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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

Werner Herzogs exploration of the Internet and the connected world

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 destroye

A documentary exploring the myth of the Loch Ness monster

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A group of dwarfs at a correctional facility erupt in anarchy

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

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 cam

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