Three wounded soldiers are removed from battle and given the task of looking after a fortress in a small coastal town However, the pressures of isolation begin to take their toll on the men
Documentary presents a comprehensive portrait of an iconic artist of our time
Film maker Werner Herzog travels to the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, looking to capture the continents beauty and investigate the characters living there
This series of vignettes offers ruminations on time, fate and other human mysteries, Each of the films seven directors conjures a scenario that speaks to some facet of universal experience
Moved by the work of director Yasujiro Ozu, Wim Wenders travels to Japan in search of the Tokyo seen in Ozus films
Maurice and Katia Krafft dedicated their lives to exploring the worlds volcanoes Their legacy consists of groundbreaking footage of eruptions and their aftermath, composed in this visual stunning collage
Wheel of Time is Werner Herzogs photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India
In the 1950s, an adolescent Werner Herzog was transfixed by a film performance of the young Klaus Kinski Years later, they would share an apartment where, in an unabated, forty eight hour fit of rage, Kinski completely destroyed the
A geologist employed by an Australian mining company finds himself disputing the rights of some aborigines who believe their land to be sacred
Tattoo Uprising is a sweeping overview of tattooing, from Biblical references and early Christian practices to the voyages of Captain James Cook and the ever evolving image of the tattoo in the Western world
The film focuses on a group of Miskito in Nicaragua who used child soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas
A documentary depicting the life and work of the trappers of Bakhtia, a village in the heart of the Siberian Taiga, where daily life has changed little in over a century
About the daring adventure of exploring rain forest canopy with a novel flying device the Jungle Airship Airship engineer Dr Graham Dorrington embarks on a trip to the giant Kaieteur Falls in the heart of Guyana, hoping to fly his
A journey where the viewer can see Werner Herzogs creative and personal vision which was shared with iconic travel writer Bruce Chatwin, the prolific author of In Patagonia and a champion of the nomadic life
A documentary exploring the myth of the Loch Ness monster
A new documentary from Werner Herzog about meteors and comets and their influence on ancient religions and other cultural and physical impacts theyve had on Earth
A man is hired to impersonate the missing father of a 12 year old girl
The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle
Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror
A U S fighter pilots epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War
A study of the psychology of a champion ski jumper, whose full time occupation is carpentry
Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since adolescence, and her work on behalf of other deaf and blind people, this film shows how the deaf and blind struggle to understand and accept a world f
Franz Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he can not control
The reverend Huie L Rogers delivers an intense and impassioned sermon at his church in Brooklyn
Illuminating look at the way physically disabled people were dealt with in West Germany in the late 60s early 70s
During the 1800s, paroled Brazilian bandit Cobra Verde is sent to West Africa with a few troops to man an old Portuguese fort and to convince the local African ruler to resume the slave trade with Brazil
The foreman of a small village glassworks dies without revealing the secret to the famous Ruby Glass
A documentary following German auteur Werner Herzog as he deals with difficult actors, bad weather and getting a boat over a mountain, all in an effort to make his film Fitzcarraldo 1982
A young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note
German American Dieter Dengler discusses his service as a U S naval pilot in the Vietnam War Dengler also revisits the sites of his capture and eventual escape from the hands of the Viet Cong, recreating many events for the camera
This film shows the disaster of the Kuwaitian oil fields in flames, with few interviews and no explanatory narration Hell itself is presented in such beautiful sights and music that one has to be fascinated by it
Using footage from three separate interviews, Werner Herzog converses with Mikhail Gorbachev, former General Secretary of the U S S R, about three of his key achievements negotiations with the U S to reduce nuclear weapons cessation of Soviet control of Eastern Europe and the reunification of German
An exploration of active volcanoes around the world
A short documentary in which directors Werner Herzog and Errol Morris make a bet which results in Herzog being forced to eat his own shoe
Inspired by a true crime, a man begins to experience mystifying events that lead him to slay his mother with a sword
Werner Herzogs exploration of the Internet and the connected world
A collection of vignettes presenting possible experiences in the lives of dinosaurs during various periods
A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried
Conversations with death row inmate Michael Perry and those affected by his crime serve as an examination of why people and the state kill
A devastating and heart rending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzly bears in Alaska
Terence McDonagh is a drug and gambling addled detective in post Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants
A scientist blames the head of a large company for an ecological disaster in South America But when a volcano begins to show signs of erupting, they must unite to avoid a disaster
Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France and captures the oldest known pictorial creations of humanity
A chronicle of Gertrude Bells life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attache for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century
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