Werner Herzog

Visionary documentarian Werner Herzog shows you the beautiful natural landscapes of Siberian Taiga, and the people who inhabit the space.

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.

This film shows the disaster of the Kuwaitian oil fields in flames.

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

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

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.

An exclusive tour of humanity's oldest known artworks.

Filmmaker Werner Herzog captures the juxtaposition of man and nature, as he chronicles life in and around Antarctica's McMurdo Station.

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.

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

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.

1984 documentary film directed by Werner Herzog about children soldiers in Nicaragua. The film focuses on a group of Miskito Indians who used children soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas.

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'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.