Werner Herzog
Directing
Werner Herzog (German: [ˈvɛɐ̯nɐ ˈhɛɐ̯tsoːk]; born 5 September 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director, regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema. His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals in conflict with nature. He is known for his unique filmmaking process, such as disregarding storyboards, emphasizing improvisation, and placing the cast and crew into similar situations as characters in his films.
Herzog started work on his first film Herakles in 1961, when he…
Filmography
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Soccer Meets America
2026
Hulk Hogan: Real American
2026
Ghost Elephants
2026
Sirena
2025
About a Hero
2024
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
2024
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
2024
Orion and the Dark
2024
The Arc of Oblivion
2023
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
Tegoyo
2022
Last Exit: Space
2022
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
2022
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
2021
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
2021
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
2021
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
2020
The Andinist
2020
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
2020
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
2020
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
2020
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
2020
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020
The Mandalorian
2019
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
2019
Tattoo Uprising
2019
Meeting Gorbachev
2019
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
2019
Jihad in Hollywood
2019
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
2018
Paradox Bullets
2018
The Great Buster: A Celebration
2018
I'm a Soldier
2018
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
2018
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
2017
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
2017
Salt and Fire
2016
Into the Inferno
2016
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
2016
Jihad in Hollywood
2016
Freaks of Nature
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
Penguins of Madagascar
2014
Atari: Game Over
2014
Lemonade War
Lemonade War
2014
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
2014
Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director
Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director
2014
Life Itself
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Unbelievers
2013
Rick and Morty
2013
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
2013
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
2013
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
2013
Mistaken for Strangers
2013
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
2013
Jack Reacher
2012
Strawberryfields
2012
Close Up
2012
10 Questions for Werner Herzog
2012
The Killers: Unstaged
2012
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
2012
Dinotasia
2012
On Death Row
2012
No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
2012
I, I, I José Lewgoy
2011
Into the Abyss
2011
On Borrowed Time
2011
Champions: A Comic Tale
2011
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
2011
Werner Herzog Defends Dade
Werner Herzog Defends Dade
2010
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
2010
When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
2010
Into the Night With Harmony Korine and Gaspar Noe
Into the Night With Harmony Korine and Gaspar Noe
2010
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
2010