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Werner Herzog Radical Dreamer 2022 Documentary presents a comprehensive portrait of an iconic artist of our time

Encounters at the End of the World 2007 Werner Herzog takes his camera to Antarctica where we meet the odd men and women who have dedicated their lives to furthering the cause of science in treacherous conditions A scientist studies neutrinos, which are everywhere, yet elusive he likens them to spir

Ten Minutes Older The Trumpet 2002 This series of vignettes offers ruminations on time, fate and other human mysteries, Each of the films seven directors conjures a scenario that speaks to some facet of universal experience

Tokyo Ga 1985 Wim Wenders travels to Japan in search of the Tokyo seen in the films of Yasujiro Ozu Ozus own Tokyo monogatari 1953 is a helpful but not mandatory pre requisite to seeing Tokyo Ga 1985

The Fire Within A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft 2022 Maurice and Katia Krafft dedicated their lives to exploring the worlds volcanoes Their legacy consists of groundbreaking footage of eruptions and their aftermath, composed in this visual stunning collage

Wheel of Time 2003 Wheel of Time is Werner Herzogs photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India

My Best Fiend 1999 In the 1950s, an adolescent Werner Herzog was transfixed by a film performance of the young Klaus Kinski Years later, they would share an apartment where, in an unabated, forty eight hour fit of rage, Kinski completely destroyed the bathroom From this chaos, a violent, love hate,

Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) The geologist Lance Hackett is employed by an Australian mining company to map the subsoil of a desert area covered with ant hills prior to a possible uranium extraction. His work is impeded by some aborigines who explain that this is the place where the green ants

Tattoo Uprising (2019) Tattoo Uprising is a sweeping overview of tattooing, from Biblical references and early Christian practices to the voyages of Captain James Cook and the ever-evolving image of the tattoo in the Western world.

Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984) The film focuses on a group of Miskito in Nicaragua who used child soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas.

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010) 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 change

The White Diamond (2004) About the daring adventure of exploring rain forest canopy with a novel flying device-the Jungle Airship. Airship engineer Dr. Graham Dorrington embarks on a trip to the giant Kaieteur Falls in the heart of Guyana, hoping to fly his helium-filled invention above the tree-top

Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (2019) A journey where the viewer can see Werner Herzog's creative and personal vision which was share with iconic travel writer Bruce Chatwin, the prolific author of 'In Patagonia' and a champion of the nomadic life.

Incident at Loch Ness (2004) This is a mockumentary within a mockumentary. The ensemble cast is a Who's Who of modern filmmaking, from Werner Herzog, independent director (Nosferatu, Grizzly Man, Rescue Dawn) playing himself directing a documentary, to cinematographer Gabriel Beristain (of the Blade

Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020) A new documentary from Werner Herzog about meteors and comets and their influence on ancient religions and other cultural and physical impacts they've had on Earth.

Family Romance, LLC (2019) A man is hired to impersonate the missing father of a young girl.

Fitzcarraldo (1982) Fitzcarraldo is an obsessed opera lover who wants to build an opera in the jungle. To accomplish this he first has to make a fortune in the rubber business, and his cunning plan involves hauling an enormous river boat across a small mountain with aid from the local Indians.

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) Jonathan Harker is sent away to Count Dracula's castle to sell him a house in Wismar where Jonathan lives. But Count Dracula is a vampire, an undead ghoul living off of men's blood. Inspired by a photograph of Lucy Harker, Jonathan's wife, Dracula moves to Wismar, bringi

Rescue Dawn (2006) In 1965, while bombing Laos in a classified mission, the propeller plane of the German-American US Navy pilot Dieter Dengler is hit and crashes in the jungle. Dieter is arrested by the peasants, tortured by the Vietcong and sent to a prisoner camp, where he meets five other mental

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

Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since adolescence, and her work on behalf of other deaf and blind people, this film shows how the deaf and blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholl

Woyzeck (1979) Everything in town appears calm, placid, lovely. But Woyzeck, a rifleman assigned as an orderly, hears voices -- the times are out of joint, at least in his cosmos. To his captain, Woyzeck is a comic marvel: ignorant but courageous, full of energy to little purpose. To a local doctor,

Huies Sermon (1981) The reverend Huie L. Rogers delivers an intense and impassioned sermon at his church in Brooklyn.

Handicapped Future (1971) Illuminating look at the way physically disabled people were dealt with in West Germany in the late 60's / early 70's.

Cobra Verde (1987) The feared bandit Cobra Verde (Klaus Kinski) is hired by a plantation owner to supervise his slaves. After the owner suspects Cobra Verde of consorting with his young daughters, the owner wishes him gone. Rather than kill him,the owner sends Cobra Verde to Africa. The only white m

Heart of Glass (1976) A small 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.

Burden of Dreams (1982) A documentary on the chaotic production of Werner Herzog's epic Fitzcarraldo (1982), showing how the film managed to get made despite problems that would have floored a less obsessively driven director. Not only does he have major casting problems, losing both Jason Robards (

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) Herzog's film is based upon the true and mysterious story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who suddenly appeared in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note; he later explained that he had been held captive in a dungeon of some sort f

Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) In 1966, Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, captured, and, down to 85 pounds, escaped. Barefoot, surviving monsoons, leeches, and machete-wielding villagers, he was rescued. Now, near 60, living on Mt. Tamalpais, Dengler tells his story: a German lad surviving

Lessons of Darkness (1992) This film shows the disaster of the Kuwaitian oil fields in flames, with few interviews and no explanatory narration. Hell itself is presented in such beautiful sights and music that one has to be fascinated by it.

Meeting Gorbachev (2018) The life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final President of the Soviet Union in chronological order.

Into the Inferno (2016) An exploration of active volcanoes around the world.

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980) A passionate cook, acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog stuffs some culinary aromatics into his shoe and uses the laces to truss it like a chicken, before he sticks it into a pot with water and duck fat to stew it. It is so that he can bring the stewed shoe to one of

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009) The police are called to a murder scene and quickly discover that the murderer, the victim's son, is holed up in his house with two hostages. Through a series of interviews with both the murderer's fiancée and his theatre director the police piece together a

Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016) Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.

Dinotasia (2012) One of our favourite natural history subjects, the good old dinosaur, gets a makeover and then some in this fantastically ambitious and groundbreaking documentary. Based on cutting-edge palaeontology and the latest fossil records, DINOTASIA presents a series of vignettes about dinos

Invincible (2001) The film is based on the true story of Zishe Breitbart, a Jewish blacksmith's son from Poland who becomes a sensation in Weimar, Berlin as a mythical strongman. His employer Hanussen dreams of establishing an all-powerful Ministry of the Occult in Hitler's government. Yet as Hitler

Into the Abyss (2011) Into the abyss explores a triple murder which occurred in the small Texas City of Conroe in 2001. Michael Perry and Jason Burkett, under the influence of alcohol and drugs, murdered a middle-aged housewife; they then gunned down her stepson and his friend. The film features Con

Grizzly Man (2005) A docudrama that centers on amateur grizzly bear expert Timothy Treadwell. He periodically journeyed to Alaska to study and live with the bears. He was killed, along with his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard, by a rogue bear in October 2003. The films explores Treadwell's compassionate

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) After Katrina, police sergeant Terence McDonagh rescues a prisoner, hurts his back in the process and earns a promotion to lieutenant plus an addiction to cocaine and painkillers. Six months later, a family is murdered over drugs; Terence runs the inve

Salt and Fire (2016) Salt and Fire is about a mysterious hostage-taking where the leader of a small scientific delegation is deliberately stranded with two blind boys in an area of gigantic salt flats. Shot in Bolivia, the film stars Michael Shannon, Veronica Ferres and Gael Garc�a Bernal and w

In 1994, a group of scientists discovered a cave in Southern France perfectly preserved for over 20,000 years and containing the earliest known human paintings. Knowing the cultural significance that the Chauvet Cave holds, the French government immediately cut-off all access to it, save a few archa

A true story of the life of British explorer and adventurer, Gertrude Bell, QUEEN OF THE DESERT chronicles her journeys of love and loss in the Middle East during the early 20th century. Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman (THE PAPERBOY, RABBIT HOLE, AUSTRALIA, THE HOURS) stars alongside Academy Awar