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Werner Herzog

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Filmography

Orion and the Dark

2024
as Narrator

The U.S. and the Holocaust

2022
as Voice-over

Last Exit: Space

2022
as Narrator

Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds

2020
as Narrator

Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)

2020
as Narrator

Wim Wenders, Desperado

2020
as Werner Herzog

Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

2020
as Self - Interviewer and Narrator

Tattoo Uprising

2019
as Werner Herzog

Der Film verlässt das Kino: Vom Kübelkind-Experiment und anderen Utopien

2018
as Werner Herzog

Manaslu - Berg der Seelen

2018
as Himself

Ballad of a Righteous Merchant

2018
as Werner Herzog

The Great Buster: A Celebration

2018
as Himself

O Homem que Matou John Wayne

2017
as Werner Herzog

Into the Inferno

2016
as Himself, Narrator

Salt and Fire

2016
as Man with one story

Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

2016
as Himself

Killing Klaus Kinski

2016
as Werner Herzog

Jihad in Hollywood

2016
as Werner Herzog

Freaks of Nature

2015
as Perfect Being (voice)

Lemonade War

2014

MasterClass

2014

Penguins of Madagascar

2014
as Documentary Filmmaker (voice)

Life Itself

2014

The Unbelievers

2013
as Himself

Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision

2013
as Alexander von Humboldt

Jack Reacher

2012
as Zec Chelovek

Dinotasia

2012
as Narrator

Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life

2011
as Himself

Hans Zimmer - Der Sound für Hollywood

2011
as Werner Herzog

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

2010
as Himself - Narrator (voice)

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

2010
as Himself

Plastic Bag

2009

Gegenschuss - Aufbruch der Filmemacher

2008
as Werner Herzog

Capturing Reality

2008
as Self

Back to Room 666

2008
as Werner Herzog

Mister Lonely

2008
as Father Umbrillo

40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight

2008
as Werner Herzog

Encounters at the End of the World

2007
as Narrator (voice)

Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema

2007
as Werner Herzog

All In This Tea

2007
as Werner Herzog

The Grand

2007
as The German

Dreams and Burdens

2005
as Himself

In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session

2005
as Werner Herzog

Grizzly Man

2005
as Himself

The White Diamond

2004
as Himself / narrator

Dribble

2004
as Werner Herzog

Incident at Loch Ness

2004
as Himself

Meeting with Werner Herzog

2004
as Werner Herzog

Der Boxprinz

2002
as Werner Herzog

Wings of Hope

2000
as Himself

Der Ball ist ein Sauhund

2000
as Werner Herzog

My Best Fiend

1999
as Himself

A Brief History of Errol Morris

1999
as Himself

Neue Welten - Hinter dem europäischen Horizont

1999
as Narrator

Julien Donkey-Boy

1999
as Father

What Dreams May Come

1998
as Face

Little Dieter Needs to Fly

1997
as Himself / Narrator

Stardust Stricken - Mohsen Makhmalbaf: A Portrait

1996
as Werner Herzog

Die Verwandlung der Welt in Musik: Bayreuth vor der Premiere

1996
as Werner Herzog

Brennendes Herz

1996

Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices

1995
as Narrator (voice)

Lessons of Darkness

1995
as Narrator (voice)

Jag Mandir

1991
as Narrator

Schneeweißrosenrot

1991
as Werner Herzog

Scream of Stone

1991
as TV-Regisseur

Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun

1989
as Narrator (voice)

Gekauftes Glück

1989
as Gemeindeschreiber Businger

Hard to Be a God

1989
as Mita / Richard

Location Africa

1987
as Himself

Portrait Werner Herzog

1986
as Himself

The Dark Glow of the Mountain

1985
as himself

Tokyo-Ga

1985
as Himself

Ballad of the Little Soldier

1984
as Himself (Voice)

Man of Flowers

1983
as The Father

Room 666

1982

Burden of Dreams

1982
as Himself

God's Angry Man

1981
as Narrator

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

1980
as Himself

Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers

1980

The Making of Nosferatu

1979
as Werner Herzog

I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog

1979
as Himself

La Soufrière

1977
as Narrator

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

1976
as Himself

Lost in the Garden of the World

1975
as Werner Herzog

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

1974
as Himself

Land of Silence and Darkness

1971

Geschichten vom Kübelkind

1971
as Hurenmörder

Behinderte Zukunft

1971
as Interviewer

Die Erben von Papas Kino

1968
as Werner Herzog

NDF-Report

1967
as Werner Herzog

The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz

1967

Director

Movie The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft 2022
Movie Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin 2020
Movie Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds 2020
Movie ファミリーロマンス社 2020
Episode BBC Documentaries
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin 		2019
Movie Meeting Gorbachev 2018
Movie Into the Inferno 2016
Movie Salt and Fire 2016
Movie Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 2016
Movie Queen of the Desert 2015
Movie From One Second to the Next 2013
Movie The Killers: Unstaged 2012
Movie Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life 2011
Movie Ode to the Dawn of Man 2011
Movie Cave of Forgotten Dreams 2010
Movie Happy People: A Year in the Taiga 2010
Movie My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done 2009
Movie La Bohème 2009
Movie The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans 2009
Movie Encounters at the End of the World 2007
Episode Storyville
Screamers 		2007
Movie Rescue Dawn 2006
Movie Grizzly Man 2005
Movie The Wild Blue Yonder 2005
Movie The White Diamond 2004
Movie Wheel of Time 2003
Movie Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet 2002
Movie Invincible 2001
Movie Wings of Hope 2000
Episode 2000 Jahre Christentum
Neue Welten 		2000
Movie My Best Fiend 1999
Movie Neue Welten - Hinter dem europäischen Horizont 1999
Movie Little Dieter Needs to Fly 1997
Movie Die Verwandlung der Welt in Musik: Bayreuth vor der Premiere 1996
Movie Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices 1995
Movie Lessons of Darkness 1995
Movie Bells from the Deep 1993
Movie Jag Mandir 1991
Movie Scream of Stone 1991
Movie Echoes From a Sombre Empire 1990
Movie Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun 1989
Movie Les Gaulois 1988
Movie The French as Seen by… 1988
Movie Cobra Verde 1987
Movie Portrait Werner Herzog 1986
Movie The Dark Glow of the Mountain 1985
Movie Where the Green Ants Dream 1984
Movie Ballad of the Little Soldier 1984
Movie Huie's Sermon 1983
Movie Fitzcarraldo 1982
Movie God's Angry Man 1981
Movie The Making of Nosferatu 1979
Movie Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979
Movie Woyzeck 1979
Movie Stroszek 1977
Movie La Soufrière 1977
Movie How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck 1976
Movie Heart of Glass 1976
Movie No One Will Play with Me 1976
Movie The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner 1974
Movie The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 1974
Movie Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972
Movie Fata Morgana 1971
Movie Land of Silence and Darkness 1971
Movie Behinderte Zukunft 1971
Movie Even Dwarfs Started Small 1970
Movie The Flying Doctors of East Africa 1970
Movie Precautions Against Fanatics 1969
Movie Signs of Life 1968
Movie Last Words 1968
Movie The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz 1967
Movie Vernon God Little

Writer

Movie Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin 2020
Movie Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds 2020
Movie ファミリーロマンス社 2020
Episode BBC Documentaries
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin 		2019
Movie Into the Inferno 2016
Movie Salt and Fire 2016
Movie Queen of the Desert 2015
Movie Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life 2011
Movie Happy People: A Year in the Taiga 2010
Movie Cave of Forgotten Dreams 2010
Movie My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done 2009
Movie Encounters at the End of the World 2007
Movie Rescue Dawn 2006
Movie Grizzly Man 2005
Movie The Wild Blue Yonder 2005
Movie The White Diamond 2004
Movie Incident at Loch Ness 2004
Movie Wheel of Time 2003
Movie Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet 2002
Movie Invincible 2001
Episode 2000 Jahre Christentum
Neue Welten 		2000
Movie My Best Fiend 1999
Movie Neue Welten - Hinter dem europäischen Horizont 1999
Movie Little Dieter Needs to Fly 1997
Movie Die Verwandlung der Welt in Musik: Bayreuth vor der Premiere 1996
Movie Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices 1995
Movie Lessons of Darkness 1995
Movie Bells from the Deep 1993
Movie Jag Mandir 1991
Movie Echoes From a Sombre Empire 1990
Movie Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun 1989
Movie Cobra Verde 1987
Movie Portrait Werner Herzog 1986
Movie Where the Green Ants Dream 1984
Movie Ballad of the Little Soldier 1984
Movie Fitzcarraldo 1982
Movie God's Angry Man 1981
Movie Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe 1980
Movie Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979
Movie Woyzeck 1979
Movie Stroszek 1977
Movie Heart of Glass 1976
Movie No One Will Play with Me 1976
Movie The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner 1974
Movie The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 1974
Movie Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972
Movie Fata Morgana 1971
Movie Behinderte Zukunft 1971
Movie Land of Silence and Darkness 1971
Movie Even Dwarfs Started Small 1970
Movie The Flying Doctors of East Africa 1970
Movie Precautions Against Fanatics 1969
Movie Last Words 1968
Movie Signs of Life 1968
Movie The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz 1967

Host

Movie Werner Herzog - Radical Dreamer 2022

Producer

Movie A Gray State 2017
Movie Salt and Fire 2016
Movie Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World 2016
Movie The Look of Silence 2014
Movie The Act of Killing 2012
Movie Wheel of Time 2003
Movie Lessons of Darkness 1995
Movie Jag Mandir 1991
Movie Echoes From a Sombre Empire 1990
Movie Location Africa 1987
Movie Ballad of the Little Soldier 1984
Movie Fitzcarraldo 1982
Movie Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979
Movie La Soufrière 1977
Movie Heart of Glass 1976
Movie How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck 1976
Movie The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 1974
Movie Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972
Movie Land of Silence and Darkness 1971
Movie Behinderte Zukunft 1971
Movie Even Dwarfs Started Small 1970
Movie Precautions Against Fanatics 1969
Movie Last Words 1968
Movie Signs of Life 1968

Guest Star

Episode Late Night With Seth Meyers: Corrections
Specjackular: A Celebration of CORRECTIONS! 		2022
Episode The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Werner Herzog, Roger Waters 		2022
Episode Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian
Practical 		2020
Episode The Mandalorian
Chapter 7: The Reckoning 		2019
Episode The Mandalorian
Chapter 3: The Sin 		2019
Episode The Mandalorian
Chapter 1: The Mandalorian 		2019
Episode The Simpsons
Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion 		2019
Episode Rick and Morty
Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate 		2015
Episode Parks and Recreation
2017 		2015
Episode The Simpsons
The Scorpion's Tale 		2011
Episode The Colbert Report
Werner Herzog 		2011
Episode Die Harald Schmidt Show
Werner Herzog 		2011
Episode The Boondocks
It's a Black President, Huey Freeman 		2010
Episode The Henry Rollins Show
Werner Herzog & Frank Black 		2006