Werner Herzog may not be a household name but he is one of the most respected and unusual filmmakers of our time. Over the last six decades the German director has made more than 70 documentaries ...

German filmmaker Werner Herzog's earliest memory is of war. He was 2 and a half in April 1945, and his mother woke him up in the middle of the night, wrapped him in blankets and rushed outside to ...

Werner Herzog, Actor/Director/Writer: All of us carry in us some sort of quest. And I think every grownup man or woman should do something like moving your ship over the mountain.

In his documentary “The Dark Glow of the Mountains” (1985), the German filmmaker Werner Herzog asked the notoriously daring mountaineer Reinhold Messner why he routinely risked death to ascend ...

Amis published the memoirs anyway. It could be said of the protean filmmaker Werner Herzog that he’s presented a monumental and wide-ranging account of himself in the form of over 60 motion ...

Werner Herzog has traveled to the ends of the earth for his art, rolling cameras in places rarely seen by human eyes — from rapids along the Amazon River for 1972’s “Aguirre, the Wrath of ...