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A scientist blames the head of a large company for an ecological disaster in South America But when a volcano begins to show signs of erupting, they must unite to avoid a disaster

The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle

A chronicle of Gertrude Bells life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attache for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century

Using footage from three separate interviews, Werner Herzog converses with Mikhail Gorbachev, former General Secretary of the U S S R, about three of his key achievements negotiations with the U S to reduce nuclear weapons cessation of Soviet control of Eastern Europe and the reunification of Germany and the dissolution of the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc

During the 1800s, paroled Brazilian bandit Cobra Verde is sent to West Africa with a few troops to man an old Portuguese fort and to convince the local African ruler to resume the slave trade with Brazil

A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried

A documentary following German auteur Werner Herzog as he deals with difficult actors, bad weather and getting a boat over a mountain, all in an effort to make his film Fitzcarraldo 1982

A U S fighter pilots epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War

Moved by the work of director Yasujiro Ozu, Wim Wenders travels to Japan in search of the Tokyo seen in Ozus films

A group of dwarfs at a correctional facility erupt in anarchy

A devastating and heart rending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzly bears in Alaska

A collection of vignettes presenting possible experiences in the lives of dinosaurs during various periods

Werner Herzogs exploration of the Internet and the connected world

Inspired by a true crime, a man begins to experience mystifying events that lead him to slay his mother with a sword

This film shows the disaster of the Kuwaitian oil fields in flames, with few interviews and no explanatory narration Hell itself is presented in such beautiful sights and music that one has to be fascinated by it

Franz Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he can not control

A new documentary from Werner Herzog about meteors and comets and their influence on ancient religions and other cultural and physical impacts theyve had on Earth

In the 1950s, an adolescent Werner Herzog was transfixed by a film performance of the young Klaus Kinski Years later, they would share an apartment where, in an unabated, forty eight hour fit of rage, Kinski completely destroyed the

Three wounded soldiers are removed from battle and given the task of looking after a fortress in a small coastal town However, the pressures of isolation begin to take their toll on the men

Terence McDonagh is a drug and gambling addled detective in post Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants

A short documentary in which directors Werner Herzog and Errol Morris make a bet which results in Herzog being forced to eat his own shoe

Illuminating look at the way physically disabled people were dealt with in West Germany in the late 60s early 70s

The reverend Huie L Rogers delivers an intense and impassioned sermon at his church in Brooklyn

A study of the psychology of a champion ski jumper, whose full time occupation is carpentry

The film focuses on a group of Miskito in Nicaragua who used child soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas

A geologist employed by an Australian mining company finds himself disputing the rights of some aborigines who believe their land to be sacred

This series of vignettes offers ruminations on time, fate and other human mysteries, Each of the films seven directors conjures a scenario that speaks to some facet of universal experience

Conversations with death row inmate Michael Perry and those affected by his crime serve as an examination of why people and the state kill

An exploration of active volcanoes around the world

A young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note

The foreman of a small village glassworks dies without revealing the secret to the famous Ruby Glass

Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since adolescence, and her work on behalf of other deaf and blind people, this film shows how the deaf and blind struggle to understand and accept a world f

Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror

A documentary depicting the life and work of the trappers of Bakhtia, a village in the heart of the Siberian Taiga, where daily life has changed little in over a century

About the daring adventure of exploring rain forest canopy with a novel flying device the Jungle Airship Airship engineer Dr Graham Dorrington embarks on a trip to the giant Kaieteur Falls in the heart of Guyana, hoping to fly his

Tattoo Uprising is a sweeping overview of tattooing, from Biblical references and early Christian practices to the voyages of Captain James Cook and the ever evolving image of the tattoo in the Western world