Werner Herzog

Full filmography

• Ghost Elephants (2026) as Narrator (voice)
• Ghost Elephants (2026) Director
• Ghost Elephants (2026) Writer
• Ghost Elephants (2026) Producer
• Ghost Elephants (2026) Screenplay
• Hulk Hogan: Real American (2026) as Self
• Soccer Meets America (2026) as Self
• Sirena (2025)
• Reeling (2025) Executive Producer
• Felicidad (2025) Producer
• Mi casa amarilla (2025) Consulting Editor
• Orion and the Dark (2024) as Narrator (voice)
• The End (2024) Executive Producer
• About a Hero (2024)
• The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2024) as Narrator (voice)
• The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2024) Director
• The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2024) Writer
• Theater of Thought (2024) Director
• Theater of Thought (2024) Executive Producer
• Theater of Thought (2024) Screenplay
• Celebrating the Rice Media Center (2024) as Self (archival footage)
• The Arc of Oblivion (2023) as Narrator (voice)
• The Arc of Oblivion (2023) Executive Producer
• El Poso (2022) Producer
• Tegoyo (2022) as Self (Voice)
• Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer (2022) as Self
• Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire (2022) as Self (archive footage)
• Last Exit: Space (2022) as Narrator (voice)
• Last Exit: Space (2022) Executive Producer
• Notes from a Dromedary (2022) Creative Consultant
• Flores del precipicio (2022) Producer
• A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner (2021) as Self
• Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless (2021) as Self
• 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)
• Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian (2020) as Self - The Client
• Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020) as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020) Director
• Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020) Writer
• Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen (2020) as Self
• Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema) (2020) as Narrator (voice)
• Wim Wenders, Desperado (2020) as Self
• AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A. (2020) as (archive footage)
• The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault (2020) as (archive footage)
• The Andinist (2020) as The Painter (Narrator)
• The Mandalorian (2019) as The Client
• The Last Scene (2019) Executive Producer
• Family Romance, LLC (2019) Director
• Family Romance, LLC (2019) Writer
• Family Romance, LLC (2019) Director of Photography
• Family Romance, LLC (2019) Camera Operator
• Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (2019) as Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice)
• Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (2019) Director
• Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (2019) Writer
• Jihad in Hollywood (2019) as Self
• Tattoo Uprising (2019) as Self
• Meeting Gorbachev (2019) as Self
• Meeting Gorbachev (2019) Director
• Meeting Gorbachev (2019) Writer
• Love Birds (2019) Consulting Producer
• 90 Years of the Music Box Theatre (2019) as Self
• The whole world is country (2018) Consulting Producer
• Paradox Bullets (2018) as Narrator (voice)
• The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018) as Self
• The Golden Gate (2018) Executive Producer
• Manaslu: Mountain of Souls (2018) as Self
• The Empty Goal (2018) Thanks
• Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias (2018) as Self
• I'm a Soldier (2018) as Self
• Ballad of a Righteous Merchant (2017) as Self
• A Gray State (2017) Executive Producer
• Werner We Love You (2017) as Self
• One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo (2017) as Self
• The Man Who Killed John Wayne (2017) as Self (archive footage)
• Salt and Fire (2016) as Man with One Story (uncredited)
• Salt and Fire (2016) Director
• Salt and Fire (2016) Writer
• Salt and Fire (2016) Producer
• Jihad in Hollywood (2016) as Self
• Into the Inferno (2016) as Self
• Into the Inferno (2016) Director
• Into the Inferno (2016) Writer
• Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016) as Self
• Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016) Director
• Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016) Producer
• Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016) Writer
• The Blimp-Maker (2016) Thanks
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015) as Self - Guest
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter (2015) as Self
• Freaks of Nature (2015) as Perfect Being (voice)
• Queen of the Desert (2015) Director
• Queen of the Desert (2015) Writer
• Red Army (2015) Executive Producer
• Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014) as Self - Guest
• Penguins of Madagascar (2014) as Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
• The Look of Silence (2014) Executive Producer
• Life Itself (2014) as Self - Filmmaker
• Atari: Game Over (2014) as Self (archival)
• Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director (2014) as Self
• Lemonade War (2014) as Neighborhood Hero
• Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance (2014) as Self (archive footage)
• Rick and Morty (2013) as Shrimply Pibbles (voice)
• The Unbelievers (2013) as Self
• The Last Shepherd (2013) Thanks
• Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision (2013) as Alexander von Humboldt
• From One Second to the Next (2013) Director
• Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around (2013) as Self
• Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing' (2013) as Self
• An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog (2013) as Self
• Mistaken for Strangers (2013) as Self (uncredited)
• Jack Reacher (2012) as Zec Chelovek
• The Act of Killing (2012) Executive Producer
• Dinotasia (2012) as Narrator (voice)
• On Death Row (2012) as Werner Herzog
• On Death Row (2012) Writer
• On Death Row (2012) Director
• On Death Row (2012) Creator
• The Killers: Unstaged (2012) as Self
• The Killers: Unstaged (2012) Director
• Close Up (2012) as Self (archive footage)
• Strawberryfields (2012) as Turnlehrer
• 10 Questions for Werner Herzog (2012) as Self
• No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon (2012) as Self
• Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections (2012) as Self
• Into the Abyss (2011) as Narrator (voice)
• Into the Abyss (2011) Director
• Into the Abyss (2011) Writer
• Into the Abyss (2011) Producer
• I, I, I José Lewgoy (2011) as Self
• On Borrowed Time (2011) as Self
• Ode to the Dawn of Man (2011) Director
• Ode to the Dawn of Man (2011) Cinematography
• Ode to the Dawn of Man (2011) Sound
• Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood (2011) as Self
• Champions: A Comic Tale (2011) as Self
• Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) as Narrator (voice)
• Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) Director
• Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) Screenplay
• Into the Night With Harmony Korine and Gaspar Noe (2010) as Self
• Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse (2010) as Self
• Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010) as Narrator (voice)
• Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010) Executive Producer
• Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010) Director
• Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010) Writer
• My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2010) Director
• My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2010) Screenplay
• When Herzog Rescued Phoenix (2010) as Narrator (voice)
• The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2010) as Himself
• I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later (2010) as Self
• A Night Out (2010) Technical Advisor
• A Night Out (2010) Thanks
• Werner Herzog Defends Dade (2010) as Self
• Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son (2010) as Self
• Parks and Recreation (2009) as Keg Jennings
• Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) Director
• The Lonely (2009)
• La Bohème (2009) Director
• Plastic Bag (2009) as Plastic Bag (voice)
• BLAST! (2008) as Narrator (voice)
• Capturing Reality (2008) as Self
• Mister Lonely (2008) as Father Umbrillo
• 40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight (2008) as Self
• Back to Room 666 (2008) as Self (archive footage)
• Lohengrin: Bayreuth Festival Opera (2008) Stage Director
• Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers (2008) as Self
• Bierbichler (2008) as Self
• Rescue Dawn (2007) Author
• Rescue Dawn (2007) Director
• Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema (2007) as Self
• Encounters at the End of the World (2007) as Narrator (voice)
• Encounters at the End of the World (2007) Director
• Encounters at the End of the World (2007) Writer
• Encounters at the End of the World (2007) Sound
• The Grand (2007) as The German
• All In This Tea (2007)
• Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn (2007) as Self
• The Devil's Muse (2007) Creative Consultant
• Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest (2007) as Self
• Metalocalypse (2006)
• The Henry Rollins Show (2006)
• 50 Films to See Before You Die (2006) as Self
• Walking to Werner (2006) as Self (voice)
• American Dad! (2005) as Werner Herzog (voice)
• The Colbert Report (2005)
• The Boondocks (2005) as Himself (voice)
• Grizzly Man (2005) as Self / Narrator (voice)
• Grizzly Man (2005) Director
• The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) Director
• The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) Screenplay
• What Is It? (2005) Thanks
• In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session (2005) as Self
• Dreams and Burdens (2005) as Self
• Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space (2005) as Self
• Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog (2005) as Self
• Kulturplatz (2004) as Self
• Incident at Loch Ness (2004) as Self
• Incident at Loch Ness (2004) Producer
• Dribble (2004) as Self (voice)
• The White Diamond (2004) as Narrator (voice)
• The White Diamond (2004) Director
• The White Diamond (2004) Screenplay
• The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3 (2004) as Self (voice) ("Dribble" short)
• Wheel of Time (2003) as Narrator (voice)
• Wheel of Time (2003) Director
• Wheel of Time (2003) Writer
• Wheel of Time (2003) Producer
• Wheel of Time (2003) Editor
• Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002) Director
• Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002) Writer
• The Boxing Prince (2002) as Self
• Ten Thousand Years Older (2002) Director
• Ten Thousand Years Older (2002) Screenplay
• Invincible (2001) Director
• Invincible (2001) Writer
• Invincible (2001) Producer
• Pilgrimage (2001) Director
• The 100 Greatest Films (2001) as Self
• Tannhäuser (2000) Stage Director
• The Ball Is a Scumbag (2000) as Self
• Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor (2000) as Self
• The Last Documentary (2000) as Self
• My Best Fiend (1999) as Self
• My Best Fiend (1999) Director
• My Best Fiend (1999) Writer
• Julien Donkey-Boy (1999) as Father
• Wings of Hope (1999) as Self
• Wings of Hope (1999) Director
• Wings of Hope (1999) Writer
• 2000 Years of Christianity (1999) Director
• In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (1999) as Self
• A Brief History of Errol Morris (1999) as Self
• What Dreams May Come (1998) as Face
• Sternstunde Philosophie (1998) as Self
• Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) as Narrator (voice)
• Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) Director
• Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) Writer
• Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait (1996) as Self
• The Transformation of the World Into Music (1996) as Self
• The Transformation of the World Into Music (1996) Director
• The Transformation of the World Into Music (1996) Writer
• The Transformation of the World Into Music (1996) Executive Producer
• Die Harald Schmidt Show (1995) as Self
• Burning Heart (1995)
• Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices (1995) as Narrator (voice)
• Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices (1995) Director
• Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices (1995) Writer
• Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices (1995) Producer
• Placido Domingo's Tales from the Opera (1994) as Self - Director
• Bells from the Deep (1993) as Narrator (voice)
• Bells from the Deep (1993) Director
• Bells from the Deep (1993) Writer
• Dangerous Game (1993) as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Lessons of Darkness (1992) as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Lessons of Darkness (1992) Director
• Lessons of Darkness (1992) Writer
• Lessons of Darkness (1992) Executive Producer
• La Donna del Lago (1992) Director
• SnowwhiteRosered (1991) as Self
• Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur (1991) as Narrator (voice)
• Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur (1991) Director
• Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur (1991) Producer
• Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur (1991) Screenplay
• Film Lesson (1991) as Self
• Film Lesson (1991) Director
• Scream of Stone (1991) as TV-Regisseur
• Scream of Stone (1991) Director
• Echoes from a Sombre Empire (1990) as Self
• Echoes from a Sombre Empire (1990) Director
• Echoes from a Sombre Empire (1990) Writer
• Echoes from a Sombre Empire (1990) Producer
• Hard to Be a God (1990) as Mita / Richard
• Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God" (1990) as Self
• The Simpsons (1989) as Walter Hotenhoffer (voice)
• The Simpsons (1989) as Werner Herzog (voice)
• The Simpsons (1989) as Dr. Lund (voice)
• Under the Sun (1989) Director
• Bride of the Orient (1989) as Businger
• Giovanna d'Arco (1989) Director
• To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further (1989) as Self
• The Heart and the Legs (1989) as Self
• Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun (1989) as Narrator (voice)
• Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun (1989) Director
• Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun (1989) Writer
• Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun (1989) Co-Producer
• The French as Seen by… (1988) Director
• Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1988) as Self
• Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1988) Writer
• The Gauls (1988) Director
• Cobra Verde (1987) Director
• Cobra Verde (1987) Screenplay
• Location Africa (1987) as Self
• Location Africa (1987) Producer
• Portrait: Werner Herzog (1986) as Self
• Portrait: Werner Herzog (1986) Director
• Portrait: Werner Herzog (1986) Writer
• The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1985) as Self (voice)
• The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1985) Director
• The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1985) Writer
• The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1985) Producer
• Room 666 (1985) as Self
• Tokyo-Ga (1985) as Self
• Sonntagsgespräch (1985) as Self
• Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) as Lawyer (uncredited)
• Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) Director
• Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) Producer
• Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) Writer
• Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984) as Self (voice)
• Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984) Director
• Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984) Writer
• Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984) Producer
• Huie's Sermon (1983) Director
• Man of Flowers (1983) as The Father
• God's Angry Man (1983) as Narrator (voice)
• God's Angry Man (1983) Director
• God's Angry Man (1983) Writer
• Fitzcarraldo (1982) Director
• Fitzcarraldo (1982) Producer
• Fitzcarraldo (1982) Screenplay
• Burden of Dreams (1982) as Self - Filmmaker
• Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980) as Self - Film Director: Nosferatu
• Bavarian Film Awards (1979) as Self
• Okay (1979) as Self
• Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) Director
• Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) Producer
• Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) Writer
• The Making of 'Nosferatu' (1979) as Self
• I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog (1979) as Self
• Woyzeck (1979) Director
• Woyzeck (1979) Screenplay
• Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie' (1979) as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Ciné regards (1978) as Self
• Journey Through History (1977) as Self
• Stroszek (1977) Director
• Stroszek (1977) Screenplay
• Stroszek (1977) Producer
• La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe (1977) as Narrator (voice)
• La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe (1977) Director
• La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe (1977) Sound Engineer
• La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe (1977) Producer
• No One Will Play with Me (1976) Director
• No One Will Play with Me (1976) Writer
• Heart of Glass (1976) as Glass Transporter
• Heart of Glass (1976) Director
• Heart of Glass (1976) Writer
• Heart of Glass (1976) Producer
• How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976) as Self
• How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976) Director
• How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976) Producer
• How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976) Sound
• Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema (1976) as Self