Movies: Werner Herzog

A man mutters to himself, checks his to-do list, introduces himself to old friends, and grasps for a memory that always slips away. A pig slowly roasts in an IMU pit, a birthday luau devolves into chaos and heartbreak when Ryan, a permanent scar on h...

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....

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

The heart of the legs....

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

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

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

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

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 hea...

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...

Follows a mysterious herd of ghost elephants in the jungles of Angola....

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-advanc...

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

Documentary film about the turbulent life and career of actor Klaus Kinski, a man whose genius was often overshadowed by his erratic behavior and intense personal struggles....

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 late...

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

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

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 abs...

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 Wrat...

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....