Werner Herzog
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 situations as characters in his films. Herzog started work on his first film Herakles in 1961, when he was nineteen. Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than sixty feature films and documentaries, such as Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), Heart of Glass (1976), Stroszek (1977), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982), Cobra Verde (1987), Lessons of Darkness (1992), Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997), My Best Fiend (1999), Invincible (2000), Grizzly Man (2005), Encounters at the End of the World (2007), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009), and Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010). He has published more than a dozen books of prose, and directed as many operas. French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog "the most important film director alive." American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog "has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular." He was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2009. Description above from the Wikipedia article Werner Herzog, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Orion and the Dark
as Narrator (voice)A boy with an active imagination faces his fears on an unforgettable journey through the night...
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Penguins of Madagascar
as Documentary Filmmaker (voice)Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to...
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One morning in an ordinary town, five people are shot dead in a seemingly random attack. All...
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What Dreams May Come
as FaceChris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of....
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Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
as SelfCast and crew speak on adapting One Shot as the first Jack Reacher film, casting Tom Cruise,...
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Dinotasia
as Narrator (voice)Computer-generated animation about the daily lives of dinosaurs, narrated by Werner Herzog.
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Nosferatu the Vampyre
as Hand and Feet in Box with Rats (uncredited)A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the...
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Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
as SelfWith exclusive behind-the-scenes access into Herzog’s everyday life, rare archive material and...
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Grizzly Man
as Self / Narrator (voice)Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen...
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My Best Fiend
as SelfA film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the...
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Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
as Self - Narrator (voice)This remarkable journey across our planet and universe explores how meteorites, shooting stars,...
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Freaks of Nature
as Perfect Being (voice)In the town of Dillford, humans, vampires and zombies were all living in peace - until the alien...
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Into the Inferno
as Narrator (voice)With stunning views of eruptions and lava flows, Werner Herzog captures the raw power of...
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Encounters at the End of the World
as Narrator (voice)Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger go to Antarctica to meet people who live and work...
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The Unbelievers
as SelfScientists Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss travel the globe promoting a scientific worldview...
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Salt and Fire
as Man with One Story (uncredited)A scientist blames the head of a large company for an ecological disaster in South America. But...
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Heart of Glass
as Glass TransporterA small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman...
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The Great Buster: A Celebration
as SelfA celebration of the life and career of one of America's most influential and celebrated...
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Incident at Loch Ness
as SelfWhen renowned director Werner Herzog and fellow filmmaker Zak Penn set off to explore the legend...
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Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
as SelfWerner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.
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The Grand
as The GermanThe Grand is in the tradition of improvisational comedies like Best In Show and This Is Spinal...
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The Arc of Oblivion
as Narrator (voice)"The Arc of Oblivion" explores a quirk of humankind: in a universe that erases its tracks, we...
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Burden of Dreams
as Self - FilmmakerThe Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German...
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Cave of Forgotten Dreams
as Narrator (voice)Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France,...
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Bells from the Deep
as Narrator (voice)A group of pilgrims lie down on the thin ice of the lake Svetloyar and begin to look for the...
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Life Itself
as Self - FilmmakerThe surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert...
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Dangerous Game
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)A New York film director, working on his latest movie in Los Angeles, begins to reflect the...
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Julien Donkey-Boy
as FatherUndiagnosed, untreated and generally untethered schizophrenic Julien lives with his pregnant...
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Lessons of Darkness
as Narrator (voice)Shortly after the Gulf War, oil fires were raging all through Kuwait. In the week before this...
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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
as Narrator (voice)In the center of the story is the life of the indigenous people of the village Bakhtia at the...
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Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
as SelfA veteran film critic explores the legacy of Cannes Film Festival regular Pierre Rissient.
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Mister Lonely
as Father UmbrilloIn Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who...
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Into the Abyss
as Narrator (voice)We do not know when and how we will die. Death Row inmates do. Werner Herzog embarks on a...
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Where the Green Ants Dream
as Lawyer (uncredited)The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green...
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Little Dieter Needs to Fly
as Narrator (voice)Three decades after German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, he returns to...
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Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
as Alexander von HumboldtFollow-up to the TV trilogy “Heimat”, this time for cinemas, set again in the fictional village...
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Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
as SelfDirectors Werner Herzog and Errol Morris make a bet which results in Herzog living up to his...
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90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
as SelfNominated for two Chicago/Midwest Emmy awards including Outstanding Historical Documentary and...
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Wheel of Time
as Narrator (voice)Wheel of Time is Werner Herzog's photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya,...
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La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
as Narrator (voice)Werner Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on...
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Tokyo-Ga
as SelfGerman director Wim Wenders tries to explore the Tokyo that was depicted in the films of...
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The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
as SelfA study of the psychology of a champion ski-flyer, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.
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Room 666
as SelfDuring the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks a number of global film directors to, one at...
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Meeting Gorbachev
as SelfMikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, sits down with filmmaker Werner Herzog...
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How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
as SelfA documentary short examining the language and performance of auctioneering, filmed at the World...
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The White Diamond
as Narrator (voice)This 2004 documentary by Werner Herzog diaries the struggle of a passionate English inventor to...
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The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
as Narrator (voice)Filmmaker Werner Herzog combs through the film archives of volcanologists Katia and Maurice...
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One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
as SelfThis documentary explores key moments in the life of writer Juan Rulfo, with artists such as...
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Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
as Self - Film Director: NosferatuA zesty paean of praise to the greater glories of garlic. This lip-smacking foray into the...
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Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
as SelfDocumentary about Hans Zimmer.
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Hard to Be a God
as Mita / RichardAnother planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental...
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Close Up
as Self (archive footage)More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press...
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Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
as Self"Rescue Dawn: The Making of a True Story" is a documentary film that provides a...
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Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
as Self (archive footage)From Murnau to Herzog, and until modern incarnations, a mischievous exploration of a...
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Last Exit: Space
as Narrator (voice)Documentary about space colonization: a voyage across our planet, into the stars and beyond.
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Scream of Stone
as TV-RegisseurA meeting of two world famous climbers, one an experienced mountaineer the other a sport...
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Plastic Bag
as Plastic Bag (voice)A plastic bag, thrown out in the trash, attempts to find his way back to his owner and along the...
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The Dark Glow of the Mountain
as Self (voice)Werner Herzog follows mountaineers Hans Kammerlander and Reinhold Messner during their...
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Capturing Reality
as SelfFrom cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like...
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The 100 Greatest Films
as SelfA countdown of the 100 greatest films, as voted by the British public via the Channel 4 website.
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AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
as SelfUnleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE...
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Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
as SelfChronicles the making of director Werner Herzog’s 2009 feature, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye...
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Signs of Life
as Soldier (uncredited)During World War II, three German soldiers are withdrawn from combat when one of them, Stroszek,...
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Wim Wenders, Desperado
as Self"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim...
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Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
as Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice)When Bruce Chatwin was dying of AIDS, his friend Werner Herzog made a final visit. As a parting...
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Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
as Self (archive footage)After the war, almost by chance, Alfonso Sansone starts to produce documentary films and moves...
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Wings of Hope
as SelfWerner Herzog returns to the South American jungle with Juliane Koepcke, the German woman who...
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Echoes from a Sombre Empire
as SelfDocumentary examining Bokassa's rule in the Central African Republic using the testimony of...
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Burning Heart
as uncreditedFollows the life of the famous German politician, writer, and communist activist, Gustav Regler,...
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Ballad of the Little Soldier
as Self (voice)A group of Miskito Indians use Nicaraguan child soldiers in their resistance against the...
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Man of Flowers
as The FatherAn eccentric elderly man tries to enjoy the three things in life that he considers real beauty:...
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BLAST!
as Narrator (voice)With extraordinary access, BLAST exposes a world of risky, hardcore, scientific adventure. The...
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Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
as Narrator (voice)Jag Mandir is a quiet and often overlooked film in the vast oeuvre of Werner Herzog. Apparently,...
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The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
as HimselfBehind the scenes documentary for Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans....
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The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
as Self (archive footage)Self-taught magician, transformist at the Grande Eugène cabaret, man of theater, television and...
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God's Angry Man
as Narrator (voice)The documentary follows Gene Scott, famous televangelist involved with constant fights against...
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A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
as SelfBorn in Berlin in 1896, Lotte Eisner became famous for her passionate involvement in the world...
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Champions: A Comic Tale
as SelfA comic tale. The issue of film education has been a Gordian link for many years in Greece....
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Portrait: Werner Herzog
as SelfAn autobiographical short film by Werner Herzog made in 1986. Herzog tells stories about his...
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An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
as SelfWerner Herzog talking about his appreciation for Les Blank.
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40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
as SelfA hstory of the Cannes Film Festival's Director's Fortnight selection.
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Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
as Self (archive footage)Jean-Luc Godard proposes a diary of his creative process. Looking at photos of three actors,...
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I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
as SelfChristian Weisenborn and Werner Herzog know each other for more than 40 years. His first film on...
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Tattoo Uprising
as SelfAn examination of the artistic and historical roots of today's tattoo explosion.
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On Borrowed Time
as SelfAuteur filmmaker Paul Cox contemplates his own mortality and his life's work as he wits for a...
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I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
as SelfInterview film with German director Werner Herzog revisiting the films he made up to ca. 1977.
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All In This Tea
as uncreditedDuring the 1990s, David Lee Hoffman searched throughout China for the finest teas. He's a...
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Lost in the Garden of the World
as SelfCannes is the town in France where Bergman meets bikinis, and the art of filmmaking meets the...
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Die Erben von Papas Kino
as uncreditedDocumentary by Wilhelm Roth about the state of affairs of the Young German Cinema.
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Kinski
as Self (Archive Footage)Documentary film about the turbulent life and career of actor Klaus Kinski, a man whose genius...
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Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
as Narrator (voice)Works, legend and murders of Carlo Gesualdo, a notorious Italian composer and murderer from 16th...
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The Making of 'Nosferatu'
as SelfWerner Herzog discusses the making of "Nosferatu" on set.
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Film Lesson
as SelfWerner Herzog interviews guests on the art of filmmaking.
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The Transformation of the World Into Music
as SelfThis film was prepared as a introduction to a series of opera broadcasts on German television....
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To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
as SelfA documentation about Werner Herzog's motif to do movies.
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Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
as Narrator (voice)Herzog's documentary of the Wodaabe people of the Sahara/Sahel region. Particular attention is...
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Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
as SelfThe great successes and tragedies in the life and work of Hans Kammerlander, the renowned...
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The Boxing Prince
as SelfThe documentary tells the life story of the boxer Norbert Grupe, who was known by his fighting...
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Tegoyo
as Self (Voice)In 1968 legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog shot in the island of Lanzarote his film Even Dwarfs...
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Neuer Deutscher Film Report
as uncreditedInterview film with the protagonists of the New German Cinema in 1966.
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The Andinist
as The Painter (Narrator)An old painter recounts the story of when he met a strange mountain climber, or perhaps, an...
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Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
as SelfDirector Mohsen Makhmalbaf claims to have never seen a movie before making his first film....
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Jihad in Hollywood
as SelfOnce a successful Syrian actor, Jihad Abdo is now struggling as a refugee while trying to...
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The Killers: Unstaged
as SelfFollowing the band The Killers on road to and on stage in the Bronx, New York, in a series of...
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The Ball Is a Scumbag
as Self"Sometimes the ball is bewitched," says legendary soccer coach Rudi Gutendorf. He's the one who...
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Tales of the Dumpster Kid
as HurenmörderThe Dumpster Kid is an artistic creation: in every story society forces her to learn something....
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Bride of the Orient
as BusingerAfter the death of his mother, a lonely farmer in rural Switzerland considers finally starting a...
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The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
as Self (voice) ("Dribble" short)In this third volume of the Best of Tromadance, viewers can sample fifteen of the best films...
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Paradox Bullets
as Narrator (voice)A short film which debuted in a secret location in London to coincide with the release of the...
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Jihad in Hollywood
as SelfOnce a successful Syrian actor, Jihad Abdo is now struggling as a refugee while trying to...
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as SelfBBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures.
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I, I, I José Lewgoy
as SelfDocumentary discussing the life and work of José Lewgoy, one of the most important Brazilian...
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In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
as SelfWith Herzog's direction, Richard Thompson leads a small group of musicians into creating Grizzly...
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10 Questions for Werner Herzog
as SelfInterview with Werner Herzog during his visit to the Indiana University Cinema.
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Strawberryland
as TurnlehrerA reconstruction, the replica of a complex emotional world made of desire and aggression: a teen...
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Celebrating the Rice Media Center
as Self (archival footage)Through the Fondren Fellows program, the Rice Media Center Archive Project has spent the past...
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Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
as Narrator (voice)In 1974 Werner Herzog walked from Munich to Paris, an act of faith to prevent the death of his...
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Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
as SelfFor over half a century, the filmmaker Edgar Reitz, one of the signatories of the Oberhausen...
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Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
as SelfMeteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless by Mahmoud Behraznia is a documentary with a different perspective...
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Mistaken for Strangers
as Self (uncredited)Mistaken for Strangers follows The National on its biggest tour to date. Newbie roadie Tom (lead...
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The South Bank Show: Werner Herzog
as SelfMade around the time of Fitzcarraldo's release, this documentary follows Werner Herzog on a...
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The Simpsons
as Walter Hotenhoffer (voice)Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday...
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The Simpsons
as Werner Herzog (voice)Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday...
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The Simpsons
as Dr. Lund (voice)Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday...
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Late Night with Seth Meyers
as SelfSeth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live’s" longest serving anchor on the show’s wildly popular...
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as SelfStephen Colbert brings his signature satire and comedy to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,...
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Rick and Morty
as Shrimply Pibbles (voice)Rick is a mentally-unbalanced but scientifically gifted old man who has recently reconnected...
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American Dad!
as Werner Herzog (voice)The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three...
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The Colbert Report
as uncreditedThe Colbert Report is an American satirical late night television program that airs Monday...
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Die Harald Schmidt Show
as SelfThe Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian...
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Parks and Recreation
as Keg JenningsIn an attempt to beautify her town — and advance her career — Leslie Knope, a mid-level...
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The Mandalorian
as The ClientAfter the fall of the Galactic Empire, lawlessness has spread throughout the galaxy. A lone...
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Midi Première
as SelfMidi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre...
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Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as SelfSome of this year's most talked about talent open up about the challenges and triumphs of...
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Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
as Self - The ClientExecutive producer Jon Favreau invites the cast and crew of The Mandalorian to share an...
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The U.S. and the Holocaust
as Hermann GöringInspired in part by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Americans and the Holocaust”...
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The Henry Rollins Show
as uncreditedThe Henry Rollins Show was a weekly talk show hosted by Henry Rollins on the Independent Film...
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On Death Row
as Werner HerzogA two part series on an inside look at a maximum security prison in Texas featuring interviews...
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