Search Results For : werner herzog

This film surveys the disaster of the Kuwaiti oil fields in flames, with little narration and scarcely any interviews Hell on Earth is presented in such transcendent visions and music that one can only be fascinated by it

The reverend Huie L Rogers delivers an intense and impassioned sermon at his church in Brooklyn

A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried

A geologist employed by an Australian mining company finds himself disputing the rights of some aborigines who believe their land to be sacred

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 worl

A U S fighter pilots epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War

A man is hired to impersonate the missing father of a young girl

The foreman of a small village glassworks dies without revealing the secret to the famous Ruby Glass

Film maker Werner Herzog travels to the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, looking to capture the continents beauty and investigate the characters living there

The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle

An exploration of active volcanoes around the world

The life and career of the renowned film critic and social commentator, Roger Ebert

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 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

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 film focuses on a group of Miskito in Nicaragua who used child soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas

A young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note

Wheel of Time is Werner Herzogs photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India

Moved by the work of director Yasujiro Ozu, Wim Wenders travels to Japan in search of the Tokyo seen in Ozus films

A documentary from Werner Herzog about meteors and comets and their influence on ancient religions and other cultural and physical impacts theyve had on Earth

Documentary presents a comprehensive portrait of an iconic artist of our time

A documentary exploring the myth of the Loch Ness monster

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

A group of dwarfs at a correctional facility erupt in anarchy

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

Werner Herzogs exploration of the Internet and the connected world

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 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

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

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 life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final President of the Soviet Union in chronological order

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

Terence McDonagh is a drug and gambling addled detective in post Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants

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

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

Illuminating look at the way physically disabled people were dealt with in West Germany in the late 60s early 70s