1942'de Münih'te doğan Herzog, takıntılı karakterlere ve uç manzaralara ilgi duyan üretken bir kurmaca ve belgesel yönetmenidir. Oyuncu Klaus Kinski ile iş birlikleri meşhur biçimde fırtınalıydı.
Filmografi
- Signs of Life (1968)
- Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
- Fata Morgana (1971)
- Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)
- Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
- The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
- The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974)
- Heart of Glass (1976)
- How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck... (1976)
- Stroszek (1977)
- Vampir Nosferatu (1979)
- Woyzeck (1979)
- God's Angry Man (1981)
- Fitzcarraldo (1982)
- Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
- Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984)
- The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1984)
- Yeşil kobra (1987)
- Herdsmen of the Sun (1989)
- Scream of Stone (1991)
- Lessons of Darkness (1992)
- Bells from the Deep: Faith and Superstition in Russia (1993)
- Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
- My Best Fiend (1999)
- Wings of Hope (1999)
- Invincible (2001)
- Wheel of Time (2003)
- The White Diamond (2004)
- Grizzly Man (2005)
- The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
- Şafak harekatı (2006)
- Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
- Kötü Dedektif (2009)
- My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
- Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)
- Into the Abyss (2011)
- Queen of the Desert (2015)
- Into the Inferno (2016)
- Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016)
- Salt and Fire (2016)
- Meeting Gorbachev (2018)
- Family Romance, LLC (2019)
- Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (2019)
- Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020)
- The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2022)
- Ghost Elephants (2025)