Movies

Part of a series of opera shorts by different directors. Herzog combines O Soave Fanciulla ("Oh you vision of beauty" from Puccini's La Boheme) with...

The Making of 'My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done'.

The story of an indigenous Ese’eja child facing the death of his grandfather. During the two days that separate the two traditional funerals...

In 1974 Werner Herzog walked from Munich to Paris, an act of faith to prevent the 
death of his mentor Lotte Eisner. In 2020, a young filmmaker...

Tales of opera.

Through the Fondren Fellows program, the Rice Media Center Archive Project has spent the past few months sifting through material stored at the...

An adolescent on a remote place narrates his story marked by a past in the Sahara being a camel, Pringles fries, the desire for fat women’s...

With Herzog's direction, Richard Thompson leads a small group of musicians into creating Grizzly Man's evocative soundtrack.

Accompanied only by music the film alternates between shots of pilgrims near the tomb of Saint Sergei in Sergiyev Posad, Russia and pilgrims at the...

Legendary film director Werner Herzog brings together five shepherds and singers from the island of Sardinia in a Paris studio with a Senegalese...

Linas Phillips pays tribute to Werner Herzog in his pledge to walk from Seattle, Washington to Herzog's Los Angeles home.

Documentary discussing the life and work of José Lewgoy, one of the most important Brazilian actors of all times.

Directors Errol Morris and Werner Herzog describe and discuss the film The Act of Killing (2012).

A man recounts the story of a local legend as he travels to the jungle to make peace with his life.

A fictionalized story of the violet invasion of Aztec- ruled Mexico by the Spanish in the early 1600s. Told entirely from the point of view of the...

The story will reportedly follow an invertebrate deep-sea fish who believes he’s suffering from spinal disk herniation.

Werner Herzog interviews guests on the art of filmmaking.

Following the band The Killers on road to and on stage in the Bronx, New York, in a series of American Express sponsored music documentaries.

A romantic opera in three acts with music and libretto by Richard Wagner, performed by the Orchestra of the Teatro di San Carlo. The original title,...