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TBA
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
Director, Writer, Producer · as Self
Documentary
Portrait: Werner Herzog
Director, Writer · as Self
Documentary
Lessons of Darkness
Director, Writer, Executive Producer · as Self - Narrator (voice)
Documentary, War, TV Movie
The French as Seen by…
Director
Drama, Documentary, War
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
Director, Writer, Co-Producer · as Narrator (voice)
Documentary
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
Director, Writer, Producer · as Self (voice)
Documentary, TV Movie
Precautions Against Fanatics
Director, Writer, Producer, Sound
Comedy
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
Director, Writer, Producer · as Narrator (voice)
History, Documentary, Music
Cobra Verde
Director, Writer
Adventure, Drama
La Bohème
Director
Documentary, Music
The Flying Doctors of East Africa
Director, Writer, Producer, Sound Recordist
Documentary, TV Movie
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
Director, Writer, Editor
Fantasy, Drama, Comedy
Signs of Life
Director, Writer, Producer · as Soldier (uncredited)
Drama, War
My Best Fiend
Director, Writer · as Self
Documentary
Pilgrimage
Director
Documentary
Bells from the Deep
Director, Writer · as Narrator (voice)
Documentary
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
Director, Writer, Producer · as Self
Documentary
The Transformation of the World Into Music
Director, Writer, Executive Producer · as Self
Documentary, Music, TV Movie
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Director, Writer, Producer
Drama, History
The Gauls
Director
Documentary
Ten Thousand Years Older
Director, Writer
Documentary
Last Words
Director, Writer, Producer
Documentary
Scream of Stone
Director · as TV-Regisseur
Adventure, Drama
The Twilight World
Director, Writer
Animation, Drama, War
La Donna del Lago
Director
Music
No One Will Play with Me
Director, Writer
Drama
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
Director, Writer, Producer · as Narrator (voice)
Documentary, TV Movie
Wheel of Time
Director, Writer, Producer, Editor · as Narrator (voice)
Documentary
Walk of Life
Director
Documentary
2026
2020
2019
2016
2011
2010
2005
2002
1983
1977
Heart of Glass
Director, Writer, Producer · as Glass Transporter
Drama
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
Director, Producer, Sound Engineer · as Narrator (voice)
Documentary
Stroszek
Director, Writer, Producer
Drama
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Director, Writer, Producer
Adventure, Drama, History
1971
Acting 34
TBA
Burning Heart
Actor
Drama
Strawberryfields
as Turnlehrer
Drama
Paradox Bullets
as Narrator (voice)
The Arc of Oblivion
Executive Producer · as Narrator (voice)
Documentary
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
as Alexander von Humboldt
Drama, History
Al borde del abismo: la aventura peruana de Werner Herzog
Actor
Documentary
Ally
as (voice)
Adventure, Animation, Family
The Andinist
as The Painter (Narrator)
Adventure, Science Fiction, Mystery
Hard to Be a God
as Mita / Richard
Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction
Dear Werner Walking on Cinema
as Narrator (voice)
Documentary
BLAST!
as Narrator (voice)
Documentary
Bride of the Orient
as Businger
Drama, Romance
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
Actor
Documentary
Die Erben von Papas Kino
Actor
Documentary
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
as Hurenmörder
Drama, Comedy
About a Hero
Actor
Drama, Crime, Documentary
Plastic Bag
as Plastic Bag (voice)
Drama
2020
2014
Writing & Producing 18
TBA
The hunger in the world explained to my son
Writer
Documentary
The Long Farewell
Executive Producer
The Golden Gate
Executive Producer
Comedy
The whole world is country
Consulting Producer
Comedy
Location Africa
Producer · as Self
Documentary
The Last Scene
Executive Producer
Documentary
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Writer · as Self
Comedy, Documentary
Felicidad
Producer
Documentary
Flores del precipicio
Producer
Drama
2015
Other 95
TBA
Falling QA
as Self - Host
Im a Soldier
as Self
I I I José Lewgoy
as Self
Documentary
Champions: A Comic Tale
as Self
Documentary
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary
Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God"
as Self
Documentary
The 100 Greatest Films
as Self
Documentary
Meteor Sohrab Shahid Saless
as Self
Documentary
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
as Self
Documentary
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
as Self
Drama, Documentary
SnowwhiteRosered
as Self
Documentary
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
as Self
Documentary
Notes from a Dromedary
Creative Consultant
Fantasy, Documentary
50 Films to See Before You Die
as Self
Documentary
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary, TV Movie
Tegoyo
as Self (Voice)
Science Fiction
Film Beyond Cinema The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
as Self
Documentary
Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog
as Self
Munich Filmfest Stories 25 years of Munich Filmfest
as Self
Documentary
The Boxing Prince
as Self
Documentary
Bierbichler
as Self
Documentary
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Documentary
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
as Self
Documentary, Music
Close Up
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary
Jihad in Hollywood
as Self
Documentary, War
The Last Documentary
as Self
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
as Self
Documentary
Stardust Stricken Mohsen Makhmalbaf A Portrait
as Self
Documentary
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
as Self (archive footage)
History, Documentary, TV Movie
Journey Through History
as Self
History, Documentary, TV Movie
Lost in the Garden of the World
as Self
Documentary
The Empty Goal
Thanks
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
as Self
Documentary
Room 666
as Self
Documentary
Shards of Cinema and Philosophy
as Self
Werner We Love You
as Self
Documentary
The Heart and the Legs
as Self
Documentary
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
as Self
Documentary
On Borrowed Time
as Self
Documentary
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
as Self
History, Documentary, War
Back to Room 666
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary
Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space
as Self
The Ball Is a Scumbag
as Self
Documentary
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
as Self
Documentary
Wim Wenders, Desperado
as Self
Documentary
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary
Mi casa amarilla
Consulting Editor
In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
as Self
2024
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