track workers talking about their roles at the track, always eventually interrupted by an older man who claims to be the true authority, and demands that they be thrown out. One recurring young man, the first to appear, claims that he protects the horses from enthusiastic racing fans. He does not appear to be employed by the track, but seems to provide his services voluntarily. His protection from "fanatics" gives the film its title. The film is shot in a documentary style, but the sheer implausibility of the dialogue leaves the exact nature of the film ambiguous.

title: Queen of the Desert

overview: A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire in the Near and Middle East at the dawn of the twentieth century. Her knowledge of the tribal leaders is used by the British to establish the Kingdoms of Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

title: Portrait: Werner Herzog

title: The Dark Glow of the Mountains

title: Last Words

overview: Early short by Werner Herzog shot while being on location in Greece shooting "Lebenszeichen".

title: Last Words

title: Theater of Thought

overview: Werner Herzog sets his sights on yet another mysterious landscape — the human brain — for clues as to why a hunk of tissue can produce profound thoughts and feelings while considering the philosophical, ethical, and social implications of fast-advancing neural technology.

title: Pilgrimage

overview: Accompanied only by music the film alternates between shots of pilgrims near the tomb of Saint Sergei in Sergiyev Posad, Russia and pilgrims at the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico.

title: Ode to the Dawn of Man

overview: In Cave of Forgotten Dreams, celebrated German film director Werner Herzog gained exclusive access to film the 32,000 year old Chauvet caves, which contain the earliest known pictorial creations of humankind. In this follow-up film, Ode to the Dawn of Man, Herzog shows us an insight into the construction of the film’s score with footage and interviews with composer Ernst Reijseger and pianist Harmen Fraanje. Ode to the Dawn of Man draws us into the creation of the truly epic music used in Herzog’s awe-inspiring documentary and the magic created by all those involved including the musicians, composer and Herzog himself. –iTunes

title: From One Second to the Next

overview: Stories of serious traffic accidents caused by texting and driving are told by the perpetrators and surviving victims.

title: Giovanna d'Arco

overview: Director Werner Herzog, one of the most highly acclaimed German film makers, joins forces with the great Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly to effect a masterful rendition of this rarely-performed opera involving spectacular scenes of alternating light and dark, pageantry and intimacy. Staged and recorded at Teatro Comunale di Bologna in Bologna, Italy.

title: Aguirre, the Wrath of God

title: The Blimp-Maker

overview: For the past forty years, Igor Pasternak has pursued a lighter-than-air vision: to build gigantic airships that haul cargo to otherwise inaccessible parts of the planet. In high school, in Ukraine, Pasternak formed an airship club; at Lviv National University, where he studied civil engineering, he established an airship-design bureau. Eventually, he settled in southern California and started Aeros, which builds blimps for surveillance and other purposes. His prototype cargo airship, the two-hundred-and-sixty-foot-long Dragon Dream, was destroyed in 2013 when its hangar collapsed on it. Unfazed, Pasternak now aims to produce a fleet of “Aeroscraft” cargo airships, the largest of which will be more than nine hundred feet long and able to carry five hundred tons.  Pasternak spoke recently with the director and producer Gabe Polsky. Polsky’s documentary, “Red Army,” played at the 2014 Cannes, Telluride, Toronto, and New York Film Festivals, and was released in theatres in 2015.

title: Nosferatu the Vampyre

title: The Act of Killing

overview: In this chilling and groundbreaking documentary, former Indonesian death squad leaders reenact their real-life mass killings in the style of various film genres. As they recreate their past atrocities, the line between reality and performance blurs, exposing the lingering impact of Indonesia's 1965-66 anti-communist purge and the unsettling psychology of its perpetrators.

title: El Poso

overview: After a failed suicide attempt, a woman wakes up on a strange beach with the ability to talk to rocks.

title: Flores del precipicio

overview: Lucia has returned to the island where all the houses are white. Fifteen years have passed since the day she was taken away. Her father is waiting for her.

title: Handicapped Future

title: Handicapped Future

title: Herakles

title: Precautions Against Fanatics

title: The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

title: Land of Silence and Darkness

title: Last Words

title: Land of Silence and Darkness

title: Fata Morgana

title: Theater of Thought

title: Theater of Thought

title: The French as Seen by…

overview: In 1988, Figaro magazine asked a few famous directors to direct a series of short movies to celebrate the 10 years of the revue. The movies have been released for the French revolution bicentenary. Includes: Werner Herzog's Les Gaulois, David Lynch's The Cowboy and the Frenchman, Andrzej Wajda's Proust contre la déchéance, Luigi Comencini's Pèlerinage à Agen, Jean-Luc Godard's Le dernier mot.

title: The hunger in the world explained to my son

overview: Every five seconds a child under the age of ten dies of hunger. Every four minutes a person loses their sight due to a lack of vitamin A. According to the United Nations, 963 million people - almost one in six inhabitants of our planet - are seriously malnourished. At present, the right to food is surely, of all human rights, the one that is violated with the most impunity. Jean Ziegler argues that hunger is caused by human injustice and assures that today the world could produce enough food to feed the world's population. Among the main causes of this disaster, Ziegler points to stock market speculation, which forces cereal prices to rise, and the appearance of biofuels as a new source of energy. Burning food to keep millions of cars on the roads is a crime against humanity. Hunger is no inescapable destiny. A starving child is killed. The current world order of globalized financial capitalism is not only deadly, it is also absurd. Whoever speculates on staple foods kills children.

original_title: El hambre en el mundo explicada a mi hijo

title: Tannhäuser

overview: A romantic opera in three acts with music and libretto by Richard Wagner, performed by the Orchestra of the Teatro di San Carlo. The original title, Tannhauser und der Sangerkrieg auf Wartburg, reveals the real nature of the opera, born by a fusion of two traditional sagas and dedicated to the dualism of spirituality and sensuality and the possibility of redemption through love. Composed between 1843 and 1845, Tannhauser has a tormented musical theme, made up of constant variations. It debuted in Dresden in 1845 when Wagner was just over 30.

title: Handicapped Future

title: Into the Inferno

title: Notes from a Dromedary

overview: An adolescent on a remote place narrates his story marked by a past in the Sahara being a camel, Pringles fries, the desire for fat women’s bodies, strange drawings, colonizers and reggaeton.

title: Signs of Life

title: Lessons of Darkness

title: The Flying Doctors of East Africa

title: The Look of Silence

overview: An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the "Communist" purge occurred in 1965. His remaining family members lived in fear and silence until the making of this documentary. Adi, a brother of his, decided to revisit the horrific incident and visited the men who were responsible for the killings and one survivor of the purge. These meetings uncovered sadistic details of the murders and exposed raw emotions and reactions of the killers' family members about what happened in the past - much to Adi's disappointment.

title: Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

title: Encounters at the End of the World

title: Into the Inferno

title: Wheel of Time

title: Wheel of Time

title: Wheel of Time

title: Little Dieter Needs to Fly

title: Wheel of Time

title: Portrait: Werner Herzog

title: The Killers: Unstaged

title: Wings of Hope

title: What Is It?

overview: The adventures of a young man whose principle interests are snails, salt, a pipe, and how to get home. As tormented by a hubristic, racist inner psyche.

title: The Arc of Oblivion

title: Heart of Glass

title: Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun

title: Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices

title: The Dark Glow of the Mountains

title: Where the Green Ants Dream

title: Where the Green Ants Dream

title: The Dark Glow of the Mountains

title: Lessons of Darkness

title: Encounters at the End of the World

title: Red Army

overview: A documentary highlighting the Soviet Union's legendary and enigmatic hockey training culture and world-dominating team through the eyes of the team's Captain Slava Fetisov, following his shift from hockey star and celebrated national hero to political enemy.

title: The whole world is country

overview: The Rai fiction on Lucano and the Riace model that will never see the light.

title: Love Birds

overview: An American woman travels deep into to the Amazon jungle discouraged with her marriage & on a quest for adventure, nature and a new sense of belonging. She unexpectedly meets Noe, an amazonian painter who teaches her what true belonging really means.

title: The Devil's Muse

overview: A stark look at one of Hollywood's darkest mysteries, The Black Dalia (Elizabeth Short) Murder.

title: A Night Out

overview: A weekly church bingo game in Greenpoint, Brooklyn provides a treasured night out for many of the neighborhood's liveliest elderly ladies.

title: A Night Out

title: Ode to the Dawn of Man

title: Ode to the Dawn of Man

title: Into the Abyss

title: The Golden Gate

overview: A young charming mayor of a small South American port town proudly introducing his ambitious project that doesn't match the reality.

title: The Last Scene

overview: The story of an indigenous Ese’eja child facing the death of his grandfather. During the two days that separate the two traditional funerals the child decides to go for the first time to the city, to chase his grandfather dream and set his spirit free.

title: A Gray State

overview: In 2010 David Crowley, an Iraq veteran, aspiring filmmaker and charismatic up-and-coming voice in fringe politics, began production on his film Gray State. Set in a dystopian near-future where civil liberties are trampled by an unrestrained federal government, the film’s crowd funded trailer was enthusiastically received by the burgeoning online community of libertarians, Tea Party activists and members of the nascent alt-right. In January of 2015, Crowley was found dead with his family in their suburban Minnesota home. Their shocking deaths quickly become a cause célèbre for conspiracy theorists who speculate that Crowley was assassinated by a shadowy government concerned about a film and filmmaker that was getting too close to the truth about their aims.

title: Fata Morgana

title: Fata Morgana

title: Stroszek

title: Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun

title: The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

title: The Flying Doctors of East Africa

title: The White Diamond

title: The Last Shepherd

overview: A journey through the incredible story of Renato Zucchelli, the last travelling shepherd living in a metropolis, who conquered the city with only his sheep and the power of fantasy.

title: Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices

title: Handicapped Future

title: Incident at Loch Ness

title: How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

title: Precautions Against Fanatics

title: No One Will Play with Me

title: God's Angry Man

title: The Empty Goal

overview: A man recounts the story of a local legend as he travels to the jungle to make peace with his life.

title: Meeting Gorbachev

title: Location Africa

title: Echoes from a Sombre Empire

title: Echoes from a Sombre Empire

title: Reeling

overview: After a life altering accident, Ryan returns home for a birthday luau and uncovers the secret of when things took a tragic turn.

title: The Gauls

overview: Two segments make up this short film. The first portion called “The French” has two men taste testing some delicious wine, and the other, titled “The Gauls”, is of men playing rugby.  This short by Werner Herzog is part of the “The French as Seen By…” series. It was initiated and sponsored by the newspaper Le Figaro, as part of the 1988 celebration of the tenth anniversary of its magazine section.

title: The End

overview: Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son are confined to their palatial bunker, where they struggle to maintain hope and a sense of normalcy by clinging to the rituals of daily life—until the arrival of a stranger, Girl, upends their happy routine. As tensions rise, their seemingly idyllic existence starts to crumble.

title: Queen of the Desert

title: Precautions Against Fanatics

title: Herakles

title: Herakles

title: Herakles

title: Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

title: Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

title: Salt and Fire

title: Salt and Fire

title: Salt and Fire

title: Family Romance, LLC

overview: 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 come true. But when the mother of 12-year-old Mahiro hires Ishii to impersonate her missing father, the line between acting and reality threatens to blur.

title: Family Romance, LLC

title: Family Romance, LLC

title: Invincible

title: Family Romance, LLC

title: Fitzcarraldo

title: Lohengrin: Bayreuth Festival Opera

overview: Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin staged in 1987 by Werner Herzog in Bayreuth.

title: The Twilight World

overview: An adaptation on the novel that tells the story of the Japanese soldier Hiro Onoda who, after the end of World War II, hid in the jungles for 30 years, convinced that he was still fighting a war.

title: The Twilight World

title: La Donna del Lago

overview: Based on a narrative poem by Sir Walter Scott and set against the backdrop of feudal Scotland, "La Donna del Lago" is one of Gioacchini Rossini's finest operas -- yet it's rarely performed. This video gives viewers a rare opportunity to see the work in its entirety. Filmed at Italy's famed Teatro alla Scala in 1992 and staged by German film director Werner Herzog, the opera features vocalists Ricardo Muti and June Anderson in leading roles.

title: Bucking Fastard

overview: The story of two inseparable twin sisters, “Joan” and “Jean”, who live on the fringes of society. The film is inspired by the British identical twins Freda and Greta Chaplin, who had brief tabloid notoriety in the early 1980s when they became sexually infatuated with their nextdoor neighbour, a lorry driver, who eventually took out a restraining order against them. The Chaplins were the only known twins who spoke synchronously, and the film is titled after a verbal slip the twins made simultaneously when they were in court.

title: Bucking Fastard

title: Ghost Elephants

title: Felicidad

overview:
A gardener working at a resort on the island of La Palma decides to go to the top of the volcano to plant a garden amidst the ruins.
 Meanwhile, a young girl vacationing at the same hotel feels bored, reflects on utopia, and searches for happiness.

title: Ghost Elephants

title: Ten Thousand Years Older

title: Ten Thousand Years Older

title: Mi casa amarilla

title: Meeting Gorbachev

title: The Flying Doctors of East Africa

title: Ghost Elephants

title: Ghost Elephants

title: The Lonely

title: The White Diamond

title: My Best Fiend

title: The Arc of Oblivion

title: Burden of Dreams

title: The Grand

title: 50 Films to See Before You Die

title: Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn

title: Strawberryfields

title: Heart of Glass

title: Mister Lonely

title: Hard to Be a God

title: Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life

title: Close Up

title: Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance

title: Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire

title: The 100 Greatest Films

title: Plastic Bag

title: Incident at Loch Ness

title: Jack Reacher

title: Tokyo-Ga

title: All In This Tea

title: Into the Abyss

title: Cave of Forgotten Dreams

title: Orion and the Dark

title: A Brief History of Errol Morris

title: How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

title: Last Exit: Space

title: Scream of Stone

title: Dinotasia

title: Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

title: Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

title: Ballad of the Little Soldier

title: Man of Flowers

title: Tegoyo

title: Portrait: Werner Herzog

title: Dribble

title: The Dark Glow of the Mountains

title: The Unbelievers

title: Location Africa

title: Dreams and Burdens

title: Dangerous Game

title: Walking to Werner

title: The Boxing Prince

title: Life Itself

title: Bride of the Orient

title: Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

title: Werner Herzog Defends Dade

title: Penguins of Madagascar

title: The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

title: SnowwhiteRosered

title: Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor

title: Lemonade War

title: 90 Years of the Music Box Theatre

title: Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog

title: Journey Through History

title: The Heart and the Legs

title: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

title: The Last Documentary

title: Shards of Cinema and Philosophy

title: Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema

title: Bierbichler

title: Champions: A Comic Tale

original_title: Champions: Μια αστεία ιστορία

title: I, I, I José Lewgoy

title: Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around

title: On Borrowed Time

title: Mistaken for Strangers

title: Jihad in Hollywood

title: Jihad in Hollywood

title: Die Erben von Papas Kino

title: Tales of the Dumpster Kid

title: In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session

title: Back to Room 666

title: Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless

original_title: ستاره دنباله دار: سهراب شهید ثالث

title: Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood

title: Grizzly Man

title: Into the Inferno

title: Salt and Fire

title: Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers

title: Celebrating the Rice Media Center

title: The Making of 'Nosferatu'

title: Signs of Life

title: Lessons of Darkness

title: Burning Heart

title: Freaks of Nature

title: What Dreams May Come

title: Capturing Reality

title: Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision

title: Wings of Hope

title: Room 666

title: Little Dieter Needs to Fly

title: The Man Who Killed John Wayne

title: BLAST!

title: Neuer Deutscher Film Report

title: Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun

title: Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices

title: The Ball Is a Scumbag

title: 10 Questions for Werner Herzog

title: Julien Donkey-Boy

title: The Great Buster: A Celebration

title: Manaslu: Mountain of Souls

title: Encounters at the End of the World

title: Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

title: Meeting Gorbachev

title: Ballad of a Righteous Merchant

title: Tattoo Uprising

title: Paradox Bullets

title: Lost in the Garden of the World

title: Bells from the Deep

title: When Herzog Rescued Phoenix

title: God's Angry Man

title: AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.

title: The Killers: Unstaged

title: Wheel of Time

title: Wim Wenders, Desperado

title: Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)

title: The Andinist

title: Echoes from a Sombre Empire

title: A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

title: Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'

title: I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later

title: I'm a Soldier

title: One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo

title: About a Hero

title: Atari: Game Over

title: The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

title: Ghost Elephants

title: Handicapped Future

title: Sirena

title: Where the Green Ants Dream

title: Ally

title: Werner We Love You

title: Grizzly Man

title: Woyzeck

title: Woyzeck

title: Aguirre, the Wrath of God

title: Aguirre, the Wrath of God

title: Cobra Verde

title: Cobra Verde

title: Nosferatu the Vampyre

title: Nosferatu the Vampyre

title: Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

title: Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

title: Even Dwarfs Started Small

title: Even Dwarfs Started Small

title: Even Dwarfs Started Small

title: The White Diamond

title: Stroszek

title: Stroszek

title: The Wild Blue Yonder

title: The Wild Blue Yonder

title: The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

title: The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

title: The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

title: My Best Fiend

title: My Best Fiend

title: Fitzcarraldo

title: Fitzcarraldo

title: Encounters at the End of the World

title: Where the Green Ants Dream

title: Heart of Glass

title: Heart of Glass

title: Rescue Dawn

title: Rescue Dawn

title: Last Exit: Space

title: Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun

title: The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

title: My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

title: My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

title: La Bohème

title: God's Angry Man

title: Land of Silence and Darkness

title: Land of Silence and Darkness

title: Herakles

title: Handicapped Future

title: Signs of Life

title: Signs of Life

title: Invincible

title: Invincible

title: Lessons of Darkness

title: Fata Morgana

title: Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

title: Little Dieter Needs to Fly

title: Into the Abyss

title: Into the Abyss

title: How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

title: How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

title: Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

title: Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

title: Wings of Hope

title: Cave of Forgotten Dreams

title: The Flying Doctors of East Africa

title: Cave of Forgotten Dreams

title: Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices

title: Scream of Stone

title: Bells from the Deep

title: Bells from the Deep

title: Echoes from a Sombre Empire

title: Ballad of the Little Soldier

title: Ballad of the Little Soldier

title: Ballad of the Little Soldier

title: No One Will Play with Me

title: Huie's Sermon

title: Precautions Against Fanatics

title: Queen of the Desert

title: Portrait: Werner Herzog

title: The Dark Glow of the Mountains

title: Last Words

title: Last Words

title: Theater of Thought

title: Pilgrimage

title: Ode to the Dawn of Man

title: From One Second to the Next

title: Giovanna d'Arco

title: Aguirre, the Wrath of God

title: The Blimp-Maker

title: Nosferatu the Vampyre

title: The Act of Killing

title: El Poso

title: Flores del precipicio

title: Handicapped Future

title: Handicapped Future

title: Herakles

title: Precautions Against Fanatics

title: The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

title: Land of Silence and Darkness

title: Last Words

title: Land of Silence and Darkness

title: Fata Morgana

title: Theater of Thought

title: Theater of Thought

title: The French as Seen by…

title: Tannhäuser

title: Handicapped Future

title: Into the Inferno

title: Notes from a Dromedary

title: Signs of Life

title: Lessons of Darkness

title: The Flying Doctors of East Africa

title: The Look of Silence

title: Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

title: Encounters at the End of the World

title: Into the Inferno

title: Wheel of Time

title: Wheel of Time

title: Wheel of Time

title: Little Dieter Needs to Fly

title: Wheel of Time

title: Portrait: Werner Herzog

title: The Killers: Unstaged

title: Wings of Hope

title: What Is It?

title: The Arc of Oblivion

title: Heart of Glass

title: Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun

title: Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices

title: The Dark Glow of the Mountains

title: Where the Green Ants Dream

title: Where the Green Ants Dream

title: The Dark Glow of the Mountains

title: Lessons of Darkness

title: Encounters at the End of the World

title: Red Army

title: The whole world is country

title: Love Birds

title: The Devil's Muse

title: A Night Out

title: A Night Out

title: Ode to the Dawn of Man

title: Ode to the Dawn of Man

title: Into the Abyss

title: The Golden Gate

title: The Last Scene

title: A Gray State

title: Fata Morgana

title: Fata Morgana

title: Stroszek

title: Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun

title: The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

title: The Flying Doctors of East Africa

title: The White Diamond

title: The Last Shepherd

title: Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices

title: Handicapped Future

title: Incident at Loch Ness

title: How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

title: Precautions Against Fanatics

title: No One Will Play with Me

title: God's Angry Man

title: The Empty Goal

title: Meeting Gorbachev

title: Location Africa

title: Echoes from a Sombre Empire

title: Echoes from a Sombre Empire

title: Reeling

title: The Gauls

title: The End

title: Queen of the Desert

title: Precautions Against Fanatics

title: Herakles

title: Herakles

title: Herakles

title: Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

title: Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

title: Salt and Fire

title: Salt and Fire

title: Salt and Fire

title: Family Romance, LLC

title: Family Romance, LLC

title: Family Romance, LLC

title: Invincible

title: Family Romance, LLC

title: Fitzcarraldo

title: Lohengrin: Bayreuth Festival Opera

title: The Twilight World

title: The Twilight World

title: La Donna del Lago

title: Bucking Fastard

title: Bucking Fastard

title: Ghost Elephants

title: Felicidad

title: Ghost Elephants

title: Ten Thousand Years Older

title: Ten Thousand Years Older

title: Mi casa amarilla

title: Meeting Gorbachev

title: The Flying Doctors of East Africa

title: Ghost Elephants

title: Ghost Elephants