Actor
Orion and the Dark
2024
as Narrator (voice)
Tegoyo
2022
as Self (Voice)
The Andinist
2020
as The Painter (Narrator)
Paradox Bullets
2018
as Narrator (voice)
I'm a Soldier
2018
as Self
Salt and Fire
2016
as Man with One Story (uncredited)
Freaks of Nature
2015
as Perfect Being (voice)
Penguins of Madagascar
2014
as Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
Lemonade War
2014
as Neighborhood Hero
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
2013
as Self
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
2013
as Alexander von Humboldt
Jack Reacher
2012
as Zec Chelovek
Champions: A Comic Tale
2011
as Self
Werner Herzog Defends Dade
2010
as Self
When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
2010
as Narrator (voice)
Plastic Bag
2009
as Plastic Bag (voice)
Bierbichler
2008
as Self
Mister Lonely
2008
as Father Umbrillo
The Grand
2007
as The German
Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space
2005
as Self
Incident at Loch Ness
2004
as Self
Dribble
2004
as Self (voice)
Strawberryland
2002
as Turnlehrer
The Last Documentary
2000
as Self
Julien Donkey-Boy
1999
as Father
In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
1999
as Self
What Dreams May Come
1998
as Face
Burning Heart
1995
Dangerous Game
1993
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Scream of Stone
1991
as TV-Regisseur
Hard to Be a God
1990
as Mita / Richard
Bride of the Orient
1989
as Businger
Where the Green Ants Dream
1984
as Lawyer (uncredited)
Man of Flowers
1983
as The Father
Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979
as Hand and Feet in Box with Rats (uncredited)
Heart of Glass
1976
as Glass Transporter
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
1971
as Hurenmörder
Signs of Life
1968
as Soldier (uncredited)
Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog
as Self
Tales from the Opera
as Director
Shards of Cinema and Philosophy
as Self
Untitled Bong Joon-ho Animated Film
Videos
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
2020
as Self
Close Up
2012
as Self (archive footage)
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
2004
as Self (voice) ("Dribble" short)
Documentaries
The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
2024
as Narrator (voice)
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
2024
as Self (archival footage)
The Arc of Oblivion
2023
as Narrator (voice)
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
as Self
Last Exit: Space
2022
as Narrator (voice)
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
2022
as Self (archive footage)
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
2021
as Self (archive footage)
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021
as Self
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
2021
as Self
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
2020
as Narrator (voice)
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
2020
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020
as Self
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
2020
as Self
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
2019
as Self
Tattoo Uprising
2019
as Self
Meeting Gorbachev
2019
as Self
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
2019
as Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice)
Jihad in Hollywood
2019
as Self
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
2018
as Self
The Great Buster: A Celebration
2018
as Self
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
2018
as Self
Cien años con Juan Rulfo
2017
as Himself
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017
as Self
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
2017
as Self (archive footage)
Into the Inferno
2016
as Narrator (voice)
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
2016
as Self
Jihad in Hollywood
2016
as Self
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
2014
as Self (archive footage)
Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director
2014
as Self
Life Itself
2014
as Self - Filmmaker
The Unbelievers
2013
as Self
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
2013
as Self
Mistaken for Strangers
2013
as Self (uncredited)
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
2013
as Self
Close Up
2012
as Self (archive footage)
10 Questions for Werner Herzog
2012
as Self
The Killers: Unstaged
2012
as Self
Dinotasia
2012
as Narrator (voice)
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
2011
as Self
I, I, I José Lewgoy
2011
as Self
Into the Abyss
2011
as Narrator (voice)
On Borrowed Time
2011
as Self
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
2011
as Self
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010
as Narrator (voice)
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
2010
as Self
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
2010
as Narrator (voice)
Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son
2010
as Self
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
2010
as Self
The Lonely
2009
Capturing Reality
2008
as Self
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
2008
as Self
BLAST!
2008
as Narrator (voice)
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
2008
as Self
Back to Room 666
2008
as Self (archive footage)
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
2007
as Self
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
2007
as Self
Encounters at the End of the World
2007
as Narrator (voice)
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
2007
as Self
All In This Tea
2007
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
as Self
Walking to Werner
2006
as Self (voice)
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
2005
as Self
Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog
2005
as Self
Grizzly Man
2005
as Self / Narrator (voice)
Dreams and Burdens
2005
as Self
The White Diamond
2004
as Narrator (voice)
Wheel of Time
2003
as Narrator (voice)
The Boxing Prince
2002
as Self
The 100 Greatest Films
2001
as Self
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
2000
as Self
Wings of Hope
2000
as Self
The Ball Is a Scumbag
2000
as Self
A Brief History of Errol Morris
1999
as Self
My Best Fiend
1999
as Self
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
1997
as Narrator (voice)
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
1996
as Self
The Transformation of the World Into Music
1996
as Self
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
1995
as Narrator (voice)
Bells from the Deep
1993
as Narrator (voice)
Lessons of Darkness
1992
as Narrator (voice)
Film Lesson
1991
as Self
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
1991
as Narrator (voice)
SnowwhiteRosered
1991
as Self
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
1990
as Self
Russian adventure. Peter Fleischmann is filming "It's not easy to be a god."
1990
as Self
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
1989
as Narrator (voice)
The Heart and the Legs
1989
as Self
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
1989
as Self
Location Africa
1987
as Self
Portrait: Werner Herzog
1986
as Self
Tokyo-Ga
1985
as Self
The Dark Glow of the Mountain
1985
as Self (voice)
Ballad of the Little Soldier
1984
as Self (voice)
Burden of Dreams
1982
as Self - Filmmaker
Room 666
1982
as Self
The South Bank Show: Werner Herzog
1982
as Self
God's Angry Man
1981
as Narrator (voice)
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
1980
as Self
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
1980
as Self - Film Director: Nosferatu
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
1979
as Self
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
1979
as Self
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
1979
as Self (archive footage)
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
1977
as Narrator (voice)
Journey Through History
1977
as Self
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976
as Self
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
1976
as Self
Lost in the Garden of the World
1975
as Self
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
1974
as Self
Die Erben von Papas Kino
1968
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
1967
No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
as Self
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
as Himself
Werner Herzog, Filmmaker
as Self
Directing
The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
2024
Director
Theatre of Thought
2022
Director
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
2020
Director
Family Romance, LLC
2019
Director
Meeting Gorbachev
2019
Director
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
2019
Director
Salt and Fire
2016
Director
Into the Inferno
2016
Director
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
2016
Director
Queen of the Desert
2015
Director
From One Second to the Next
2013
Director
The Killers: Unstaged
2012
Director
Into the Abyss
2011
Director
Ode to the Dawn of Man
2011
Director
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010
Director
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
2010
Director
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
2009
Director
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2009
Director
La Bohème
2009
Director
Lohengrin: Bayreuth Festival Opera
2008
Stage Director
Encounters at the End of the World
2007
Director
Rescue Dawn
2006
Director
The Wild Blue Yonder
2005
Director
Grizzly Man
2005
Director
The White Diamond
2004
Director
Wheel of Time
2003
Director
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002
Director
Invincible
2001
Director
Pilgrimage
2001
Director
Tannhäuser
2000
Stage Director
Wings of Hope
2000
Director
My Best Fiend
1999
Director
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
1997
Director
The Transformation of the World Into Music
1996
Director
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
1995
Director
Bells from the Deep
1993
Director
Lessons of Darkness
1992
Director
Film Lesson
1991
Director
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
1991
Director
Scream of Stone
1991
Director
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
1990
Director
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
1989
Director
Giovanna d'Arco
1989
Director
The French as Seen by…
1988
Director
The Gauls
1988
Director
Cobra Verde
1987
Director
Portrait: Werner Herzog
1986
Director
The Dark Glow of the Mountain
1985
Director
Ballad of the Little Soldier
1984
Director
Where the Green Ants Dream
1984
Director
Huie's Sermon
1983
Director
Fitzcarraldo
1982
Director
God's Angry Man
1981
Director
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
1979
Director
Woyzeck
1979
Director
Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979
Director
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
1977
Director
Stroszek
1977
Director
Heart of Glass
1976
Director
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
1976
Director
No One Will Play with Me
1976
Director
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974
Director
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
1974
Director
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1972
Director
Land of Silence and Darkness
1971
Director
Fata Morgana
1971
Director
Handicapped Future
1971
Director
Even Dwarfs Started Small
1970
Director
The Flying Doctors of East Africa
1970
Director
Precautions Against Fanatics
1969
Director
Signs of Life
1968
Director
Last Words
1968
Director
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
1967
Director
Herakles
1962
Director
The Conquest of Mexico
Director
Dead Man's Wire
Director
Fordlandia
Director
Production
The End
2025
Executive Producer
The Arc of Oblivion
2023
Executive Producer
Theatre of Thought
2022
Executive Producer
Flores del precipicio
2022
Producer
Last Exit: Space
2022
Executive Producer
El Poso
2022
Producer
Love Birds
2019
Consulting Producer
The Last Scene
2019
Executive Producer
The whole world is country
2018
Consulting Producer
The Golden Gate
2018
Executive Producer
A Gray State
2017
Executive Producer
Salt and Fire
2016
Producer
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
2016
Producer
The Look of Silence
2015
Executive Producer
Red Army
2014
Executive Producer
The Act of Killing
2012
Executive Producer
Into the Abyss
2011
Producer
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
2010
Executive Producer
Incident at Loch Ness
2004
Producer
Wheel of Time
2003
Producer
Invincible
2001
Producer
The Transformation of the World Into Music
1996
Executive Producer
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
1995
Producer
Lessons of Darkness
1992
Executive Producer
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
1991
Producer
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
1990
Producer
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
1989
Co-Producer
Location Africa
1987
Producer
The Dark Glow of the Mountain
1985
Producer
Ballad of the Little Soldier
1984
Producer
Where the Green Ants Dream
1984
Producer
Fitzcarraldo
1982
Producer
Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979
Producer
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
1977
Producer
Stroszek
1977
Producer
Heart of Glass
1976
Producer
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
1976
Producer
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974
Producer
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
1974
Producer
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1972
Producer
Land of Silence and Darkness
1971
Producer
Fata Morgana
1971
Producer
Handicapped Future
1971
Producer
Even Dwarfs Started Small
1970
Producer
Precautions Against Fanatics
1969
Producer
Signs of Life
1968
Producer
Last Words
1968
Producer
Herakles
1962
Producer
Reeling
Executive Producer
Writing
The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
2024
Writer
Theatre of Thought
2022
Screenplay
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds
2020
Writer
Family Romance, LLC
2019
Writer
Meeting Gorbachev
2019
Writer
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
2019
Writer
Salt and Fire
2016
Writer
Into the Inferno
2016
Writer
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
2016
Writer
Queen of the Desert
2015
Writer
Into the Abyss
2011
Writer
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010
Screenplay
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
2010
Writer
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2009
Screenplay
Encounters at the End of the World
2007
Writer
Rescue Dawn
2006
Author
The Wild Blue Yonder
2005
Screenplay
The White Diamond
2004
Screenplay
Wheel of Time
2003
Writer
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002
Writer
Invincible
2001
Writer
Wings of Hope
2000
Writer
My Best Fiend
1999
Writer
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
1997
Writer
The Transformation of the World Into Music
1996
Writer
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
1995
Writer
Bells from the Deep
1993
Writer
Lessons of Darkness
1992
Writer
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
1991
Screenplay
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
1990
Writer
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
1989
Writer
Cobra Verde
1987
Screenplay
Portrait: Werner Herzog
1986
Writer
The Dark Glow of the Mountain
1985
Writer
Ballad of the Little Soldier
1984
Writer
Where the Green Ants Dream
1984
Writer
Fitzcarraldo
1982
Screenplay
God's Angry Man
1981
Writer
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
1980
Writer
Woyzeck
1979
Screenplay
Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979
Writer
Stroszek
1977
Screenplay
Heart of Glass
1976
Writer
No One Will Play with Me
1976
Writer
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974
Screenplay
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
1974
Screenplay
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1972
Writer
Land of Silence and Darkness
1971
Screenplay
Fata Morgana
1971
Screenplay
Handicapped Future
1971
Writer
Even Dwarfs Started Small
1970
Screenplay
The Flying Doctors of East Africa
1970
Writer
Precautions Against Fanatics
1969
Writer
Signs of Life
1968
Writer
Last Words
1968
Screenplay
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
1967
Screenplay
Herakles
1962
Screenplay
The hunger in the world explained to my son
Writer
The Conquest of Mexico
Writer
Camera
Family Romance, LLC
2019
Director of Photography
Family Romance, LLC
2019
Camera Operator
Sound
Ode to the Dawn of Man
2011
Sound
Encounters at the End of the World
2007
Sound
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
1977
Sound Engineer
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
1976
Sound
Fata Morgana
1971
Sound
Handicapped Future
1971
Sound
The Flying Doctors of East Africa
1970
Sound Recordist
Precautions Against Fanatics
1969
Sound
Herakles
1962
Sound
Crew
Notes from a Dromedary
2022
Creative Consultant
The Empty Goal
2018
Thanks
The Blimp-Maker
2016
Thanks
The Last Shepherd
2013
Thanks
Ode to the Dawn of Man
2011
Cinematography
A Night Out
2010
Technical Advisor
A Night Out
2010
Thanks
The Devil's Muse
2007
Creative Consultant
What Is It?
2005
Thanks
Land of Silence and Darkness
1971
Sound Recordist
Handicapped Future
1971
Sound Recordist