Werner Herzog
33 titles
Filmography
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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
(2010)Visionary documentarian Werner Herzog shows you the beautiful natural landscapes of Siberian Taiga, and the people who inhabit the space.

Little Dieter Needs to Fly
(1997)Werner Herzog directs this award-winning documentary about German-American Dieter Dengler, which inspired his later film Rescue Dawn. Here the American naval pilot shares his experience escaping from a POW camp in the Vietnam War.

Lessons of Darkness
(1992)This film shows the disaster of the Kuwaitian oil fields in flames.

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
(1974)A study of the psychology of a champion ski-jumper, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.

Wheel of Time
(2003)An exploration of the relationship between the physical and spiritual worlds via the gathering of more than a half million Tibetan Buddhists in India.

La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
(1977)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.

Cave of Forgotten Dreams
(2010)An exclusive tour of humanity's oldest known artworks.
Encounters at the End of the World
(2007)Filmmaker Werner Herzog captures the juxtaposition of man and nature, as he chronicles life in and around Antarctica's McMurdo Station.

Into the Abyss
(2011)Filmmaker Werner Herzog explores capital punishment in America through interviews with a convicted killer, their victims' families and members of the Texas criminal justice system.

My Best Fiend
(1999)Herzog traces the often violent ups and downs of his relationship with actor Klaus Kinski, revisiting the various locations of their films and talking to the people they worked with.

Into the Inferno
(2016)With stunning views of eruptions and lava flows, Werner Herzog captures the raw power of volcanoes and their ties to indigenous spiritual practices.

The Dark Glow of the Mountain
(1985)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.

Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
(1989)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.

God's Angry Man
(1981)The documentary follows Gene Scott, famous televangelist involved with constant fights against FCC, who tried to shut down his TV show during the 1970's and 1980's, complaining about their lack of support by not sending enough money to keep going.

The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
(2024)French volcanologists Maurice and Katia Krafft were killed in the 1991 eruption of Mount Unzen in Japan. The Fire Within pays homage to the Kraffts, who left an archive of more than 200 hours of footage of footage from their decades of work, which Werner Herzog draws on for this moving eulogy.

Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
(2020)From directors Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer, 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.

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
(1976)Herzog examines the world championships for cattle auctioneers, his fascination with a language created by an economic system, and compares it to the lifestyle of the Amish, who live nearby.

Incident at Loch Ness
(2004)The German film director Werner Herzog lends his name and cinematic gravitas to this mockumentary about the myth of the Loch Ness Monster.

Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
(2019)Werner Herzog turns the camera on himself and his friendship with late travel writer Bruce Chatwin, whose quest for truth took him around the globe.

Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
(2022)Interviews, archival footage and never-before-seen excerpts from the iconic German director himself reveal extraordinary anecdotes about his process.