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A group of dwarfs at a correctional facility erupt in anarchy

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

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

An exploration of active volcanoes around the world

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Werner Herzogs exploration of the Internet and the connected world

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A documentary exploring the myth of the Loch Ness monster

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 events for the camera

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