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6.7

♡ 4

Werner Herzog Director

Werner Herzog as Narrator

Gene Scott as Self

Jake Hess as Self - Singer

The documentary follows Gene Scott, famous televangelist involved with constant fights against FCC, who tried to shut down his TV show during the 1970s and '80s, and even argues with his viewers, complaining about their lack of support by not sending enough money to keep going with the show.

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck...

1976

6.3

♡ 4

Werner Herzog Director

Werner Herzog as Narrator

Scott McKain as Self

Ralph Wade as Self

Steve Liptay as Self

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

Behinderte Zukunft

1971

7.0

♡ 5

bodily disabled person

disabled child

Werner Herzog Director

Werner Herzog as Interviewer

Rolf Illig as Narrator

Adolf Ratzka as Self

A documentary by Werner Herzog exploring the different treatment accorded to the disabled in Germany and the USA.

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

1974

7.6

♡ 5

Werner Herzog Director

Werner Herzog as Narrator

Walter Steiner as Self

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

Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

2020

7.0

♡ 12

98%

Werner Herzog Director

Donna Rohrer as Self

Joanna Bulger as Self

Fátima Tec Pool as Self

Werner Herzog as Self - Narrator

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.

The White Diamond

2004

7.5

♡ 4

90%

Werner Herzog Director

Michael Wilk as Self

Anthony Melville as Self

Marc Anthony Yhap as Self

Werner Herzog as Self - Narrator

This 2004 documentary by Werner Herzog diaries the struggle of a passionate English inventor to design and test a unique airship during its maiden flight above the jungle canopy.

Ballad of the Little Soldier

1984

7.2

♡ 6

Werner Herzog Director

Werner Herzog as Self

Denis Reichle as Self

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

Tattoo Uprising

2019

6.5

♡ 2

Alan Govenar Director

'Calamity Jane' Nemhauser as

Werner Herzog as Self

Les Blank as Self

Don Ed Hardy as Self

An examination of the artistic and historical roots of today's tattoo explosion.

Signs of Life

1968

7.0

♡ 8

92%

Werner Herzog Director

Heinz Usener as Doctor

Achmed Hafiz as Greek resident

Henry van Lyck as Lieutenant

Werner Herzog as Soldat

During World War II, three German soldiers are withdrawn from combat when one of them, Stroszek, is wounded. They are assigned to a small coastal community on the Greek island of Kos while Stroszek recuperates. The men become increasingly stir crazy in their uneventful new assignment. Stroszek eventually goes mad.

Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

2019

social & cultural documentary

6.9

♡ 1

89%

Werner Herzog Director

Shaun Angeles Penange as Self

Peter Bartlett as Self

Marcus Wheeler as Self

Werner Herzog as Self - Interviewer and Narrator

When Bruce Chatwin was dying of AIDS, his friend Werner Herzog made a final visit. As a parting gift, Chatwin gave him his rucksack. Thirty years later, Herzog sets out on his own journey, inspired by Chatwin’s passion for the nomadic life, uncovering stories of lost tribes, wanderers and dreamers.

Wheel of Time

2003

7.1

♡ 6

94%

Werner Herzog Director

Werner Herzog as Self

Manfred Klell as Self

Ven. Geshe as Self

Madhureeta Anand as Self

Wheel of Time is Werner Herzog's photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India.

Heart of Glass

1976

6.8

♡ 4

93%

Werner Herzog Director

Martje Grohmann as

Clemens Scheitz as Adalbert

Werner Herzog as Glass Transporter

Volker Prechtel as Wudy

A small Bavarian 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.

Last Exit: Space

2022

6.0

♡ 6

100%

Rudolph Herzog Director

Werner Herzog as

Elon Musk as Self

Nicol Caplin as Self

Simon Dubé as Self

Documentary about space colonization: a voyage across our planet, into the stars and beyond.

Tokyo-Ga

1985

7.3

♡ 7

60%

78%

Wim Wenders Director

Chishû Ryû as Self

Werner Herzog as Self

Chris Marker as Self

Yûharu Atsuta as Self

German director Wim Wenders tries to explore the Tokyo that was depicted in the films of Yasujiro Ozu and finds a very different city.

Lessons of Darkness

1992

8.0

♡ 14

100%

Werner Herzog Director

Werner Herzog as Narrator

Shortly after the Gulf War, oil fires were raging all through Kuwait. In the week before this sea of fire would be extinguished, Werner Herzog filmed this apocalyptic landscape with its murky skies, scorched earth and capricious flames.

Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

2016

7.0

♡ 69

92%

68%

artificial intelligence (a.i.)

artificial intelligence

Werner Herzog Director

George W. Bush as Himself

Elon Musk as Himself

Lawrence Krauss as Himself

Werner Herzog as Himself

Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

2010

7.7

♡ 6

88%

Werner Herzog Director

Gennadi Solovyov as Self

Nikolay Nikiforovitch Siniaev as Self

Anatoly Tarkovsky as Self

Werner Herzog as Self - Narrator

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 changed over the last centuries, keep living their lives according to their own cultural traditions.

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

1980

7.2

♡ 8

70%

Les Blank Director

Alice Waters as Assistant Cook

Michael Goodwin as Driver / Interviewer

Werner Herzog as Himself

Tom Luddy as Master of Ceremonies

Directors Werner Herzog and Errol Morris make a bet which results in Herzog living up to his promise that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris ever completed the film Gates of Heaven.

Lightning Over Braddock: A Rustbowl Fantasy

7.4

Tony Buba Director

Werner Herzog as Self

Tony Buba as Self

Sal Carollo as Self

Richard Waddingham as The Explainer

Tony Buba, a film maker from Braddock, Pennsylvania, tells the story of his hometown's decline (along with the rest of the steel mill towns along the Monongahela River) while he dreams of making higher budget films. The picture documents, in a lighthearted way, the community anxiety and activism that accompanied the failure of the steel industry around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Grizzly Man

2005