Collections/November 2025

Directed by Werner Herzog

An artistic renegade every bit as uncompromising, fearless, and eccentric as the outsiders, oddballs, and obsessives he makes films about, Werner Herzog is a larger-than-life legend who has risked death, hypnotized an entire cast, moved a steamship over a mountain, and eaten his own shoe, all in the name of cinema. Emerging from the New German Cinema movement, he has devoted himself to chronicling the quests of dreamers, holy fools, and madmen in feverish, almost mystical narrative works like Aguirre, the Wrath of God (the first of his brilliant and often turbulent collaborations with frequent star Klaus Kinski), Stroszek , The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser , and Fitzcarraldo , a film as famous for its hallucinatory images as for its notoriously dangerous production.…

30 films — 2 on the Channel, 28 unavailable