From My Best Fiend to Grizzly Man, these 10 documentaries from the legendary director Werner Herzog are his best.
There's no doubt about it: Werner Herzog is one of the greatest documentary filmmakers of all time and has been blessing the world with strange, unique, and compelling documentary features for more than half a century now. He's also made plenty of great non-documentary feature films, including classics of German cinema like Aguirre, the Wrath of God, and Nosferatu the Vampyre, as well as more recent English-language films like Rescue Dawn and Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans.
9 'The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner' Several of Werner Herzog's early documentaries are short films that clock in at under 45 minutes, including the quietly disturbing La Soufrière, which is about a volcano that's set to erupt and cause catastrophic damage. But given The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner is exactly three-quarters of an hour long, it just sneaks into feature-length territory, at least according to some definitions of the terms.
The documentary starts as an exploration into inmates on Death Row and how they feel about the fate that's been decided for them, but as it goes along, gradually focuses more on a triple homicide case from 2001, interviewing people related to the case and individuals from the justice system. It's a tough watch at times but very absorbing, and it does feel like Herzog gives consideration and time to all sides/parties, which can feel rare in documentaries these days.
Herzog told this story in a feature film format with the aforementioned 2006 film Rescue Dawn, but Little Dieter Needs to Fly is even more emotionally powerful and haunting, despite its lower budget and less slick nature. It might be that hearing the story from the man is what makes it extra compelling because as a documentary, this is undoubtedly fascinating.
4 'Lessons of Darkness' Werner Herzog documentaries are often offbeat and strange, but few feel quite as uncompromisingly experimental as Lessons of Darkness. Herzog narrates it the way he does many of his documentaries, but his musings are vaguer and less frequent than usual, and interviews are also not used often throughout.
2 'Land of Silence and Darkness' Due to its age, Land of Silence and Darkness unfortunately seems to get overlooked all too often, when people discuss the films of Werner Herzog. It was just his third feature-length documentary, but remains one of his very best to this day, following a woman named Fini Straubinger, and the challenges that come from her living life while being both deaf and blind.
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