
"You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates."
Filmography
Features (* = Documentary)
Signs of Life (1968)
The Flying Doctors of East Africa* (1969)
Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
Handicapped Future* (1971)
Land of Silence and Darkness* (1971)
Fata Morgana* (1971)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner* (1974)
Heart of Glass (1976)
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck* (1976)
Stroszek (1977)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Woyzeck (1979)
Huie's Sermon* (1981)
God's Angry Man* (1981)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
Ballad of the Little Soldier* (1984)
The Dark Glow of the Mountains* (1984)
Cobra Verde (1987)
Herdsmen of the Sun* (1989)
Echoes from a Sombre Empire* (1990)
Jag Mandir* (1991)
Scream of Stone (1991)
Lessons of Darkness* (1992)
Bells from the Deep* (1993)
The Transformation of the World into Music* (1994)
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices* (1995)
Little Dieter Needs to Fly* (1997)
Wings of Hope* (1998)
My Best Friend* (1999)
Invincible (2001)
Wheel of Time* (2003)
The White Diamond* (2004)
The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
Grizzly Man* (2005)
Rescue Dawn (2006)
Encounters at the End of the World* (2007)
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (2009)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams* (2010)
Happy people: A Year in the Taiga* (2010)
Into the Abyss* (2011)
Queen of the Desert (2015)
Salt and Fire (2016)
Lo & Behold: Reveries of the Connected World* (2016)
Into the Inferno* (2016)
Meeting Gorbachev (2019)
Shorts (* = Documentary short)
"Herakles" (1962)
"Game in the Sand" (1964)
"The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz" (1966)
"Last Words" (1968)
"Precautions Against Fanatics" (1969)
"No One Will Play With Me" (1976)
"La Soufrière"* (1977)
"Portrait Werner Herzog"* (1986)
"Les Gaulois" (1988)
"Christ and Demons in New Spain"* (1999)
"Pilgrimage"* (2001)
Ten Thousand Years Older"* (2002)
"La Bohème"* (2009)
"Ode to the Dawn of Man"* (2011)
"From One Second to the Next"* (2013)
Books
Werner Herzog, Peter Berling and Herbert Achternbusch (2003)
The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth, Brad Prager (2007)
Ferocious Reality: Documentary According to Werner Herzog, Eric Ames (2012)
A Companion to Wener Herzog, Brad Prager (2012)
Werner Herzog: interviews, Eric Ames (2014)
The Films of Werner Herzog: Between Mirage and History, Timothy Corrigan (2016)
Herzog by Ebert, Roger Ebert (2017)
By Herzog
Fitzcarraldo: The Original Story (1983)
Pilgrims: Becoming the Path Itself, with Lena Herzog (2002)
Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo (2004)
Of Walking in Ice (2007)
Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed, Conversations with Paul Cronin (2014)
Web Resources
Werner Herzog Official Site
2005 interview with Roger Ebert at Overlooked Film Festival
2005 audio interview with Dave Davies, Fresh Air (NPR)
"The Ecstatic Truth", 2006 profile by Daniel Zalewski, The New Yorker
"The Secret Mainstream: Contemplating the Mirages of Werner Herzog", by Tom Bissell, Harper's (2006)
"Antiphusis: Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man", by Benjamin Noys, Film-Philosophy (2006)
2007 conversation with Errol Morris at Brandeis University, The Believer
2007 audio interview with Terry Gross, Fresh Air (NPR)
2009 interview with Mark Kermode, The Guardian
2010 roundtable with Metthew Belloni, Stephen Galloway, Darren Aronofsky, Oren Peli, Catherine Keener, Melissa Leo, and Sam Rockwell, The Hollywood Reporter
2011 audio conversation with Lawrence Krauss and Cormac McCarthy
2011 profile by Chris Heath in GQ
2011 interview with Chris Kompanek, The AV Club
2016 profile by Jason Tanz, Wired
2016 Reddit Ask me Anything
2019 interview with Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire
Forum Discussion
Werner Herzog on DVD
Werner Herzog Collection (BFI)
Shout! Factory: Herzog: Collection
Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982)
The Wild Blue Yonder (Herzog, 2005)
Rescue Dawn (Werner Herzog, 2006)
Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog, 2008)
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Herzog, 2009)
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (Werner Herzog, 2010)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog, 2010)
Death Row / Into the Abyss (Werner Herzog, 2011/12)