Directing
Werner Herzog
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 was nineteen. Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than sixty feature films and documentaries, such as Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), Heart of Glass (1976), Stroszek (1977), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982), Cobra Verde (1987), Lessons of Darkness (1992), Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997), My Best Fiend (1999), Invincible (2000), Grizzly Man (2005), Encounters at the End of the World (2007), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009), and Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010). He has published more than a dozen books of prose, and directed as many operas. French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog "the most important film director alive." American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog "has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular." He was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2009. Description above from the Wikipedia article Werner Herzog, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Ally
Film · 2027
Ghost Elephants
Film · 2026
Al borde del abismo: la aventura peruana de Werner Herzog
Film · 2026
Soccer Meets America
Series · 2026
Hulk Hogan: Real American
Series · 2026
Sirena
Film · 2025
Orion and the Dark
Film · 2024
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Film · 2024
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
Film · 2024
About a Hero
Film · 2024
The Arc of Oblivion
Film · 2023
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
Film · 2022
Last Exit: Space
Film · 2022
Tegoyo
Film · 2022
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Film · 2022
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
Film · 2021
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
Film · 2021
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
Film · 2021
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Film · 2021
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
Film · 2020
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
Film · 2020
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Film · 2020
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
Film · 2020
The Andinist
Film · 2020
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
Film · 2020
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
Series · 2020
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
Series · 2020
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
Film · 2019
Jihad in Hollywood
Film · 2019
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Film · 2019
Meeting Gorbachev
Film · 2019
Tattoo Uprising
Film · 2019
The Mandalorian
Series · 2019
The Great Buster: A Celebration
Film · 2018
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
Film · 2018
Paradox Bullets
Film · 2018
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
Film · 2018
I'm a Soldier
Film · 2018
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
Film · 2017
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
Film · 2017
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
Film · 2017
Werner We Love You
Film · 2017
Jihad in Hollywood
Film · 2016
Into the Inferno
Film · 2016
Salt and Fire
Film · 2016
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Film · 2016
Freaks of Nature
Film · 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Series · 2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Series · 2015
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Film · 2014
Life Itself
Film · 2014
Penguins of Madagascar
Film · 2014
Lemonade War
Film · 2014
Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director
Film · 2014
Atari: Game Over
Film · 2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Series · 2014
The Unbelievers
Film · 2013
Mistaken for Strangers
Film · 2013
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
Film · 2013
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
Film · 2013
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
Film · 2013
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
Film · 2013
Rick and Morty
Series · 2013
Strawberryfields
Film · 2012
Close Up
Film · 2012
Jack Reacher
Film · 2012
Dinotasia
Film · 2012
No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
Film · 2012
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
Film · 2012
10 Questions for Werner Herzog
Film · 2012
The Killers: Unstaged
Film · 2012
On Death Row
Series · 2012
Into the Abyss
Film · 2011
On Borrowed Time
Film · 2011
I, I, I José Lewgoy
Film · 2011
Champions: A Comic Tale
Film · 2011
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
Film · 2011
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Film · 2010
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Film · 2010
Werner Herzog Defends Dade
Film · 2010
Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son
Film · 2010
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
Film · 2010
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Film · 2010
When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
Film · 2010
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
Film · 2010
Into the Night With Harmony Korine and Gaspar Noe
Film · 2010
The Lonely
Film · 2009
Plastic Bag
Film · 2009
Parks and Recreation
Series · 2009
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Film · 2008
Mister Lonely
Film · 2008
Bierbichler
Film · 2008
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
Film · 2008
Back to Room 666
Film · 2008
Capturing Reality
Film · 2008
BLAST!
Film · 2008
Encounters at the End of the World
Film · 2008
The Grand
Film · 2007
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
Film · 2007
All In This Tea
Film · 2007
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
Film · 2007
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
Film · 2007
50 Films to See Before You Die
Film · 2006
Walking to Werner
Film · 2006
The Henry Rollins Show
Series · 2006
Metalocalypse
Series · 2006
Dreams and Burdens
Film · 2005
Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog
Film · 2005
Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space
Film · 2005
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
Film · 2005
Grizzly Man
Film · 2005
The Colbert Report
Series · 2005
American Dad!
Series · 2005
The Boondocks
Series · 2005
The White Diamond
Film · 2004
Incident at Loch Ness
Film · 2004
Dribble
Film · 2004
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
Film · 2004
Kulturplatz
Series · 2004
Wheel of Time
Film · 2003
The Boxing Prince
Film · 2002
The 100 Greatest Films
Film · 2001
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
Film · 2000
The Last Documentary
Film · 2000
The Ball Is a Scumbag
Film · 2000
My Best Fiend
Film · 1999
A Brief History of Errol Morris
Film · 1999
In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Film · 1999
Wings of Hope
Film · 1999
Julien Donkey-Boy
Film · 1999
What Dreams May Come
Film · 1998
Sternstunde Philosophie
Series · 1998
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Film · 1997
Storyville
Series · 1997
The Transformation of the World Into Music
Film · 1996
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
Film · 1996
Burning Heart
Film · 1995
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
Film · 1995
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Series · 1995
Placido Domingo's Tales from the Opera
Series · 1994
Dangerous Game
Film · 1993
Bells from the Deep
Film · 1993
Lessons of Darkness
Film · 1992
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
Film · 1991
Scream of Stone
Film · 1991
SnowwhiteRosered
Film · 1991
Film Lesson
Series · 1991
Hard to Be a God
Film · 1990
Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God"
Film · 1990
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
Film · 1990
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
Film · 1989
Bride of the Orient
Film · 1989
The Heart and the Legs
Film · 1989
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
Film · 1989
The Simpsons
Series · 1989
The Simpsons
Series · 1989
The Simpsons
Series · 1989
Location Africa
Film · 1987
Portrait: Werner Herzog
Film · 1986
Tokyo-Ga
Film · 1985
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
Film · 1985
Room 666
Film · 1985
Sonntagsgespräch
Series · 1985
Ballad of the Little Soldier
Film · 1984
Where the Green Ants Dream
Film · 1984
Man of Flowers
Film · 1983
God's Angry Man
Film · 1983
Burden of Dreams
Film · 1982
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Film · 1980
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
Film · 1980
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
Film · 1979
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
Film · 1979
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
Film · 1979
Okay
Series · 1979
Bavarian Film Awards
Series · 1979
Ciné regards
Series · 1978
The South Bank Show
Series · 1978
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
Film · 1977
Journey Through History
Film · 1977
Heart of Glass
Film · 1976
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
Film · 1976
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Film · 1976
Lost in the Garden of the World
Film · 1975
Midi Première
Series · 1975
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
Film · 1974
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
Film · 1974
Spécial cinéma
Series · 1974
Handicapped Future
Film · 1971
Die Erben von Papas Kino
Film · 1968
Signs of Life
Film · 1968
60 Minutes
Series · 1968
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
Film · 1967
Grimme Award
Series · 1964
German Film Award
Series · 1951
Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog
Film
Shards of Cinema and Philosophy
Film