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An uncompromising eye on human ambition and the natural world. Documentary and fiction meet in Herzog’s encounters with dreamers, survivors and people living at the edge. This expanded selection includes full films, excerpts and clearly titled trailers from the supplied archive.
▶Werner Herzog’s 1972 documentary centres on the flying doctors of East Africa. This early work places medical practice and the distances involved in reaching patients within the filmmaker’s documentary field of vision.
▶Werner Herzog’s 1971 documentary considers the lives of children with physical disabilities in Munich.
▶Fini Straubinger, who became deafblind as a teenager, devotes her life to supporting others with similar experiences.
▶Werner Herzog documents the private theatre of the Maharana of Udaipur in this 1991 film. The director provides narration; this upload presents Jag Mandir with Polish subtitles.
▶Werner Herzog surveys Kuwait’s devastated oil fields after the Gulf War.
▶Werner Herzog explores Russian mysticism through religious gatherings, interviews and encounters with spiritual figures.
▶Behind the performances at Bayreuth lies a world of preparation, rehearsal and technical work.
▶Werner Herzog examines composer Carlo Gesualdo through his music and the violent stories surrounding his life.
▶Werner Herzog revisits the ordeal of Dieter Dengler, who endured captivity, torture and starvation before escaping his captors.
▶Juliane Koepcke survived an air disaster over Peru and a fall into the jungle.
▶Werner Herzog follows an unconventional expedition into the jungle canopy aboard a helium-powered miniature airship.
▶The official trailer for Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man introduces Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who died while living among bears in Alaska.
▶Werner Herzog travels to Antarctica in search of the people who choose to live at the edge of the inhabited world.
▶The official trailer for Cave of Forgotten Dreams introduces Herzog’s expedition into France’s Chauvet Cave.
▶Happy People: A Year in the Taiga follows the seasonal span announced in its title. The 2010 documentary appears here in the Werner Herzog collection, in a full-length upload.
▶Werner Herzog’s Into the Abyss is presented here as a death-row documentary. This full-length selection brings the filmmaker’s attention to lives shaped by imprisonment and the prospect of execution.
▶Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World is Herzog’s 2016 documentary on the connected world. This upload includes Spanish subtitles and presents the film as a full-length selection.
▶The official trailer for Into the Inferno previews Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer’s exploration of active volcanoes.
▶This trailer introduces Meeting Gorbachev, directed by Werner Herzog and André Singer. The documentary follows the life of the Soviet Union’s final leader, bringing a major political figure into a chronological portrait.
▶The official trailer for Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin previews Herzog’s tribute to his late friend.
▶Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer investigate the influence of meteorites on landscapes and human cultures.
▶The official trailer for Theater of Thought, directed by Werner Herzog. This short preview sits alongside the collection’s full films and other trailers, offering an introduction to the work.
▶The official Ghost Elephants trailer follows conservation biologist Steve Boyes into Angola’s highlands. Werner Herzog accompanies a search for an elusive elephant herd, pursued with expert trackers after years of investigation.
▶A trailer for Lebenszeichen, Werner Herzog’s 1968 German drama, featuring Peter Brogle and Wolfgang Reichmann. The preview offers an early point of entry into the filmmaker’s dramatic work.
▶Even Dwarfs Started Small appears here in a full-length upload with English subtitles. Presented under its English title, it forms part of the collection’s selection of Werner Herzog’s dramatic films.
▶Werner Herzog’s Heart of Glass is a 1976 German drama, written with Herbert Achternbusch. The production’s use of hypnosis with its actors becomes part of its distinctive approach to trance and collective passivity.
▶Nosferatu the Vampyre is presented here as a full-length vampire film from 1979. The selection brings Herzog’s treatment of a classic horror figure into the collection’s wider range of dramatic work.
▶A geologist working for an Australian mining company encounters Aboriginal people who regard the land as sacred.
▶Herzog’s 1991 film Scream of Stone appears here under the Spanish title Grito de piedra. The cast includes Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Mathilda May, Brad Dourif and Donald Sutherland.
▶The official trailer for Invincible introduces a Jewish strongman performing in Berlin under the identity of the Aryan hero Siegfried.
▶The Wild Blue Yonder combines moving images with music by Ernst Reijseger.
▶Rescue Dawn appears here as a full-length 2006 film in the Werner Herzog collection. The upload presents the dramatic feature under its English title rather than a trailer or extract.
▶Nicolas Cage plays a detective whose work and drug use become dangerously entangled in post-Katrina New Orleans.
▶After committing a murder, Brad retreats into his house and a police standoff begins. Accounts from friends and neighbours gradually reveal the path that brought him there.
▶This trailer introduces Salt and Fire, Herzog’s drama about a scientific delegation caught in a mysterious hostage-taking.
▶A man is hired to play the absent father of a twelve-year-old girl in Family Romance, LLC. This official trailer introduces Herzog’s Japanese-language drama about a world where personal relationships can become paid performances.
▶Werner Herzog follows Tibetan Buddhist gatherings in India and Austria, alongside a pilgrimage to Mount Kailash.
▶Pilgrims in Russia and Mexico appear without spoken commentary in Werner Herzog’s short documentary.