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Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France and captures the oldest known pictorial creations of humanity

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

Inspired by a true crime, a man begins to experience mystifying events that lead him to slay his mother with a sword

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

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

A group of dwarfs at a correctional facility erupt in anarchy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Engineers attempt daring journey above Guyanese rainforest canopy with airship prototype Adventure fraught with risks, as previous expedition ended tragically This is a unique story of exploring uncharted jungle from the air

Franz Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he can not control

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

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

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

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

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

A documentary exploring the myth of the Loch Ness monster

Two famous competitive climbers make a bet on who can climb Cerro Torre, one of the most dangerous mountains in Argentina and the world, first As the day of the climb approaches, their increasing competitiveness becomes destructive

A collection of vignettes presenting possible experiences in the lives of dinosaurs during various periods

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

Werner Herzogs exploration of the Internet and the connected world

A study of the psychology of a champion ski jumper, whose full time occupation is carpentry

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 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 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

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

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