Werner Herzog Movies

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

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,...

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....

A zesty paean of praise to the greater glories of garlic. This lip-smacking foray into the history, consumption, cultivation and culinary/curative...

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

Chronicles the making of director Werner Herzog’s 2009 feature, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, providing profound insight into the director...

A young man journeys through a bizarre land inhabited by mentally impaired people, demons, and snails.

Werner Herzog follows mountaineers Hans Kammerlander and Reinhold Messner during their expedition into climbing the Gasherbrum mountains, which has...

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

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

Basically, 'Herakles' is an omnium-gatherum of film clips depicting images of machismo. Some of those images are explicitly macho: we see various...

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

Herzog's documentary of the Wodaabe people of the Sahara/Sahel region. Particular attention is given to the tribe's spectacular courtship rituals and...

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

A hstory of the Cannes Film Festival's Director's Fortnight selection.

Nominated for two Chicago/Midwest Emmy awards including Outstanding Historical Documentary and Outstanding Off-Camera Directing, "90 Years of the...

A darkly humorous short documentary about a preschool-age boy ostracised from interactions with his classmates until a girl who has become interested...

An autobiographical short film by Werner Herzog made in 1986. Herzog tells stories about his life and career. The film contains excerpts and...

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

This film tells the fascinating story of one of the most critically acclaimed careers in independent documentary film making in recent cinema...