Werner Herzog
Known for: Directing
Born: September 5, 1942
Werner Herzog (German: [ˈvɛɐ̯nɐ ˈhɛɐ̯tsoːk]; born 5 September 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director, regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema. His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals in conflict with nature. He is known for his unique filmmaking process, such as disregarding storyboards, emphasizing improvisation, and placing the cast and crew into similar situ…
Known for
The Lonely
2009
The White Diamond
2004
My Best Fiend
1999
The Arc of Oblivion
2023
Plastic Bag
2009
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
1991
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
1977
Incident at Loch Ness
2004
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010
Into the Abyss
2011
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
1976
Last Exit: Space
2022
Dinotasia
2012
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
2010
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
1988
Ballad of the Little Soldier
1984
Portrait: Werner Herzog
1986
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
1985
Location Africa
1987
Dreams and Burdens
2005
Walking to Werner
2006
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
1989
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
Werner Herzog Defends Dade
2010
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
1974
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
2024
Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son
2010
Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space
2005
Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog
2005
No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
2012
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
2012
Journey Through History
1977
The Heart and the Legs
1989
The Last Documentary
2000
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
2013
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
2013
Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director
2014
Into the Inferno
2016
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
2024
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
1979
Lessons of Darkness
1992
Wings of Hope
1999
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
1997
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
1979
BLAST!
2008
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
1989
10 Questions for Werner Herzog
2012
Encounters at the End of the World
2007
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
2020
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
2019
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017
Paradox Bullets
2018
Bells from the Deep
1993
When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
2010
God's Angry Man
1983
Wheel of Time
2003
The Andinist
2020
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
2010
I'm a Soldier
2018
About a Hero
2024
Ghost Elephants
2026
Werner We Love You
2017
Burden of Dreams
1982
The Grand
2007
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
2021
The 100 Greatest Films
2001
A Brief History of Errol Morris
1999
Bride of the Orient
1989
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
2019
Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog
Shards of Cinema and Philosophy
Jihad in Hollywood
2016
Grizzly Man
2005
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
1980
Capturing Reality
2008
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2010
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
2017
The Ball Is a Scumbag
2000
Meeting Gorbachev
2019
Tattoo Uprising
2019
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
2020
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
1990
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021
Handicapped Future
1971
Tokyo-Ga
1985
All In This Tea
2007
Tegoyo
2022
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
2007
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
2010
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
2013
Jihad in Hollywood
2019
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
2021
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
2016
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
1995
Julien Donkey-Boy
1999
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
2020
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
2017
Sirena
2025
Ally
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
2007
Man of Flowers
1983
SnowwhiteRosered
1991
Lemonade War
2014
In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
1999
Bierbichler
2008
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
2008
Champions: A Comic Tale
2011
On Borrowed Time
2011
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
2005
Back to Room 666
2008
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
1967
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
2004
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
2018
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
1979
Into the Night With Harmony Korine and Gaspar Noe
2010
Strawberryfields
2012
Mister Lonely
2008
Jack Reacher
2012
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
2011
Burning Heart
1995
Lost in the Garden of the World
1975
The Killers: Unstaged
2012
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
2014
The Boxing Prince
2002
Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God"
1990
The Transformation of the World Into Music
1996
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
2021
Dribble
2004
Die Erben von Papas Kino
1968
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
2007
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
2008
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
2000
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
1996
Room 666
1985
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
2018
The Unbelievers
2013
Salt and Fire
2016
Hard to Be a God
1990
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
2022
Penguins of Madagascar
2014
I, I, I José Lewgoy
2011
The Great Buster: A Celebration
2018
Signs of Life
1968
Atari: Game Over
2014
Scream of Stone
1991
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
1974
What Dreams May Come
1998
Life Itself
2014
Mistaken for Strangers
2013
Orion and the Dark
2024
Close Up
2012
Freaks of Nature
2015
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020
Heart of Glass
1976
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
2013
Where the Green Ants Dream
1984
Dangerous Game
1993
The Simpsons
1989
Sonntagsgespräch
1985
Okay
1979
The Colbert Report
2005
The Henry Rollins Show
2006
On Death Row
2012
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
Rick and Morty
2013
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Parks and Recreation
2009
Spécial cinéma
1974
German Film Award
1951
Grimme Award
1964
Bavarian Film Awards
1979
Midi Première
1975
The Mandalorian
2019
American Dad!
2005
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
Kulturplatz
2004
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
2020
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
2020
Metalocalypse
2006
The Boondocks
2005
Placido Domingo's Tales from the Opera
1994
Film Lesson
1991
Sternstunde Philosophie
1998
Hulk Hogan: Real American
2026
60 Minutes
1968
Soccer Meets America
2026