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

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

Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France and captures the oldest known pictorial creations of humanity

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

This film surveys the disaster of the Kuwaiti oil fields in flames, with little narration and scarcely any interviews Hell on Earth is presented in such transcendent visions and music that one can only be fascinate

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

A documentary exploring the myth of the Loch Ness monster

Werner Herzogs exploration of the Internet and the connected world

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

An exploration of active volcanoes around the world

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

German American Dieter Dengler discusses his service as a U S naval pilot in the Vietnam War Dengler also revisits the sites of his capture and eventual escape from the hands of the Viet Cong, recreating many event

A group of dwarfs at a correctional facility erupt in anarchy

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 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

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

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

The life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final President of the Soviet Union in chronological order

Documentary presents a comprehensive portrait of an iconic artist of our time

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

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

Film maker Werner Herzog travels to the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, looking to capture the continents beauty and investigate the characters living there

Wheel of Time is Werner Herzogs photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India

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

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

The life and career of the renowned film critic and social commentator, Roger Ebert

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

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

Maurice and Katia Krafft dedicated their lives to exploring the worlds volcanoes Their legacy consists of groundbreaking footage of eruptions and their aftermath, composed in this visual stunning collage

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

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

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 comple

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

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