Werner Herzog: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Timothy Corrigan (ed.), The Films of Werner Herzog: Between Mirage and History (1986).

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: CBS News - Werner Herzog on how far he'll go to make his movies: "It's not for the fainthearted". Oct 16, 2026
Anniversary information added. Sep 01, 2026
Add new Web site: Director's Guild of America - The Mystery of Werner Herzog. Apr 21, 2026
Add new Web site: CBC Radio - 'I had to invent cinema': Werner Herzog on how growing up in poverty made him the filmmaker he is. Feb 13, 2026
Add new Web site: Fresh Air Archive - Werner Herzog. Dec 31, 2025
Add new Web site: PBS News - Filmmaker Werner Herzog writes about his prolific and varied career in new memoir. Nov 21, 2025
Add new Web site: ABC Listen - Interview with Werner Herzog, writer-director, Rescue Dawn. Oct 11, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC - This Cultural Life - Werner Herzog. Jul 26, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC Radio 4 - This Cultural Life - Werner Herzog: Nine things we learned from his This Cultural Life interview. Jun 13, 2025
Add new Web site: CBS News - Werner Herzog on how far he'll go to make his movies: "It's not for the fainthearted". Mar 17, 2025
Add new Web site: All American Speakers - Werner Herzog. May 29, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Mar 12, 2024
Add new Web site: BFI - Where to begin with Werner Herzog. Mar 08, 2024
Add new Web site: Senses of Cinema - Biography of Werner Herzog. Jan 06, 2023
Added the documentary Fireballs: Visitors from Darker Worlds and the movie Family Romance, LLC. Mar 15, 2022
Added the documentary Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin. Aug 26, 2020
Added the documentary Meeting Gorbachev and the feature film Queen of the Desert. Mar 06, 2019
Media added. Jun 12, 2018
Add new Web site: Official Site of Werner Herzog. Mar 07, 2018
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Warner Herzog. Jan 09, 2018
Add new Web site: AllMovie - Biography of Werner Herzog. Dec 28, 2017
Added the film Lo and Behold (2016). Sep 01, 2016
Noted that Herzog occasionally acted on film. Dec 20, 2012
Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Werner Herzog. Feb 10, 2012
Added Into the Abyss (2011). Sep 09, 2011
Added the movie Cave of Forgotten Dreams and revised discussion of his documentaries. Apr 29, 2011
Added the movie Bad Lieutenant (2009). Nov 20, 2009
Article revised and updated. Aug 26, 2008
Article revised. Mar 21, 2003
Article revised. Apr 27, 2001
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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