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Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Werner Herzog is given exclusive access to the Chauvet Caves in Southern France where he films the oldest pictorial creations of humankind in history.
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- Canada, United States, France • 2010
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Werner Herzog, Dominique Baffier, Jean Clottes, Jean-Michel Geneste
- Genre Documentary, Family
- Available on AMC+, AMC+ Amazon Channel, IFC Films Unlimited Apple TV Channel, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Pluto TV
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Inspired by the nomadic life of his late friend Bruce Chatwin, Werner Herzog embarks on a journey around the world.
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- United Kingdom • 2019
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Werner Herzog, Bruce Chatwin
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, OVID, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, VUDU Free, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
The White Diamond
Chronicles of Graham Dorrington, an English aeronautical engineer who designed an airship to fly over the Amazon jungle.
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- Germany, Japan, United Kingdom • 2004
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Werner Herzog, Graham Dorrington, Annette Scheurich
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Nosferatu the Vampyre
(Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht)
A real estate agent seeks to buy property from Count Dracula, whose true interests lie in the agent's wife.
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- West Germany, France • 1979
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Roland Topor, Walter Ladengast, Martje Grohmann
- Genre Drama, Horror
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Fandor Amazon Channel, fuboTV, Peacock Premium, Peacock Premium Plus, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Crackle, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Shout! Factory TV, Freevee, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
Into the Inferno
What we worship can destroy us.
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- United Kingdom, Germany, Canada • 2016
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer, Katia Krafft, Maurice Krafft, Sri Sumarti
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Meeting Gorbachev
Chronicles Mikhail Gorbachev’s rise from humble beginnings as a farm boy to President of the Soviet Union.
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- United Kingdom, United States, Germany • 2019
- Director Werner Herzog, André Singer
- Cast Mikhail Gorbachev, Werner Herzog, Miklós Németh, Lech Wałęsa, George Shultz
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Apple TV, Kanopy
My Best Fiend
(Mein liebster Feind)
A revelatory documentary depicting the complicated and conflict-filled relationship between an iconic filmmaker and actor.
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- Germany, United Kingdom, United States • 1999
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, Justo González, Mick Jagger, Eva Mattes
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Fandor, Fandor Amazon Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Shout! Factory TV, Freevee, Cineverse, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
Family Romance, LLC
An inside look at Japan's rent-a-family industry.
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- United States • 2019
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Yuichi Ishii, Mahiro Tanimoto, Miki Fujimaki, Takashi Nakatani, Shun Ishigaki
- Genre Drama
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video
Wheel of Time
(Rad der Zeit)
A mesmerizing documentary from Werner Herzog that immerses the viewer in Tibetan Buddhist tradition and rituals.
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- Germany, Austria, Italy • 2003
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Tenzin Gyatso, Lama Lhundup Woeser, Takna Jigme Sangpo, Matthieu Ricard, Tenzin Dhargye
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Shout! Factory TV, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
The Wild Blue Yonder
Human astronauts attempt to find an alternate planet for humanity while an alien narrates the story of his dying planet.
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- Germany, France, Austria • 2005
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Brad Dourif, Donald Williams, Ellen Baker, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Shannon Lucid, Michael McCulley
- Genre Documentary, Drama, Science Fiction
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Fandor, Fandor Amazon Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Shout! Factory TV, Freevee, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
Cobra Verde
Brazilian bandit Cobra Verde is sent to West Africa to reopen the slave trade.
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- West Germany, Ghana • 1987
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Klaus Kinski, King Ampaw, José Lewgoy, Salvatore Basile, Peter Berling, Guillermo Coronel
- Genre Adventure, Drama
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Shout! Factory TV, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
Invincible
A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.
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- United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland • 2001
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Tim Roth, Jouko Ahola, Udo Kier, Anna Gourari, Max Raabe, Gustav-Peter Wöhler
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
Salt and Fire
Sometimes redemption is out of reach
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- Germany, France, Mexico • 2016
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Veronica Ferres, Michael Shannon, Gael García Bernal, Volker Michalowski, Lawrence Krauss, Anita Briem
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
Fitzcarraldo
A developer attempts to build an opera house in the Amazon rainforest, entailing a series of increasingly ambitious efforts.
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- West Germany, Peru • 1982
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy, Miguel Ángel Fuentes, Paul Hittscher, Huerequeque Enrique Bohórquez
- Genre Adventure, Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Fandor Amazon Channel, fuboTV, Peacock Premium, Peacock Premium Plus, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, VUDU Free, Shout! Factory TV, Freevee, Cineverse, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
Lessons of Darkness
(Lektionen in Finsternis)
As the oil fields of Kuwait burn, the filmmakers investigate the cataclysm of horror and beauty preceding the Gulf War.
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- France, United Kingdom, Germany • 1992
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Werner Herzog
- Genre Documentary, War
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Fandor, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Shout! Factory TV, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
During the Vietnam War, Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, captured, and escaped against the odds.
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- Germany, United Kingdom, France • 1997
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Dieter Dengler, Werner Herzog, Eugene Deatrick
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Fandor Amazon Channel, Peacock Premium, Peacock Premium Plus, Cohen Media Amazon Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Fandor, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Shout! Factory TV, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
Land of Silence and Darkness
(Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit)
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- West Germany • 1971
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Fini Straubinger, Heinrich Fleischmann, Vladimir Kokol, M. Baaske, Resi Mittermeier
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Fandor, Fandor Amazon Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Shout! Factory TV, Freevee, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
On Death Row
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- United States, United Kingdom, Austria • 2012
- Creator Werner Herzog
- Cast Werner Herzog
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Tubi TV, Amazon Video, Amazon Prime Video, Crackle, The CW, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Peacock Premium, Peacock Premium Plus, Freevee, Plex Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
(Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes)
A breathtaking journey into the heart of darkness.
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- West Germany, Mexico • 1972
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Del Negro, Ruy Guerra, Peter Berling, Cecilia Rivera
- Genre Adventure, Drama, History
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Fandor Amazon Channel, History Vault, Cohen Media Amazon Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, VUDU Free, Shout! Factory TV, Freevee, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
Stroszek
After being released from prison, Bruno joins a sex worker and an elderly eccentric in moving from Germany to Wisconsin.
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- West Germany • 1977
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz, Wilhelm von Homburg, Burkhard Driest, Clayton Szalpinski
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Shout! Factory TV, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
(Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle)
After being chained in a cellar for the first 17 years of life, Kaspar is freed and abandoned, left to wander.
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- West Germany • 1974
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira, Willy Semmelrogge, Kidlat Tahimik
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Cohen Media Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Shout! Factory TV, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
(Die große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner)
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- West Germany • 1974
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Werner Herzog, Walter Steiner
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Shout! Factory TV, Plex, Plex Channel
La Soufrière
(La Soufrière: Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe)
A volcano soon to erupt causes most of the island to evacuate, except for a few who will stay and face death.
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- West Germany • 1977
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Werner Herzog, Edward Lachman, Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, Shout! Factory TV, Plex, Plex Channel
The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
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- United Kingdom, Switzerland, United States • 2022
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Werner Herzog, Katia Krafft, Maurice Krafft, Harry Glicken
- Genre Documentary
- Available on History Vault, HISTORY Vault Amazon Channel, HISTORY Vault Apple TV Channel, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video
Wings of Hope
(Julianes Sturz in den Dschungel)
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- Germany, United Kingdom • 2000
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Werner Herzog, Juliane Koepcke, Juan Zaplana Ramirez
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
(Echos aus einem düsteren Reich)
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- France, Germany • 1990
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Michael Goldsmith, Werner Herzog, Augustine Assemat, David Dacko, Francis Szpiner, François Gibault
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Shout! Factory TV, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
Ballad of the Little Soldier
(Ballade vom kleinen Soldaten)
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- West Germany • 1984
- Director Werner Herzog, Denis Reichle
- Cast Werner Herzog, Denis Reichle
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Fandor, Fandor Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, Shout! Factory TV, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
Woyzeck
Desperate for money, Woyzeck volunteers for a medical trial: a diet of peas. While his lover pursues an affair, Woyzeck loses his mind.
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- West Germany • 1979
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Klaus Kinski, Eva Mattes, Wolfgang Reichmann, Willy Semmelrogge, Josef Bierbichler, Paul Burian
- Genre Drama
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Shout! Factory TV, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
Where the Green Ants Dream
(Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen)
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- West Germany, Australia • 1984
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Wandjuk Marika, Roy Marika, Ray Barrett, Norman Kaye, Ralph Cotterill
- Genre Drama
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Shout! Factory TV, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
Handicapped Future
(Behinderte Zukunft)
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- West Germany • 1971
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Rolf Illig
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Signs of Life
(Lebenszeichen)
Three German soldiers in WWII are assigned to a quiet coastal community on a small Greek island that tests their sanity.
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- West Germany • 1968
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Peter Brogle, Wolfgang Reichmann, Athina Zacharopoulou, Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg, Wolfgang Stumpf, Henry van Lyck
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Fandor, Fandor Amazon Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Shout! Factory TV, Freevee, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
(Tod für fünf Stimmen)
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- Germany • 1995
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Milva, Alan Curtis, Werner Herzog, Walter Beloch, Angelo Carrabs, Francesco D'Avalos
- Genre Documentary, TV Movie, Music, History
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Heart of Glass
(Herz aus Glas)
With the death of the foreman who holds the secret of a town's legendary glass-blowing works, the town slides into depression.
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- West Germany • 1976
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Josef Bierbichler, Stefan Güttler, Clemens Scheitz, Sonja Skiba, Volker Prechtel, Brunhilde Klöckner
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Shout! Factory TV, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
Even Dwarfs Started Small
(Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen)
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- West Germany • 1970
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Helmut Döring, Paul Glauer, Gisela Hertwig, Hertel Minkner, Gertrud Piccini, Marianne Saar
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Fandor, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Shout! Factory TV, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
Fata Morgana
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- West Germany • 1971
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Wolfgang Bächler, Manfred Eigendorf, Lotte Eisner, Günther W. Welpert, Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Fandor, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Shout! Factory TV, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
No One Will Play with Me
(Mit mir will keiner spielen)
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- West Germany • 1976
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Scream of Stone
(Cerro Torre: Schrei aus Stein)
In this battle, there can be no winners
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- Germany, France, Canada • 1991
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Donald Sutherland, Brad Dourif, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Mathilda May, Al Waxman, Gunilla Karlzen
- Genre Adventure, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Last Words
(Letzte Worte)
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- West Germany • 1968
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Lefteris Daskalakis, Antonis Papadakis
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
(Die beispiellose Verteidigung der Festung Deutschkreuz)
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- West Germany • 1967
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Peter H. Bumm, Georg Eska, Karl-Heinz Steffel, Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg
- Genre
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Les Gaulois
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- West Germany • 1988
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Claude Josse, Jean Clemente, Leslie Cook, Frederic Golchan, Michael Horse
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Game in the Sand
(Spiel im Sand)
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- West Germany • 1964
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Filmstunde
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- Austria • 1991
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Werner Herzog, Philippe Petit, Volker Schlöndorff, Michael Kreihsl, Peter Turrini
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Dark Glow of the Mountain
(Gasherbrum - Der leuchtende Berg)
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- West Germany • 1985
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Werner Herzog, Reinhold Messner, Hans Kammerlander
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, fuboTV, Crackle, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Shout! Factory TV, Plex, Plex Channel
Bells from the Deep
(Glocken aus der Tiefe)
Faith and Superstition in Russia
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- Germany, United States • 1993
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Yuri Yurievich Yurieff, Vissarion, Werner Herzog, Anna Hitch, Vadim Redkin
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
(Wodaabe - Die Hirten der Sonne. Nomaden am Südrand der Sahara)
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- France, West Germany • 1989
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Werner Herzog
- Genre Documentary
- Available on The Roku Channel, Shout! Factory TV, Plex, Plex Channel
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
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- Spain, United Kingdom, Germany • 2002
- Director Aki Kaurismäki, Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, Werner Herzog, Chen Kaige, Víctor Erice
- Cast Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen, Marko Haavisto, Ana Sofia Liaño, Chloë Sevigny, Charles Esten
- Genre Documentary, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Transformation of the World Into Music
(Die Verwandlung der Welt in Musik: Bayreuth vor der Premiere)
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- Germany • 1996
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast
- Genre Documentary, TV Movie
- Available on No streaming locations found.
God's Angry Man
(Glaube und Währung: Dr. Gene Scott, Fernsehprediger)
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- West Germany • 1980
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Gene Scott, Werner Herzog
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Shout! Factory TV, Plex, Plex Channel
Portrait: Werner Herzog
(Werner Herzog: Filmemacher)
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- West Germany • 1986
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Werner Herzog, Reinhold Messner, Lotte Eisner, Mick Jagger, Jason Robards, Klaus Kinski
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Flying Doctors of East Africa
(Die fliegenden Ärzte von Ostafrika)
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- West Germany • 1970
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Wilfried Klaus, Michael Woods
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Christ and Demons in New Spain
(2000 Jahre Christentum: Neue Welten – Gott und die Beladenen)
The conquest of Latin America by the Catholic Church and the consequences of it for today's religious life in that region.
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- Germany • 1999
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Werner Herzog
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Jag Mandir
(Jag Mandir: Das exzentrische Privattheater des Maharadscha von Udaipur)
The bulk of the film consists of footage of an elaborate theatrical performance for the Maharana Arvind Singh Mewar at the City Palace of Udaipur, Rajasthan staged by André Heller.
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- Austria, Germany • 1991
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Werner Herzog, André Heller
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
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